The London Nineteenth-Century Studies Graduate Conference
Room 349, Senate House, University of London
20th January, 2018
9.00-9.20: Registration. Tea/coffee
9.20-9.30: Introduction
9.30-10.30: Keynote: Professor Patricia Pulham (Surrey): ‘Writing the Object: Victorian Literature and the Visual Arts’
Chair: Briony Wickes (King’s College London)
10.30-10.50: Break
10.50-11.50: Panel 1: Visual experience and representation
Chair: Dr Ed Sugden (King’s College London)
Laura Franchetti (Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Suggesting the Sun Itself: The thermodynamic Heat-Death of the Sun and Frederic Leighton’s Flaming June(c.1895).’
Naomi Daw (Sussex): ‘“A beautiful winking wonder”: Kipling, Burma, and stereoscopic photography.’
Shijia Yu (Birkbeck): ‘A Kind of Its Own: Redefining the Paper Peepshow.’
Emma Merkling (Courtauld Institute of Art): ‘Victorian Physics and Water in Evelyn De Morgan’s Art.’
11.50-12.50: Lunch
12.50-1.50: Panel 2: Authority and representation
Chair: Dr Anne Chapman (King’s College London)
Maria Alambritis (Birkbeck/ National Gallery): ‘From the gallery to the guidebook: art history on the move in late-nineteenth century women’s art writing.’
Gusimran Oberoi (Surrey/ Watts Gallery): ‘Creating Shared Cultural Experiences: The Transatlantic Adoption and Adaptation of G. F. Watts’ Art.’
Ian Murphy (Manchester Metropolitan): ‘Death and the Model: Rachilde’s Monsieur Vénus and the Anatomical Waxwork.’
Natalie Reeve (Royal Holloway): ‘”[T]his special coffin was of course my sole property”: the competitive mythologizing of Elizabeth Siddal’s exhumation.’
1.50-2.00: Break
2.00-3.00: Plenary Dr Adelene Buckland (King’s College, London): ‘The Colonial History of Deep Time: Imagining Geology in the Nineteenth Century’
Chair Dr Nicola Kirkby (King’s College London)
3.00-3.15: Break
3.15 – 4.15: Panel 3: In London
Chair: Robyn Jakeman (Birkbeck)
Maddalena Ruini (Durham): ‘The Trojan collection: Victorian London and the discovery of Troy.’
Janette Leaf (Birkbeck): ‘Redeeming the Coleopterous Monster in Richard Marsh’s The Beetle.’
Lucy Morse (Exeter): ‘“Waterside Character”: Portside Dispossession and the Creation of Enclosed Wet-Docks, Pathologizing Thieves, and the Influence of Commons Preservation within Print Culture in Our Mutual Friend(1864-5).’
Charlotte Wadoux (University Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3/Kent): ‘The reader and/as the detective: decoding letters (and other objects) in neo-Victorian literature.’
4.15-4.30: Break
4.30-5.30: Panel 4: Blurred boundaries/ Crossing boundaries
Chair: Janette Leaf (Birkbeck)
Eleanor Shipton (Exeter): ‘But when a sorter goes home from these places to his bed, does he dream of letters?’: Embodying the Post Office in Nineteenth Century Fiction.’
George Mind (National Portrait Gallery/Westminster): ‘Theorising the spatial dynamics of women photographers’ portrait studios in the late-nineteenth century.’
Anya Eastman (Royal Holloway): ‘Wegg’s Leggs: Prosthesis and Self-Improvement.’
Mariam Zarif (King’s College London): ‘The “desexualised half-man”: New Woman and authorial cross-dressing in the fin de siècle.’
5.30-6.00: Closing remarks and reception
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