CSLEC Kent

Join us for our live YouTube Open Day on 3 July at 12pm! Find out more about English at Kent and hear from Dr Sarah James, Dr Juha Virtanen, Prof Jennie Batchelor & our current students, and submit your questions live to staff & students. Join here: youtu.be/d0JtV5OK6Vc

Our Creative Writing Summer Series continues at 4pm this afternoon on Zoom with: 'Literary Agents and how to find them': a workshop with David Flusfeder, Amy Sackville & Jenny Hewson of Lutyens & Rubinstein Literary Agency All welcome! Details here: ow.ly/Vu5B50zDBKX

Thank you, Yo-Yo.

A nice narwhal for Thursday morning, in a letter from Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane, May 1736. Sloane MS 4054, f 227r.

To mark the launch of Kent's new Centre for Indigenous and Settler Colonial Studies, colleagues are holding a symposium titled "Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Indigenous and Settler-Colonial Studies". See the cfp here: research.kent.ac.uk/centreforindig…

Join us for the second in the Kent Public Keynote series. We're so pleased to welcome Professor Terry Eagleton as he talks to us on the topic of 'Sacrifice and Revolution'. Monday 11th November, 18:00 Keynes Lecture Theatre 1, University of Kent, Canterbury All welcome!

Final day for submission to BSECS— we’re looking forward to seeing g many of you there!

💰BURSARIES! Calling all #18thC Postgrads & ECRs. If you're proposing a paper for the @BSECS Annual Conference (& of course you are!) did you know you can apply for a bursary to cover the reg. fee & dinner costs? Apply, apply, apply by 1 November! Info --> bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…

Hogarth: Place and Progress review – a heartbreaking epic of London squalor theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Hogarth: Place and Progress opens tomorrow! See all of Hogarth's series united for the first time to examine the artist's complex views on morality, society and the city. soane.org/hogarth #HogarthExhibition

This is going to be amazing!

'We Need to Talk about Windrush', the first of the English Keynote Series, to be given by David Olusoga, with Razia Iqbal. A talk and discussion on black history and the recent Windrush immigration scandal. 21 Oct 2019, 6pm kent.ac.uk/events/event/4…

📢REMINDER📢 You only have ONE MONTH left to submit papers/panels for the BSECS Annual Conference! Deadline is *1st November*. bsecs.org.uk/conferences/an…

Apply for this funded PhD studentship at Shrugborough Hall. Anson brothers and the 18th century Atlantic economy #ColonialCountryside oocdtp.ac.uk/shugborough-ha…

This is the church where Boswell worshipped the day before he met Dr. Johnson.

We are thrilled to be participating in a doctoral studentship project in partnership with the Open University examining ‘The Black & Mixed Ethnicity Presence in British Politics 1750-1850' to be supervised by Dr Amanda Goodrich & Dr Robin Eagles. #HistParl thehistoryofparliament.wordpress.com/2019/09/20/col…

Dr Sara Lyons will be at the Beaney in Canterbury this Sunday hosting a public event entitled 'Reading Intelligence: Novelists on Education and Mental Ability', 3.30-5pm. For more information research.kent.ac.uk/literarycultur…

Here is our QM Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies Seminar Programme for this year. Starting with ⁦@PennyCorfield⁩ on 1st Oct. Then ⁦@londonmikmaq⁩ on the 15th. Great stuff qmcecs.wordpress.com

Do you have a research project drawing on the fantastic @GeorgianPapers? The BSECS-GPP Fellowship is now open for applications! Applicants can be at any career stage & from any discipline. More info & how to apply here: bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-awa… #twitterstorians #18thcentury @RCT