Seminars Series Spring 2017
Seminar One
Thursday 26 January, 2017
Clare Brown, University of Glasgow
“Magical Pictures/Frivolous Toys: Lantern Slides and Protestant Missionaries ca. 1840-1900”
Emily Turner, University of Edinburgh
“Following Franklin, Livingstone and Cook: Exploration and Evangelism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire”
Seminar Two
Thursday 23 February, 2017
Karen Harker, University of Birmingham
“Perpetuating an Invented History:
The Function and Afterlife of Incidental Music on London’s Shakespearean Stage in the Late-Nineteenth Century”
Hazel Rowland, University of Edinburgh
“Complicating Redemption in Felix Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata in D, Op. 58”
Seminar Three
Thursday 30 March, 2017
Madeleine Chalmers, University of Cambridge
“Forged in the Crucible: Science and Progress in Didier de Chousy’s Ignis (1883)”
Luke King-Salter, University of Edinburgh
“Caprice in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground”
Seminar Four
Thursday 27 April, 2017
Katherine Hinzman, University of York
"Edward Burne-Jones: An Artistic Exegete"
Adam Clay, University of Edinburgh
"Phenomenology and Ontology in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Texts on Poetry"
Seminar Five
Thursday 25 May, 2017
Madeline Boden, University of York
“The Mosque, The Bath, The Hall: Frederic Leighton and Ottoman Orientalism”
Samuel Grinsell, University of Edinburgh
“Constructing the Nile Valley: Empire, Environment and Building, 1880s-1920s”
Thursday 26 January, 2017
Clare Brown, University of Glasgow
“Magical Pictures/Frivolous Toys: Lantern Slides and Protestant Missionaries ca. 1840-1900”
Emily Turner, University of Edinburgh
“Following Franklin, Livingstone and Cook: Exploration and Evangelism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire”
Seminar Two
Thursday 23 February, 2017
Karen Harker, University of Birmingham
“Perpetuating an Invented History:
The Function and Afterlife of Incidental Music on London’s Shakespearean Stage in the Late-Nineteenth Century”
Hazel Rowland, University of Edinburgh
“Complicating Redemption in Felix Mendelssohn’s Cello Sonata in D, Op. 58”
Seminar Three
Thursday 30 March, 2017
Madeleine Chalmers, University of Cambridge
“Forged in the Crucible: Science and Progress in Didier de Chousy’s Ignis (1883)”
Luke King-Salter, University of Edinburgh
“Caprice in Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground”
Seminar Four
Thursday 27 April, 2017
Katherine Hinzman, University of York
"Edward Burne-Jones: An Artistic Exegete"
Adam Clay, University of Edinburgh
"Phenomenology and Ontology in Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Texts on Poetry"
Seminar Five
Thursday 25 May, 2017
Madeline Boden, University of York
“The Mosque, The Bath, The Hall: Frederic Leighton and Ottoman Orientalism”
Samuel Grinsell, University of Edinburgh
“Constructing the Nile Valley: Empire, Environment and Building, 1880s-1920s”
All seminars will take place from 4.30PM - 6.30PM in IASH (Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities), Hope Park Square, Edinburgh.