Collaboration between University of Birmingham, Birmingham City University, Warwick University, and the Birmingham Museums Trust
Call for Papers – postgraduate and postdoctoral
Why does Pre-Raphaelitism matter now?
Contemporary interventions in art and literature
Saturday 20th September, Birmingham & Midland Institute
This Dialogue Day, funded by Midland4Cities, will be a free one-day symposium bringing together academics, professionals (curators, writers, etc), doctoral students and potential doctoral students to consider why interdisciplinary Pre-Raphaelite Studies is a growing field, and why this is significant. There will be opportunities for networking and careers discussions as well as sharing of research projects. All are welcome to attend, regardless of current role or funding status.
We are inviting papers of 15 minutes from all postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers about their research on topics related, broadly, to Pre-Raphaelite studies, in all its forms.
The organising panel is led by Dr Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City University), with Professor John Holmes (University of Birmingham), Professor Emma Mason (University of Warwick), Victoria Osborne (Birmingham Museums Trust) and Helen Bratt-Wyton (National Trust). We are interested in papers which:
· Outline your current research, related at least in a tangential way to Pre-Raphaelitism
· May contribute a new perspective to the field
· May be interdisciplinary or involve non-traditional research methods
· May involve archival or interpretative methods to present original approaches to research.
Please send 200-word abstracts for papers of 15 minutes’ length to Serena Trowbridge at serena.trowbridge@bcu.ac.uk by Tuesday 5th August 2025
