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, which takes place on Birmingham’s main campus on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th June 2024.
As in previous years, we’ll be celebrating new publications from the region and inviting colleagues at all stages in their academic careers to discuss the excitement and challenges of eighteenth-century studies research in the midlands. Participants will be welcome to attend the whole conference or just the workshop (there’s no charge for either, and refreshments will be available). We invite the presentation of ten-minute papers, either on a recent publication or a work-in-progress. If you’d like to attend (whether giving a paper or not), please fill in this form to let us know. We’ll be in touch with further information once all the arrangements are in place.