Josephine McDonagh (King’s College London) Responding: Ian Haywood (University of Roehampton) When: Friday 17 March 2017, 6:00pm Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Abstract: Thomas Martin Wheeler’s fine picaresque novel Sunshine and Shadow was published in the Chartist newspaper, the Northern Star between March 1849 and January 1850. This paper explores how the novel seeks to occupy …
Audio recordings for ‘Morris, Burges and the Poetry of Architecture’
‘Red brick lip’: Morris, Burges and the poetry of architecture This paper was presented at the Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies on Thursday 2 March 2017 in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, by Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne; Trinity College, Oxford). The paper was followed by a response from Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum). Abstract: This paper focuses on the chromatic anachronism of William Burges’s Great Bookcase (1859-62, Ashmolean …
Thursday 2 March, Charlotte Ribeyrol: ‘”Red brick lip”: Morris, Burges and the poetry of architecture’
Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne University; Trinity College, Oxford) Responding: Matthew Winterbottom (Ashmolean Museum) When: Thursday 2 March 2017, 6:00pm Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Abstract: This paper focuses on the chromatic anachronism of William Burges’s Great Bookcase (1859-62, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) which was first exhibited in the Medieval Court of the 1862 International Exhibition. Modelled on a …
Wednesday 8 March, ‘Editing the Long Nineteenth Century: Recovering Women in the Digital Age’
A one-day Wikipedia edit-a-thon at Birkbeck to mark International Women’s Day 2017 When: Wednesday 8 March 2017, 1:00pm-7:00pm Where: Room 324 from 1.00pm-5.00pm and room 106 from 5.00pm-7.00pm. Both rooms are located in the Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD. This event, supported by the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, aims to increase the visibility and discoverability of ‘forgotten’ women of the …
Audio recordings for ‘Making a Case: Daguerrotypes’
This paper was presented at the Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies on Monday 30 January 2017 in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, by Steve Edwards (Birkbeck). Speaker: Steve Edwards is Professor of History and Theory of Photography in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck. His publications include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories (2006) and Martha Rosler, The Bowery in …
Monday 30 January, Steve Edwards: ‘Making a Case: Daguerrotypes’
When: Monday 30 January 2017, 7:30pm Where: Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, 46 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD Speaker: Steve Edwards is Professor of History and Theory of Photography in the Department of Art History at Birkbeck. His publications include: The Making of English Photography, Allegories (2006) and Martha Rosler, The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (2012). His …
Audio recordings for ‘The Rhythms of Life and Art’
The Rhythms of Life and Art: Symons and the Interrelationship between Sculpture and Dance at the Fin de Siècle This paper was presented at the Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies on Monday 28 November 2016 in the Keynes Library, Birkbeck School of Arts, by Lene Østermark-Johansen (University of Copenhagen). The paper was followed by a response from Alexandra Gerstein (Courtauld Institute of Art). …
Call for Papers. Atlantic Studies: Global Currents Special Issue: ‘Colonial Caribbean Visual Cultures’
This multidisciplinary collection will examine the creation and circulation of colonial visual cultures from the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The era of Caribbean slavery placed the islands at the centre of the production and movement of goods, ideas, money and peoples, as well as cultural conflicts, exchanges and hybridities which created new challenges for artists, and new …
New issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century on The Arts and Feeling
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 23 (2016) The Arts and Feeling This issue of 19 on ‘The Arts and Feeling’ explores the ways in which Victorian writers, artists, composers, sculptors, and architects imagined, conceptualized, and represented emotion. Its diverse articles respond to and extend recent interdisciplinary work on emotions, sentimentality, and the senses, locating such work within …
Article published in Birkbeck Journal, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Nineteenth Century, hosted by OLH, wins prestigious Victorian Studies prize
We are delighted to announce that Jason Camlot has won the prestigious Donald Gray Prize for best Victorian Studies essay from the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) for his article published in 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Nineteenth Century (issue 21). The article ‘Historicist Audio Forensics: The Archive of Voices as Repository of Material and Conceptual Artefacts’ appeared in …