Enlightenment Exchanges
a seminar on the long eighteenth century for every discipline
Hilary Term 2008
1st week – Tuesday 15th January
Dr. Emma Reisz (Queen’s University, Belfast)
‘The Birth of the Jungle: Forests and the Reach of the Global Enlightenment’
2nd week – Tuesday 22nd January
Amy Culley (University of Lincoln)
'Ideas of self and community in the journal of Elizabeth Fox (1750-1842)'
3rd week – Tuesday 29th January
Dr. Lynn Shepherd (Lincoln College, Oxford)
'Private Man and Public Figure: the Portraits of Samuel Richardson'
4th week – Tuesday 5th February
Jacqueline Thalmann (Christchurch College Picture Gallery)
‘The Grand Tour and the Guise Collection’
5th week – Tuesday 12th February
Dr. John Christie (University of Leeds)
'Enlightenment Historiographies: the Natural Sciences'
6th week – Tuesday 19th February
Dr. Sarah Apetrei (Keble College, Oxford)
'A Woman's Reason': Gender, Reason and the Passions in Mary Astell
7th week – Tuesday 26th February
Jonathan Fowler
Title to be confirmed
8th week – Tuesday 4th March
Dr. Christina Granroth (Wolfson College, Cambridge)
'A Linnean traveller in Java: forms of knowledge in the travel journal of
C. F. Hornstedt, 1783-86'
We meet on Tuesdays at 5pm in the Fraenkel Room at Corpus Christi College
Questions? Suggestions? Contact alessandra.sulzer@ccc.ox.ac.uk or helenackelly@gmail.com