The Eighteenth Century Seminar 2012-2013
Sponsored by the Department of History, Princeton University
& the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study
This series is organized by David Bell, Linda Colley and Jonathan Israel
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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
219 Aaron Burr
John Pocock, Johns Hopkins University
"Edward Gibbon as an Early Modern Historian"
Reception to follow
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Wednesday, December 5, 2012
4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
Gabriel Paquette, Johns Hopkins University
"Portugal and the Luso-Brazilian World in the Age of Revolution"
White-Levy Room
Institute for Advanced Study
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*New Date and Time*
Thursday, December 13, 2012
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
Francesca Trivellato, Yale University/IAS
"Jews and "the Spirit of Commerce" in Eighteenth-Century France"
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
Timothy Barringer, Yale University
"I live almost wholly in the feilds": Artistic Practice and Agricultural Process in John Constable's "Wheat Field," 1815-16
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Wednesday, February 20, 2013
5:00 - 6:30 p.m.
At the Institute for Advanced Study
James Harris, IAS and University of St. Andrews
'Hume, Rapin, and the Varieties of Whiggism'
The venue for this event will be the White/Levy room which is a building located as an annex to the Historical Studies Library
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Friday, April 12, 2013
1:30 - 5:30 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
1763: the First Global War and Its Consequences
Opening Remarks: David Bell and Don Carleton
Eliga Gould, Univerisity of New Hampshire
John Shovlin, New York University
Chair: David Bell
Peter Silver, Rutgers University
Christina Welsch, Princeton Graduate Student
Chair: Jonathan Israel
Conclusion: Linda Colley
Reception to follow in the Dickinson Hall Faculty Lounge featuring music from the Seven Years' War performed by the Practitioners of Musick
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
4:30 - 6:00 p.m.
211 Dickinson Hall
Lynn Hunt, University of California Los Angeles
"The Global Financial Origins of the French Revolution"
Reception to follow in the Faculty Lounge
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The Eighteenth Century Seminar