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Seminars Series Spring 2016



Seminar One
Thursday 28 January, 2016


Maria Golovteeva, University of St. Andrews
'"Illuminated by reciprocal reflections”: Fernand Khnopff (1858-1921) and Georges Rodenbach’s Bruges-la-Morte'

Randall Reinhard, University of Edinburgh
"David Laing, Esq. – 'Consulting Bibliographer'"


Seminar Two
Thursday 25 February, 2016


Piotr Potocki, University of St. Andrews
"Class, clericalism, and community in transition: Religion and Irish Nationalism in Glasgow, c.1868-1874"

Gary Hutchison, University of Edinburgh
"The Scottish Political and Literary Origins of Disraeli’s Young England Movement"


Seminar Three
Thursday 31 March, 2016


Thea Goldring, University of Oxford
"The Science of Art, The Chemists of the 19th-Century Stained Glass Revival in France"

Sarah Laurenson, University of Edinburgh
"The myths and realities of the jewellery workshop in Scotland, c. 1780 to 1914"


Seminar Four
Thursday 28 April, 2016


Christopher Kitson, Queen’s University Belfast
"Orders of Magnitude: Wells’ Sublime in The Time Machine"

Olivia Ferguson, University of Edinburgh
"Caricature and the Revolutionary Body in Frankenstein"


Seminar Five
Thursday 26 May, 2016


James Medley Morris, University of Glasgow
"Beyond Orientalism: Colonial Cosmopolitanism in Romantic Period Fiction"

Freya Gowrley, University of Edinburgh
"Object Biographies: Family Histories and Textual Afterlives in the Commonplace Books of Ellen Warter"




All seminars will take place from 4.30PM - 6.30PM in IASH (Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities), Hope Park Square, Edinburgh.

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