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
9 May: Tutankhamun: Facts, Fictions and the Mummy’s Curse with Dr Eleanor Dobson
The discovery of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in 1922 is one of the best-known archaeological narratives of the modern age. The uncovering of the pharaoh’s final resting place with its wealth of gilded artefacts was cause for much celebration both in Egypt and abroad. But within weeks of the king’s burial chamber … Continue reading “9 May: Tutankhamun: Facts, Fictions and the Mummy’s Curse with Dr Eleanor Dobson”
29 May: Dr. Jessica Fay (Birmingham)
When: Wednesday 29th May, 5-7pm Where: Arts 103
13 June: Dinosaurs and Art at Oxford Natural History Museum
When:13 June, 7-9pm Where:Oxford Natural History Museum Join us for an evening under the dinosaurs exploring how art has shaped our impressions of these amazing creatures with Dr Will Tattersdill and Dr Verity Burke. £8 adults and £6 student/concession
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”
16 January: “Romantic Listening” with Dr Mina Gorji (Cambridge)
All are welcome! What: 19C Seminar Series: Dr. Mina Gorji (Cambridge) on “Romantic Listening” in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Clare When: Wednesday 16th January, 5-7pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 8