{"id":239,"date":"2024-04-09T14:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/?p=239"},"modified":"2024-06-18T13:39:49","modified_gmt":"2024-06-18T12:39:49","slug":"mecrn-workshop-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/2024\/04\/09\/mecrn-workshop-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"MECRN Workshop 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Midlands Eighteenth Century Centre&#8217;s annual workshop alternates between us here at Birmingham and our good friends at Warwick. In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/news\/2022\/eighteenth-century-research-in-the-midlands\">we experimented<\/a> with a new, more open format. Last year, the workshop was attached to an <a href=\"https:\/\/warwick.ac.uk\/fac\/arts\/history\/ecc\/eventsnew\/sociability_politics\/\">international conference on sociability<\/a> at Warwick. This year, we&#8217;re doing something similar and joining the workshop with our own big conference: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.birmingham.ac.uk\/schools\/historycultures\/departments\/history\/events\/2024\/nature-environment-early-modern-worlds\">Nature and Environment in Early Modern Worlds<\/a>. The MECRN workshop will take place on the afternoon of <strong>Tuesday 25th June, 12.45pm-6pm<\/strong>, on Birmingham&#8217;s main Edgbaston campus.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the programme for MECRN 2024:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>12.45pm Welcome and Introductions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><strong>1pm Work-in-Progress I<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Elaine Mitchell (Birmingham), Printed Ephemera and Polite Infrastructure<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Rebecca Ford (Nottingham), Grief, Mourning, and the Body<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Charles Walton (Warwick), Redistribution and Republicanism in the French Revolution<\/p>\n<p>2.30pm Coffee<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p><strong>3pm Work-in-Progress II<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Brendan Tam (Warwick), Defining Political Friendship<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Imogen Peck (Birmingham), Family Books as Works of History<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Naomi Pullen (Warwick), The Solitude of the Hermit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">Lee Haddigan (Birmingham), Governance by Petition in Colonial Massachusetts<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p>4.30pm Break<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px\">\n<p><strong>5pm-6pm Planning for the Future of Midlands Eighteenth-Century Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year the Midlands Eighteenth Century Centre&#8217;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&#8217;re doing something similar and joining the workshop &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/2024\/04\/09\/mecrn-workshop-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MECRN Workshop 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1468,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1468"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/18c\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}