Eighteenth-Century Studies

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKERS: Tara Bynum, University of Iowa

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKERS: A. Veronique Charles, Columbia University; Fauve Vandenberghe, Harvard University/University of Ghent "Abolition in Two Acts: Writerly Grains and Losses for Black Freedom in the Imperial Republic Before 1802" This talk...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Ludwig Pelzl, Visiting Fellow, Harvard University Calendar age is a foundational pillar of modern society—but how did it come to occupy this position? The talk will examine how social elites in eighteenth-century...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Dinner Symposium Speakers: Aditya Banerjee (Harvard University); Scott Karambis (Harvard University); Justin Brown-Ramsey (Boston College)

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Tita Chico, University of Maryland The long eighteenth century textual landscape is populated by wonders and by wondering: one encounters seemingly countless objects of wonder and just as many experiences of wonder...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Joseph Rezek, Boston University This talk examines the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” at the end of the seventeenth century through an analysis of Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko (1688). I argue that Behn...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Horace Ballard, Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art, Harvard Art Museums Horace D. Ballard (he/they) is the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Curator of American Art. He investigates the art, ideas, and visual...

EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES Dinner Symposium Program: Visions of Transport: Elizabeth Singer Rowe, Enthusiasm, and Female Prophecy - Jack Rodgers, Harvard University " Such a Frightful Thing”: The Sublime Body in Daniel Defoe’s A Journal of the Plague Year...