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All talk Events (44)
March 12Wednesday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
March 12, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester): 'Climate Fetishism in the Long Nineteenth Century?' This presentation looks at select themes in the cultural formation of climate concept from Montesquieu and Humbold… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
March 19Wednesday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
March 19, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson): 'The Eco-Politics of Women's Pagan Desires' From George Egerton's short stories in Symphonies (1897) to Michael Field's poetry in Sight and Sound (1892) and Vernon Lee's e… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
May 9Friday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
May 9, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Pamela Gilbert (Florida): 'Body Objects and History: The Skin of the Marquis' Recent work on Victorian culture has highlighted the way the material world of "things" entered literary texts. A specia… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
May 19Monday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
May 19, 2014 from 7:30pm to 9pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) 'Clouds: Objects, Metaphor, Phenomena' Panel Discussion with Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester), Richard Hamblyn (Birkbeck), and Esther Leslie (Birkbeck) Clouds are not only meteorological phenomena: the… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
May 22Thursday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
May 22, 2014 from 6pm to 7:30pm – Room G01 Sarah Thomas (Birkbeck): 'Curating "Empire" at Tate: Dissonance and British Art' Can works of art confront the troubling legacies of Britain's imperial past? In this talk Dr Sarah Thomas discusses s… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
June 4Wednesday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
June 4, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Mary Hunter (McGill): 'Ladies in Waiting: Time and Gynecology in Toulouse-Lautrec's Rue des Moulins (1894)' Over the past hundred years, Toulouse-Lautrec's painting of two prostitutes awaiting a gyn… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
June 16Monday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
June 16, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Nicholas Gaskill (Rutgers): 'Interior Designs: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progressive Art of Pure Colour' This paper argues that nineteenth-century design debates about colour's 'mood-setting'… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
July 1Tuesday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
July 1, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt): 'Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity, and the Democratized Portrait' Sensation novels, with their lurid plotlines and assorted cast of bigamists, madwomen, and murderesse… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
July 8Tuesday
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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
July 8, 2014 from 6pm to 8pm – Keynes Library (Room 114) Sue Zemka (Colorado State, Boulder): 'Prosthetic Hands and Phantom Limbs' Victorian wars and factories created a sizable new social demographic: the amputee. This paper analyzes different approaches… Organized by Amanda Sciampacone | Type: talk
March 13Friday
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Launch of Architecture Space and Society Centre, Birkbeck; keynote by Jeremy Till, 'Thick Time'
March 13, 2015 from 6pm to 9pm – Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square We are pleased to announce the launch of Birkbeck's Architecture, Space and Society Centre with Jeremy Till, Central Saint Martins speaking about 'Thick Time' Followed by a drinks reception Fri… Organized by Leslie Topp | Type: launch, talk
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