Workshop
THURSDAY 8 JUNE 2023
Huntingdon Room, Kings Manor
11am Arrival, registration and coffee
11.30-12.45 Session 1: Welcome and Keynote
Welcome
Keynote speaker: Anne-Marie Roos (University of Lincoln)
‘Domestic Science’
12.45-1.40 Buffet lunch
1.40-3.10 Session 2: The York Scene
Matthew Jenkins (CECS University of York)
‘Personal Space: The Landscape of Jane Ewbank’s York’
Michael Brown (University of Lancaster)
‘Medical practitioners and science in early nineteenth-century York:
leading lights or marginal men?’
Jane Rendall (CECS University of York)
‘Women’s networks and ‘philosophical pursuits’ in Jane Ewbank’s York’
3.10-3.30 Tea
3.30-5.00 Session 3: Networks of Improvement in the Early Nineteenth Century North of
England
Mary Fairclough (CECS University of York)
‘Adam Walker: science and showmanship in 1770s York’
Jon Mee (CECS University of York)
‘York and the Transpennine Enlightenment: Manchester College, York’
5.15-6.00 Optional guided walk through Jane Ewbank’s York to Fairfax House.
6.00-7.00 Reception with drinks at Fairfax House, Castlegate.
Short readings from Jane Ewbank’s diary.
FRIDAY 9 JUNE 2023
Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum
9.30-11.00 Session 4: Jane Ewbank and the Acquisition of Scientific Knowledge
John Christie (University of Oxford)
‘Chemical Yorkshire: mineral waters, itinerant lecturers, and Jane Ewbank’s account
of the Eskdale-side alum works’
Rachel Feldberg (CECS University of York
‘From crocodiles to the structure of the universe: Jane Ewbank’s engagement with
the natural world’
Matthew Eddy (University of Durham)
‘Rewriting nature: how Jane Ewbank learned to understand climate science through
keeping a diary’
11-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.30 Session 5: Keynote
Keynote speaker: Jon Klancher (Carnegie Mellon University)
‘Henry Moyes, Jane Ewbank, and the transatlantic lecturing networks’
Huntingdon Room, Kings Manor
12.45-1.40 Buffet Lunch
1.45-3.10 Session 6: ‘”Noises Off”: Silence, Power and Agency’
Corinne Fowler (University of Leicester)
Joanna de Groot (CECS University of York)
Karen Lipsedge (University of Kingston)
This panel will be conversation-focused, with each panel member briefly introducing
what they found interesting/of import in the transcript of Ewbank’s diary in relation
to decolonising narratives of women in British history and literature.
3.10-3.30 Tea
3.30-5.00 Session 7: Jane Ewbank, Sociability, and the Arts in York
Gillian Russell (CECS University of York)
‘Jane Ewbank and the world of theatrical performance’
Rachel Cowgill (CECS University of York)
‘Jane Ewbank as music observer’
5.15-6.15 Live performance of the theatre and music of Jane Ewbank’s York
6.15-7.00 Drinks
7.00 Conference Dinner
SATURDAY 10 JUNE 2023
Huntingdon Room, Kings Manor
9.30-11.00 Session 8: Postgraduate Panel.
Post graduate speakers selected from open submission
11.00-11.20 Coffee
11-20-12.50 Session 9: Gender and Life-Writing
Joanna Wharton (CECS, University of York)
‘Women writing men of science in York and Edgeworthstown’
Amy Prendergast (Trinity College Dublin)
‘Creating and inhabiting the diurnal environment in England and Ireland, 1800-
1810: a comparative perspective on Jane Ewbank’s diary’
12.50-1.45 Buffet lunch
1.45-2.30 Session 10: Conference Round-Up
Round-up panel: review of conference
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