James Harriman-Smith

Category: Conference

  • Giving a Talk Online

    Two days ago, I gave a talk about my book for the Oxford Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture seminar. I think it went quite well. In response to some requests from attendees, and my own desire to try and remember things, this post records how I went about preparing to present a 40-minute presentation on theatre…

  • #ASECSat50

    Although the metadata will only show the steady rhythm of my weekly research leave posts, I’m writing this entry one week later than I should have done. This is because I am now sitting in a library (more on that in the post for next week – or this week’s, if I’m being honest) ,…

  • Knights of the Roundtable

    Research Leave has given me the time to travel to the annual conference of the American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) this year. I’ve never been before, and am looking forward to meeting both old acquaintances and other people whom I only know through their books. I’ll be giving a paper on character theory, drawn…

  • La Haine de Shakespeare

    There’s  a conference this December entitled ‘La haine de Shakespeare’, part of a larger research project at the Sorbonne on ‘La haine du théâtre’. After going to one of their colloques, I really wanted to take part myself, and was glad of what seemed like an ideal opportunity.

  • 2014: Looking Forward and Back

    This is a little late for New Year navel-gazing, but I thought I’d write a short recap of my blogging last year. It seemed like a good way to pass the time until my book emerged from the depths of the British Library.

  • Johnson and Shakespeare

    Just a quick post this time to announce the I’ve been invited to speak at a conference in Pembroke College, Oxford, marking the 350th anniversary of Samuel Johnson’s edition of the plays of Shakespeare. The event will take place in August 2015, so – all being well – I should have finished writing my thesis…

  • Les Circulations Musicales et Théâtrales, 1750-1815

    I’m writing this early one afternoon in Paris. The sky is grey, the air is cold, and Nice feels even further away than a six hour train journey. I’ve decided to compose a little post on my time in this city, both to record some of the new thoughts the conference inspired and, more ambitiously,…

  • Shakespeare’s Ambassador

    I’m going to be speaking soon at a conference in Nice, entitled Musical and Theatrical Circulation in the Long Eighteenth Century. As is traditional now, I’ll post here my proposal, and, all being well, should have a recording of my rehearsal to put up in the nearish future.

  • Thou art a scholar, speak to it… (III)

    As is I have done not once, but twice before, I’m uploading a recording of myself speaking a seminar paper. This is a rough version of what I will be delivering on Monday 3rd November 2014, from 4pm in the Board Room of the English Faculty at Cambridge. As the file is large and hypothesis…

  • La Haine du Théâtre

    I spent three very enjoyable days at the Sorbonne last week at a conference held as part of the Haine du théâtre (The Hatred of the Theatre) project. I was going to write up my thoughts immediately afterwards, but than came down with some horrible digestive disease, hence this delayed and probably less accurate account.…