Activities

Bernard Picart after Romeyn de Hooghe, Mutilation of the bodies of the brothers de Witt 1672, etching, 27cm x 35cm, 1728, Rijksmuseum Prints and Drawings

Programme 2017-2018

All seminars start at 5:30PM 
Venue: Seminar Room 1, LHRI (Leeds Humanities Research Institute), 29-31 Clarendon Place

All Welcome!  

20 November 2017 
Dr Leticia Villamediana González (University of Warwick) 
‘Entre filias y fobias’: British Enlightenment in the 18th-Century Spanish Press 

04 December 2017 
Dr Alan Mackintosh (University of Leeds) 
Dangers of the ‘Imagination’: The Passions and their Perils in Eighteenth-century Healthcare and Culture

05 February 2018 
Postgraduate themed evening
Convenor: Richard Bellis (University of Leeds) 

Alessio Mattana (School of English, University of Leeds):
‘From one Faculty to Another’: The Verbal and the Visual in Hooke’s Micrographia’

Francis Osis (School of Humanities, University of Glasgow):
‘Bodies of Knowledge: Venereal Disease in Eighteenth-Century Medical Museums’

Richard Bellis (School of PHRS, University of Leeds):
‘Diseased Bodies and Works on Disease: Matthew Baillie’s Morbid Anatomy and the ‘Epistemic Genre’
Theme: The Use and Misuse of Eighteenth-Century Bodies

23 April 2018
Dr David Hope (School of History, Classics and Archaeology Newcastle University)
Material Culture and Consumer Demand in the British Atlantic: The Case of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Servants, c. 1780-1820

30 April 2018 
Dr Elizabeth Wallman (French Department, UCL) 
Political Economy in Action: The Government of Circulation in Eighteenth-Century Beekeeping Manuals

For further information, please contact a member of the Committee:

Gregorio Alonso g.alonso@leeds.ac.uk; Richard Bellis ph10rtb@leeds.ac.uk; Kerry Bristol k.a.c.bristol@leeds.ac.uk; Valerie Mainz v.s.mainz@leeds.ac.uk; Peter Maw p.maw@leeds.ac.uk