18.00-19.00

Keynote Lecture:Talking about Things

Professor Ludmilla Jordanova (King's College London)

19.00-20.00

Drinks reception at CRASSH

9.00 -9.30

Registration and coffee

9.30-9.45

Welcome and Introduction

Sophie Waring (University of Cambridge)
Katy Barrett (University of Cambridge)

9.45-11.15

Session 1: Written Things

Romantic Bubbles, Fictional Worlds
Dr Sarah Kareem (University of California, Los Angeles)

"A Lampoon Put on his Door": Poetry and Politics, 1678-1689
Leanna McLaughlin (University of California, Riverside)

Chair: Dr Luisa Calè (Birkbeck College, London)

11.15-11.45

Coffee break

11.45-13.15

Session 2: Familiar Things

Familiarity Breeds Contempt?  'Everyday' Objects and 'Small Things Forgotten' in the early modern English Household
Dr Sara Pennell (University of Roehampton)

Learning Things
Dr Melanie Keene (University of Cambridge)

Chair: Dr Melissa Calaresu (University of Cambridge)

13.15-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.45

Session 3: Travelling Things

The Dynamics of Natural History: Collecting and Collections in the Eighteenth Century
Professor Mary Terrall (University of California, Los Angeles)

The Seeds of Disaster: Relics of La Pérouse
Professor Adriana Craciun (University of California, Riverside)

Chair: Professor Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt University)

15.45-16.15

Tea Break

16.15-17.45

Session 4: Gendered Things

Sarah Sophia Banks: Money, Medals and a 'Collection of Scraps'
Dr Catherine Eagleton (British Museum)

Curiosities from Female Hands
Dr Mary Brooks (University of Durham)

Chair: Dr Elizabeth Eger (Kings College London)