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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
9
Nov

Exceeding Fine Country: An Eighteenth Century Tour of Yorkshire Gardens

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

Tue
26
Nov

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

Martyn Powell (University of Bristol) presents this seminar.

Sat
11
Jan

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

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

Previous events

“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.

The Writer's Craft: Novel Making in the Eighteenth Century

Tuesday 1 October 2024

Jennie Batchelor presents this seminar.

A Library for Yorkshire: The Petyts and their World

Thursday 20 June 2024

This symposium will bring together some of the top scholars of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, considering the context of early modern libraries, the Skipton of the Petyt brothers, and the political, legal and intellectual world of the two brothers.

Apostrophe as a Theory of History

Tuesday 11 June 2024

More details to follow