A number of conferences are coming up which look very interesting for nineteenth-century scholars.
Art versus Industry, Leeds, 23-24 March, http://artvindustry.blogspot.com/
Transforming Objects, Northumbria University, 28-29 May, http://www.transformingobjects.blogspot.com/
Material Religion in Modern Britain and its Worlds, Cardiff, 8-9 June, http://history.research.glam.ac.uk/events/2012/jun/08/material-religion-modern-britain-and-her-worlds/
and finally, of course, the call for papers is out for BAVS 2012, which will be in Sheffield, 30 August-1 September, cfp closes 31 March 2012, http://www.bavsuk.org/BAVS%202012cfp.pdf
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Dear Nineteenth-Century Scholars,
Our first and second meetings of the Nineteenth-Century Group have been arranged for the term, so I’m pleased to be able to give you some advance notice of both:
Wed 22nd Feb from 1-2pm ‘An Edwardian Period?’ – presentations by Ian Packer (history) and Simon Barker (English) followed by discussion.
Wed 21st March from 1-2.30 pm (note extended session) we have a guest speaker: Felicity James from the University of Leicester will be speaking on Women, Dissent and Life Writing in the early nineteenth century.
More details on both nearer the time.
Rebecca
Dear C19 Scholars,
A reminder of our next meeting on Wed 7th Dec from 1-2pm in MC0025 – ground floor of MHT building as usual, but a nicer room than usual.
Our theme is ‘Celebrity’. Jim Cheshire has supplied 3 items for advance reading, please contact Rebecca (rstyler@lincoln.ac.uk) for copies of these. One (Turner) is from a book about contemporary celebrity culture and two from Baudy’s ‘The Frenzy of Renown’. These should provide a basis for discussion about the history of fame, and to what extent we can used current ideas about celebrity culture as a basis for thinking about the C19.
Could I also suggest that people come with something to say about a famous C19 person: why were they famous and through what processes / contexts did they become famous?
See many of you next week,
Rebecca
Programme and further details now available:
Joint Meeting of MIVSS (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar) and MRS (Midlands Romantic Seminar)
“Borders in the Long 19th Century”
Friday 13 January 2012, 11.30am–5pm (Martin Hall, Loughborough University)
11. 30 am – Welcome (All sessions will take place in NN.0.07, Martin Hall)
11.45 Session 1: Spatial and Social Borders (Chair – Kate Hill)
Keynote 1: ‘Public Good vs. Public Pleasure: social boundaries and public parks in Victorian England’, Katy Layton-Jones (Leicester)
‘Quiet: towards a phenomenology of the urban in Dickens’, Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough)
12.45 Lunch (in venues around campus)
1. 30 Session 2: Romantic and Victorian Borders 1 (Chair – Rebecca Styler)
Keynote 2: ‘Teaching and Researching Across the Romantic / Victorian Border’, Julian North (Leicester)
‘Romantic and Victorian Collecting: Continuity and Change’, Kate Hill (Lincoln)
2. 40 Tea break (Martin Hall foyer)
3pm Session 3 – Romantic and Victorian Borders 2 (Chair – Anne-Marie Beller)
‘Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, the Past and the Sublime’, Jon Dent (Loughborough)
‘From Ivanhoe to Rebecca and Rowena: Walter Scott’s Shaping of Victorian Writing’, Celine Sabiron (Oxford)
4.15 Session 4: General Discussion – Borders, Boundaries and Thresholds (Chair: Carol Bolton)
5.00 Refreshments – wine / orange juice
Details of the venue and directions can be found here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html
This event is free, but please register by e-mailing Anne-Marie Beller (a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk) or Carol Bolton (c.j.bolton@lboro.ac.uk). There are 5 travel bursaries available for postgraduate students, provided through funding by BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies). If you would like to apply for one of these, please contact Kate Hill (khill@lincoln.ac.uk) stating your name, affiliation and approximate travel costs.
The next meeting will take place on Wednesday 7 December 2012, 1-2pm. The theme will be Celebrity in the nineteenth century – if anyone would like to suggest reading for the session, or talk about how celebrity has manifested itself in their research, please contact Rebecca Styler (rstyler@lincoln.ac.uk) or Jim Cheshire (jcheshire@lincoln.ac.uk).
Kate
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