Seminar Series Spring 2019
Thursday 7th February
Radical Readings of the 19th Century
Thursday 7th March
Science and Religion
Thursday 4th April
Philosophy and Literature
Thursday 2nd May
Art and Architecture
Thursday 6th June
Gender and Sexuality
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Radical Readings of the 19th Century
- Paul Young, Edinburgh: “Lives of Protest”: Paul Laurence Dunbar and the Embodiment of Black Radical Resistance in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
- Jeremy M. Rios, St Andrews: Hegel, Tönnies, and Said: Investigating the influence of Orientalism on Western accounts of collectivism/community
Thursday 7th March
Science and Religion
- Joyce Dixon, Edinburgh: From Nature: The Life and Works of Patrick Syme
- Stuart Mathieson, QUB: God’s Two Books: Science, natural theology, and Victorian society
- William Christofides, Cardiff: ‘My crusade Against Ignorance’: The Religious Life of Principal John Viriamu Jones (1856-1901)
Thursday 4th April
Philosophy and Literature
- Alice de Galzain, Edinburgh: Rewriting the Life of an “Ultra-Radical”: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Margaret Fuller in Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli ( 1852)
- Tim Sommer, Heidelberg: ‘“Spiritual Commerce”: World Literature and Cultural Nationalism in Goethe, Carlyle, and Emerson’
- Juliana de Albuquerque, UCC: Iphigenia’s Lesson
Thursday 2nd May
Art and Architecture
- Kirk Irwin, Edinburgh
- Miguel Angel Gaete, York: Encounters with Naturvölker: German traveller artists and the anthropological depiction of Chile throughout the nineteenth century.
- Malcolm Knight, Liverpool: George Heywood Sumner and sgraffito
Thursday 6th June
Gender and Sexuality
- Helena Meier, Edinburgh: 'Mary Cassatt’s Women at the Opera: Representations of Modern Femininity'
- Jack Arscott, Cambridge; Un-Manned: Arrested Development In The Novels Of Heinrich Mann
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