Gender History Discussion Group: Historiographical workshop 2: – what is the future for gender history and feminism?
Wednesday 9th April 3-4pm Jessop West Seminar Room 2
All Welcome!
Gender History Discussion Group: Historiographical workshop 2: – what is the future for gender history and feminism?
Wednesday 9th April 3-4pm Jessop West Seminar Room 2
All Welcome!
The Gender History Discussion Group: Historiographical workshop – why gender?
Tuesday 4th March 3pm – 4pm Jessop West Seminar Room 2
Suggested reading: Joanne Bailey, ‘Embedding and Embodying Gender in History’ http://jbailey2013.wordpress.com/2013/07/21/embedding-and-embodying-gender-in-history/
All Welcome!
The basic questions behind this workshop are what do different disciplines take ‘the vernacular’ and ‘vernacularization’ to mean and why or how do these concepts have particular purchase for the period 1500 – 1800?
Speakers:
Susan Fitzmaurice (Historical Pragmatics, Sheffield)
Adrian Greene (Architectural History, Durham)
VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE – A USEFUL CONCEPT?
Matthew Johnson (Archaeology, Northwestern)
AN ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE VERNACULAR
Anthony Milton (Political History, Sheffield)
Cathy Shrank (Literature, Sheffield)
RENAISSANCE REWRITINGS
Phil Withington (Social History, Sheffield)
VERNACULARIZATION AND THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
Please email g.schwartzleeper@sheffield.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
The Sheffield Centre for Early Modern Studies presents a masterclass on ‘Archives and Evidence’ with Tiffany Stern (Oxford).
In 1755, Samuel Johnson devoted a considerable amount of space in the first edition of his Dictionary to the contemplation of anxiety. Drawing upon the authorship of Alexander Pope and John Dryden, Johnson described anxiety as the anticipation of a future event.
Anxiety is a state of mind and authorship that can be traced throughout the critical writings of literature, language and linguistics. While for Johnson himself in 1755, one can trace anxiety to ‘the contamination of the English language’ by its French neighbour, the francophobia exhibited in his Preface further anticipated the outbreak of the Seven Years War in the following year. Anxiety about forms of social change (imperialism, war, revolution and treason trials) can be registered either through literary and linguistic transformations, or else through a desire to retrench against impending changes, to preserve indigenous grammars, literary traditions and political constitution. In his study of anxiety in relation to Romantic imperialism, for example, Nigel Leask argues that whether authors of the Romantic period supported or decried imperialism is less pressing than exploring how they registered their anxiety. Such anxiety, Leask argues, ‘registered a sense of the internal dislocation of metropolitan culture . . .[and] could also lend support to its hegemonic programme.’This can ‘sometimes block or disable the positivities of power’ but is ‘just as often productive in furthering the imperial will.’The eighteenth century offers an important anchor for productive anxieties for researchers. From Enlightenment philosophy, to imperialism, invasion, nationhood, revolutions inAmerica and France, to the innovative new poetics of Wordsworth, the anxieties of the period offer a conceptual framework useful to researchers from across different time periods, disciplines, and theoretical positions.
Our workshop will involve two keynote talks to be given by distinguished eighteenth-century scholars Professors Lynda Mugglestone and Jon Mee. Further speakers from the School of English will include: Dr Jane Hodson, Dr Hamish Mathison, Dr Marcus Nevitt, Dr Ranjan Sen, and Dr Richard Steadman-Jones, and Dr Angela Wright.
For more information, please contact Dr Joe Bray, Dr Madeleine Callaghan, and Dr Angela Wright at: anxiety@sheffield.ac.uk.