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London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar 2011-2012
The London Nineteenth-Century Seminar at the Institute of English Studies continues the series of Saturday seminars in 2011-2012. The Autumn Term series 2011 is entitled "ON PHOTOGRAPHY".
The Spring 2012 series is entitled “ORALITY AND LITERACY”, marking the thirtieth anniversary of the appearance of Walter Ong's influential book. Over three days in January, February, and March, speakers will explore a range of issues relating to the interactions between voice and text in the Anglo-American long nineteenth century: philology and acoustic nostalgia, melody and poetic form, laughter, and more. For full details see: http://oralityandliteracy.org
Inaugurated by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in 1987, the Seminar is being organised now by a committee made up of nineteenth century specialists from the English Departments of the colleges of the University of London. Responsibility for each season of seminars is passed around the group.
For further information please contact Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck College). All seminars Saturdays Room G37. *Please note, 17 March and 9 June are longer sessions than usual.
PLEASE NOTE: THESE SEMINARS ARE VERY POPULAR AND THE MEETING ROOM IS OFTEN VERY FULL.
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22 October 2011
Dr Juliet Hacking (Sotheby's): 'Untruth to Nature: Landscape Photography, Authorship and Aspiration in the Mid-Nineteenth Century'
Magnus Bremmer (Stockholm University, Sweden): ' "A Pointer for Beauty": Photography, Poetry, and Attention in "Molin's Fountain in Photographs" (1866). 19 November 2011
Prof. Lindsay Smith (University of Sussex): 'Shopping in St Petersburg: Lewis Carroll's photographic longing'
Dr Anthony Hamber: 'William Blackmore and photography of North American Indians'
10 December 2011
Dr Marta Weiss (Victoria and Albert Museum): 'Self-portraits of Richard Cockle Lucas'
Dr Kate Nicholsm (University of York): 'Classical Sculpture and Technological Innovation: Plaster Casts and Photography at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham
14 January 2012
'Orality and Literacy'
Herbert Tucker (Virginia): 'Unsettled Score: Structure and Play in Browning's "A Toccata of Galuppi's"'
William Abberley (Exeter): 'Voices of Nature: The Oral Past in Victorian Historical Fiction' |
25 February 2012
'Orality and Literacy'
Matthew Bevis (Oxford): 'Poetry for Laughs'
Louise Lee (KCL): 'Shattered Articulations: Darwin's Evolutionary Jokes and the Deferral of Cognition'
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17 March 2012
* NB: time: 11:00 - 17:00
'Orality and Literacy'
Jason Camlot (Concordia) on early literary recordings and digital analysis James Mussell (Birmingham) on nineteenth- and twenty-first-century media and digital literacy
Claire Potter (U Paris Diderot): 'The Weight of the Voice/The Slant of the Word: Circulations of Melancholia in Hardy'
Roisin Quinn-Lautrefin (U Paris Diderot): 'Giving Utterance: Mary Barton and the Language of the Working Class'
Mary L. Shannon (KCL): 'Spoken Word and Printed Page: G. W. M. Reynolds and the London Riots, 1848'
Sandra M. Gustafson (Notre Dame) on public speech and nonviolence in the nineteenth-century United States
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9 June 2012
* NB: time: 11:00 - 16:00
tbc
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