London Nineteenth-Century seminar

Inaugurated by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies in 1987, the Seminar is being organised now by a committee made up of nineteenth century specialists from the English Departments of the colleges of the University of London. Responsibility for each season of seminars is passed around the group.

Autumn Term 2012: Death and the Victorians

This seminars are held on Saturdays, 11.00-13.00

• 20 OCTOBER 2012 (Senate House, Room 104)
  
  • Dr. Claire Wood (University of York):  'Death and the Department Store'?
  • Dr. Elizabeth T. Hurren (University of Leicester): 'The Body Trade in the Dead of London, 1832-1930'???
• 3 NOVEMBER 2012 (Senate House, Room 261)
  
  • Dr. Keren Hammerschlag (King's College London): 'Death Walking: Frederic Leighton's Procession Paintings'
  • Prof. Marcia Pointon (University of Manchester): 'Writing and
    Touching: casts, masks and materiality'??

• 8 DECEMBER 2012 (Senate House, Room 261)
  
  • David McAllister (Birkbeck): 'The Great Majority': Demography, Democracy and the Victorian Dead?
  • Dr. Deborah Lutz (Long Island University): The Many Faces of Death Masks: Dickens and Great Expectations.

All enquiries: Dr Ana Parejo Vadillo