Graduate Conference | Research Group for Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies

Graduate students working towards the M.Phil. or Ph.D. are warmly encouraged to participate in the Graduate and Early Career Conference, which is organised on an annual basis by the Faculty’s graduate community. In recent years there have been two conferences each year, devoted to the pre- and post-1750 periods.
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2018 Post-1750 Graduate Conference: ‘Discourses and Dialogues’, 21 April 2018.

2018 Pre-1750 Graduate Conference: ‘Attention & Distraction’, 20 April 2018. Plenary speaker: Prof Diane Purkiss (Oxford).

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Conference Archive:

2016: ‘Discipline and Excess’
External Respondent: Dr. Helen Barr, University of Oxford

2015: ‘Jargon of Men and Things’: Production and Consumption in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Dr Corinna Wagner, University of Exeter

2014: ‘Bending the Mind: Attention and Instruction in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Professor Anne Janowitz

2013: ‘Adam’s Dream: Imaginative Incarnations in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Professor Michael O’Neill, University of Durham

2012: ‘Conflict and Catastrophe in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Dr Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford

2011: ‘A Most Immense Inheritance: Inheritance in the Eighteenth Century and Romantic Period’
External Respondent: Dr Nicholas Halmi, University of Oxford

2010: ‘Half Dust Half Deity: Science, Nature and the Supernatural in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Professor David Fairer, University of Leeds

2009: ‘Satire’s Glass: Satire and the Visual Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century’
External Respondent: Professor Vic Gatrell, University of Cambridge

2008: ‘Travel and Travail’
External Respondent: Dr Sally Bushell, Lancaster University

2007: ‘The Wandering Eye/I: Issues of Identity and Representation in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Studies’
External Respondent: Professor Nigel Leask, University of Glasgow

2004: ‘Treason and Transgression’
External Respondent: Prof John Barrell, University of York