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Britaix 17-18 is a research seminar on the 17th and 18th centuries of the Research Centre for the English-speaking World at Aix-Marseille University. Founded in 2002 by early-modernists working on Britain, it has gradually expanded its scope to include colleagues and doctoral researchers working on colonial America and the early republic. It offers seminars throughout the academic year, training sessions for early-career researchers, and organises annual conferences and study days.

The seminar’s aims are threefold:

– training in research by means of research, systematically bringing together M.Phil and doctoral students, young researchers and more experience academics;

– internationalising research by inviting researchers from overseas and creating international projects, particularly through the organising of research events;

– valorising and promoting awareness of research on the English-speaking world by posting the findings of our research on line, available freely to all, and depositing our own research in the French repository HAL-SHS.

 

The seminar is not merely a locus for presenting the outcome of our research but also aims to propose new, jointly-elaborated ideas about access to knowledge and to promote pluridisciplinary exchange within the field of English Studies, by comparing and combining methods used in literature, history, cultural studies, musicology, art history and theatre studies.