Seminar & Events Programme, Spring Semester 2011-12

Wednesday 15^th February, 5 p.m.

In collaboration with the Department of Hispanic Studies

G.03 Jessop West

Dr Mark Lawrence (University of Sheffield):

‘War, Culture and Society: A New History of the First Carlist War, 1833-1840’

Monday 27^th February, 5.15 p.m.

 Jessop West Exhibition Space

Dr Andrew Mangham (University of Reading):

‘Dismembered Bodies, Dislocated Writings:

Medicine and the Early Journalism of Dickens’

Monday 12^th March, 5.15 p.m.

Humanities Research Institute Seminar Room

Dr Jack Rhoden (University of Sheffield):

‘Caricatured masculinities:

Bonapartist and republican nationalism in conflict, 1866-1871’

Monday 30^th April, 5.15 p.m.

Jessop West Exhibition Space

Prof Sharon Ruston (University of Salford)

Also of Interest:

Monday 5^th March, 5pm. Department of Music Research Seminar. Ensemble Room 1 (Jessop Building).

Dr Helen Abbott (University of Sheffield): 'The Politics of Performance: Baudelaire, Debussy, Charpentier'

Wednesday 29^th February, 5pm. Department of Hispanic Studies Research Seminar. G.03 Jessop West.

Dr Sarah Symmons (University of Essex): 'Past and Present: Goya and the Spanish Tradition'

Wednesday 28^th March, 5pm. Department of Hispanic Studies Research Seminar. G.03 Jessop West.

Prof. Philip Deacon (University of Sheffield). 'Contesting Enlightenment: Ecclesiastical Hegemony and the Repressive Role of the Spanish Inquisition'

Conference: British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 2012

University of Sheffield, Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September

I suppose the persons interested in establishing a school of Art for workmen may in the main be divided into two classes, namely, first, those who chiefly desire to make the men happier, wiser and better; and secondly, those who desire them to produce better and more valuable work (John Ruskin)

The 2012 conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies will be held in Sheffield, the thriving heart of the Victorian Steel Industry. In 1875, on the outskirts of the city, John Ruskin established the Museum of St George, a collection of art objects and natural artefacts displayed for the aesthetic education of the city’s workers. Inspired by Ruskin, the theme of this year’s conference aims to explore the relationships between different kinds of value in the Victorian period, to return to the period’s central debates about how to measure, establish and uphold value in the emergent modernity of Victorian Britain, and to think about the representation and legacy of those values both in and beyond the field of Victorian Studies.

See: Upcoming Events

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