{"id":2237,"date":"2024-11-25T17:24:18","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2024-11-25T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T17:33:25","slug":"research-seminar-wednesday-27th-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/2024\/11\/25\/research-seminar-wednesday-27th-november\/","title":{"rendered":"Research Seminar — Wednesday 27th November"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wednesday 27th November at 5pm (Week 9)
Arts Building Room 104
Dr Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), \u2018\u201cOrchid Jo\u201d: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning\u2019

Abstract:
The Birmingham entrepreneur-cum-politician, Joseph Chamberlain, amassed one of the nineteenth century\u2019s best-known collections of orchids, which was displayed in a series of large greenhouses at his Moor Green residence, Highbury. Chamberlain\u2019s orchid mania went beyond a passion for collection and cultivation as the orchid became a symbol of his political persona, worn religiously as a buttonhole and frequently discussed in the periodical press. This talk examines satirical depictions of Chamberlain\u2019s orchid collecting in both London and Birmingham periodicals (Punch, Moonshine, The Dart, The Owl), all of which reveled in the scope for floral-based satire afforded by the orchidaceous Chamberlain\u2019s relationship with the primrose-touting Tories.
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I argue that an examination of satirical depictions of Chamberlain\u2019s orchid collecting (including cartoons depicting him in his Highbury greenhouse) reveals how late-Victorian imperialism, domestic politics and constructions of masculinity intersect. For Chamberlain, masculine and political self-fashioning were linked; for his numerous satirists in the London and local Birmingham press, his orchid collecting became a nexus around which a number of ideas could constellate about the relationship between science and aesthetics, the vegetal and the human, coloniser and colonised, opposing political allegiances, and manliness and unmanliness.

You can read more about Dr Mills’s work here: https:\/\/www.bbk.ac.uk\/our-staff\/profile\/8005084\/victoria-mills

Those of you unable to attend in person can sign up to join us online. Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 27th November at 5pm (Week 9)Arts Building Room 104Dr Victoria Mills (Birkbeck), \u2018\u201cOrchid Jo\u201d: Empire, Satire, and Political Self-Fashioning\u2019 Abstract:The Birmingham entrepreneur-cum-politician, Joseph Chamberlain, amassed one of the nineteenth century\u2019s best-known collections of orchids, which was displayed in a series of large greenhouses at his Moor Green residence, Highbury. Chamberlain\u2019s orchid mania went beyond … Continue reading “Research Seminar — Wednesday 27th November”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1899,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1899"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bham.ac.uk\/19cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}