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Public Lecture Series One
'Understanding Depression' Dr Alison Brabban 'The Englishman's Malady: Goldsmith and Civilised Needs' Professor Nigel Wood 'Women's Spiritual Autobiography' Professor Anne Laurence 'Revisiting the Boswells: Work, Politeness, and Melancholy in the Scottish Enlightenment' Professor Anthony J. LaVopa 'The true culprit is the mind, which can never run away from itself (Horace): Samuel Johnson and Depression' Professor Serge Soupel 'Anxious Cares: From Pope's Spleen to Coleridge's Dejection' Professor Michael O'Neill 'Coleridge's Melancholy' Dr Neil Vickers 'Melancholy Amusements: Women, Gardens, and the Depression of Spirits' Dr Stephen Bending 'Mere Despair: Alexander Pope and the Death of Hope' Professor Allan Ingram
'Understanding Depression' Dr Alison Brabban
'The Englishman's Malady: Goldsmith and Civilised Needs' Professor Nigel Wood
'Women's Spiritual Autobiography' Professor Anne Laurence
'Revisiting the Boswells: Work, Politeness, and Melancholy in the Scottish Enlightenment' Professor Anthony J. LaVopa
'The true culprit is the mind, which can never run away from itself (Horace): Samuel Johnson and Depression' Professor Serge Soupel
'Anxious Cares: From Pope's Spleen to Coleridge's Dejection' Professor Michael O'Neill
'Coleridge's Melancholy' Dr Neil Vickers
Conference Plenary Speakers
'"As melancholy as a sick Parrot": Depressed(?) Women at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century' Elaine Hobby 'Burton & Sons: The Masks of Melancholy' Madeleine Descargues-Grant 'Frances Burney and Alexander d'Arblay: Creative and Uncreative Gloom' Peter Sabor
'"As melancholy as a sick Parrot": Depressed(?) Women at the Beginning of the Long Eighteenth Century' Elaine Hobby
'Burton & Sons: The Masks of Melancholy' Madeleine Descargues-Grant
'Frances Burney and Alexander d'Arblay: Creative and Uncreative Gloom' Peter Sabor
'Talking the Blues': two lectures given at the Literary and Philosophical Society, Newcastle upon Tyne, in association with the '18th-Century Blues' exhibition
18th-Century Blues: Assembling the Melancholy Mind Professor Allan Ingram & Dr Leigh Wetherall Dickson Beset by Blue Devils: Romney, Wright and the Impact of Depression David Cross
Beset by Blue Devils: Romney, Wright and the Impact of Depression David Cross
Public Lecture Series Two
'Get Happy! Romantic Psychiatry and the Addiction to Wellness Professor Joel Faflak 'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's Representation of Depression' Professor Peter Wagner (University of Koblenz-Landau) 'The Limits of Sympathy: Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in Scotland and the North of England, c.1750-1830' Professor RAB Houston (University of St Andrews) 'Melancholy and the Talking Cure in the Sixteenth Century' Professor Jenny Richards (University of Newcastle) '"La maladie anglaise": French views of depression and suicide in eighteenth-century England' Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université du Maine) 'Poor Maria & My Friend, Mr Shandy' Patrick Wildgust (Curator, Shandy Hall) 'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian England' Dr Jonathan Andrews (University of Newcastle) 'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Women's Melancholy' Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London) 'The Ordeal of John Bunyan' Professor W.R. Owens (Open University)
'Get Happy! Romantic Psychiatry and the Addiction to Wellness Professor Joel Faflak
'Engraving the 18th-Century Blues: Hogarth's Representation of Depression' Professor Peter Wagner (University of Koblenz-Landau)
'The Limits of Sympathy: Newspaper Reporting of Suicide in Scotland and the North of England, c.1750-1830' Professor RAB Houston (University of St Andrews)
'Melancholy and the Talking Cure in the Sixteenth Century' Professor Jenny Richards (University of Newcastle)
'"La maladie anglaise": French views of depression and suicide in eighteenth-century England' Professor Jeffrey Hopes (Université du Maine)
'Poor Maria & My Friend, Mr Shandy' Patrick Wildgust (Curator, Shandy Hall)
'Diagnosing and Treating Melancholy in Georgian England' Dr Jonathan Andrews (University of Newcastle)
'Religion and the Body in Seventeenth-Century Women's Melancholy' Dr Katharine Hodgkin (University of East London)
'The Ordeal of John Bunyan' Professor W.R. Owens (Open University)