Archive - Activities 2008-9
Print versionEnlightenment Lives lectures ...
... an exciting programme of lectures by distinguished scholars focusing on eighteenth-century topics, running from October to June 2009. The series is part of a collaboration between King’s and the British Museum, and celebrates our joint MA in Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Each lecture starts at 18.30 & refreshments will be served.
For more information please contact Dr Clare Brant (clare.brant@kcl.ac.uk).
You can download a pdf of the programme of lecture from the foot of this page.
For more information please contact Dr Clare Brant (clare.brant@kcl.ac.uk).
You can download a pdf of the programme of lecture from the foot of this page.
Click on the lecture titles for more information & an abstract of the lecture.
18.30, Thursday 30 October at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum:
David Constantine, highly eminent poet, translator, novelist, biographer, will talk on 'Going thru' life tolerably': an appreciation of Sir William Hamilton.
Thursday 13 November at King’s: Professor Iain McCalman on Philippe de Loutherbourg
Thursday 27 November at King’s: Professor David Nokes, on Samuel Johnson, the biographers' biographer
18.30, Thursday 22 January at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum: Professor Linda Colley on An Enlightenment Life? Philip Francis, the Empire, and Women.
Thursday 12 February at King’s: Professor Cliff Eisen, world expert on Mozart, on Mozart as an Enlightenment Ethnographer
Thursday 19 March at King’s: Dr Nicola Watson on The posthumous consumption of Enlightenment 'Lives'
Thursday 7 May at King’s: A Symposium on Enlightenment Lives
Thursday 4 June: Professor Nicholas Rogers on Fragile liberties, working lives: lower deck narratives in the British navy of the eighteenth century.
18.30, Thursday 30 October at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum:
David Constantine, highly eminent poet, translator, novelist, biographer, will talk on 'Going thru' life tolerably': an appreciation of Sir William Hamilton.
Thursday 13 November at King’s: Professor Iain McCalman on Philippe de Loutherbourg
Thursday 27 November at King’s: Professor David Nokes, on Samuel Johnson, the biographers' biographer
18.30, Thursday 22 January at the Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum: Professor Linda Colley on An Enlightenment Life? Philip Francis, the Empire, and Women.
Thursday 12 February at King’s: Professor Cliff Eisen, world expert on Mozart, on Mozart as an Enlightenment Ethnographer
Thursday 19 March at King’s: Dr Nicola Watson on The posthumous consumption of Enlightenment 'Lives'
Thursday 7 May at King’s: A Symposium on Enlightenment Lives
Thursday 4 June: Professor Nicholas Rogers on Fragile liberties, working lives: lower deck narratives in the British navy of the eighteenth century.
How to find us
> Location of Strand Campus in London
> Detail of Strand Campus (note: enter from the Strand for our events)
> Detail of Strand Campus (note: enter from the Strand for our events)
Other activities
The Work of Life-Writing: a major international conference, taking place at King’s in May 2009: contact max.saunders@kcl.ac.uk or clare.brant@kcl.ac.uk & follow the left link for further information
A day conference on Queer Life-writing: (date to be confirmed) contact richard.maguire@kcl.ac.uk
A day conference on Queer Life-writing: (date to be confirmed) contact richard.maguire@kcl.ac.uk
| Attached files | |
|
|
