Seminars

Eighteenth-Century European Culture

Year Founded 1962

Seminar # 417

StatusActive

This interdisciplinary seminar hosts speakers ranging from established scholars to early-career researchers who present works-in-progress that explore and redefine eighteenth-century European culture. Our interests range from material culture to textual history, national traditions to colonial formations, historicist practice to theoretical investigation, and we therefore seek to query, expand, and innovate eighteenth-century studies. Like our guest speakers, our membership is drawn from a wide variety of institutions and disciplines: history, literature, philosophy, political science, music, history of science, and art, as well as national traditions. The Seminar’s offerings are varied in scope, and occasionally our Seminar hosts special events, such as a symposium on the intellectual origins of freedom of speech (2007, 2008) and a 50th anniversary retrospective of the Seminar (2014). Recently our Seminar has hosted, in addition to full-length talks, roundtables on science studies (2011), comparative orientalisms (2011), the quantitative eighteenth century (2016), rediscovering race (2017), and human rights (2019).

Chair/s

Carrie Shanafelt

Rapporteur/s

Lilith Todd

External Website

Meeting Schedule

Scheduled

12
Dec

December 12, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

1713: False Dawn for the Royal African Company

Speaker/s

Matthew Mitchell, Sewanee: The University of the South

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Past Meetings

Scheduled

07
Nov

November 7, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Sincerity to Die For

Speaker/s

Alison Conway , University of British Columbia, Okanagan

Scheduled

10
Oct

October 10, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Enlightenment Diagnoses of Global Oppression: On the ‘Dystopia of Self-Hatred’

Speaker/s

Sankar Muthu, University of Chicago

Scheduled

12
Sep

September 12, 20247:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Faculty House

Persuasion’s Queer Drift

Speaker/s

Paul Kelleher, Emory University

Scheduled

18
Apr

April 18, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

“The Devel Was in the English Man”: Slavery, Friendship, and Heterodoxy in the Seventeenth-Century Colonial Archive

Speaker/s

Melissa Mowry, St. John's University

Scheduled

21
Mar

March 21, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Pacific Northwest Performances: “Curious Gestures With a Few English Words”

Speaker/s

Monica Anke Hahn, Community College of Philadelphia

Scheduled

08
Feb

February 8, 20247:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Olaudah Equiano’s Ottoman Dreams

Speaker/s

Kasia Bartoszynska, Ithaca College

Scheduled

18
Jan

January 18, 202412:00 pm - 2:00 pm

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Being Classical: Women, Queerness and the Ancients in the Long Eighteenth Century

Speaker/s

Caroline Gonda, St. Catharine College, Cambridge

Scheduled

09
Nov

November 9, 20237:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Empirical Statecraft: The Emergence of an Information Empire in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Atlantic

Speaker/s

Fidel Tavárez, Queens College, CUNY

Scheduled

12
Oct

October 12, 20237:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Imoinda and Oroonoko’s Signed Language

Speaker/s

Jason Farr, Marquette University

Scheduled

21
Sep

September 21, 20237:00 pm - 8:45 pm

Faculty House

Napoleon’s Nemesis: Madame de Staël (1766-1817) and the Origins of Liberalism

Speaker/s

Helena Rosenblatt, CUNY, Graduate Center

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