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CECS at BSECS 2012

Posted January 2012

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Members of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies attended the British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies annual conference held January 4-6 at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford.  Professor Mark Hallett gave one of the conference’s keynote lectures, and a number of the Centre’s current and former postgraduate students presented papers on their research.  Those in attendance (pictured) included Professor Mark Hallett, Dr. Corinna Wagner (CECS PhD, now Senior Lecturer at Exeter and Academic Coordinator for BSECS), Dr. Pete Denney (CECS PhD, now Lecturer at Griffiths University in Australia), Darren Wagner (PhD student), Dr. Alison O’Byrne (CECS PhD, now Lecturer at CECS), Adam Perchard (PhD student), Beatrice Bertram (PhD student), Dr. Jim Watt (Senior Lecturer at CECS), Dr. Mary Fairclough (CECS PhD, now Senior Lecturer at Huddersfield), Ian Calvert (PhD student, Bristol, former CECS MA student), Lucy Hodgetts (PhD student), Graeme Callister (PhD student), Ruth Scobie (PhD student), Jo Wharton (PhD student), and Harold Guizar (PhD student).  Absent from photo are Matthew Jenkins (PhD student), Jacqueline Riding (PhD student), Dr. Claudine van Hensbergen (Post-doctoral Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project Court, Country, City: British Art, 1660-1735, led by Professor Mark Hallett), Dr. Elizabeth Edwards (CECS PhD, now Research Fellow on the Wales and the French Revolution project at the University of Wales), as well as Ruth Mather (PhD student), Sophie Coulombeau (PhD student), and Ryan Hanley (PhD Hull student, former CECS MA student), who were off in the pub toasting the success of their panel! 


Papers given at BSECS by current CECS staff and students:

Graeme Callister: “The City and the Creation of the Revolutionary Dutch Nation, 1780-1800”
Sophie Coulombeau: “‘Nothing the Nearer our own Hearts and Interests’: The Point of the Name in Burney’s Cecilia”
Mark Hallett (Keynote Lecture): “Faces in the Library: Sir Joshua Reynolds’s ‘Streatham Worthies’”
Lucy Hodgetts: “‘Strong recollections of my former pleasures’: Reading Nostalgia in the Urban Landscape in William Hone’s Every-Day Book (1825-6)”
Matthew Jenkins: “Antiquity and Improvement: The Landscape of Polite Shopping in Georgian York”
Ruth Mather: “Politicising Personal Experience: The Addresses of the Female Reformers of Lancashire, 1819-1820”
Alison O’Byrne: “Calton Hill: Tourism, Topography, and National Identity in Edinburgh, 1750-1830”
Adam Perchard: “Oriental and Occidental Despotisms: Reading Montesquieu and Voltaire in the Light of the Rushdie Affair”
Jacqueline Riding: “‘Suitable to the Place for which they were designed’: Joseph Highmore’s Foundling Hospital Paintings”
Ruth Scobie: “Cannibals and Palm Trees on the Drawing-Room Wall: Reading ‘Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique’”
Claudine van Hensbergen: “‘The Wicked have enclosed me’: The Birth, Life, and Decay of Queen Anne’s Statue at St. Paul’s Cathedral”
Jim Watt: “Gothic Sociability”
Darren Wagner: “‘Slawkenbergius’s sensorium’: Genital Nerves and Sexual Scenes in Sensibility”
Joanna Wharton: “Lasting Impressions: Nervous Psychology in Hays and Barbauld”