Seminar: Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies Spring Programme (1/17/2014 & 2/7/2014)

London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar
Spring Term Programme of Events

Birkbeck University

Inaugurated by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in 1987, the Seminar is chaired by Dr Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck) 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.

SPRING TERM
Friday January 17, 2014
Steward House, Room 349
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): 'From shareability to Unanimism: or, how psychology tried to keep the Good in the Beautiful'

Friday February 7, 2014
Stewart House, Room 349
17:30 - 19:30
Archaeology of Emotions 2: Panel on An Archaeology of Sympathy
James Chandler (Chicago); Respondent: Luisa Calé (Birkbeck)

For more information please contact Ana Parejo Vadillo (a.parejovadillo@bbk.ac.uk) or visit the website at: http://events.sas.ac.uk/events/visitor_events.php?page=ies_seminars&func=results&aoi_id=54

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

Seminar Series: "Literature, Ideas, and Society: Gender and Sexuality" (12/4/2013)

"Literature, Ideas and Society” Seminar Series

Warburg Institute Seminar

December 4, 2013

The “Literature, Ideas and Society” seminar series at the Warburg Institute (London) will be hosting a session on “Gender and Sexuality" on December 4, 2014 at 5:15 pm. The session consists of two thirty-minute papers, followed by a formal discussion and an informal reception.

• Daniel Orrells (University of Warwick) “The ‘Homo’ in Homosexuality: Ancient Same-Sex Desire and Late-Victorian British Imperial Culture”
• Nicole Horejsi (Columbia University) “Contemporary Fables for a New Augustan Age: Rewriting Classical Heroines in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”

For more information: http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/index.php?id=574

For any queries, please email the organisers: Michael Meere (michael.meere@kcl.ac.uk) or Guido Giglioni (guido.giglioni@sas.ac.uk).

CFP: Nineteenth Century Research Seminars (10/31/2013; 1-5/2014)

Nineteenth Century Research Seminars

University of Edinburgh, Scotland

January-May 2014

Deadline: October 31, 2013

The Nineteenth Century Research Seminars (NCRS) will take place at the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Humanities (IASH) in the University of Edinburgh from January – May 2014. This monthly seminar series seeks to provide a cross- and inter-disciplinary space in which doctoral researchers and early career researchers (ECRs) working on the nineteenth century can meet, discuss their research, form connections, and perhaps sow the seeds for future collaborations. Each seminar will consist of two papers: one paper from a University of Edinburgh-based researcher and one paper from a researcher based in any other higher education institution. The NCRS is supported by the University of Edinburgh’s Researcher-Led Initiative Fund.

NCRS invites proposals for twenty-minute papers addressing any aspect of nineteenth century literature, history, and culture from doctoral researchers and ECRs only. Abstracts (<250 a="" affiliation="" along="" an="" and="" be="" biography="" body="" brief="" email="" href="mailto:edinburgh19thcentury@gmail.com" in="" institutional="" name="" of="" should="" speaker="" submitted="" the="" to="" with="" words="">edinburgh19thcentury@gmail.com

. The closing date for submissions is Thursday October 31, 2013.

The NCRS will reimburse the selected non-University of Edinburgh speakers’ travel expenses up to £100.

Call for Proposals: VPFA 2013 Research Seminar Series (1/31/2013)

The Victorian Popular Fiction Association is now accepting proposals for the 2013 Research Seminar Series to be held in Senate House, London. Open to both the general public and the academic community, this series is part of the Association’s ongoing commitment to the dissemination of the latest research in the area as well as the revival of understudied texts and writers. Proposals may take the form of individual papers or panels of three and may be drawn from any aspect of Victorian popular literature and culture.

Queries and proposals should be sent to Dr Janice Allan (j.m.allan@salford.ac.uk) and Joanne Parsons (Joanne.Parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk).Those who wish to be considered for the Spring Seminar in April (date TBC) should submit their proposals by 31 January 2013.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/

London Nineteenth-Century Seminar "Death and the Victorians" (Fall 2012)

London Nineteenth-Century Seminar 2012-2013
Autumn Term: Death and the Victorians
Saturdays, 11.00-13.00

20 October 2012 (Senate House, Room 104)
Dr. Claire Wood (University of York):  'Death and the Department Store'

Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren (University of Leicester): 'The Body Trade in the Dead of London, 1832-1930'

3 November 2012 (Senate House, Room 261)
Dr. Keren Hammerschlag (King's College London): 'Death Walking: Frederic Leighton's Procession Paintings'

Prof. Marcia Pointon (University of Manchester): 'Writing and Touching: casts, masks and materiality'

8 DECEMBER 2012 (Senate House, Room 261)
David McAllister (Birkbeck): 'The Great Majority': Demography, Democracy and the Victorian Dead

Dr. Deborah Lutz (Long Island University): The Many Faces of Death Masks: Dickens and Great Expectations

ALL WELCOME

Strand Organisers, Autumn Term 2012: David McAllister, Birkbeck College and Nicola Bown, Birkbeck College

For more information about the London Nineteenth-Century Seminar: Ana Vadillo, Birkbeck College (a.parejovadillo@bbk.ac.uk)

http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/54/London+Nineteenth+Century+Studies+

Bart’s Hospital Pathology Museum Spring Seminar Series (4/18-6/27/2012)

Bart’s Hospital Pathology Museum Spring Seminar Series 2012

Weekly Event - Every Wednesday: 18:30 to 20:30 (GMT)

London, United Kingdom

These seminars may be of interest to readers living in and around London. For more information see http://springseries.eventbrite.co.uk/ or follow the museum on Twitter @bartspathology

Seminar 1: 18th April
Prof. Iwan Rhys Morus (Aberystwyth University) ‘Science and the Senses’
Dr. Claire Brock (University of Leicester) 'Risk, Responsibility, and the Female Surgeon, 1890-1910'

Seminar 2: 25th April
Dr. Tatiana Kontou (Oxford Brookes University) 'Florence Marryat and Maternal Impressions: from the spiritualistic to the literary'
Dr. Shane McCorristine (University of Leicester) 'The Ethereal Woman in Victorian Arctic Exploration'

Seminar 3: 2nd May
Dr. Martin Willis (University of Glamorgan) ‘Catalepsy, Case Notes and George Eliot’
Kirsty Chilton (Old Operating Theatre) ‘Bart’s, Bellingham and the Body Snatchers’

Seminar 4: 9th May
Dr. Anna Maerker (Kings College London) ‘Models vs Specimens: Debating the utility of artificial anatomies in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’
Dr. Katherine Watson (Oxford Brookes University) ‘‘In my opinion it was a child at full time’: Infanticide in English and Welsh Medico-Legal Practice, 1730-1914’

Seminar 5: 16th May
Karen Howell (Old Opertaing Theatre) ‘Curating the Old Operating Theatre’
Dr. Alan Bates (University College London) 'London's Lost Anatomy Museums'

Seminar 6: 30th May
Dr. Karl Harrison (Cranfield University) ‘Case Studies in Forensic Archaeology’
Prof. Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck College) ‘The Mummy Unwrapp’d!’

Seminar 7: 13th June - The Centre for the History of Emotions (Queen Mary, University of London)
Dr. Tiffany Watt-Smith ‘Turning aside and looking askance: body parts and the choreography of spectatorship’
Jen Wallis ‘Disturbing images ... not to be produced: Visualising Pathology in the Nineteenth-Century Asylum’

A Special Event on 27th June:
Alastair Duncan (The Sherlock Holmes Society) ‘A Study in Barts: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and England's Great Hospital’, see http://sherlocksociety.eventbrite.co.uk/ to book your place.

Drinks and nibbles will be served from 6:00pm for a 6:30pm start.

Venue:
The Pathology Museum
3rd Floor Robin Brook Centre (outpatients entrance)
(Bart’s Hospital site)
West Smithfield,
London EC1M 6BQ
t: 020 7882 8766 or 2216

Directions:
Underground: St. Paul’s station on the Central line, Barbican Station on Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith & City lines are all within a short walking distance. Follow signs for St.Bartholomew’s Hospital.

Bus: Routes 25 and 8 stop by St Paul’s. Route 56 stops outside Bart’s Hospital.

Car: NCP car park in West Smithfield charges £2 per hour all day. On-street metered parking available. Bart’s Hospital lies within the congestion charge zone.

Overground: First Capital Connect services to Hertford North and Welwyn Garden City from nearby Moorgate.