19CC Seminar Series Welcomes IAS Vanguard Fellow Dr. Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State) and respondent Dr. Ana Parejo Vadillo (Birkbeck) for a fascinating afternoon. Friday, 8 November, 4-6pm, in the Institute for Advanced Studies (54 Pritchatts Road). All are welcome. Rethinking the Racial Politics of Decadence: Taking Wilde to Sri Lanka and Beardsley to Harlem Late-Victorian … Continue reading “8 November: Dr. Kristin Mahoney, “Rethinking the Racial Politics of Decadence””
Category: Archived
18 November: Works-in-Progress
A 19CC Works-in-Progress Session with Dr. Jen Baker (Warwick), 1:00-2:00pm, Muirhead 118. For papers, contact Matthew Ward (m.ward.1@bham.ac.uk)
20 November: Dr. Alexander Bubb
Wed. 20 November: 19C Seminar Series, Dr. Alexander Bubb (Roehampton), “Building a Global Bookshelf: Asian Classical Literature for the General Readership, 1845-1915,” 5-7pm, Arts 103
21 November: An Evening with Ruskin
Join John Holmes and friends at the Oxford Museum of Natural History for the final celebration event in the Ruskin 200 programme at the Museum with a Victorian-inspired, scientific soirée of activities. Learn about John Ruskin’s connections to the Museum, from the design of the building to the geology collections, as well as his wide … Continue reading “21 November: An Evening with Ruskin”
19CC Summer Hiatus
The Birmingham 19C Centre is on its summer hiatus. Please check back in October for our 2019/2020 calendar of events.
15 March: Work-in-Progess
When: Friday 15th March, 12-2pm Where: Westmere House seminar room
27 March: Dr Andrew Mangham (Reading) ‘Famine Fever: Dickens, Cholera, and the Physiology of Starvation’
When: Wednesday 27th March, 5-7pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 8
10th April: Dr. Sarah Comyn (UCD) ‘Every Station Open to All’? Mechanics’ Institutes on the Victorian Goldfields
When: Wednesday 10th April, 5-7pm During his speech at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute’s soirée in 1862, Richard Heales (M.L.A) captured the sense of the mechanics’ institute as a symbol of home when he argued that ‘nothing bound us to the old country like its institutions, and what would bind us to the new country [but] … Continue reading “10th April: Dr. Sarah Comyn (UCD) ‘Every Station Open to All’? Mechanics’ Institutes on the Victorian Goldfields”
16 April: Fashioning the Victorians: The Crinoline with Dr Rebecca Mitchell
From corsets to crinolines, dandies to decadent ‘New Women’, fashions during the Victorian age were changing as fast as a steam locomotive. Silhouettes and styles transformed radically every decade, influenced by the social, cultural and political forces of this era. Using a wide range of 19th-century images and primary source materials, Rebecca N. Mitchell discusses … Continue reading “16 April: Fashioning the Victorians: The Crinoline with Dr Rebecca Mitchell”
8 May: Dr Jane Wright (Bristol): ‘Enduring Bees: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Apian Allusion, 1844 to 1856’
Dr. Jane Wright (Bristol) on ‘Enduring Bees: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Apian Allusion, 1844 to 1856’ When: Wednesday 8 May, 5-7pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 8