TECG Event | "David Hume among the British Jacobins" with Philip Connell

Sponsored by the Toronto Eighteenth-Century Group (TECG). For more information about this and other upcoming events, see our TECG website by clicking here. 

Please mark your calendars for our first event of the year, a talk by Prof. Philip Connell (Cambridge) on “David Hume among the British Jacobins: The Uses of History in the 1790s.”

Monday, September 22, 2025 at 5 pm in the Victoria University Common Room (located 89 Charles St. West, on the NE corner of U of T’s campus; click here for directions and note that the Common Room is accessible through the doors on the south side of Burwash Hall. Signs will be posted). 

Please arrive early; refreshments to be served at 4:30. 

Prof. Philip Connell is Professor of Literature and History in the Faculty of English, and a Fellow and Director of Studies in English at Selwyn College, University of Cambridge. His research interests range across literature, politics, and intellectual history between 1650 and 1840 with publications on the political and economic thought of British Romantic writers; popular culture in the early nineteenth century; the history of the book; poetry and national identity; literature and science; canon-formation and literary commemoration; poetry, politics and religion. His books include Secular Chains: Poetry and the Politics of Religion from Milton to Pope (2016) and Romanticism, Economics and the Question of 'Culture' (2001). He holds degrees from the University of Liverpool and King's College, Cambridge, and has held Research Fellowships at St John's College, Cambridge and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH). He is currently working on revolution and cultural memory in Romantic Britain.

We hope to see you there.