18th century research seminars

Rory Lamb (University of Edinburgh)

Christianne Matt (University of York)

‘James Playfair, London architects, and the improvement of Scotland, 1750–1800’

‘Following the natural order? The relationship between nature, reason and architecture in Marc-Antoine Laugier’s "Essai sur l’Architecture"’

Regis Coursin (University of Montreal)

Giulia Iannuzzi (University of Trieste)

'Against despotism: Approaching the Republican Atlantic, c.1769–1791'

'Phrasebooks for European travellers in eighteenth-century North America'

Jan Synowiecki (University of Paris)

Camilla Pietrabissa (Iuav University of Venice)

'Gardens in picture: Iconographic representations of the gardens of Paris in the 18th century’

'Canaletto’s drawings of Venice and its lagoon: Seriality and urban nature'

Tabea Hochstrasser (Umeå University)

Cathleen Mair (Queen Mary, University of London)

'Human connectedness: A study of popular ideas in Scottish Cheap Print (c.1700–c.1820)’

‘A heart that scorns disguise: Authenticity and emotion in the letters of Mary Wollstonecraft and Germaine de Stael’

Octavia Cox (University of Nottingham)

Melanie Buntin (Independent)

‘Alexander Pope’s works: Warburton, Warton, and Bowles’

‘Subscribing to Allan Ramsay: Paratext in practice’

Kristine Palmieri (University of Chicago)

Carlos Alves (University of Lisbon)

‘Polaris in Ursa Minor? Friedrich August Wolf, the Halle Seminar, and the history of philology’

‘The university reforms in the 18th century: The Case of Salamanca and Coimbra’

Chiara Mannoni (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

Madalena Costa Lima (University of Lisbon)

‘Mirroring the most enlightened states of Europe: Artistic scholarship and the early development of the heritage protection in the age of reason’

‘The rise of heritage in the 18th century: The Portuguese case’