The Eighteenth Century
Seminar or event series
The Eighteenth Century Seminar is a post-graduate seminar, sponsored by the Faculty of History, aiming to explore topics of shared interest to historians (and the historically-minded) with diverse specializations and sensibilities who work on the eighteenth century.
The History Faculty’s Trevelyan Fund normally provides crucial and much appreciated assistance to support visits by scholars from outside Cambridge.
The seminar will take place on three Tuesdays throughout the term in the Long Room, at Gonville and Caius College (unless otherwise indicated), at 5-7 p.m. All welcome.
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Events
Jan
28
The Workshop of the World: Factories and Capitalism in Early Modern Global Asia
Giorgio Riello (EUI)
This seminar will take place in the Senior Parlour of Gonville and Caius College.
Feb
11
Launch of David R. M. Irving (ICREA & Institució Milà I Fontanals de Recerca en Humanitats, CSIC, Barcelona), 'The Making of European Music in the Long Eighteenth Century', (Oxford, 2023)
with discussants Peter Burke (Emmanuel) and Joyce Lindorff (Temple University & Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall)
Feb
18
The Temple Archipelago: Power and Governance in Eighteenth-Century China
Ronald C. Po (LSE)
Mar
11
Papering Exploration: Printing Pacific Geographic Knowledge in Britain in the Mid-Eighteenth Century
Katherine Parker (Royal Geographical Society)
May
13
Title TBC
Karen Harvey (York)
May
20
Launch of, 'Science and Political Economy in Enlightenment Milan, 1760-1805' (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2024), with comments by Sara Caputo (Cambridge) and Sophus Reinert (Harvard)
Lavinia Maddaluno (Ca’ Foscari, Venice)
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Page credits & information
Banner image: Detail from Prospect of London by Antonio Joli
At a glance
Term
Lent Term
When
Tuesdays throughout the term, 5pm-7pm
Where
Long Room, at Gonville and Caius College (unless otherwise indicated)
Mailing list
Convenor(s)
Melissa Calaresu
Sara Caputo