When: Wednesday 27th February, 5-7pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 8 Professor Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary) presents ‘Bringing the perfume out of everything: Vernon Lee and Scent’, a talk drawn from her recent monograph, Scents and Sensibility : Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture (OUP 2017)
6 March: Modern & Contemporary History Centre, New research on the history of gender & sexualities seminar series
Wednesday 6 March, 5pm Ruby Ray Daily, Northwestern University, “‘How to Kill a Governess’: the fundamental violence of Victorian Sexuality” Ruby Ray Daily is a doctoral candidate specializing in nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Her dissertation, “Sex and Violence in Greater Britain: Sexual Sensibilities, Pain and Pleasure in Britain and the Anglo-world, 1840-1960,” explores the changing relationship … Continue reading “6 March: Modern & Contemporary History Centre, New research on the history of gender & sexualities seminar series”
8 March: Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown (Oxford) ‘Slaying Dragons and Talking to Stomachs: Science and Selfhood in the Nineteenth Century’
When: Friday 8th March, 4-6pm Where: Arts 103 England, 1853. A human stomach writes a book advising the general public on best dietetic practice. It recounts its life and its encounters with food adulteration, smoking, alcohol, love, marriage and eventually old age. The book is universally well-reviewed and runs to 5 editions. India, 1897. In … Continue reading “8 March: Dr Emilie Taylor-Brown (Oxford) ‘Slaying Dragons and Talking to Stomachs: Science and Selfhood in the Nineteenth Century’”
Drawing out the Dinosaurs
When: 4th July- 27th October 2018 Where: Lapworth Museum of Geology, University of Birmingham What: Drawing out the Dinosaurs, an exhibition exploring two centuries of science discovery and artistic inspiration, curated by Will Tattersdill and Richard Butler. More information can be found here.
17 October: Research Centre Fair
Join the 19C Centre and all of the EDACS Research Centres for a PGR Meet&Greet on Wednesday 17 October, 4:00-6:00pm, Arts 201
17 October: Professor Martin Willis (Cardiff)
LANS Distinguished Lecture Series, Professor Martin Willis, “What Role do the Humanities Play in our Scientific World?”. When: Wednesday, 17 October 2018, 5:30-7:00pm Where: Arts Main Lecture Theatre For more information, please visit: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/liberal-arts-and-sciences/events/2018/martin-willis.aspx
6 July: CLiC for 19th Century Scholars
The Centre for Corpus Linguistics and the Nineteenth-Century Centre at the University of Birmingham will be jointly running a training session on using the CLiC web application for the study of 19th century fiction. CLiC includes all novels by Charles Dickens, a collection of 19th century classics and a collection of 19th century children’s literature. The training … Continue reading “6 July: CLiC for 19th Century Scholars”
31 October: 19CC Book Launch
Join us as we celebrate recent publications of 19C Centre members and kick off the new academic year. When: Wednesday 31st October 2018, 5:00-6:00pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 4
14 November: Dr. Koenraad Claes (Ghent)
Join us for a talk by Dr. Koenraad Claes (Ghent University) on “Late Victorian Little Magazines and the Invention of the Avant-Garde” When: Wednesday, 14 November 2018, 5:00-7:00pm Where: Arts Lecture Room 4
3 December: Call for Papers for Mesh (Charles Dickens Special Edition)
Mesh publishes high-quality undergraduate work that makes interesting connections between two or more of the various strands of English, including literature, language/linguistics, creative writing, drama, media and film studies. EXTENDED DEADLINE: Monday 3rd December 2018 “The next issue of Mesh will be on the theme of the work of Charles Dickens. We invite submissions based … Continue reading “3 December: Call for Papers for Mesh (Charles Dickens Special Edition)”