Seminars: Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (Winter 2014)

The London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar 2013-2014 Programme
Institute of English Studies, University of London

Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

Winter 2014

Inaugurated by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in 1987, the Seminar is chaired by Dr Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck, University of London) and organised by a committee made up of nineteenth-century specialists from the English Departments of the colleges of the University of London. Responsibility for each season of seminars is passed around the group.

Friday December 13, 2013
Stewart House, Room G37 (Ground Floor)
32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

'Oscar Wilde: The Editor and the Journalist'
John Stokes (KCL, Emeritus) and Mark Turner (KCL) will be speaking about their recent 2 volume edition of Wilde’s journalism.
This event is co-sponsored by the 'Shows of London' Research Group at KCL:http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/english/events/seminars/sol.aspx

Friday January 17, 2014
Stewart House, Room 349 (3rd Floor)
32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Archaeology of Emotions 1
Stefano Evangelista (Oxford): 'Encounters with Sculpture in Sigmund Freud and Vernon Lee: Science, Aesthetics, Pathology'.
Carolyn Burdett (Birkbeck, University of London): 'From shareability to Unanimism: or, how psychology tried to keep the Good in the Beautiful'

Friday February 7, 2014
Stewart House, Room 349 (3rd Floor)
32 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DN
Time: 17:30 - 19:30

Archaeology of Emotions 2: Panel on 'An Archaeology of Sympathy'
Speaker: James Chandler (Chicago)
Respondent: Luisa Cale (Birkbeck, University of London)

For more information, see: http://events.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_events.php?page=ies_seminars&func=results&aoi_id=54 or contact contact Ana Vadillo ata.parejovadillo@bbk.ac.uk