Nineteenth-Century Centre Autumn Programme
Looking forward to seeing many of you at the Nineteenth-Century Centre autumn events. Do please circulate to others who might be interested in what we offer.
Visiting Speaker Series:
Our visiting speaker series is where we invite colleagues from other universities to hear more about their latest research, and work to build collaborations and partnerships across the UK. These events usually last around 90mins. Drinks and nibbles will be served, and everyone is most welcome to attend.
Wednesday 23rd October at 5pm (Week 4)
Arts Building Room 104
Dr Chris Townsend (St Andrews), ‘The Value of Antislavery Verse: Mary Robinson’s “The Negro Girl”’
On Wednesday 23rd October, Dr Chris Townsend will be talking to us about his research on the poetics and politics of the abolitionist movement, and how concerns at the time around profit and motive have their echoes in today’s academic climate.
You can read more about Chris’s work here: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/english/people/ct97/
The seminar will hopefully be available simultaneously online, or recorded for circulation to members unable to attend in person.
Wednesday 27th November at 5pm (Week 9)
Arts Building Room 104
Dr Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), ‘“Orchid Jo”: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning’
In collaboration with the Centre for Midlands History and Cultures, on Wednesday 27th November we’ll hear from Dr Victoria Mills on narratives of nineteenth-century orchid collecting and their role in constructions of personal and national identity.
You can read more about Vicky’s work here: https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8005084/victoria-mills
The seminar will hopefully be available simultaneously online, or recorded for circulation to members unable to attend in person.
Internal Work-in-Progress Series:
With our WiP events we aim to facilitate and inspire the latest research of colleagues at the University of Birmingham. Our aim is to support research at any stage of development, from nascent ideas to redrafts of articles and monographs, public engagement, impact activity, and grant applications focused on the long nineteenth century (roughly 1770-1914).
Wednesday 11th December at 2pm
Arts Building Room 104
Dr Eleanor Dobson, ‘(Re)Imagining the Titanic Wreck’
Dr Oliver Herford, ‘Keats’s Doublings: The Folded Letter and the Materiality of Correspondence’
Two colleagues from the English department will be talking to us about their new research projects. Do join us to hear more about their current thinking – it’s a great way not only to support colleagues with the progress of their work but to also think about how we develop our own research. Drinks and nibbles will be served, and the event will likely last around 90mins.
Other Related Events:
Wednesday 16 October 2024 at 5pm – 6:45pm
Online Panel from the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester, organised by Dr Doug Battersby
‘The Victorian Novel and the Health Humanities’
Sally Shuttleworth (University of Oxford): ‘Robert Louis Stevenson and Travel for Health’
Andrew Mangham (University of Reading): ‘Wilkie Collins and Head Injuries’
Anne Stiles (Saint Louis University): ‘Marie Corelli and the Brain Cell’
Please register for free here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-victorian-novel-and-the-health-humanities-tickets-1013474177547
Wednesday 20th November at 415-530pm
Barber Lecture Theatre
‘Responses to the Pre-Raphaelites’
Artist Mahtab Hussain and academic Dr Maddie Hewitson will be talking about how their own work responds to the art of the Pre-Raphaelites.
For more details, and to book your spot, go to https://barber.org.uk/events/research-seminar-responses-to-the-pre-raphaelites/
If you’d like to present at a future session, have someone you want to suggest we invite to give a paper, or indeed have another kind of event that you’d like to organise or get help with which supports our research culture, just get in touch with me.
Best wishes,
Matthew
Website: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/centres-institutes/nineteenth-century