Many thanks to Thomas Null (University of Edinburgh) for this comprehensive report on the ‘Community and its Limits, 1745-1832′ conference held at the beginning of September at the University of Leeds. BARS provided financial support to assist with this conference.
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‘Community and its Limits, 1745-1832′ was held at the School of English, University of Leeds on the 4th and 5th of September. The conference was organised by Jeremy Davies, Richard De Ritter, David Higgins, and Robert Jones as members of Leeds’ Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group, and over two days proved a rich and stimulating conversation exploring the terms of cultural community in the long eighteenth century.
The schedule was arranged in single sessions, allowing for an atmosphere that was both intimate and engaging. Participants attended five panel discussions, two plenary lectures, and conference roundtable together, gathering at intervals for conversation and refreshments in the striking nineteenth-century interiors of the School of English.
‘Matters of Principle’, the opening panel, began with a paper from Dr Tim Milnes (Edinburgh). In ‘Hume, social empiricism, and the limits of trust’, he considered Hume’s use of the essay as a response to questions of epistemology and British empiricist thought in the eighteenth …read more
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