Reporting the St. Domingue Slave Revolt: News and Commentary in the London Press, 1789-1795
Ben Lafferty
‘All the news is frozen up’: newspaper delivery in the Little Ice Age
Ross Nedervelt
The British Caribbean in Patriot and Loyalist Newspaper Propaganda during the American Revolution
43 - Panel: Spanish Friends, Enemies, and Allies
Ho, Leung, Ho and Lee Seminar Room
Speaker
Paper Title
Laura Blanco de la Barrera
The Galician 18th Century: Oasis or Lacuna? Periodization, Semantic Space and Conflicting Views within the Literary Historical Discourse-Building by Regionalist Movement
Phoebe Oliver
Following suit, coming up trumps: card playing as performance of diplomacy and national identity in Peninsular War colloquies
Anna Brinkman
Merchants of Fortune: British Foreign Policy and the Spanish Empire in the Americas 1775-1780
44 - Panel: Faces, Gestures, The Gaze, and Speaking Glances
Chair: Frank O'Gorman Lecture Theatre 1
Speaker
Paper Title
Miriam Handley
‘A volume in a single glance’: Eye portraits, opera boxes and the spectacle of the look in the theatre, 1786
Erin Whitcroft
‘Captivating grace’: the role of gesture and movement in the Eighteenth Century.
Nigel Joseph
The spectator, “self-liking,” and amour propre: The gaze of the other as civilizing mechanism in Addison, Mandeville, and Adam Smith and as alienating in Rousseau.
45 - Panel: Casts and Copies : A Visit to the Ashmolean Casts Gallery
Chair: Helen Williams Lecture Theatre 2
Arrangements to be clarified
46 - Panel: Aesthetics : Theology, Morality, and the Picturesque
Chair: tba Louey Seminar Room
Speaker
Paper Title
Eduard Ghita
Theological Underpinnings of Joseph Addison’s Aesthetics
Marta Oracz
Gilpin’s correspondence with his friends – defense of his theory of Picturesque against objections of Joshua Reynolds.
Wing Sze LEUNG
Kant’s Account of Aesthetic Ideas in the Critique of Judgment and its Moral Relevance