Symposium: Shared Visions II: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Symposium: Shared Visions II: Art, Theatre and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Saturday 6 October 2012
School of Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies,
Millburn House, Warwick University
Supported by the Humanities Research Centre, Warwick University
You are invited to attend this one day symposium which explores the relationship between art, theatre and visual culture in the nineteenth century. This event follows on from the ‘Shared Visions’ conference which took place at Warwick University in February 2012. Invited speakers will give papers and position statements that look across disciplinary boundaries to consider the issues which underlie the unprecedented level of interchange between theatre and the visual arts during this period.
Key questions/issues to be addressed include:
- How are we to understand ‘theatrical’ painting/‘pictorial’ theatre?
- What factors were driving the thriving interface between the arts during in this period?
- What factors lay behind the reassertion of genre boundaries in the latter part of the century?
- How did the relative values placed on word and image develop throughout the nineteenth century?
- The class connotations of spectacular theatre; definitions of ‘popular’ culture; issues of ’high’ and ‘low’ culture in theatre and the visual arts
- Anglo-French exchanges
Confirmed speakers:
Shearer West, University of Oxford, t. b. a.
Stephen Bann, University of Bristol, t. b. a.
Jim Davis, University of Warwick, Artists and Actors in the Age of Romantic Sociability
Kate Newey, University of Exeter, The Industrial Sublime
Marcus Risdell, Curator, Garrick Club, Actor, painter, collector, photographer: Theatre and its collections
David Mayer, University of Manchester, Trouble at t’ millpond: an early film and a late-Victorian stage
Kurt Taroff, Queen’s University Belfast, The Spectacle Within: Symbolist Painting and Minimalist Mise-en-Scène
Catherine Hindson, University of Bristol, Grangerizing Theatre History: Public Events, Stage Celebrity and Visual Culture
Patricia Smyth, University of Warwick, ‘Unimaginable Illusion’: Emotional Response in Nineteenth-Century Art and Theatre
Symposium fee: £20.00 (£10.00 postgraduates)
Registration opens 28 August: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/theatre_s/staff/jim_davis/sharedvisions&reason
For further information on the symposium please contact patricia.smyth@nottingham.ac.uk or Jim.Davis@Warwick.ac.uk.
Registration Open: ‘Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture’
Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture
Oxford Brookes, 22nd September 2012
Registration Deadline: 20th September 2012
Booking has now opened on Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture. To confirm a place, please visit
http://shop.brookes.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=37&modid=2&compid=1
Details about the symposium can be found on the linked site.
For any further information or for a full schedule, please email Dr. Tatiana Kontou, Dr. Verity Hunt, Dr. Andrew Mangham or Verity Burke at victorianthings12@gmail.com
Please also see the facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/victorianthings) or hashtag #VicThings on twitter.
CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Nineteenth-Century Australian and New Zealand Girls’ Culture (short deadline)
CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Nineteenth-Century Australian and New Zealand Girls’ Culture (short deadline)
Colonial girls’ culture is receiving growing critical attention, prompting us to rethink its significance for women’s writing. The journal Women’s Writing invites original papers for a special issue dedicated to the colonial girl and her literature in nineteenth-century Australia.
What was it like to be a girl at “the antipodes” in the nineteenth century? How was the colonial girl constructed, both “back home” and throughout the British Empire, and how did she view and represent herself? Was there a distinctly “antipodal,” Australian, or New Zealand girls’ culture and in what ways did it parallel, overlap with, influence, and in turn, become influenced by constructions of girlhood in other parts of the Empire? How did antipodal girls’ culture harness and redefine imperialist ideologies and their malleable relationship to domesticity? In what ways did their literary representation not only mould imperialist representations, but help to shape nineteenth-century literature in English in general, including children’s and especially popular girls’ fiction, which was emerging as a distinct genre in the course of the century? These are some of the questions that individual articles will be addressing. The colonial
girl’s changing depiction in Victorian culture at the same time raises larger issues about the representation of the antipodes in British and colonial texts. A new look at colonial girlhood constructively draws into question the still dominating discourses on male mateship, for example. In addition, it helps us to reassess the wide range of genres that constituted nineteenth-century Australian and New Zealand literature and read them in tandem with similar cultural formations.
This special issue aims to create a forum for a more encompassing approach to nineteenth-century Australian literature, inviting comparative work on British and colonial texts, while providing new detailed insight into Australian girls’ literature.
Topics may include but are not limited to:
- Colonial girlhood and its literary representation
- The construction of colonial girls’ culture
- Australian girls’ magazines and periodicals
- “The antipodes” in both British and colonial girls’ publications
- Colonial children’s literature and writing for girls
- Individual authors and their works
- Comparative approaches
See also:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rwowcfp5.pdf
Please submit papers for consideration between 4000-7000 words to Tamara S. Wagner at: tswagner@ntu.edu.sg, by 1 September 2012.
Dante in the 19th Century: 6-8 Sept 2012
6-8 September, 2012
Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House
Chair: Stephen Prickett (Regius Professor Emeritus of English, Glasgow University, and Honorary Professor, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
For many Victorians Florence was the epitome of Italian culture and tradition – both through the eyes of the historians and critics who interpreted it, and also through the eyes of the Anglo-American community that lived there. Literary critics, historians, art historians and 19th-century scholars will meet during 6-7 September at the University of London to discuss the re-awakening of interest in Dante, Florence and the Renaissance throughout the English-speaking world during the 19th century.
Principal Speakers:
Nicholas Havely (Emeritus Professor English and Related Literature, University of York, UK)
Fabio Camilletti (Asst Professor of Italian, University of Warwick, UK)
Alison Milbank (Associate Professor, Theology & Religious Studies, Nottingham University, UK)
Matthew Reynolds (The Times Lecturer in English, St Anne’s Oxford, UK)
Ralph Pite (Professor of English, and Director of the Centre for Romantic Studies, Bristol University)
For bookings and programme details please see:
http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ies-conferences/Dante
Online booking will remain open until 1st September.
CFP: ‘Re-Visioning the Brontës’, 29 January 2013
- The Brontës’ influence in contemporary culture
- Creative adaptations or reinterpretations of the Brontës’ lives and works
- Curatorial interpretations of the Brontës
- The myth and legacy of the Brontës
- Responses to exhibitions of Brontë material
- Representations of the Brontës in literary biographies
Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture
Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Literature and Material Culture
Oxford Brookes University, Saturday 22 September 2012
This one-day symposium will reflect on, and respond to, the current materialist turn in Victorian Studies and Thing Theory. Nineteenth-century literature is crowded with objects, but traditional methods of interpretation have directed us to focus on characters and plots. Through three thematic sessions, ‘Desirable Things’, ‘Anatomical Things’ and ‘Objects and Memory’, this symposium aims to explore the story of objects as ‘things’ with specific values and meanings in Victorian culture. This exciting day of presentations and discussion will be concluded with a plenary lecture by
Professor Isobel Armstrong: ‘“The Thing-Character of the World”: four artefacts in the nineteenth-century novel and four materialisms.’
Delegate fee (including lunch and coffee): £15
Students and unwaged (including lunch and coffee): £10
For bookings and further information contact: Dr. Tatiana Kontou, Dr. Verity Hunt, Dr. Andrew Mangham or Verity Burke:
CFP: Victorian Network Conference
‘Other Worlds: Victorian Network Conference’
3 Dec 2012, Senate House, University of London
Keynote Speakers: Dr John Holmes (Reading) and Professor Cora Kaplan (KCL)
CFP Deadline: 14thSeptember 2012 (Open to all)
From other lands to other planets to other dimensions, the nineteenth-century imagination thrived on the idea of ‘elsewhere’. Alongside a developing rhetoric of geographically and intellectually bounded identities grew a fascination with alterity. Other Worlds seeks to explore the many ways in which Victorians looked beyond their quotidian spheres to imagined alternatives. We invite submissions which explore nineteenth-century modes of thought which position themselves as other, alternative, transcendent, secret or hidden.
This conference also seeks to explore how we, as a network of Victorian scholars, construct the ‘other Victorian’. We use ‘Victorian’ to denote a period of time, describe our research, talk of a people and a nation. Yet this casual use is juxtaposed with a tacit recognition of the instability of the term and its homogenizing tendency as it collapses differences to construct an ideologically seamless era. Abandoning the quest for what ‘Victorian’ really means – an inevitable failure – this conference seeks to embrace the multiplicity of worlds that the term denotes and inhabits and the rebellious tendencies of the ‘Victorians’ themselves towards the idea of a single world.
Other Worlds aims to bring together scholars working in a wide range of disciplines to explore in greater depth the many fields of thought covered by the conference theme. Papers might deal with some of the following topics:
- Private worlds; confessional writing; secrecy
- The spiritual world; prayers, religious writing; heaven, hell and purgatory
- Fantastical and imaginary worlds
- Children’s writing; childhood fantasy
- Marginal or subversive communities
- Travel, exploration, unknown countries
- Alternative histories
- The Victorians as ‘other world’
Please send abstracts of around 250 words to otherworldsconference@gmail.com along with a brief biography by 14thSeptember 2012.
Other Worlds is a joint conference between King’s College London and Victorian Network and is organised by Sarah Crofton, Melissa Dickson and Fariha Shaikh. It is supported by the AHRC.
William Morris Gallery
William Morris Gallery
The William Morris Gallery in Waltham Forest, north-east London, has had a major overhaul with wholly re-organised rooms and displays, latest storage systems, elevator to upper floors, new-built wing with cafe and exhibition space etc. After one of the swiftest construction/re-fit programmes ever seen, it re-opens to the public on 2 August 2012. Given its previous tribulations and the current political/economic climate, this is wonderfully good news.
Website: http://www.wmgallery.org.uk/
