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Events Calendar

Conferences/public lectures

The Centre normally holds 3 one-two day conferences in the academic year, and may host others,  as well as offering public lectures.  The Stephen Copley lecture is held annually, and CECS staff have given papers for the York Festival of Ideas.

Research Seminars

Where the CECS community of staff and students gather to hear and debate the latest research about the eighteenth century. Centre research seminars are held regularly in term time on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in KG/07 at the King's Manor.

Postgraduate Forum

The CECS Postgraduate Forum is a student-lead interdisciplinary research group that meets to listen to and discuss papers from fellow York postgrads, students from other universities, and visiting professors, in a relaxed and friendly environment.

 

Forthcoming Events

Sat
11
Jan

Emotional Labour, Elite Women and the Eighteenth-Century Country House

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Sat
8
Feb

The Ingenious Mr Flitcroft

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Fri
21
Feb

Victorian Expansions 2025

Join us for our one-day Victorian Studies conference, on the topic of 'Victorian Expansions'.

Sat
8
Mar

A Maze without a Plan? Display in Sir John Soane’s Museum

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

Previous events

Wolfe Tone and the Hibernian Catch Club: Sociability in Revolutionary Ireland

Tuesday 26 November 2024

Martyn Powell (University of Bristol) presents this seminar.

Exceeding Fine Country: An Eighteenth Century Tour of Yorkshire Gardens

Saturday 9 November 2024

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.

“We now prescribe, like doctors in despair”: The Satirist-as-Doctor Metaphor in Early Eighteenth-Century Print

Tuesday 22 October 2024

Adam Smith (York St John University) presents this seminar.

A Window on the World: Introducing The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832)

Saturday 19 October 2024

Part of the York Georgian Society 2024/2025 Autumn Lecture Series.