Brycchan Carey
@Brycchan
Professor of Literature, Culture, and History, scholar of empire and nature; treasurer of @ASLEUKI, stalwart of @BSECS, @LinneanSociety, and @AlnwickFoE.
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On my way from Belfast to Maynooth, I stopped by at Kilwarlin Moravian church, Co. Down, where the Rev. Basil Patras Zula (1796-1844), originally a Greek chieftain, turned the church garden into a scale model of the Battle of Thermopylae. Full story at classicalassociationni.wordpress.com/2019/10/13/the…
I'm heading to Belfast to give a talk on the ecopoetics of British abolitionism, taken from my forthcoming book The Unnatural Trade. I'll be speaking at the Queen's University Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies - CECS (QUB) - on Friday 17 May, 3.30pm, at 27 University Square.
Looking forward to this upcoming lecture by Brycchan Carey hosted by our friends CECS (QUB) at Queen's University Belfast campus on Friday 17 May!
“Social sciences and the humanities have never been more necessary. They give shape and meaning and so the core of what the academy does will be to make that case.” Professor Rana Mitter, British Academy vice-president for public engagement in today's Guardian culture