18th Century Centre events Back to 'Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre' EventsRSS FeedAtom Feed Forthcoming events will be listed here shortly Previous Centre events 2022 23rd March - Midlands and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century and Today 2021 25th November - Unhomely Empire Reading Group (2)18th November - Unhomely Empire Reading Group (1) 2020 10th December - Women's Material and Intellectual Lives2nd December - Q&A with Lynn Festa (Rutgers)27th November - Postgraduate event on Loneliness18th November - Reading Group: Lynn Festa, Fiction without Humanity: Person, Animal, Thing in Early Enlightenment Literature and Culture (2019).20th October - Dror Wahrman - The Prince, the Jeweler and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object15th October - Swift in Print6th October - Postgraduate welcome event19th March - Postgraduate Research workshop with Professor Dror Wahrman19th March - The Prince, the Jeweller and the Mogul: The Paradoxes of an Early Modern Object5th February - Writing Eighteenth-Century Women's Biography: A Roundtable 2019 21st November - Eighteenth-Century Letters: A Workshop27th March - Money, Marketplace and Material Culture6th March - Applying for Fellowships at the Folger Shakespeare Library6th March - Eighteenth-Century Pleasures28th February - BECC PGR Lightning Talks30th January - Meet the Sharp Family: Family Dynamics, Conversation Pieces and Humour in Johan Zoffany's portrait of the Sharp family, c1779 2018 12th December - Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing14th November - The Lessons of Dispossession: Lost Property in the Long Eighteenth Century11th October - Children of Empire: Care and Crime in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries4th-5th July - The Material Body, 1500-1900: A Conference of Archaeologists and Historians27th June - Alexander Pope: Text, Book, Work13th June - A Workshop on Guns23rd May - Nature, Print and Production:A Workshop on Eighteenth-Century Sources in the Cadbury Research Library17th May - Annual BECC - Warwick-Birmingham Symposium 201825th April - Seeds of Enlightenment: Maria Zytaruk and Sarah Easterby-Smith7th February - Rabbits, whigs and hunters: women and protest in Mary Toft's rabbit births of 1726 2017 22nd November - Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre Salon10th May - M3C Eighteenth-Century Research Workshop 2014 10th May - Conference: dissent and the Hanoverian succession 17th March - Working with eighteenth-century museum collections 20th January - Postgraduate panel on eighteenth-century art history 2013 29th May - Collecting cultures: the eighteenth century 2012 28th May - Book Collecting in the Eighteenth-Century 17th May - Eighteenth Century Clubs and Societies 12th March - Birmingham Eighteenth-Century seminars 20th February - Birmingham Eighteenth-Century seminars