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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”

Seas and Trees Symposium20th June 2024University of Birmingham (Edgbaston campus)Arts building, room 103 (‘Constance Naden’) From 930: refreshments available 10am – 1130: panel session– Jimmy Packham and Laurence Publicover, ‘Ignatius Donnelly and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantis’– Amanda Blake Davis, ‘“The sea-blooms and the oozy woods”: Seascapes and Treescapes in Shelley’– Katie Garner, ‘Diving for Pearls’– Elizabeth … Continue reading “Environmental Humanities Symposium – Seas and Trees”

Dear All, Please see below for the next in our visiting speaker seminar series. Do join us for a drink afterwards, if you can. 24th April at 5pm – Dr Shelley Hales (Bristol) (Arts 104) ‘The Once and Future Dead: Remembering and Forgetting London’s Grand National Cemetery’ Abstract In 1834, Kensal Green became the first … Continue reading “Visiting Speaker Research Seminar – 24th April”

For our next Nineteenth-Century Centre visiting speaker seminar series we’re fortunate to have Professor Andrew Bennett (Bristol) sharing his research on Keats’s love letters. Andrew Bennett has been one of the best readers of Romanticism and poetry for many years, so it promises to be a great evening. Do join us for what I’m sure … Continue reading “Research Seminar – 20th March”

Join us for an exciting Nineteenth-Century Centre session on Weds 28th, where we’ll get to hear about new and timely research. We’ll be doubling up, with Charlie Gough talking about his discoveries in the Harry Ransom Center archives, and Dion Dobrzynski discussing William Morris’s utopian dreams and trees. Titles below, along with a zoom link … Continue reading “Research Seminar – Wednesday 28th February”