Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt is an interdisciplinary initiative involving several dozen faculty and graduate students from across the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. We are joined by colleagues from CMU, Duquesne, and the Carnegie Museums. Our objective is to promote historical and critical study and research in the political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural life of the “long” eighteenth century.
Convener: Holger Hoock, Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History
The initiative is sponsored by John Cooper, Bettye J. and Ralph E. Bailey Dean of Arts and Sciences, and generously hosted by the Humanities Center, at Pitt.
Getting Involved: To join our mailing list, propose an event, post a notice on the website or through our mailing list, or otherwise get in touch with this new initiative, please email Holger Hoock at hoock@pitt.edu
Events in 2011-12
September 26, 2011
Eighteenth-Century … ‘Blogging’? Notes on Common-Placing and Giuseppe Baretti’s zibaldone
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Francesca Savoia, Associate Professor of Italian, University of Pittsburgh
October 25, 2011
History from the Inside Out: The Amistad Africans and their Struggle against Slavery while in Jail, 1839-1841
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Marcus Rediker, Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History, University of Pittsburgh
November 12, 2011
Farewell 1789: The Idea of France and the Idea of Revolution
University Club
5:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, David Bell, Princeton University
For the conference of which this keynote lecture forms a part see: http://www.ideaoffrance.pitt.edu
November 17, 2011
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
12:00 p.m.
Spain's Diplomacy and the Haitian Revolution
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Antonio J. Pinto, Visiting Scholar, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh.
December 1, 2011
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:30 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Drew Armstrong, Assistant Professor and Director of Architectural Studies, University of Pittsburgh. Professor Armstrong will give a talk related to his forthcoming book on Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History.
January 26, 2012
Variety on the London Georgian Stage: The Case of A Midsummer Night's Dream
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Kristina Straub, Professor of English and Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies, and Associate Dean, Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University.
February 2, 2012
On the Complexities of Religious Discourse in the Eighteenth Century: The Case of Goethe
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
5:00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents, Horst Lange, University of Central Arkansas.
February 23, 2012
Rape in the American Revolutionary War
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
12:30-2:00 p.m.
Humanities Center, CL 602, 12.30-14.00 p.m.
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents Holger Hoock, Carroll J. Amundson Professor of British History, University of Pittsburgh
March 21, 2012
History Department Lounge
3703 Posvar Hall
University of Pittsburgh
4:00-6:00 p.m.
On March 21, 2012, Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt and the Department of History will hold a symposium celebrating Rebecca Shumway's new book, The Fante and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (University of Rochester Press, 2011).
Commentators:
Edda Fields-Black, Associate Professor of History, CMU
Sandra Greene, Professor of History, Cornell University
Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, and Director, World History Center, University of Pittsburgh.
April 11, 2012
Humanities Center, CL 602
University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m.
From Filmer and Locke to Burke and Gibbon: Cambridge Histories of Political Thought, 1950 – 2010
Eighteenth-Century Studies at Pitt presents J.G.A. Pocock, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University.
Forthcoming visits by guest speakers (2012/13)
Dena Goodman (History and Women Studies, University of Michigan)
Lynn Festa, (English, Rutgers University)
Dror Wahrman (hosted as a Short-term Visiting Fellow by the Humanities Center)
Picture credits: G.B. Tiepolo, Fresco, Stairwell, Residenz, Würzburg (1751-53). Courtesy of Bayerische Verwaltung der Staatlichen Schlösser, Gärten und Seen. www.residenz-wuerzburg.de Photo © Christopher Drew Armstrong.