Past CENCL Events Events

abolition teapot

"for dead weight": Sugar, Literature, and Anti-Slavery Material Culture," Dr. Patricia Matthew (Montclair State University)

November 5, 2019
Park Hall 265
Japan Image

"Global Aestheticism and the Invention of Japan," Stefano Evangelista

Stefano Evangelista, (Oxford University)
April 8, 2019
The Doug Hale Lecture Hall, Park 265
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Workshop with Aaron Santesso: The Enlightenment and "Facism"

February 11, 2019
Robert West Library, Park Hall 261
Ruwe Image

Donelle Ruwe, "Mediocrity: aesthetics and music for girls in the long eighteenth century"

January 23, 2019
Doug Hale Lecture Hall, Park 265
Soane Bank of England as a ruin

"Seven Propositions on Slow Time," Dr. Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University

December 4, 2018
The Doug Hale Lecture Hall, Park 265
Bride of Frankenstein

Free Screening of The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

October 31, 2018
Cine, 234 W Hancock Ave, Downtown Athens
Frankenread

UGA's Frankenread: A Halloween Event

October 31, 2018
UGA Main Library and Cine
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"Small Things in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World," Dr. Chloe Wigston Smith, University of York

October 1, 2018
265 Park Hall
Nick Groom

Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein," Polidori's "The Vampyre," and the Nature of Being

April 27, 2018
Park Hall 259
Wuthering Heights

"The Future and Its Discontents: Eco-Time in Three Victorian Texts," Dr. Deanna Kreisel

Deanna Kreisel, (University of British Columbia)
April 24, 2018
Park Hall 265
Penrith Castle

"The Scarcities of Udolpho," Dr. Scott MacKenzie

Scott MacKenzie, (University of British Columbia)
April 23, 2018
Park Hall 265
Reihana Panorama Image

"The Cruel Optimism of the Digital Panorama: Atlantic Humanism and its Pacific Other," Dr. Robert Batchelor

Robert Batchelor, (Georgia Southern)
April 2, 2018
The Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab, Main Library
Cover Image for "The Making of Jane Austen"

"The Making of Jane Austen," Devoney Looser, Professor of English, Arizona State University

September 5, 2017
Park Hall 265
James Chandler

James Chandler, "The Opium Connection: De Quincey, Dickens, and D.W. Griffith"

James Chandler,
March 17, 2017
Special Collections Library, Room 285
Image of a 18th c. city lane

"Editing Richardson's The History of Sir Charles Grandison; or, A Good Man is Hard to Find"

E. Derek Taylor (Longwood University),
February 9, 2017
Special Collections Library, Room 277
Cover for Lootens, Political Poetess

Reading and Reception: The Political Poetess by Tricia Lootens

Tricia Lootens (University of Georgia)
January 11, 2017
Hendershot's Coffee (237 Prince Avenue)

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