C18th Lit & Visual Culture Research Network @C18thLitVisual
Network for those researching relations between the literary and visual cultures of the long 18th century. Coordinated by @ClaudvanH & @David_F_Taylor…eratureandvisualculture.wordpress.comJoined May 2020
Can’t believe it’s July already! Remember to get your abstracts in this month for our third Material and Visual Culture seminar series. We’re aiming for interdisciplinary discussion about how we study things. Check our #CFP and contact us with any questions.
🎉Congratulations to Emma Pearce (@emma_pearce98) who has been awarded the BSECS-Edinburgh PhD scholarship!
Her project will explore the transcultural circulations and connections of tartan in Scotland and the Caribbean.
In light of the movement of our annual conference online, we are offering more prizes and bursaries to PhD and ECR scholars than ever before:
5 x BSECS ECR Awards (£100)
19 x BSECS PG Awards (£100)
1 x BSECS Capability-Building Award (£200)
More here: bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…
Can’t visit us at the moment? Why not take the time to check out our online catalogue? There are over 8000 objects in our collection, and each offers a fascinating insight into Samuel Johnson’s life. #MuseumPassion…ctions.samueljohnsonbirthplace.org.uk
We just had the pleasure of a quick catch-up with our next speaker, the wonderful @R_A_Barr, in advance of her paper on 14th October. It's going to be brilliant and you should come and join us. 8am PT/ 11am ET/ 4pm BST/ 5pm CET. Sign up here: odsecs.org/future-seminars
I am recruiting two FT 3-year Postdoctoral Research Fellows for my recently awarded @LeverhulmeTrust project 'Material Identities, Social Bodies: Embodiment in British Letters c.1680-1820’.
Deadline 3 Nov. Start 1 Feb.
jobs.ac.uk/job/CBU561/pos…
Join us a week from today, 2 September, to hear @AaronRHanlon talk about Frances Burney, Jane Austen, social epistemology and the novel. Note the new time: 9pm BST/ 4pm EDT/ 1pm PDT. Sign up here: odsecs.org/future-seminars. It’s going to be wonderful!
We are so very sorry to hear of the death of our Patron, the extraordinary & inspiring Jane Austen scholar Deirdre Le Faye. She was still generously sharing her expertise with us as recently as last week, with her undiminished wit and wisdom. We will all miss her.
Now that the heat has subsided a little...transport yourself to the Great #Mosque of #Damascus and learn all about it's incredible #Mosaics with Dr Bea Leal 💫🎉
📽️ youtu.be/wmc0BYhmwq8
Join us at 5pm BST on Monday 17th when Dr Ruth Noyes will be talking on '‘Corpisanti’ in a Time of Crisis: Sacred Paperwork, Papal Manufactories, and Producing Relics at the Dawn of the Anthropocene.' As ever, tickets via our website: ndenca.wordpress.com/seminar-series/
Don't forget, we are *NOW SOLICITING BLOG POSTS* of 500-1000 words from PhD and ECR scholars. These can be on new or existing projects, objects in focus and much more! Please pitch to our blog editor Dr Nicole Cochrane (@tinyhistorian) at [email protected]
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310 Followers 154 Followinga group of academics researching literature and culture of the 18th and 19th centuries, and contemporary rewritings of those periods | ▶@ https://t.co/7zRw7NM346
436 Followers 2K FollowingTexts and Technology PhD student @UCF. Studying women in textual production and knowledge creation/book studies. Tweets my own. RT=interesting, not endorsing.
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7K Followers 836 FollowingThe History of Parliament's House of Lords 1660-1832 section, researching the #Lords in the #C18th; currently working on 1715-90 #Georgian #Parliament #HistParl
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2K Followers 548 FollowingThe Lewis Walpole Library, a department of @YaleLibrary, in Farmington, CT, is a renowned research center for the study of Britain in the long 18th century.
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553 Followers 499 Followingresearch assistant @Montagu_Letters | @CECSYork PhD on material letters, print culture, and the (@nationaltrust) country house 💌 | she/her
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