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'.

'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 

'The Lure of Italy', organised by Professor Jacqueline Labbe with the Clark Library, at the Warwick Venice Centre.

'Centres of Enlightenment in Global Context'. programme and other details

'Forms of Artistic Expertise in Europe: Actors, Practices and Objects'. programme 

'Mexico and the Enlightenment' programme

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The Lure of Foundations and Experiences of Mobility: The Making of Jesuit Spaces in the Early Modern period - 19-20 October 2007 

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

'A Commerce with Strangers: Trade and Technology between East and West'

'Minorities and Technical Exchange in Europe and Asia'

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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

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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