Registration is now live for the Birmingham Eighteenth Century Centre’s twentieth anniversary conference: “Crisis, Continuity, and Transformation in Eighteenth-Century Studies,” taking place on the University of Birmingham’s Edgbaston campus on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 June 2025.
To book your place at the conference as a non-presenting participant, please click here.
Our programme begins at 11.30am on Thursday 26 and will run until 5pm on Friday 27 June, and your registration will include lunches on both days as well as a drinks reception (some might say, birthday party) Thursday evening.
Headlining the event, we are delighted and extremely grateful to have Professor Linda Colley of Princeton University, speaking about her wide-ranging work and the importance of the eighteenth century, in conversation with our director Tom Cutterham. That conversation will take place on Thursday afternoon, before the reception.
The rest of the programme features a range of junior and senior scholars, both from Birmingham and further afield. Individual contributions will include Joanna de Groot (York) on decolonizing eighteenth-century studies, Mark Knights (Warwick) on understanding continuity and change, Rebecca Owen-Keats (Birmingham) on the “sound of science” in Joseph Wright of Derby’s Experiment in the Air Pump, and Adam Bridgen (Durham) on antislavery and abolition.
A full programme will be circulated to registered attendees by the end of May. To contact the organiser, please email t.cutterham@bham.ac.uk