News and events
The Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies enjoys a busy programme of events throughout the academic year, including our interdisciplinary seminar series and a range of conferences.
Full details of upcoming events can be found by following the relevant links below. Archive of previous events can be found by following the download links at the bottom of this page.
2017
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Thursday 4 May, 5pm, Jessop West, G03
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Research Seminar, in association with Germanic Studies and the Centre for Archival Practices.
Prof. Burghard Dedner (Marburg) 'Georg B眉chner and the Invention of Modern Writing'
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
- Friday 5 May, 1pm, Jessop Building, 215
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Workshop: Prof Michael Perraudin, 'Georg B眉chner, discussion and information session'
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
- Thursday 18 May, 5pm, Jessop West, G03
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Research Seminar in association with the Centre for the History of the Gothic.
Dr Janine Hatter (SHU), 'Reforming Sensation into the Supernatural: Mary Braddon's Gothic Short Stories'
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
- Friday 19 May, 1pm, Room 215 Jessop Building:
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Workshop: Janine Hatter, 'Public Engagement: Your Research, Your Public, Your Impact'
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
- Thursday 1 June, 5pm, Jessop West, G03
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Research Seminar, in association with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics.
Dr Clare Stainthorp (Birmingham) on Constance Naden (late c19 poet, philosopher, reformer, title TBC) and Dr Naomi Hetherington (91直播), 'Beauty, Art and Sexual Selection: Ekphrastic Portraiture in Kathleen Mannington Caffyn's A Yellow Aster'.
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
- Friday 2 June, 1pm, Jessop West, Seminar Room 8 (3rd floor)
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Workshop - Clare Stainthorp 鈥楾itle TBC鈥
All welcome, refreshments will be provided.
2015
- Thursday 1 October, 5.30pm
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B.09, 45 Victoria Street, Philosophy and Literature Reading Group, Nietzsche and Byron
- Thursday 15 October, 5.30pm
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Jessop West, G.03, Classics in Travel Writing Reading Group, Heinrich Heine
- Thursday 5 November, 5.30pm
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B.09, 45 Victoria Street, Philosophy and Literature Reading Group, Hegel and Eliot
- Thursday 12 November, 5.30pm
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Jessop West, G.03, Classics in Travel Writing, The First Chinese Embassy to the West
- Friday 4 December, 6.00pm
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Victorian Christmas Lecture, Professor Sir Christopher Frayling, 鈥楬enry Cole and the Chamber of Horrors鈥
- Thursday 10 December, 5.30pm
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B.09, 45 Victoria Street, Philosophy and Literature Reading Group, Emerson and Dickens
- Monday 1 December, 5pm
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Humanitites Research Institute, Dr Michael Stannard (University of Exeter), 鈥楪ald贸s and Medicine鈥
Research Seminars 2014-15
Spring Semester 2015
Modernity and time
- Thursday 12 March, 5.15pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)
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Research Seminar: Dr Anna Geurts (University of 91直播)
鈥榃ings for a New Icarus? 鈥淢odern鈥 Technology and Freedom of Movement
in Europe, 1815-1914鈥 - Thursday 19 March, 5.15pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)*
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Reading Group: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol (1843)
- Thursday 16 April, 5.15pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)
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Research Seminar: Julia Podziewska (91直播 Hallam University):
鈥楲ost Properties: Wilkie Collins, Political Economy and the Inheritance Plot鈥
- Thursday 30 April, 5.15pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)*
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Reading Group: Edward Page Mitchell, 鈥楾he Clock that Went Backwards鈥 (1881)
- Annual Workshop: Time/Lines
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Thursday 14 May, 1.00-5.00pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)
An afternoon of talks and discussion about this semester鈥檚 topics.
With papers by: Dr Geraldine Lawless (91直播); Dr Ben Poore (York);
Dr Melodee Beals (91直播 Hallam)
2014
Autumn Semester 2014
(Self)-improvement
- Thursday 16 October, 5.15pm, John Carr Library (Mappin Building)
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Reading Group: Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (chapters 1-18)
- Thursday 30 October, 5.15pm, 301 Glossop Road, B19
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Research Seminar: Dr Caroline Bland (University of 91直播)
鈥楻ole Model or Deterrent?: Women, Education and Work at the Fin-de-Si猫cle in Germany鈥
- Thursday 20 November, 5.15pm, 301 Glossop Road, B19
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Reading Group: Theodor Fontane, Effi Briest (chapters 19-36)
- Wednesday 10 December, 6pm, (venue tbc)
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Christmas Lecture: Professor Sir Christopher Frayling
- Thursday 11 December, 5.15pm, 301 Glossop Road, B19
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Research Seminar: Nigel Cavanagh (University of 91直播)
鈥楳odernity in A Feudal Village'
2013-14 Conferences
- 28-30 March 2014
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Society of Dix-Neuvi茅mistes (SDN) Twelfth Annual Conference: The Emotions
A 3-day international interdisciplinary conference focused on French literature, arts, history and science.
- 24 August 2013
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Rethinking the Ninteenth Century
A one-day conference examining what constitutes nineteenth century studies today.
- 27-29 June 2014
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To celebrate the 250th birthday of Radcliffe and the launch of a co-edited collection of essays.
- Summer of 1816: Creativity and Turmoil
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This meeting of five creative minds at Lake Geneva in 1816 has been the subject of several films and a recent documentary.
To date, however, it has not been the subject of an academic conference.
To commemorate the 200th anniversary of this extraordinary summer, the University of 91直播 will celebrate this unique meeting between these Romantic authors.
We invite proposals that will explore the literary, biographical, scientific and historical readings of the Villa Diodati group.
Events archive
C19th Centre Seminars Autumn 2013-14 (PDF, 104KB)
C19th Centre Workshop Spring 2013 (PDF, 82KB)
C19th Centre Seminars Spring 2012-13 (PDF, 94KB)
C19th Centre Seminars Autumn 2012-13 (PDF, 97KB)
C19th French Seminars 2012-13 (PDF, 192KB)
C19th Centre Seminars Spring 2014 (PDF, 117KB)
Conference Archive
C19 Hispanism Symposium 2014 (PDF, 304KB)
C19 Hispanism Symposium 2013 (PDF, 428KB)
C19 Hispanism Symposium 2012 (PDF, 141KB)
C19 Hispanism Symposium 2011 (PDF, 1.67MB)
Conference Archive 2006-2011 (PDF, 267KB)