NEER Research Cluster

British Enlightenment Research Network (BERN)

WEB SITE

http://www.utas.edu.au/history_classics/bern/

MEMBERS

Dr Michael Davis (Tasmania) - Coordinator
Professor John Gascoigne (UNSW)
Professor David Lemmings (Adelaide)
Professor Iain McCalman (ANU)
Dr Anthony Page (Tasmania)
Dr Alan Tapper (Edith Cowan)
Associate Professor Alex Tyrell (La Trobe)
Professor Richard Yeo (Griffith)

BRIEF DESCRIPTION

The main aims of the British Enlightenment Research Network (BERN) are:

To facilitate collaboration between Australian scholars to develop the capacity of innovative research in Enlightenment studies and to promote that research;
To promote collaboration between Australian and international scholars with a view to gaining access to competitive funding for BERN projects through international funding agencies; and
To contribute to the 'long eighteenth century' component of NEER's research interests and activities.

EVENTS (INCLUDING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS)

Symposium:
"The 1790s: An International Symposium", UTAS Cradle Coast Campus, 8 September 2007. This one-day symposium surveyed the political, cultural and ideological landscape of the 1790s, with a particular emphasis upon the impact of the French Revolution in Britain and Ireland.

Public Lectures:
Public lecture by Professor Randall McGowen (University of Oregon), "Fierce Justice and Legal Reform: The Limits of the Enlightenment Programme in Late-Eighteenth Century England". University of Tasmania, Cradle Coast Campus, 13 December 2006.
Public lecture by Professor Jonathan Lamb (Vanderbilt University), 'Making Babies in the South Seas: Captain Cook's Unreconciled Accounts'. University of Tasmania, Cradle Coast Campus, 13 June 2007.

Seminars:
Seminar presentation by Professor Michael Durey (Murdoch University), "Who Became a Convict? Transportation to New South Wales from Ireland in the Rebellion Era". University of Tasmania, Launceston campus, 7 September 2007.
Seminar presentation by Professor John Barrell (University of York), "Radicalism and Visual Culture in the 1790s". University of Tasmania, Launceston Campus, 12 September 2007.

Masterclasses:
Masterclass with Professor John Barrell (University of York), University of Tasmania, Cradle Coast Campus, 11 September 2007.
Masterclass with Professor Gregory Claeys (Royal Holloway, University of London), University of Tasmania, Cradle Coast Campus, 11 September 2007.

GRANTS APPLIED FOR

ARC Future Fellowship 2008: Michael Davis.

GRANTS ACHIEVED

ARC Discovery Project: Dr Michael T. Davis (History, University of Tasmania) and Professor David Lemmings (History, University of Adelaide)

"The Courtroom, Lawyers and the Press: Negotiating Justice in the Age of the Public Sphere"

This project has been funded by the Australian Research Council between 2007 and 2010. It takes an original perspective on a key period of transition in British legal history when the modern culture of the lawyerised trial decisively took shape. It hypothesises that the intervention of lawyers and the concurrent rise of the press largely displaced lay participation in trials and relocated popular criticism of justice to the public sphere.

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