Jane Hamlett and The Bedford Centre are hosting a really *curious* talk (get it?) by Dr. Leonie Hannan.
Dear Colleagues,
I'm writing to invite you to the last History Department Seminar for this academic year, which is organised in collaboration with The Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender. Dr Leonie Hannan will speak about her new book on the culture of science in the eighteenth-century home. Please do join us, either in person or online on Teams.
With best wishes,
Jane
A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home
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14th May 6pm
đIN243 @RoyalHolloway and Teams (ask Jane.Hamlett@rhul.ac.uk)
Dr Leonie Hannan (Queenâs University Belfast) is a social and cultural historian focused on Britain and Ireland in the period c.1660-1830. She studied for her MA and PhD in the History department at RHUL, and this is where she found her long-term research interests in gender and material culture. This paper will discuss her recently published, open-access monograph A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the Eighteenth-Century Home (Manchester, 2023). This project built on her previous work on women, letter-writing and intellectual life and reveals the home as a space of emergence for scientific practice and knowledge-making in this era of âEnlightenmentâ. Leonieâs work aims to de-stabilise entrenched hierarchies concerning knowledge, in terms of where and how it was made and by whom.
