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Spring Seminar Series 2012
The Victorian Studies Centre hosts an exciting range of events throughout the year. Early in the year, we welcome friends of the Centre to the annual Spring Seminar Series. Towards the end of the year, we are pleased to host our annual Public Lecture and wine reception. Other events, in Leicester and elsewhere, will also be highlighted in these pages.
Spring Seminar Series 2012
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 7 December 2011 | Professor Leslie Butler (Dartmouth College) | The Suffrage Network: Transatlantic Exchange and Mid-Nineteenth-Century Reform Thought |
| 25 January | Dr Anna Barton (University of Sheffield) | Locke in Pentameters: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Liberalism |
| 8 February | Dr Peter Yeandle (University of Lancaster) | Politics, Theology, Theatricality: Christian Socialism and the Performing Arts in Late-Victorian London |
| 22 February | Three Presentations by VSC Doctoral Students | To be confirmed |
| 7 March | Professor Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London) | Walter Pater’s American Afterlife: The Mosher Editions |
| 21 March | Dr Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham) | “A Peep at the Natives”: Displayed Peoples, Exhibitions and the Natural History of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain |
| 27 March at 4.30pm | Saswati Halder and Dr Sucheta Bhattacharya (Jadavpur University, Kolkata) | George Eliot’s Emotional Eaters and Translations of G. M. W. Reynolds in Nineteenth-Century Bengal |
| 9 May | Professor Adrian Poole (University of Cambridge) | Henry James, Lionel Trilling and the Imagination of Disaster |
| 23 May in Att 001 | Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (University of Oxford) | The Beauties of Charles Dickens |
Seminars take place at 5.15pm on Wednesdays in 1315, Attenborough Building. All welcome.
