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c19c Research Seminar, Sem. 2, 2025-26
Wednesdays 1-2pm, United College Room 31

Wednesday 4 February (week 2) 1-2pm:
DR ADELINE HECK (French): ‘Literary Authors Writing Opera Libretti in C19th France’

Wednesday 18 February (week 4) 1-2pm:
DR NIALL SREENAN (Comparative Literature): ‘Rethinking the Human in the Darwinian Novel’

Wednesday 11 March (week 6) 1-2pm:
DR GREG KERR (Glasgow): ‘Print, type and utopian thought in nineteenth-century France: writing at the margins’

Wednesday 25 March (week 8) 1-2pm:
DR HUMBERTO MORALES MORENO (BUAP, Puebla, MX): ‘Ulysses Grant and Porfirio Díaz. Generals and Presidents. A new approach to the Mexican historiography of the 19th-Century’

Wednesday 15 April (week 11) 1-2pm:
DR ELIZABETH RAMSEY (Cambridge): ‘The Strange Child: Play, Toys, and the Robotic Human in Two Fairy Stories by Clemens Brentano and E. T. A. Hoffmann’