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
23 January: Professor Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford)
Join us for Professor Kathryn Sutherland’s talk “Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing”. A CLEMT-sponsored event. When: Wednesday 12 December 2018, 5:00-7:00pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 4
1 February: Call for Papers for Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
Work/Leisure, Duty/Pleasure CALL FOR PAPERS Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 25-27 July 2019 University of Brighton, UK Proposals are invited for 20 minute papers or panels of three or four related papers that address any aspect of the Victorian periodical or newspaper press. Proposals relevant to the Conference theme of Work/Leisure, … Continue reading “1 February: Call for Papers for Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals”
8th February: Ruskin, Science and the Environment
In honour of John Ruskin’s bicentenary, John Holmes is co-organising a one-day conference on Ruskin, Science and the Environment with Sally Shuttleworth (Oxford), to be hosted by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History on Friday 8th February 2019 from 9.30 until 6. The speakers will include Kate Flint (Southern California), Mark Frost (Portsmouth), Peter … Continue reading “8th February: Ruskin, Science and the Environment”
13 February: Dr Serena Trowbridge (BCU) ‘Although she is not a lady, her mind is poetic’: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall
When: Wednesday 13th February, 5-7pm Where: Arts 103 ‘Although she is not a lady, her mind is poetic’: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall Few female figures of the nineteenth century have engaged the popular imagination as much as that of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall. Her life seems to be of more interest than her work, however; … Continue reading “13 February: Dr Serena Trowbridge (BCU) ‘Although she is not a lady, her mind is poetic’: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddall”