Every year the Midlands Eighteenth Century Centre’s annual workshop alternates between us here at Birmingham and our good friends at Warwick. In 2022, we experimented with a new, more open format. Last year, the workshop was attached to an international conference on sociability at Warwick. This year, we’re doing something similar and joining the workshop with our own big conference: Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds. The MECRN workshop will take place on the afternoon of Tuesday 25th June, 12.45pm-6pm, on Birmingham’s main Edgbaston campus.
Here is the programme for MECRN 2024:
12.45pm Welcome and Introductions
1pm Work-in-Progress I
Elaine Mitchell (Birmingham), Printed Ephemera and Polite Infrastructure
Rebecca Ford (Nottingham), Grief, Mourning, and the Body
Charles Walton (Warwick), Redistribution and Republicanism in the French Revolution
2.30pm Coffee
3pm Work-in-Progress II
Brendan Tam (Warwick), Defining Political Friendship
Imogen Peck (Birmingham), Family Books as Works of History
Naomi Pullen (Warwick), The Solitude of the Hermit
Lee Haddigan (Birmingham), Governance by Petition in Colonial Massachusetts
4.30pm Break
5pm-6pm Planning for the Future of Midlands Eighteenth-Century Studies