{"id":3483,"date":"2023-07-24T21:23:32","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-usc-dornsife.pantheonsite.io\/emsi\/?page_id=3483"},"modified":"2025-08-25T23:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T23:23:52","slug":"long-18th-century-past-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/emsi\/seminar-series\/long-18th-century\/long-18th-century-past-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Long 18th Century Past Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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2024-2025<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 20, 2024<\/strong>
\nDevoney Looser, Arizona State University
\n“The Stunning Gunnings and Eighteenth-Century Fiction”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

November 15, 2024<\/strong>
\nDavid Alff, State Univerity of New York, Buffalo
\n“Rights of Way and Early Modern Infrastructure”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 7, 2025<\/strong>
\nSophie Coulombeau, University of York
\nReading with the Burneys: Patronage, Paratext, Performance<\/em>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 28, 2025<\/strong>
\nHeather Keenleyside, University of Chicago
\n“The Literary History of Ideas”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 28, 2025<\/strong>
\nEmily Hodgson Anderson, USC and Sarah Kareem, UCLA
\nSpecial book event for Shadow Work: Loneliness and the Literary Life<\/em>
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

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2023-2024<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 29, 2023<\/strong>
\nThadeus Dowad, Northwestern University
\n\u201cTurquerie\u2019s Other Colors: Portraiture & Race between Paris, Istanbul, and the Caribbean\u201d<\/p>\n

December 1, 2023<\/strong>
\nClaude Willan, Rowan University
\n\u201cManifolding the Eighteenth Century\u201d<\/p>\n

February 2, 2024<\/strong>
\nJulie Park, Penn State University
\n\u201cThe Camera Obscura & Spaces of Inner Life in 18th-Century England\u201d<\/p>\n

March 22, 2024<\/strong>
\nEugenia Zuroski, McMaster University
\n\u201cA Funny Thing: An Undisciplined 18th Century\u201d<\/p>\n

2022-2023<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 30, 2022<\/strong>
\nDipti Khera, New York University
\n“The Place of Many Moods: Udaipur’s Painted Lands and India’s Eighteenth Century”<\/p>\n

October 21, 2022<\/strong>
\nChelsea Stieber, The Catholic University of America
\n“Revolutionary m\u00e9moires, Dessalinean critique, and the origins of Haitian anticolonial writing”<\/p>\n

January 27, 2023<\/strong>
\nKathleen Lubey, St. John’s University
\n“What Pornography Knows: Sex and Social Protest since the Eighteenth Century”<\/p>\n

March 3, 2023<\/strong>
\nThomas Manganaro, University of Richmond
\n“Against Better Judgment: Irrational Action and Literary Invention in the Long Eighteenth Century”<\/p>\n

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2021\u20132022<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 19, 2021<\/strong>
\nMei Mei Rado, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
\n\u201cWestern Tapestries at the Eighteenth-century Qing Court in China”
\nOnline<\/p>\n

December 3, 2021<\/strong>
\nAbigail Zitin, Rutgers University
\n\u201cAsexual Generations\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 21, 2022<\/strong>
\nWendy Anne Lee, New York University
\n\u201cJane Austen & the End of Life\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 25, 2022<\/strong>
\nJason Farr, Marquette University
\n“The Deaf Soundscapes of Burney\u2019s Cecilia”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 22, 2022<\/strong>
\nAndrew Bricker, Ghent University
\n\u201cSophists in Calumny: Satirists in Court in the Eighteenth Century\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2020\u20132021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 23, 2020<\/strong>
\nZirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cFrancis Hayman’s History of the Two Indies at Vauxhall Gardens\u201d
\nOnline<\/p>\n

November 20, 2020<\/strong>
\nSal Nicolazzo, University of California, San Diego
\n\u201cToward an Abolitionist Literary History of the Police\u201d
\nOnline<\/p>\n

January 29, 2021<\/strong>
\nDavide Panagia, University of California, Los Angeles
\n\u201cEighteenth-Century Moral Sentimentalism and Contemporary Criticism\u201d
\nOnline<\/p>\n

March 19, 2021<\/strong>
\nAshley Cohen, University of Southern California
\nThe Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756-1815
\nOnline<\/p>\n

Event cancelled
\nWendy Anne Lee, New York University
\n\u201cPerception, Persuasion, and the End of Life\u201d<\/p>\n

April 23, 2021<\/strong>
\nJoseph Drury, Villanova University
\n“The Whimsical Eighteenth Century”
\nOnline<\/p>\n

2019\u20132020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

September 13, 2019<\/strong>
\nDavid Taylor, University of Oxford
\n“Addison’s Theatre of the Aesthetic”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

November 1, 2019<\/strong>
\nKelsey B. Rubin-Detlev, University of Southern California
\n“Catherine the Great and Russian Reactions to the French Revolution”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 7, 2020<\/strong>
\nAlexander Wragge-Morley, New York University
\n“The Aesthetic Sciences of the Long 18th Century”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 6, 2020<\/strong>
\nJulia Fawcett, University of California, Berkeley
\n“Performing Personal Space in Restoration London”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 3, 2020<\/strong>
\nZirwat Chowdhury, University of California, Los Angeles
\n“Francis Hayman’s History of the Two Indies at Vauxhall Gardens”
\nCanceled<\/p>\n

2018\u20132019<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nSeptember 21, 2018<\/strong>
\nMary Favret, Johns Hopkins University
\n“How the Bookworm Got Its Glasses: A Natural History of Bookishness”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

October 19, 2018<\/strong>
\nNaomi Tadmor, Lancaster University
\n“The Settlement of the English Poor in the Long Eighteenth Century”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

November 5, 2018<\/strong>
\nTita Chico, University of Maryland
\n“Facts and Other Metaphors in the British Enlightenment”
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/p>\n

January 25, 2019<\/strong>
\nSpencer Jackson, The University of Queensland
\n“Tory Abolitionists in Early America: Phyllis Wheatley\u2019s Republican Political Poetics”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 22, 2019<\/strong>
\nJohn A. Hodgson, Princeton University
\n“Richard Potter: America’s First Black Celebrity”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 12, 2019<\/strong>
\nAntonia Szabari, University of Southern California
\n“Radical Botany and the Romantic Plant”
\nNatania Meeker, University of Southern California
\n“Radical Botany and the Romantic Plant”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2017\u20132018<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nNovember 3, 2017<\/strong>
\nFrederic Clark, Rice University
\n“Writing the ‘Ancient and Modern History of the World’: Universal History and the Antecedents of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

November 3, 2017<\/strong>
\nAnton M. Matytsin, Kenyon College
\n“Writing Cultural History in the Enlightenment: Antecedents of Voltaire’s Essai sur les m\u0153urs at the Acad\u00e9mie des inscriptions”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 26, 2018<\/strong>
\nAmanda Vickery, Queen Mary University of London
\n“Polymorphous Uniformity: Packaging Identity in 18th-century England”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 26, 2018<\/strong>
\nRobert Wellington, Australian National University
\n“Onontio’s Reward: When Louis XIV’s Head Hung from Native American Necks”
\nUniversity of Southern California<\/p>\n

March 2, 2018<\/strong>
\nDavid O’Shaughnessy, Trinity College Dublin
\n“Charles Macklin, the ’45, and the Opportunity of History”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 6, 2018<\/strong>
\nCatherine Roach, Virginia Commonwealth University
\n“The British Institution and the Making of the Modern Art Exhibition”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2016\u20132017<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nSeptember 30, 2016<\/strong>
\nMatthew Hunter, McGill University
\n“‘Render’d Immortal’: The Work of Art in An Age of Chymical Reproduction”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

October 28, 2016<\/strong>
\nSarah Raff, Pomona College
\n\u201cInventing the Custodial Novel: Mansfield Park<\/em>, Shakespeare, and the Absent Garden”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 10, 2017<\/strong>
\nJon Mee, University of York
\n“The Doctor that Blushed: John Ferriar and the Body in Early Industrial Manchester”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 21, 2017<\/strong>
\nDaniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
\n“Sir Joshua Reynolds, Decolonization, and the Pictorial Dialectics of Crisis”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2015\u20132016<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nSeptember 25, 2015<\/strong>
\nAyesha Ramachandran, Yale University
\n‘Cosmopolitanism Before Kant: Towards a New History of ‘World Literature’”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 29, 2016<\/strong>
\nWilliam Warner, University of California, Santa Barbara
\n\u201cReality and the Novel: How the 19th and 20th century Critical Creed of Realism Has Obscured What was New in the New Novel of the long Eighteenth century”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 25, 2016<\/strong>
\nDena Goodman, University of Michigan
\n“Family, Friendship, Sociability, and Science in Revolutionary France”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 29, 2016<\/strong>
\nLisa A. Freeman, University of Illinois, Chicago
\n“Mrs. Inchbald’s Remarks”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2014\u20132015<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nOctober 17, 2014<\/strong>
\nKathleen Wilson, State University of New York, Stony Brook
\n“Blackface Empire: Love, Theft and Subversion in British Domains”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 27, 2015<\/strong>
\nPaula Backscheider, Auburn University
\n“Crisis Texts: Wartime Women on Stage”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

May 8, 2015<\/strong>
\nJayne Lewis, University of California, Irvine
\n“Milton’s Hair: A (Long) Eighteenth-Century Entanglement”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2013\u20132014<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

November 8, 2013<\/strong>
\nHelen Thompson, Northwestern University
\n“Racial Difference and Eighteenth-Century Matter Theory”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 24, 2014<\/strong>
\nStuart Sherman, Fordham University
\n“News, Plays, Days: Rhythms of Performance and Report, London 1620-1779”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 28, 2014<\/strong>
\nDavid Cressy, Ohio State University
\n“Eighteenth Century Gypsies: The Trials and Travels of Mary Squires”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 11, 2014<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Kuti, University of Essex
\n“1798: War, Terror, and Performance”
\nUSC, University Park Campus<\/p>\n

April 12, 2014<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Kuti, University of Essex
\nThe Broken Token
\nUCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library<\/p>\n

May 2, 2014<\/strong>
\nHarriet Guest, University of York
\n“Sociability and Social Class: Seaside Holidays in 18th-Century Literature”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2012\u20132013<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nOctober 4, 2012<\/strong>
\nChi-ming Yang, University of Pennsylvania
\n“Black Lacquer: Race, Science, and Chinoiserie”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 18, 2013<\/strong>
\nLynn Hunt, UCLA
\n“French Revolutionary Prints and the Social Imagination”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 29, 2013<\/strong>
\nMeg Russett, USC
\n“Blake’s ‘Bonifieds’: Milton, Body and Soul”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

May 2, 2013<\/strong>
\nMisty Anderson, UT, Knoxville
\n“The Scottish Play: Centlivre and The Wonder of Britishness”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2011\u20132012<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

October 14, 2011<\/strong>
\nEmily Hodgson Anderson, USC
\n\u201cAnimating Hermione: Sarah Siddons in The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em>\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

January 26, 2012<\/strong>
\nGillian Russell, Australian National University
\n\u201c \u2018Accidental reading\u2019: ephemeral textuality and sociability in the fiction of Maria Edgeworth\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 15, 2012<\/strong>
\nLynn Festa, Rutgers University
\n\u201cFallen Things\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 20, 2012<\/strong>
\nDavid Brewer, Ohio State University
\n\u201cThe Inhumanity of Authors\u201d
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2010\u20132011<\/span>
\n<\/strong>
\nOctober 8, 2010<\/strong>
\nLinda Colley, Princeton University
\n“Gendering the Globe: The Political and Imperial Thought of Philip Francis”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

December 3, 2010<\/strong>
\nSandra MacPherson, Ohio State University
\n“Pornomorphography”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

February 11, 2011<\/strong>
\nJohn Mee, University of Warwick
\n” ‘The Most Garrulous Female Chronicler’: Piozzi Boswell, and the Conversible World of the Literary”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

March 25, 2011<\/strong>
\nTed McCormick, Concordia University
\n“Three Aspects of Population in the Enlightenment”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

April 22, 2011<\/strong>
\nKevin Gilmartin, California Institute of Technology
\n“Experimental Pastoral”
\nHuntington Library<\/p>\n

2009-2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Friday, October 9, 2009<\/strong>
\nJill Campbell, Yale University
\n“‘Join\/Griefs to thy griefs’: Authorial Feeling and Literary Work in the Age of Pope”<\/p>\n

Friday, November 20, 2009<\/strong>
\nNicholas Rogers, University of York
\n“The Trials of Admiral Knowles: Duels and Recriminations in the British Navy, 1740-1750”<\/p>\n

Friday, January 15, 2010<\/strong>
\nJohn Brewer, California Institute of Technology
\n“Feeling and Distance: Loyalist Instinct and Radical Benevolence in the 1790s”<\/p>\n

Friday, March 5, 2010<\/strong>
\nJocelyn Harris, University of Otago
\n“The Mansfield Park Theatricals and the Controversy over the Stage”<\/p>\n

Friday, April 30, 2010<\/strong>
\nHelen Deutsch, UCLA
\n“The Literary Afterlife of Jonathan Swift”<\/p>\n

2008-2009<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, September 25, 2008<\/strong>
\nLaura Brown, Cornell University
\n“Shock Effect: Monkeys, Marriage & Frances Burney’s Evelina<\/em>”<\/p>\n

Friday, November 14, 2008<\/strong>
\nJoseph Boone, USC
\n“European Travelogues & Ottoman Sexuality: Sodomitical Crossings Abroad, 1600-1830”<\/p>\n

Thursday, January 8, 2009<\/strong>
\nHoward Weinbrot, University of Wisconsin-Madison
\n“The Thirtieth of January Sermon: Swift, Johnson, Sterne & the Evolution of Culture”<\/p>\n

Friday, March 6, 2009<\/strong>
\nMary Beth Norton, Cornell University
\n“Women & the Public\/Private Divide in Anglo-America, 1640-1750”<\/p>\n

Thursday, April 30, 2009<\/strong>
\nAngela Rosenthal, Dartmouth College
\n“The Art of Undoing: Slave Portraiture in the Age of Abolition”<\/p>\n

2007-2008<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thursday, October 11, 2007<\/strong>
\nMalcolm Baker, University of California, Riverside
\n“Making the Portrait Bust Modern: The Changing Role of Sculptural Portraiture in 18th-Century Britain”<\/p>\n

Friday, January 11, 2008<\/strong>
\nDaniela Bleichmar, USC
\n“Learning to Look: Art, Science, and Visual Expertise in the 18th Century”<\/p>\n

Thursday, March 13, 2008<\/strong>
\nJenny Davidson, Columbia University
\n“The Hows and Whys of Shakespearean Adaptation in the 18th Century”<\/p>\n

Friday, May 2, 2008<\/strong>
\nMarta Vicente, University of Kansas
\n“The Sex of Children: Family, Nature, and Culture in Early Modern Thought”<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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