Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies

Past events

2021
2020
- Victorian Interiors
2019
- Excelsior! Inspirational Verse and the Victorian Industrial Worker
- A Species of Knowledge: Women and Medicine 1750-1850
- Victorian Women's Writing: Pasts, Presents and Futures
- Life Upon the Exchange: Autobiography, Commodity and Identity
- Walt Whitman at 200: Transatlantic Whitmanisn
2018
- Experimenting in the Galleries: Performing with Vernon Lee
- The Disease of Caring: Medical Professional and Activism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present
- Desubjugating Knowledges in Nineteenth-Century Print Culture: A Study Day in Celebration of Laurel Brake
- Jonah Siegel: Overlooking Damage, or Antiquities in Peril and the Ethical Sublime in Volney and Ruskin
- Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture, Holly Furneaux 'Shooting Galleries: Soldiering, Domesticity and Art'
2017
- Elisha Cohn: Realism, in Crisis
- Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination by Kate Flint
- Martin Myrone: Exhibiting Blake 1780-2020
- Book Launch: Novel Politics by Isobel Armstrong
- Clare Barlow on Queer British Art 1861-1967'
- Josephine McDonagh (King's College London): The Political Picaresque: Sunshine and Shadow. and Radical Responses to Migrancy and Settlement around 1850
- Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne University; Trinity College Oxford) "Red Brick Lip": Morris, Burges and the Poetry of Architecture
- Steve Edwards (Birkbeck): Making a Case: Daguerrotypes
2016
- Lene Østermark-Johansen (Copenhagen): The Rhythms of Life and Art: Symons and the Interrelationship between Sculpture and Dance at the Fin de Siècle
- Joseph Bristow (UCLA): Homosexual Blackmail in 1890s London: The Fitzroy Street Raid, the Oscar Wilde Trials, and the Case of Cotsford Dick
- Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Kent): Running Wilde: Outdoor Exercise and the Peculiar History of the Treadmill
- Collecting and Archiving the Victorians
- Adriana Craciun, Felix Driver and Michael Bravo: Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration#
- Bethan Stevens (Sussex): The Wood Engraver's Self Portrait: The Dalziel Brothers 1839-1893
- Marta Weiss (V&A) with Colin Ford: Julia Margaret Cameron: New Discoveries
2015
- Defining Digital Dickens: Mutual Friends/Virtual Friends
- Richard Adelman (Sussex): Our Strange Disquietude: Ruskin and Gothic Literature
- David McAllister (Birkbeck): Better Thoughts of Death: Dickens, Association Psychology and the Birth of the Garden Cemetery
- Adapting Our Mutual Friend for TV and Radio, Featuring Sandy Welch, Mike Walker and Jeremy Mortimer
- Sue Zemka (Colorado): Prosthetic Hands and Phantom Limbs
- Sean Grass (Iowa): What Money Can Make of Life: Willing Subjects and Commodity Culture in Our Mutual Friend
- Michael Hatt (Warwick) and Jason Edwards (York): Roundtable on the 'Sculpture Victorious' Exhibition
- Anna Henchman (Boston): Darwin's Earthworms and the Sense of Touch
- Roundtable on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, featuring Catherine Edwards (Birkbeck) and Victoria Mills (Cambridge)
- Dominic Janes (Birkbeck): Picturing the Victorian Closet
- Roundtable on the Our Mutual Friend Reading Project
2014
- Roundtable on the Our Mutual Friend Reading Project
- Sophie Thomas (Ryerson): A Strange and Mixed Assemblage: Sir John Soane, Archivist of the Self
- Paul White (Cambridge): The Evolution of the Blush
- Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck): Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman
- Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt): Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity and the Democratized Portrait
- Nicholas Gaskill (Rutgers): Interior Designs: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progressive Art of Pure Colour
- Mary Hunter (McGill): Ladies in Waiting: Time and Gynecology in Toulouse-Lautrec's Rue des Moulins (1894)
- Sarah Thomas (Birkbeck): Curating 'Empire' at Tate: Dissonance and British Art
- Workshop: From Text to Screen and Back: Adaptation Across Media
- Panel Discussion: Clouds: Objects, Metaphor, Phenomena
- Pamela Gilbert (Florida): Body Objects and History: The Skin of the Marquis
- Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson): The Eco-Politics of Women's Pagan Desires
- Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester): Climate Fetishism in the Long Nineteenth Century?
- Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan): Facing Facts: The Tichborne Cause Celebre and the Rise of Modern Visual Evidence
- Angela Dunstan (Kent): Sculptography, Sculpting Machines, and Inanimate Sculptors: Sculpture, Authenticity and Replication in Victorian Literature
- James Chandler (Chicago): The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited
- Richard Taws (UCL): Proofs of Life: The Dauphin and his Doubles in Nineteenth-Century France
- Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University, Ohio): Behind the Times? Sarah Grand, Social Purity and Virginia Woolf
2013
- Kate Flint (USC): Intrusive Light: Flash Photography and Documentary Work
- Elizabeth Helsinger (Chicago): Mediating Song: Pre-Raphaelite Balladry in Poetry and Paint
- Benjamin Morgan (Chicago): How Matter Learned to Think: Wilkie Collins, Walter Pater and Psychological Aesthetics
- Reading Blindness in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Archive: Roundtable with Hannah Thompson (RHUL), Heather Tilley (Birkbeck) and Matthew Rubery (QMUL)
- Alison Booth (Virginia): A Network of Trollopes, an Italy of Women: Historical Biography, Nationhood and Events
- On Cosmopolitan: Panel Discussion with Stefano Evangelista (Oxford), Alex Murray (Exeter) and Matthew Poyolsky (Utah)
- Eugenia Gonzalez (Birkbeck): Victorian Dolls and Material Play
- Amy Levy and Controversy
- Martin Myrone (Tate Britain): Spectacle and the Sublime: Romantic Visuality and Contemporary Exhibition Culture
- Diana Maltz (SOU): Decadence for Kids? Mabel Dearmer and Children's Book Illustrations in the 1890s
- Simon Dentith (SOU): The Mill on the Floss Under the Sign of Hindsight
2012
- Thomas Dixon (QMUL): Beyond Little Nell: Victorian Tears Revisited
- Susan Matthews (Roehampton): Reading Blake in the 1790s: Counterrevolution and European Visual Culture
- Mary A Favret (Indiana): The Feeling of Reading
- Tom Mole (McGill): Nineteenth-Century Anthologies and the Lyricization of Literature
- Andrew H Miller (Indiana): A Case of Metaphysics: Counterfactuals, Realism, Great Expectations

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