Edward Wren, University of Cambridge ‘Treating the Practical Rules of Morality: the “two useful Parts” of Moral Philosophy and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)’ Damiano Bardelli University of Lausanne ‘Studying Provincial Intellectual Life

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 March 2019
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Edward Wren, University of Cambridge

‘Treating the Practical Rules of Morality: the “two useful Parts” of Moral Philosophy and Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)’

 

Damiano Bardelli University of Lausanne

‘Studying Provincial Intellectual Life in the Enlightenment: the Lausanne Literary Society (1772–1783)’

[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]

 

 

 

 

Jacopo Veneziani, University of Paris ‘Identity, Visibility and Games of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Views of Paris: Historical, Sociological and Methodological Questions’

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 March 2019
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Jacopo Veneziani, University of Paris

‘Identity, Visibility and Games of Attention in Eighteenth-Century Views of Paris: Historical, Sociological and Methodological Questions’

[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]

 

 

Georgia Vullinghs, University of Edinburgh ‘The Afterlife of Clementina Sobieska, Stuart Queen in Exile’ Diana Rafaela Pereira, University of Porto ‘Healing Statues of the Virgin in Eighteenth-Century Portugal’

Event date: 
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Wednesday 27 February

 

Georgia Vullinghs, University of Edinburgh

‘The Afterlife of Clementina Sobieska, Stuart Queen in Exile’

 

Diana Rafaela Pereira, University of Porto

‘Healing Statues of the Virgin in Eighteenth-Century Portugal’

[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]

 

 

 

William Burgess, Queen Mary, University of London ‘The Fossils of John Woodward: Defying Death in the Institutional Museum’ Elena Romero-Passerin, University of St Andrews ‘“Distinguere gli ananassi dale patate”: the Transmission of Botanical Knowledge

Event date: 
Wednesday 13 February 2019
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

William Burgess, Queen Mary, University of London

‘The Fossils of John Woodward: Defying Death in the Institutional Museum’

 

Elena Romero-Passerin, University of St Andrews

‘“Distinguere gli ananassi dale patate”: the Transmission of Botanical Knowledge in Peter-Leopold’s Tuscany’

[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]

 

 

Ashley Foster, Notre Dame University ‘The Controversy Surrounding the Cambuslang Revival and its Reflection on Eighteenth-Century Debates concerning Social Cohesion’ Jessica Davidson, University of Oxford ‘Time and Space at the Eighteenth-Century Fair’

Event date: 
Wednesday 30 January 2019
Time: 
16:30
Location: 
Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, 2 Hope Park Square

Ashley Foster, Notre Dame University

‘The Controversy Surrounding the Cambuslang Revival and its Reflection on Eighteenth-Century Debates concerning Social Cohesion’

Jessica Davidson, University of Oxford

‘Time and Space at the Eighteenth-Century Fair’

[Eighteenth-Century Research Seminars]

 

 

 

Mathias Thaler: Book launch of Naming Violence (Columbia University Press 2018); with comments from James Pattison (Manchester) and Claire Duncanson (Edinburgh)

Event date: 
Tuesday 5 February 2019 to Wednesday 6 February 2019
Time: 
16:00
Location: 
2 Hope Park Square

TUESDAY 5 February

 

4pm, IASH, 2 Hope Park Square

Mathias Thaler: Book launch of Naming Violence (Columbia University Press 2018); with comments from James Pattison (Manchester) and Claire Duncanson (Edinburgh). Wine reception to follow.

Dr Padmini Ray Murray, Design Beku, Bengaluru: Exclusion by design: how existing knowledge infrastructures keep women off the Web

Event date: 
Thursday 17 January 2019
Time: 
17:30
Location: 
Digital Scholarship Centre, Centre for Research Collections, Main University Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ

Seminar Paper: Exclusion by design: how existing knowledge infrastructures keep women off the Web

Dr Padmini Ray Murray, Design Beku, Bengaluru. 

17th Jan 2019 (17:30-19:30)

Digital Scholarship Centre, Centre for Research Collections, Main University Library, 30 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LJ (Central Area)