Malthus Reading Group
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Convenors: Ella Dzelzainis (English, Newcastle), David Feldman (History, Birkbeck), Josephine McDonagh (English, KCL), Niall O’Flaherty (History, KCL)
This multidisciplinary reading group will explore the cultural afterlife of T. R. Malthus’s Essay on Population (1798) in the long nineteenth century.
Its ambition is to open up new ways of thinking about the Essay, tracing the uses and abuses of Malthusianism as it traversed the geographical borders of Britain and Empire; reshaped the history of politics, science, and sexuality; and was rearticulated in the realms of literature and art.
Wine will be served. All welcome!
This group is funded by the KCL Graduate School’s Open Competition.
Sessions
All sessions 17.00 - 19.00
Room S2.39, English Department
King’s College London, Strand Campus
For further details contact Ella Dzelzainis; 0191 222 7198
Session 1: 21 January 2011
Jim Secord speaks about Malthus and Darwin.
(Further details to be confirmed.)
(Further details to be confirmed.)
Session 2: 18 February 2011
One-day symposium, Charity on Display, at the Foundling Museum - more details below and to follow.
Session 3: 18 March 2011
Gareth Stedman Jones will lead this session on Marx and Engels's response to Malthus. It is suggested that anyone who wishes to read some background material should take a look at Chapter 2 of his book, An End to Poverty?, which considers English reactions to Malthus.
For a downloadable version of the reading material, please contact Sarah Crofton.
For a downloadable version of the reading material, please contact Sarah Crofton.
Session 4: 17 June 2011
Dr Michael Sanders, author of The Poetry of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History (CUP, 2009), will introduce a range of material from the Chartist response to Malthus.
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