Previous Conferences and Workshops
workshop: How Can You Tell? Judgment in Early Modern Europe
workshop: Scandal
Conference: Dr Lucy Underwood - 'British Catholics in the European Imagination c.1530-1800'
workshop: Languages of Slavery
workshop 'Re-Imagining the Mediterranean: Trans-cultural networks in the Early Modern World'
workshop: 'Women and Property in the long Eighteenth Century'
workshop: 'Early Modern Women’s Roles and Identities 1500-1800'
workshop: Orality in ancien regime France. Speakers: Mack Holt, Mark Greengrass, David Nicoll, Kate Astbury, Tom Hamilton and Emily Butterworth
workshop (with GHCC): The Legitimation of Early Modern States: England (1530-1750), Japan (1660-1895), and China (1720-1895). Speakers include Wenkai He, Oleg Benesch, Song-Chuan Chen, Kiri Paramore, Mike Braddick and Mark Knights
symposium: Seventeenth Century England - in celebration of Bernard Capp's 50 years at Warwick
workshop: Early Modern Keywords: the Anglo French Dynamic
workshop: BECC-Warwick Annual Symposium 2018: 'Culture and Communication'
workshop: 'Public Office in Britain and its Empire, c.1550-c.1900'
workshop: 'Sociability in Britain and its Empire, c.1600-c.1850'
GHCC workshop: Forgotten Connections: linking Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic worlds in the early modern period
performance: 'House Satire in the Dock: Restaging the Hone Trials of 1817' WARWICK WORDS
workshop: 'William Hone and the Culture of Protest' WARWICK WORDS
workshop: Experiencing Time in the Early Modern Period
workshop: Heritage and Alternative Histories
conference: Devotional Writing in Print and Manuscript in Early Modern England, 1558-1700
workshop: 'The Early Modern Iberian World in a Global Frame, 16th-18th centuries'
workshop: BECC-Warwick Annual Symposium
WORKSHOP
The Eighteenth Century: Past and Present
The latest in a series of annual events held jointly with the University of Birmingham. This workshop will explore various aspects of the relevance of, and ways of presenting, the C18th for a modern audience and how past and present interact. So we shall explore how the C18th helps/hinders us to think about contemporary issues, how aspects of the C18th are presented/represented in any form now, parallels/discontinuities between past and present, how to tackle commemorations of C18th events, and C18th issues which still have purchase on current debates.
The programme is here.
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26-27 May 2015
WORKSHOP (by invitation only)
Writing the History of Socio-Economic Rights
During this two-day workshop, we will consider how to write the history of socioeconomic rights – rights to health, food, work, housing and education. These rights, which have received considerably less attention than civil and political rights, have recently come into focus among scholars and NGOs. Often considered to be ‘second generation rights’, that is, as twentieth-century additions to ‘core’ civil and political rights stretching back to the eighteenth century, notions of socioeconomic rights stretch back, in fact, to the Enlightenment. Socioeconomic rights exploded into the politics of the French Revolution. Since then, however, their legitimacy has been contested and has proved to be more precarious than that of civil and political rights. What accounts for this historical precariousness?
This workshop is being held during the IAS fellowship of Samuel Moyn (Harvard Law School, author of The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History). It will bring together scholars working from different disciplinary perspectives – history, law, politics, literature, philosophy, anthropology – in an effort to conceptualise problems and dynamics related to the history of socioeconomic rights. We aim to explore the complicated interactions between these rights and politics, political economy, philosophy, humanitarianism, theories of law and rights, biopolitics and health, international relations and economic conjunctures.
Please visit the Writing the History of Socioeconomic Rights pages for full details.
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13 May 2015
SYMPOSIUM
Ceremony, Ritual and Performance in the 18th Century
The latest in a series of annual events held jointly with the University of Birmingham.
Presentation of papers, discussion and two organised visits.
Full programme here
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14 May 2014
WORKSHOP
'Humanity'
Collaborative workshop with Birmingham's Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Programme
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'Connections, Convergences and Disjuncture - the Joint Histories of Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth Century England/Britain and English/British America, 1650-1750'
A series of Mellon workshops, 'Connections, Convergences and Disjuncture - the Joint Histories of Seventeenth-Century and Eighteenth Century England/Britain and English/British America, 1650-1750', took place on 5th November 2010, 25th March 2011, and 10th-23rd July 2011. The overall aim of the series of workshops was to arrive at a genuine collaboration between established scholars and postgraduates/early postdoctoral researchers in late seventeenth and early eighteenth century English/British and British American history. The workshops will explore how Early Modern English, British and British American history can be reunited. Further details here
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Open to all Warwick arts, humanities and sociology postgraduates and postdocs, and featuring sessions lead by Professor Withers (Visiting Fellow), Dr Renaud Morieux (University of Lille), Dr Clare Anderson (Warwick), Dr Rosemarie Dias (Warwick).
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'Globalising the Age of Reform, c.1780-1850: Varieties of Reform in Britain and the British Empire'.
3rd-4th June 2009
'Sciences and Capital Cities: Revisiting the Public Sphere of Knowledge', organised by Dr Stephane Van Damme, European University Institute, Florence
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'Economies of Improvement: Technological Innovation, Science and the Public Sphere in the Eighteenth Century', organised by Dr Marie Thebaud-Sorger of the Marie Curie (FP7), and the Economic History Society. programme
24th-25th March 2009
'The Lure of Italy', organised by Professor Jacqueline Labbe with the Clark Library, at the Warwick Venice Centre.
20th-21st June 2008, Maison Francaise, Oxford
'Centres of Enlightenment in Global Context'. programme and other details
9th-10th June 2008, Berlin
'Forms of Artistic Expertise in Europe: Actors, Practices and Objects'. programme
20th March 2008, Venice
'Mexico and the Enlightenment' programme
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Organised by Pierre-Antoine Fabre, Antonella Romano, Stéphane Van Damme Maison Française d’Oxford
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Ceramics Day at Waddesdon Manor Programme
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Participants included: Dr Liliane Hilaire-Perez (Paris), Professor Maxine Berg, Dr Andrew Sherratt (Ashmolean Museum), and a team from Waddesdon Manor - Ms. Pippa Shirley and colleagues.
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Panel at the Anglo-American Conference on Wealth and Poverty
10th July 2004, London
'A Commerce with Strangers: Trade and Technology between East and West'
4th June 2004, Paris
'Minorities and Technical Exchange in Europe and Asia'
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Chairs: Colin Jones and Natacha Coquery
Speakers: Christine Velut,Dena Goodman, Sarah Richards, Dominique Massonnie & Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Luca Mola, Morag Martin, Katie Scott, Helen Clifford and Maxine Berg
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A discussion of Joel Mokyr's The Gifts of Athena. Historical Origins of the Knowledge Economy (Princeton 2002)
Speakers: Joel Mokyr, Larry Stewart, Liliane Hilaire-Perez, Patricia Brett, Robert Fox and Anna Guaguine, Nigel Thrift, Anne Puetz, Kristine Bruland, Robert Allen
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Session with Elizabeth Eger. See Bibliography and Extracts
5 July 2002, London
The workshop brought together the Warwick Art and Industry Project, which finished in 2002, and the new Warwick-CNAM, Paris Research Interchange on Cultures of Commerce and Invention 1550-1850. It consisted of short papers; enough time enabled to develop a lively and productive discussion. Programme
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Organised by Karen O’Brien and Elizabeth Eger (University of Warwick). Programme
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