Registration: The Turbulent Mind (5/16-17/2014)

The Turbulent Mind: Madness, Moods and Melancholy in the Art of the Nineteenth Century

Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts,

In collaboration with the Research Platform XIX and the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art

May 16-17, 2014

With the support of the Research Foundation - Flanders, Flemish Art Collection, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent, Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History (OSK), Ghent University - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy

On May 7, 1824, Eugène Delacroix wrote in his diary: “I do not care for reasonable painting at all. I can see that my turbulent mind needs agitation, needs to free itself, to try a hundred different things before reaching the goal whose tyrannous call everywhere torments me. (...) If I am not quivering like a snake in the hands of Pythoness, I am cold; I must recognize it and submit to it; and to do so is happiness.”

In these lines, Delacroix evoked the age-old theme of the mad artist, tormented but divinely inspired, balancing on the verge of insanity and genius. The attraction of this idea to Delacroix was hardly an isolated phenomenon. The rise of romanticism saw an exploding interest in the irrational and its potential to liberate the arts, and even the world at large, and this interest resonated throughout the rest of the nineteenth century. 

On the occasion of the Théodore Géricault exhibition in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent, the museum joins forces with the Research Platform XIX and the European Society for Nineteenth-Century Art to organise a two-day conference to explore the theme of madness and art in the nineteenth century, a time when artists first deliberately turned for inspiration to the mentally deviant and fully developed the idea of art as an expression of the emotional self. The conference brings together international specialists in the field and deals with both the myth of the artistic temperament and representations of madness, moods or melancholy.

Organising committee: Jan Dirk Baetens (Radboud University, Nijmegen), Koen Brosens (KU Leuven), Rachel Esner (University of Amsterdam), Bruno Fornari (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), Jenny Reynaerts (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), Johan De Smet (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent), Marjan Sterckx (Ghent University) and Cathérine Verleysen (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)

Scientific committee: Werner Adriaenssens (Royal Museum of Art and History, Brussels), Maite van Dijk (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam), Mayken Jonkman (RKD, The Hague), Herwig Todts (Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp), Francisca Vandepitte (Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels), Filip Vermeylen (Erasmus University, Rotterdam) and Catherine de Zegher (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent

More information:

Jan Dirk Baetens, Radboud University Nijmegen: j.baetens@let.ru.nl

Cathérine Verleysen, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent: catherine.verleysen@gent.be

Admission: € 40 (students € 25) 

Includes coffee breaks and lunch on 16 and 17 May

Max. registrations: 100

Registration: Email to catherine.verleysen@gent.be (mentioning your institutional affiliation), and transfer of the registration fee to: 

AGB Kunsten en Design – Botermarkt 1 – B-9000 Ghent – Belgium

IBAN BE11 0910 1974 1448

BIC GKCCBEBB

Mentioning name of participant and ‘The Turbulent Mind’ 

Confirmation of registration takes place only after receipt of the conference fee.

Languages: English / Français

http://www.mskgent.be

http://www.werkgroep-xix.blogspot.be

http://esnaonline.wordpress.com

Registration: Collecting Byron (4/11-13/2014)

Collecting Byron: A Conference in Celebration of the Byron Society Collection

Founded by Marsha M. Manns and Leslie A. Marchand

Drew University and the Byron Society of America

Madison, New Jersey

April 11-13, 2014

Program--To view the conference program visit: http://www.drew.edu/library/byron

All events and gatherings take place in Mead Hall

TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE http://tinyurl.com/collectingbyron-registration https://www.eventbrite.com/e/collecting-byron-tickets-9882677354

TO REGISTER FOR THE MADISON HOTEL http://www.themadisonhotel.com/

For inquiries please contact me directly: rhammerm@stevens.edu

Reminder: Decadence and the Senses (4/10-11/2014)

Reminder! Registration Open

"Decadence and the Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference"

Goldsmiths, University of London,

April 10-11, 2014

This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship of Decadence and the senses, and the ways in which Decadent writers attempt to capture fleeting sensations.  It is an opportunity to trace common visual, aural and 'perfumed' motifs in Decadent works, and to reflect on the extent to which the senses are important to our understanding of the tradition.

To register and to view the program, visit http://decadence2014.wordpress.com/

Registration Open: Edwardian Premonitions and Echoes (4/10-11/2014)

Registration Open

University of Liverpool

April 10-11, 2014 

“Edwardian Premonitions and Echoes”

History is not like a bus-line on which the vehicle changes all its passengers and crew whenever it gets to the point marking its terminus. Nevertheless, if there are dates that are more than conveniences for the purposes of periodisation, August 1914 is one of them. Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Empire.

At the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, how useful is it to think about the Edwardian era as ending decisively in 1914? Indeed, how helpful have conventional boundaries of periodisation been in our understanding of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century British culture? Rather than viewing ‘the Edwardian’ as a fixed and isolated historic moment, this conference seeks to open up new ways of thinking about the premonitions and echoes of the Edwardian age. Just as the 1880s and 1890s can be interpreted as ‘proto-Edwardian’, so too the Edwardians can be seen to have anticipated many issues and debates of the present day, from coalition governments to trade unions, immigration acts to women’s rights.

The committee invites papers on any aspect of British culture, based on varied temporal definitions of the ‘Edwardian period’.  Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: 

• Proto-Edwardians: how far back can we trace the spirit of the Edwardian age? The Victorians? The Regency? Beyond?
• 21st Century Edwardians: to what extent have the social reforms, political activities and cultural developments of the Edwardian era shaped contemporary society?
• Between Two Wars: what is the relationship between war and the Edwardians? How significant is it that the Edwardian era is frequently perceived to have been bookended by the Boer War and the First World War?
• Old versus new: how helpful is Samuel Hynes’s observation that the Edwardian era was one in which ‘old and new ideas dwelt uneasily together’? Was the Edwardian period an unusually heterogeneous cultural moment?
• Uncanny Edwardians: how did the Edwardian preoccupation with séances, emergent psychological theories, and theological developments, influence their perception of themselves in terms of their historical moment?

“Edwardian Premonitions and Echoes” is the second annual conference of the Edwardian Culture Network.  The two-day conference will be hosted by the University of Liverpool on April 10th-11th 2014. For more about the conference and the Edwardian Culture Network, see www.edwardianculture.com

Final Reminder: Registration for "Coastal Cultures" (3/3/2014; 3/14-15/2014)

Registration is ​now open:

Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1914

Venues: English Faculty, University of Oxford & Magdalen College, Oxford

March 14-15, 2014
Closes: March 3, 2014

Description: The conference explores the diversity of experiences dependent on the coasts in the long nineteenth century. Papers will consider aesthetic responses by artists, writers and musicians, but also focus on everyday material practices. In keeping with the spirit of fluid exchange encouraged by coasts, the conference draws together scholars from across the disciplines of literature, art history, musicology, history, and geography.

Speakers include Rosemary Ashton, Margaret Cohen, Valentine Cunningham, Jane Darcy, Roger Ebbatson, Kate Flint, Nick Freeman, Nick Grindle, James Kneale, Leya Landau, Fiona Stafford, Christiana Payne, David Sergeant and Carl Thompson.

A recital will take place in association with the conference, with singers from the Guildhall School for Music performing works by Elgar, Stanford and Vaughan Williams, introduced by musicologist and concert pianist Ceri Owen.

The conference programme can be downloaded at the site below. To register, please go to http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/our-research/coastal-cultures-long-nineteenth-century-1775%E2%80%931914 Bursaries and concessionary prices available for postgraduates.

Contact: coastal.cultures@gmail.com

Registration: BSLS 2014 (4/10-12/2014; 3/27/2014)

Registration Open

British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014

University of Surrey, Guildford

April 10-12, 2014

Deadline: March 27, 2014

Keynote talks will be given by Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton). The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April.

Accommodation: please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. Information on local hotels is available on the conference website.

Membership: conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: £25 waged / £10 unwaged). It will be possible to join the BSLS when registering for the conference.

To register for the conference please visit the University of Surrey online store at http://tinyurl.com/p92lleg. The deadline for registration is March 27, 2014.

Information about how to get to the University of Surrey is available here: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/travel/.

For further information and updates about the conference, please contact Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk) or visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/pp6ubz5.

Registration: Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1914 (3/14-15/2014)

Registration is ​now open:

Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775–1914

Venues: English Faculty, University of Oxford & Magdalen College, Oxford

March 14-15, 2014

Description: The conference explores the diversity of experiences dependent on the coasts in the long nineteenth century. Papers will consider aesthetic responses by artists, writers and musicians, but also focus on everyday material practices. In keeping with the spirit of fluid exchange encouraged by coasts, the conference draws together scholars from across the disciplines of literature, art history, musicology, history, and geography.

Speakers include Rosemary Ashton, Margaret Cohen, Valentine Cunningham, Jane Darcy, Roger Ebbatson, Kate Flint, Nick Freeman, Nick Grindle, James Kneale, Leya Landau, Fiona Stafford, Christiana Payne, David Sergeant and Carl Thompson.

A recital will take place in association with the conference, with singers from the Guildhall School for Music performing works by Elgar, Stanford and Vaughan Williams, introduced by musicologist and concert pianist Ceri Owen.

The conference programme can be downloaded at the site below. To register, please go to http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/our-research/coastal-cultures-long-nineteenth-century-1775%E2%80%931914 Bursaries and concessionary prices available for postgraduates.

Contact: coastal.cultures@gmail.com

Registration: British Society for Literature & Science (3/27/2014; 4/10-12/2014)

Registration Open

British Society for Literature and Science Conference 2014

University of Surrey, Guildford

April 10-12, 2014

Deadline: March 27, 2014

Keynotes: Professor Jim Al-Khalili (University of Surrey), Professor Bernard Lightman (York University, Toronto), and Professor Mary Orr (University of Southampton).

The conference will finish with an opportunity to visit Down House, the home of Charles Darwin, on the afternoon of Saturday 12 April.

Accommodation: please note that those attending the conference will need to make their own arrangements for accommodation. Information on local hotels is available on the conference website.

Membership: conference delegates will need to register as members of the BSLS (annual membership: £25 waged / £10 unwaged). It will be possible to join the BSLS when registering for the conference.

To register for the conference please visit the University of Surrey online store at http://tinyurl.com/p92lleg. The deadline for registration is March 27, 2014.

Information about how to get to the University of Surrey is available here: http://www.surrey.ac.uk/about/visitors/travel/.

For further information and updates about the conference, please contact Gregory Tate (g.tate@surrey.ac.uk) or visit the conference website at http://tinyurl.com/pp6ubz5.

Registration: Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, & Spiritualism (4/24/2014)

Registration now open!

Royal Society, London, 

April 24, 2014

Workshop 2:  Wireless: Oliver Lodge, Science, & Spiritualism 

Oliver Lodge’s work in telecommunications arose from his life-long interest in the ether.  This workshop explores Lodge’s impact on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century  telecommunications, particularly wireless telegraphy and radio, but situates this alongside his interest in more esoteric etheric phenomena.  Studying Lodge’s spiritualism provides a new way of understanding his physics, but also a way of approaching broader communication networks, occult or otherwise, of the period.

This one-day workshop features papers by Peter Bowler, Elizabeth Bruton, Christine Ferguson, David Hendy, Richard Noakes, and J. Patrick Wilson.

Registration is free but places are limited.  To register, email oliverlodgenetwork@gmail.com giving your name and any dietary requirements.

Further details (including the programme) are available here: <http://www.oliverlodge.org/workshop-2-wireless/>

Registration: Decadence and the Senses (4/10-11/2014)

Registration Open

"Decadence and the Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference"

Goldsmiths, University of London,

April 10-11, 2014

This interdisciplinary conference explores the relationship of Decadence and the senses, and the ways in which Decadent writers attempt to capture fleeting sensations.  It is an opportunity to trace common visual, aural and 'perfumed' motifs in Decadent works, and to reflect on the extent to which the senses are important to our understanding of the tradition.

To register and to view the program, visit http://decadence2014.wordpress.com/

Registration Open: Morris and History: Historical Transformations in William Morris's Poetry, Prose and Design (3/22/2014)

Registration Open!

William Morris Society of Canada

University of Toronto
March 22, 2014

PRESENTATIONS

• "William Morris's Evolving Views of History"--Florence Boos, Professor, Department of English, University of Iowa
• "Morris's Frozen Rime: History as Incident and Ornament"--Veronica Alfano, Faculty Fellow, University of Oregon
• "Epic Distance, Ballad Proximity: Morris's Icelandic and Old Danish Translations"--Letitia Henville, PhD Candidate, Department of English, University of Toronto
• "The Dealings of Civilization (or organized misery) with ‘Non-civilization’: Anti-Imperialism and Utopian Thought in William Morris’s News from Nowhere"--Victor Shea, Associate Professor of English and Humanities, York University
• "Romance and History in The Water of the Wondrous Isles"--Christine Bolus-Reichert, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Toronto

REGISTRATION (includes lunch and a birthday celebration for William Morris immediately following the symposium):

• Paid in Advance, before March 15: $50 (members); $60 (non-members); $25 (students)
• Paid at the Door: $60 (members): $70 (non-members); $30 (students)

Registration form and details are available on the William Morris Society of Canada website: http://www.wmsc.ca/p/future-events_11.html

Registration Open: Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775-1914 (3/14-15/2014)

Registration is now open
Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century, 1775-1914
Oxford English Faculty & Magdalen College

Dates: March 14-15, 2014

Speakers: Rosemary Ashton, Margaret Cohen, Valentine Cunningham, Jane Darcy, Roger Ebbatson, Kate Flint, Nick Freeman, Nick Grindle, James Kneale, Leya Landau, Fiona Stafford, Christiana Payne, David Sergeant and Carl Thompson.

The conference explores the diversity of experiences dependent on the coasts in the long nineteenth century. Papers will consider aesthetic responses by artists, writers and musicians, but also focus on everyday material practices. In keeping with the spirit of fluid exchange encouraged by coasts, the conference draws together scholars from across the disciplines of literature, art history, musicology, history, and geography.

A recital will take place in association with the conference, with singers from the Guildhall School for Music performing works by Elgar, Stanford and Vaughan Williams, introduced by musicologist and concert pianist Ceri Owen. In addition to the concessionary price, we are able to offer three fully funded places for postgraduate students, to encourage interaction between emerging and more established scholars. These special places will be awarded competitively: if you are a post-grad and wish to be considered, please register as usual, and send in a CV and a 200-word paragraph explaining why this conference is particularly important for your academic development and why your current research will benefit from and contribute to the event. If you are successful, we will reimburse fees for both registration and the conference dinner. Please send applications to coastal.cultures@gmail.com.

For links to the conference program, registration, and general information visit: http://www.english.ox.ac.uk/our-research/coastal-cultures-long-nineteenth-century-1775%E2%80%931914

Sponsored by BAVS and Magdalen College, Oxford

Registration Open: Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945 (3/8/2014)

Registration Open

Devouring: Food, Drink and the Written Word, 1800-1945,

University of Warwick

March 8,  2014

This one day interdisciplinary conference brings together researchers with an interest in the culinary cultures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to share perspectives on food, drink, consumption and literature. The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries see Britain develop a fraught relationship with food: as a commodity, a luxury item, a source of poison or nutrition; in abundance or in scarcity. Many of our most familiar texts from the period are riddled with allusions to their own relationship with food and consumption: from the ‘eat me’ and ‘drink me’ labels of Alice in Wonderland, to the seductive but toxic fruit of Rossetti’s Goblin Market.

“Devouring” provides a space to open up dialogue about narratives which explore eating, drinking, reading and their worth. With keynote addresses from Margaret Beetham (Salford) and Nicola Humble (Roehampton).

For more information on how to register, and the full programme, visit http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/food/ or 

http://devouring2014.blogspot.co.uk/

Registration Reminder: Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now (3/8/2014)

Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now

University of Durham

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2014

Registration is open for this one-day interdisciplinary conference on 8th March 2014 (International Women's Day) at Durham University, UK. We seek to examine and discuss how presentations of femaleness in text contributes to and creates what it means to be female. 

We are interpreting "text" broadly to encompass all interpretable objects from all disciplines. We welcome creative practitioners, academics and community workers to examine how text informs the social understanding of femaleness, and how this impacts on the lived experience of women and female children around the world. We have speakers from a diverse range of backgrounds and details of the programme can be found at http://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/literary-dolls-the-female-textual-body-from-the-19th-century-to-now/. The conference will be followed by a wine reception with folk singers to represent another form of text and a conference dinner with our keynote speakers.

Keynote speakers at the conference include the winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Jane Smiley; Professor Maggie O'Neill (Durham University); Dr Kate MacDonald (University of Ghent).

To register visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.a.white/literarydolls. Please contact the conference team if you have any questions about registration or payment at literarydollsconference@gmail.com.

To register visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.a.white/literarydolls

Registration Open: "Challenger Unbound" A One-day Symposium on Arthur Conan Doyle's Professor Challenger Narratives(12/9/13)

Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London

Course Description

A century has passed since the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle’sThe Lost World. This one-day symposium offers an ideal opportunity to take stock of the Professor Challenger narratives and to reassess what these three novels and two short stories can offer to new generations of scholars, students, and enthusiasts.

Introduction: Professor John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English Literature, University College London

Keynote Speakers: Professor Ian Duncan: Professor and Florence Green Bixby Chair in English, University of California Berkeley; Professor Michael Saler, Professor of History, University of California, Davis; Professor Jeremy Tambling, Professor of Literature, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, University of Manchester.

For more information visit the website. 

Registration Open: Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now (3/8/2014)

Literary Dolls: The Female Textual Body from the Nineteenth Century to Now

University of Durham

International Women’s Day

March 8, 2014

Registration is now open for this one-day conference on March 8, 2014 (International Women's Day).

Keynote speakers at the conference include the winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Jane Smiley; Professor Jo Phoenix (University of Durham); Dr Kate MacDonald (University of Ghent).

To register visit http://www.dur.ac.uk/r.a.white/literarydolls

Tickets Available: VPFA Wilkie Collins Research Day (11/9/2013)

The VPFA is pleased to announce a Study Day devoted to the work of Wilkie Collins.
November 9th, 2013

Wilkie Collins: New Directions and Readings

Tickets are £10 and are available

here. Please note that lunch will not be provided

10:00-10:15

Welcome (Janice Allan and Joanne Ella Parsons)

10:15-11:15

Keynote by William Baker (Northern Illinois University): “Wilkie Collins: Scholarship and Criticism Past, Present and Future”

11:15-11:30: COFFEE

11:30-12:45

Tabitha Sparks (McGill University), “Wilkie Collins’s The Law and the Lady and Feminine Reason: ‘Quite incredible, and nevertheless quite true’”

Meredith Miller (Falmouth University), “Popular Interiority and Political Address: The New Magdalen and The Law and the Lady”

Tara MacDonald (University of Amsterdam), “Sympathetic Doubles in Collins’s Fiction”

12:45-2:00 LUNCH

2:00-3:15

Catherine Delafield (Independent Scholar), “‘The patience of cats,… the ferocity of tigers’: Competitive Editing and the Serialization of The Moonstone.”

Caroline Radcliffe (University of Birmingham), “The Lighthouse by Wilkie Collins: ‘situations dramatique non encore exploitees’”

Jessica Cox (Brunel University) “Women in White: Neo-Victorianism and Wilkie Collins’s Literary Descendants”

3:15-3:30 COFFEE

3:30-4:25 

Anne-Marie Beller (Loughborough University), “‘I want a husband to vex, or a child to beat’: Sensation and Emotion as Redemption in Armadale”

Joanne Ella Parsons (Bath Spa University), “Fosco’s Fat: Bodily Control and Transgressive Consumption in The Woman in White”

4:30-5:30

Roundtable discussion on No Name Reading Project

Pete Orford (Buckingham University), Anne-Marie Beller (University of Loughborough), Hazel Mackenzie (Buckingham) and Joanne Shattock (Leicester).

If you wish to be kept informed of events organized by the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) then a membership form for the association can be downloaded from the website: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/events/

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Janice Allan at j.m.allan@salford.ac.uk OR Joanne Ella Parsons at joanne.parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk

All VPFA events are hosted at the English Institute, Senate House in London.
VPFA: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/

Registration Open: "Victorian Body Parts" (09/14/2013)

VICTORIAN BODY PARTS CONFERENCE


Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

Saturday 14 September 2013
 

Barts Pathology Museum



Registration is now open for the Victorian Body Parts Conference. The conference fee is £15 (£10 for students/unwaged). Please register here: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/english/vbp/
 



PROGRAMME




09.30-09.50  Registration and Refreshments




09.50-10.00  Opening Remarks



Carla Valentine (Technical Assistant Curator, Barts Pathology Museum)



Beatrice Bazell and Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London)




10.00-11.15  Keynote Panel



Dr Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg), 'Body Boundary Object'



Dr Kate Hill (University of Lincoln), 'A Head for Knowledge: Archaeology, Anthropology and Body Parts in Victorian Museums'



Chair: Dr Victoria Mills (Darwin College, University of Cambridge)




11.15-11.45  Tea Break




11.45-13.00  Panel One: Severed Parts



Ellery Foutch (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Sandow’s Arm'



Dr Graeme Pedlingham (University of Sussex), '"I take myne owne": The Hysteric, The Collector and Anatomical Autonomy in Richard Marsh's "Lady Wishaw's Hand" (1895)'



Catherine Oakley (University of York), 'Laughable Limbs: Comic Dismemberment in Early Cinema 1895-1910'



Chair: Diana Garrisi (University of Westminster)




13.00-13.45  Lunch




13.45-15.00  Panel Two: Prosthetic Parts



Clare Stainthorp (University of Birmingham), 'The Case of the Artificial Hand: Considering Disability, Prosthesis and the Motif of the Hand in the Nineteenth Century'



Ryan Sweet (University of Exeter), '"Down Came the Limb with a Frightful Smash": Prosthesis as Weapon in Nineteenth-Century Literature'



Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'Wiggery Pokery: Touching Dickens’s Hair'



Chair: Amanda Sciampacone (Birkbeck College, University of London)




15.00-15.15  Break




15.15-16.30  Panel Three: Gendered Parts



Lisa Coar (University of Leicester), 'The Surgically Sartorial: Cutting it Fine among Wasp-Waisted Men'



Ally Crockford (University of Edinburgh), 'Erect Victorians: the Anxious Masculinity of the Nineteenth-Century 'Diphallic' Terata'



Beatrice Bazell (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'Corset, Camera, Constriction: Articulating the Female Body in Mid-Victorian Culture'



Chair: Dr Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter)




16.30-16.45  Break




16.45-17.30  Keynote Address



Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Organs of Imitation: Theatrical Body Parts and Scientific Psychology'



Chair: Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)




17.30-17.45  Closing Remarks



Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)




For more information, please see: http://victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com/