Please join us on Wednesday 23 March 1pm-5:20pm in Arts 103 for this 19th Century Centre study day. The 19th Century Centre PGT/R Study Day will be going ahead on Wednesday 23rd March 2022. The theme of the day will be ‘Celebration’ and we have a brilliant line-up of speakers (Ross Conway, Natasha Booth-Johnson, Gemma Larkin, Alan … Continue reading “Wednesday 23 March, 1pm-5:20pm, Arts 103: Postgraduate Study Day 2022”
Category: Events
19CC Book Launch 2020
Please join the 19CC to celebrate the publication of five volumes by Centre staff! Zoom webinar, 11 December at 5:00pm. Brief introduction from each author followed by Q&A. Hope to see you there!
Postponed! Dr. Tony Howe: “Epistolary Romanticism”
The 19CC has had to postpone all Spring 2020 events from 20 March 2020 due to the coronavirus. We look forward to welcoming Tony Howe in the future. Please watch this space for updates.
Postponed!: Dr. Hannah Britton: “Channels of Communication: The Wordsworths, The Wye and the Letters of 1812”
The 19CC has had to postpone all Spring 2020 events from 20 March 2020 due to the coronavirus. We look forward to welcoming Hannah Britton in the future. Please watch this space for updates.
Postponed!: Wordsworth Birthday Roundtable
The 19CC has had to postpone all Spring 2020 events from 20 March 2020 due to the coronavirus. We look forward to celebrating Wordsworth in the future. Please watch this space for updates.
Postponed!: Dr. Veronica Isaac: “Examining Changing Attitudes to Theatre Costume in the Long 19th Century (c.1789-1914)”
The 19CC has had to postpone all Spring 2020 events from 20 March 2020 due to the coronavirus. We look forward to welcoming Veronica Issac in the future. Please watch this space for updates.
Postponed!: Prof. Dennis Denisoff, “Pagan Spawn: Decadent Ecology & the Posthuman”
The 19CC has had to postpone all Spring 2020 events from 20 March 2020 due to the coronavirus. We look forward to welcoming Dennis Denisoff in the future. Please watch this space for updates.
Change of Date! 14 February: Views on Ruskin
Join Dr. Christopher Donaldson (Lancaster), Dr. Zoe Bulaitis (Manchester), and University of Birmingham 19C Centre staff for a slightly belated celebration of the centenary year of John Ruskin’s birth. A panel of short papers offer fresh views on Ruskin, followed by discussion. Friday, February 14, 2020 4-6pm Arts Building 103
11 December: A Victorian Christmas @ the V&A
Lunchtime Lecture at the V&A: A Victorian Christmas The Victorians invented or perfected many of our most treasured Christmas traditions: Christmas cards, Christmas trees, and Christmas crackers can trace their popularity to the mid-nineteenth century. Fashion joined in the festive spirit, too, with designs and fabrics that made the most of the holiday mood. For … Continue reading “11 December: A Victorian Christmas @ the V&A”
11 December: Dr. John Attridge
19C Seminar Series: Dr. John Attridge (U New South Wales), ‘Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in The Ambassadors and Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship’, 5-7pm, Arts 103 A capacity for vicarious experience is one of Lambert Strether’s most celebrated characteristics, apparent not only in his famous injunction to Little Bilham to “Live all … Continue reading “11 December: Dr. John Attridge”