@CSLECKent

Centre for Studies in the Long Eighteenth Century at the University of Kent.

 Canterbury, England
kent.ac.uk/english/research/centres/18th.html
Joined October 2015
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Join us for our live YouTube Open Day on 3 July at 12pm! Find out more about English at Kent and hear from Dr Sarah James, Dr Juha Virtanen, Prof Jennie Batchelor & our current students, and submit your questions live to staff & students. Join here: youtu.be/d0JtV5OK6Vc
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Our Creative Writing Summer Series continues at 4pm this afternoon on Zoom with: 'Literary Agents and how to find them': a workshop with David Flusfeder, Amy Sackville & Jenny Hewson of Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency All welcome! Details here: ow.ly/Vu5B50zDBKX
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CSLEC Kent retweeted
Alan Alda
@alanalda14 Mar 2020
Thank you, Yo-Yo.
Yo-Yo Ma
@YoYo_Ma13 Mar 2020
In these days of anxiety, I wanted to find a way to continue to share some of the music that gives me comfort. The first of my #SongsOfComfort: Dvořák – "Going Home” Stay safe.
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A nice narwhal for Thursday morning, in a letter from Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane, May 1736. Sloane MS 4054, f 227r.
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To mark the launch of Kent's new Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, colleagues are holding a symposium titled "Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Indigenous and Settler-Colonial Studies". See the cfp here: research.kent.ac.uk/centrefo…

CFP: "Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Settler Colonial and Critical Indigenous Studies" -...

Bonnie Devine, Titled/Untitled, 2018. Ink and crayon on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Map courtesy of Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL).   ‘There was never a single beginning point to...

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Join us for the second in the Kent Public Keynote series. We're so pleased to welcome Professor Terry Eagleton as he talks to us on the topic of 'Sacrifice and Revolution'. Monday 11th November, 18:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre 1, University of Kent, Canterbury All welcome!
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💰BURSARIES! Calling all #18thC Postgrads & ECRs. If you're proposing a paper for the @BSECS Annual Conference (& of course you are!) did you know you can apply for a bursary to cover the reg. fee & dinner costs? Apply, apply, apply by 1 November! Info --> bsecs.org.uk/conferences/ann…
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Hogarth: Place and Progress opens tomorrow! See all of Hogarth's series united for the first time to examine the artist's complex views on morality, society and the city. soane.org/hogarth #HogarthExhibition
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'We Need to Talk about Windrush', the first of the English Keynote Series, to be given by David Olusoga, with Razia Iqbal. A talk and discussion on black history and the recent Windrush immigration scandal. 21 Oct 2019, 6pm kent.ac.uk/events/event/4034…
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📢REMINDER📢 You only have ONE MONTH left to submit papers/panels for the BSECS Annual Conference! Deadline is *1st November*. bsecs.org.uk/conferences/ann…

BSECS - Submit a Proposal

Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.

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Apply for this funded PhD studentship at Shrugborough Hall. Anson brothers and the 18th century Atlantic economy #ColonialCountryside oocdtp.ac.uk/shugborough-hal…

Shugborough Hall, the Ansons and the eighteenth-century Atlantic economy

In partnership with the National Trust

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We are thrilled to be participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership with the Open University examining ‘The Black & Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics 1750-1850' to be supervised by Dr Amanda Goodrich & Dr Robin Eagles. #HistParl thehistoryofparliament.wordp…
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Dr Sara Lyons will be at the Beaney in Canterbury this Sunday hosting a public event entitled 'Reading Intelligence: Novelists on Education and Mental Ability', 3.30-5pm. For more information research.kent.ac.uk/literary…

Events - Literary Culture, Meritocracy and the Assessment of Intelligence in Britain and America,...

Reading Intelligence: Novelists on Education and Mental Ability A Public Event from the University of Kent and King’s College London at The Beaney, Sunday 22nd September How do you rate your own...

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Here is our QM Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Programme for this year. Starting with ⁦@PennyCorfield⁩ on 1st Oct. Then ⁦@londonmikmaq⁩ on the 15th. Great stuff qmcecs.wordpress.com/

Queen Mary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

A Journal of News for the QM Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies

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Do you have a research project drawing on the fantastic @GeorgianPapers? The BSECS-GPP Fellowship is now open for applications! Applicants can be at any career stage & from any discipline. More info & how to apply here: bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awar… #twitterstorians #18thcentury @RCT
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Job alert for 18th-19thc Eng Lit / History / HistArt PhDs looking for a postdoc. 3 years, FT, based @ManchesterUniv @JRRIManchester. Come and work with... well, me, actually! (and @HistoryHannahB & the rest of our lovely team) on the project UNLOCKING THE MARY HAMILTON PAPERS.
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Postgrads: what tips do you wish you’d known before you started your studies? (If it’s ok, can I use these in an article I’m writing for my postgrad newsletter? Will cite you as contributor) Mine: keep a diary and actually use it well!
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We still have places available through clearing! 🥳 Our team are ready to take your call☎️ Call our clearing hotline on 01227 768896 or visit kent.ac.uk/clearing #BelongatKent #Clearing2019 #Clearing #HelloKent
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After #alevelresultsday2019, here is @JuhaPVirtanen talking about how a degree that allows you to grow and develop is one reason to choose English at Kent. We are accepting applications through #Clearing2019! #alevelresults2019 kent.ac.uk/clearing kent.ac.uk/english/
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It's #alevelresultsday2019! Our Head of School, Dr Sarah James, talks about how our vibrant academic community is one reason to choose English at Kent. We are open for #Clearing2019! #Resultsday2019 #alevelresultsday kent.ac.uk/clearing kent.ac.uk/english/
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