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University of Cambridge’s workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Providing opportunities for postgraduate students to present papers at the University of Cambridge's History Faculty www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-ei…

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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Our final symposium of the year takes place on Tuesday 9 June! We are looking forward to three postgraduate presentations and a keynote from @sallyholloway.bsky.social on the theme of ‘Associations’.
Associations symposium

Tuesday 9 June 2026
2PM to 5:30PM
Jane Harrison Room, Newnham College, Cambridge
KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
Dr Sally Holloway
University of Warwick
14.00–14.15: Opening remarks
14.15–15.15: Postgraduate presentations
Brendan Tam (Warwick), ‘“Social intercourse is no longer confined to those qui idem sentiuent de republica”: the boundaries of political sociability in the early nineteenth century Britain.’
Hannah Wilson (Homerton College, Cambridge), ‘Re-Thinking the Love Token: Gift Exchange and Coercion in the Eighteenth-Century Novel.’
Molly Groarke (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge), ‘Family Networks, Social Politics, and Hosting in British Antislavery and Missionary Campaigns: A Country House Case Study.’
15.15–15.30: Break
15.30–16.00: Q&A
16.00–16.40: Keynote
Dr Sally Holloway (University of Warwick)
16.45–17.15: Q&A
17.15–17.30: Concluding remarks
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Our Easter term card is now live! Join us on Wednesday for scintillating discussion of Gifts and Diplomacy in the Long Eighteenth Century 🎁 Applications are also open to speak at our symposium on 9 June alongside our wonderful keynote @sallyholloway.bsky.social. See below for more info 👇
Wednesday 13 May 12-1PM (Bridgetower Room, Trinity Hall): Gifts and Diplomacy
Natasha Eaton, ‘Between Mimesis and Alterity: Art, Gift, and Diplomacy in Colonial India, 1770–1800’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 46.4 (2004), pp. 816–44
Henrietta Harrison, ‘Chinese and British Diplomatic Gifts in the Macartney Embassy of 1793’, English Historical Review, 133.560 (2018), pp. 65–97
Wednesday 20 May 12-1PM (Leslie Stephen Room, Trinity Hall): Social Networks
Kate Davison, ‘Early Modern Social Networks: Antecedents, Opportunities, and Challenges’, American Historical Review, 124.2 (2019), pp. 456–82
Jon Mee, Networks of Improvement: Literature, Bodies & Machines in the Industrial Revolution (Chicago, IL and London: Chicago University Press, 2023), Intro.
Wednesday 3 June 12-1PM (Bridgetower Room, Trinity Hall): Evocative Things
Elizabeth Eger, ‘Paper Trails and Eloquent Objects: Bluestocking Friendship and Material Culture’, Parergon, 26.2 (2009), pp. 109–38
Stephanie Downes, Sally Holloway, and Sarah Randles (eds), Feeling Things: Objects and Emotions Through History (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), Intro. & Ch. 1A poster on a cream neoclassical background, text summarised as follows: 
On the afternoon of 9 June, we will be running a symposium on the theme of 'Associations' at Newnham College. Our guest speaker is Dr Sally Holloway (Warwick). If you are a postgraduate student or ECR and would like to apply to present a twenty-minute paper at this event, please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio to 18thcenturycam@gmail.com by 20 May. We are especially keen to receive papers which speak to the themes of the discussion group and to Dr Holloway's work.
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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Roses are red Violets are blue To the longest eighteenth century Our hearts remain true ❤️ #18thcentury #18thC
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IHR British History in the Long C18th Seminar @long18thsem.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
18TH CENTURY BRITISH HISTORY PHD LIGHTNING TALKS CFP Are you at the start of your PhD? Want to tell an eager and engaged audience about it in 5 mins? We want to hear the best PGR research about 18th Britain at our #LightningTalks event 29 April 2026. Please see the poster for further information!
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A reminder that our first discussion group event of term (on 'voice and sound' in cities) is tomorrow, 21 February, in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College between 12 - 1 pm. 📖✨ Suggested readings here: www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-lon...
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Workshop for the Long Eighteenth Century | Faculty of History University of Cambridge
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Hot off the press — our reading list for the coming term. Join us every other Wednesday, 12-1pm, at Gonville and Caius to discuss cities in the long eighteenth century 🌇
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We're excited to announce our CFP for our Lent term mini-symposium on the theme of Cities! We're thrilled to have Professor Miles Ogborn as our keynote speaker. If you are a Cambridge-based postgraduate, recent postgraduate, or ECR do think of applying by 12 February!
This is a call for Papers Poster for the 'Salon'. 
Call for Papers: Mini-Symposium on Cities in the Long Eighteen Century (4 March, with 12 February Deadline) Keynote Speaker: Professor Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary, University of London
The Long Eighteenth Century Salon and Workshop is releasing its call for papers for next term's mini-symposium on the theme of Cities. The symposium will take place on the afternoon of Wednesday 4 March, at a central Cambridge location. 
We therefore invite applications for 20-minute papers from postgraduates and ECRs on the following themes, from any geography and any time period between the mid-seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries:
Speech, sound, and other senses in cities
Changing mobilities in urban areas
Subaltern experiences in cities
The natural and built environment in cities
Reassessing urban centres and peripheries
Any other theme that speaks to the unique urban dynamics in this period
To apply, or should you have any questions, please send a 250-word abstract and brief bio by 12 February to the following email address: 18thcenturycam@gmail.com.
Please note that the symposium will follow three discussion group sessions on ‘cities’ (provisionally 21 January, 4 February, 18 February, lunchtimes, at a central Cambridge location). For more on the discussion group, you can sign up to our mailing list here, as we will be releasing the reading list shortly. 
We especially welcome submissions that speak to the concerns of the discussion group, for which we will discuss some of Professor Ogborn’s work. We'll release a brief reading list in early January – all are welcome to join, regardless of whether you've been involved in the reading group before!
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
A reminder that our Salon symposium is tomorrow afternoon, Wednesday 26 November! Our theme is ‘The Senses’ and we’re taking an embodied, medical history, musical, and craft-based approach to the long eighteenth century.
Symposium programme:

Wednesday 26 November 2025
Location: Vivien Stewart Room, Murray Edwards College, 1.30–4.30pm

Keynote: 
Dr Anna Maerker (King's College London): Title TBC

Presentations:
Eleanor Peebles (MPhil in Early Modern History): ‘To Know Themselves’: Touch, Vision, and the Paper Body in Johann Remmelin’s ‘Catoptrum Microcosmicum’
Hettie Marsden (PhD candidate in Art History): “A System of Minor Actions”? Recreational Embroideries, Aesthetic Affection and Female Agency in Early Victorian Britain
Mika Hyman (PhD candidate in History of Science) and Dr Stephane Crayton (Faculty of Music): Instruments of Sensation: Marin Marais’ ‘Le Tableau de l’Opération de la Taille’ and the Embodied Archive
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Salon got off to a fantastic start last week when we discussed smell! This week, it’s Taste, and we’ll be meeting 12-1pm tomorrow in the Junior Parlour at Caius. We’ll discuss Robles’ chapter on ‘Squid’ in Natural Things in Early Modern Worlds + the online exhibition kitcheninthecabinet.com
kitcheninthecabinet.com
The Kitchen in the Cabinet
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
Our first session of the term takes place tomorrow (Wednesday 15th) at 12 noon! Please note the updated location in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Our workshop has a new look this term: The Salon. Discussion group meeting alternate Wednesdays 12-1pm in the Stephen Hawking Room, Trinity Hall. Our symposium on 26 November will feature a keynote by Dr Anna Maerker (KCL). Want to speak? Email us 18thcenturycam@gmail.com.
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Emily will be speaking on "Faith and Reason: Faith in Reason? Revisiting Coleridge's Romantic Epistemology" and Joseph on "Freedom of Expression in American Constitutional Thought and Practice, c. 1770-1800." If you can't join in person, drop us a line for a teams link!
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Our final workshop of term is happening this evening (Monday 16th) at 5 pm at the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius. We're excited to hear papers from Emily Maisonville and Joseph Opp!
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Join us this evening for the third workshop this term, featuring our wonderful convenor @jakebransgrove.bsky.social and guest speaker Dr Beth Richards! We’ll be in the Junior Parlour, Gonville & Caius, at 5pm. Message us for a link to join online. See you there! ✨
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Our next event of term is taking place TODAY! (Monday 2nd June) at 5.30 pm (not 5 pm!) in the Junior Parlour at Gonville & Caius College. We'll be hearing papers from João Moreira da Silva @joaomoreiradasilva.bsky.social and Andrés Jácome. All are welcome to join!
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Our Easter term card is now live! Join us on Tuesday at 5pm, in person and online, for our first two papers from Anthony Zhang and Aelfred Hillman on Restoration comedies.
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Our Easter term CfP is now open! Send us your abstracts by 28 April 🌿
Poster for the call for papers with a landscape painting top left and a bird of paradise top right. Summary of the text:

Those interested in presenting should send a 250 word abstract, accompanied by a short biography, to 18thcenturycam@gmail.com by 28 April 2025. We welcome proposals for any topic that focuses on the period c.1660–c.1840. Your paper may address any theme, including (but certainly not limited to):

Visual and material cultures
Sociability
Manners and daily interactions
Rhetoric and speech
Industry and commerce
Social and political change

Our workshop takes place in a central Cambridge location on Tuesday evenings, from 5–7pm. We will hear two twenty-minute papers, followed by a Q&A session, and we usually continue the discussion over drinks and dinner. 

The proposed dates for Easter term are 27 May, 3 June, 10 June, and 17 June (to avoid coinciding with the Long Eighteenth Century Seminar). Please let us know when applying to present if you cannot make any of these dates.
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Our final session of Lent term is on Tuesday! We will be hosting an *online only* event featuring two exciting papers from @arrannerispoli.bsky.social and Deiara Semeco Kouto. DM us for the Teams link or subscribe to our mailing list via the link in our bio.
Arrannè Rispoli (University of California, Los Angeles): The Poetics of Black Criminality

Deiara Semeco Kouto (KNUST/Leuphana University of Lüneburg): The Transcultural Concepts of Anton Wilhelm Amo in Relation to the Production of Knowledge in Exhibitions and Curatorial Programs
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
We have two exciting papers coming up tomorrow from Tomas Brown (Cambridge) and Anita Hoffmann (York) @17cmedicalwomen.bsky.social – join us at 5 pm in the Library Seminar Room at St John's! We'll listen to both papers, followed by a break for drinks and other refreshments, a Q&A, and dinner.
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Our next session of the term is tomorrow evening at 5pm in Teaching Room 1, Old Divinity School! We’re delighted to welcome Nate Catching and Tiéphaine Thomason to speak on war and peace in France and Martinique 🕊️ Join us in person or online (message for a Teams link)
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It’s our first session of the Lent Term today! Join us at 5pm in the Library Seminar Room, St John’s College, to hear Jonathan Salamon discussing “Moments of Absorption in Bach’s Keyboard Works”, and @zarakesterton.bsky.social talking about illusion and artifice in Carmontelle’s portraiture 🎹🎨
Carmontelle’s watercolour portrait of the Mozart family gathered around a piano
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are delighted to announce our Lent term card! Our first session is a big Bach event on 4 February at St John’s College Library seminar room. 🎶 For more details, subscribe to our mailing list: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/subscr...
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
⏳ Deadline extended! ⏳ You now have until this Friday 17 January to apply to speak at our workshop. All postgraduate students and ECRs welcome. Come and join our friendly 18th century community 😊
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
One day left to submit your abstracts! 🕰️
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Long Eighteenth Century Cambridge @18thcenturycam.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The deadline for our Lent Term CfP is next week! To apply, please send a 250 word abstract and short bio to our email 18centurycam@gmail.com by 10 January. Our theme this term is ✨ Form and Function ✨
A poster describing the mission of the workshop and giving details of the theme, convenors, and format. Please visit our website www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-long-eighteenth-century for a text version
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