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Welcome to the website of c19c, the Cross Cultural Circa Nineteenth Century Research Centre! You will find our latest news here.
We’re delighted to announce our programme for Spring 2023.
All sessions are free entry and will take place at United College (St Salvator’s Quad) Room 30.
UPDATE: The workshop on week 8/15th March has been cancelled.
Weds 8th Feb, 1pm-2pm. Bernhard Struck (School of History):
“A Language ‘Better Than Football’: A Nigerian Engineer, a German Chemist, and a Guy from Hollywood – Towards a Transnational History of Esperanto’
Weds 22nd Feb, 1pm-2pm NOTE: Moved to Weds 5th April, 1-2pm. Panel led by Isobel Falconer (School of Mathematics & Statistics):
‘From the Local to the Universal: Contextualising the Gravitational Constant, 1890-1915’
Weds 8th March, 1pm-2pm. Rogério Monteiro (São Paulo):
‘Auguste Comte, the Theory of Elimination and Republican Social Theory: C19th Debates around Positivism in Brazil, Chile and France’
Weds 15th March, 2-4pm. Workshop led by Mary Orr (Modern Languages). Please note this event has been cancelled.
‘New Approaches to Research on (Women in) European C19th Sciences’
Weds 29th March, 1pm-2pm. Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow):
‘The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in Poetry and the Popular Periodical Press’
Weds 5th April, 1-2pm. Panel led by Isobel Falconer (School of Mathematics & Statistics):
‘From the Local to the Universal: Contextualising the Gravitational Constant, 1890-1915’
Later events:
Date and speakers tbc. Sara Lodge, Material Culture seminar, 6pm online.