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.
2 October: Research Centre Meet & Greet
Meet the EDACS Research Centres! UoB Post-grads, it’s time for the yearly pizza-fest with your friendly local Research Centres. Learn about the seminars, workshops, and other events taking place this academic year; get involved and meet new people while you’re at it. Wednesday, October 2nd, 4-6pm in Arts Lecture Room 4.
9 October: Book Launch and 19C Post-Grad Mixer
Join us to celebrate recent book publications with chat, nibbles, drinks, and remarks from Drs. Melissa Dickson & Andrew Hodgson (Birmingham) and recent UoB Alum Dr. Clare Stainthorp (London). Learn about the publishing process & the autumn events at the 19CC. Everyone welcome, post-grads especially! Featured books: Anxious Times: Medicine and Modernity in Nineteenth-Century Britain by … Continue reading “9 October: Book Launch and 19C Post-Grad Mixer”
Welcome to the Nineteenth-Century Centre
The Nineteenth-Century Centre at the University of Birmingham provides a collaborative network for scholars working across traditional disciplinary, national, and temporal boundaries. We host regular events of interest to our members and mobilise the rich resources of the local area to support both research and teaching.
October 14: John Holmes at the BMI
Join Professor John Holmes for a talk drawn from his recent prize-winning study, The Pre-Raphaelites and Science at the Birmingham & Midlands Institute. Monday, October 14th, 1-2pm. For more info, please see the BMI website.
October 29: Prof. Josephine McDonagh
Please join us for the first 19CC Seminar Series of the new academic year, with Professor Josephine McDonagh (Chicago): ‘Seeking Asylum in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre and the Guayran Emigrants’. Tuesday, October 29th, 5-7pm, in Arts Lecture Room 5.
8 November: Dr. Kristin Mahoney, “Rethinking the Racial Politics of Decadence”
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””
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)