Penelope J Corfield on History and Humanity -Tarık Günersel

Dear Earthmates,
Author of The Georgians: The Deeds & Misdeeds of C18th Britain (Yale UP 2022, Professor Penelope Jane Corfield (PJC) is a historian, lecturer and education consultant. She currently serves as the President of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ISECS).Since 2015, Penelope has also been an elected Member of the Academia Europaea/ Academy of Europe. She is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and one of the founder members of the International Big History Association.
Corfield completed her doctorate at the London School of Economics. She is an Emeritus Professor, attached to the History Department of Royal Holloway. She is also a Visiting Fellow at Newcastle University’s Humanities Research Institute (2016-19), PJC has held Visiting Professorships in Australia, Hungary and Japan, as well as Visiting Fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and at the University of Oxford (Nuffield College; All Souls College). One stimulating visit among many was her trip to New Delhi in February 2018, to attend the second annual Conference of the newly-launched India-International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (I-ISECS): the excitement of the gathering was joyous.
Her contributions include works on:
*Social & Cultural History; Town Life; Electoral History; Radical Poets from the 1790s; the History of the Professions; and Religion & Irreligion...
*Global themes such as Urban History through Time; Eighteenth-Century European History Overviews; Gender History (including women; men; sexuality; personhood); ‘Racial’ Classifications as Pseudo-Science; Climate Change; and the International Sphere.
*Time & the Shape of History; Rethinking Historical Periodisation; Dimensions of the Long Term; and Returning to Big History.
*History-Making: Why History Matters; History of History; reflections on Fellow Historians; Arts of Academic Assessment; and Pleasures of Intellectual Life..
Her other contributions include Book Reviews; Theatre Reviews; Civic/Political Commentaries; and Personal Portraits of Corfield/Hill family members.
PJC is about to finish her new work: Telling the Time, which will be the main topic of our next interview -I am delighted to mention.
You can enjoy so many topics and views in only 30 minutes:

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