Author: Matthew Ward

Please join us on Wednesday 10th December at 2pm, in Arts 119 for some festive celebrations of recent successes and achievements, and to hear more about the latest research being produced in EDACS. Alongside quick presentations and lightening talks, we will have a longer work-in-progress session, to include Dr Louise Curran who will share research from her … Continue reading “19CC Research Seminar — Weds 10th December at 2pm”

Join us on Weds 29th October at 130pm for our first visiting speaker seminar of the year. Venue: Arts 103 (Constance Naden Room) ‘Recovering Laura Kieler–The Real Woman behind Ibsen’s A Doll’s House’ For the past four years, Tzen Sam, Kirsten Shepherd, and Gaye Kynoch have been researching the life and work of Laura Kieler, … Continue reading “Visiting Speaker Research Seminar — 29th October at 130pm”

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, … Continue reading “Pre-Raphaelites Symposium”

Please join us on Wednesday 19th March at 3pm in Arts 201 for a joint event from the Nineteenth-Century Centre and Arts of Place. We’ll be hosting Professor Simon Bainbridge (Lancaster), expert in Romanticism, the politics of place, and mountaineering, who’ll be sharing his new research with us. Title and abstract below; do feel free … Continue reading “Visiting Speaker Research Seminar — 19th March (Arts 201)”

Wednesday 11th December at 2pmArts 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 – … Continue reading “Wednesday 11th December — Work in Progress”

Wednesday 27th November at 5pm (Week 9)Arts Building Room 104Dr Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), ‘“Orchid Jo”: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning’ Abstract:The Birmingham entrepreneur-cum-politician, Joseph Chamberlain, amassed one of the nineteenth century’s best-known collections of orchids, which was displayed in a series of large greenhouses at his Moor Green residence, Highbury. Chamberlain’s orchid mania went beyond … Continue reading “Research Seminar — Wednesday 27th November”

Join us for our first visiting speaker research seminar of the semester. Refreshments will be served, and all are 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 … Continue reading “Visiting Speaker Research Seminar – 23rd October”

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 … Continue reading “19CC Autumn Programme”

Emotions and Ecology SymposiumFriday 28th June 2024University of Birmingham: Arts Building, Room 104 From 930: refreshments available 10am – 11: panel session– Victoria Flood, ‘“Ferlyes on Folde”: Medieval Environmental Imaginaries and Modern Communities of Wonder’– Gillian Wright, ‘Cowley, Behn and Nostalgia’– David James, ‘Submarine Sympathies: Blue Planet II’s Sentimental Activism’ 11-1130: coffee break 1130-1pm: panel … Continue reading “Emotions and Ecology Symposium”