Birkbeck Forum For Nineteenth-Century Studies

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century is proud to announce that the spring 2019 issue is now live at https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk. ‘Old Masters, Modern Women’ is the result of collaboration between Birkbeck, University of London and the National Gallery, London and is co-edited by Maria Alambritis, Susanna Avery-Quash, and Hilary Fraser. One of 19’s largest issues, it brings to new prominence the nineteenth-century women who looked at art, and thought and wrote about it.
This issue also inaugurates a new section, 19 Live, edited by Victoria Mills, dedicated to discussing recent exhibitions, events, and performances with a nineteenth-century focus https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/collections/spec ial/19-live/

Join us tomorrow for a fascinating talk on with Prof. Sean Grass who will examining autobiographies as a commercial genre.
To find out more and to register your place check out the link: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/tuesday-12-marc h-sean-grass-ny-l…/

In just two weeks we have out next Forum event! Prof. Sean Grass will be with us, giving a talk on life writing. He will be exploring the rise of autobiographies as a commercial genre during early nineteenth century.
To find out more about this event and to book your place check out the link here: https://goo.gl/YXp4Pi

Our first event of this term is getting closer: Walt Whitman at 200 will be marking the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman with 2 papers that examine his reception in Victorian Britain. For more details and for the link to register your place, check out our website: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/wednesday-30-ja nuary-walt-whitma…/

Happy New Year!! We have a new forum event coming up to kick start this term's events:
Walt Whitman at 200: Transatlantic Whitmanism
Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies marks the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth with two papers that examine his reception in Victorian Britain. Our two speakers will be Prof. Michael Robertson, The College of New Jersey and Dr. Linda Freedman, UCL.
... Check out our website for more details on this event. :-)
http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/wednesday-30-ja nuary-walt-whitma…/
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The new issue of 19 is now released: Silence in the Archives: Censorship and Suppression in Women's Life Writing. Articles in this edition explore the construction and preservation of nineteenth-century women's archives. To read the journal online: https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk

Registration is now open for the upcoming conference: Christina Rossetti and the Illustrated Poetry Book. A fascinating 2 day symposium run by the Centre of Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Watts Gallery - Artists' Village.
This symposium will offer you the opportunity to have a tour of the new exhibition: Christina Rossetti: Vision and Verse at the Watts Gallery - Artists' Village and will have fantastic talks including keynote speakers: Professor Anthony H. Harrison (North Carolina State University) and Professor Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University).
For more details: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/christina-rosse tti-and-the-illus…/

We have two upcoming events that may be of interest. Both will be held in the Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Sq.
Thursday 22nd November 6pm, Holly Trusted (Senior Curator of Sculpture, V&A) ‘Displaying Plaster Casts at the Museum: South Kensington and the Reproduction of Sculpture’
Friday 23rd November one-day Symposium on Classical Material Culture in the Nineteenth Century. Further details and to book a place for the symposium see here.
... http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/thursday-friday -22-23-november-c…/
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On 17th November we have a special talk at the Foundling Museum. Despite its male face, women permeated throughout the Foundling Hospital's history; this events aims to redress this and bring overlooked stories to the fore.
For more details, check out the link below.
https://goo.gl/4KVY7S

It's just over a week away, join us on Friday, 2nd November for an interesting event inspired by ghost story writer, aesthetic theoretician and queer thinker, Vernon Lee. To find out more about this event check the link below.
http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/experimenting-i n-the-galleries-p…/

CFP now open for George Eliot 2019 An International Bi-Centenary Conference! Deadline 14/01/2019. See details here https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events /george-eliot-2019

Happy new semester! Our first event of the term, Desubjugating Knowledges, takes place on 13 October! Only a few tickets left so get yours fast. To book your place and check out the programme, see http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/saturday-13-oct ober-desubjugatin…/

Registration now open for The Disease of Caring symposium! See details at https://thediseaseofcaring.wordpress.com/ registration/

Save the date for Classical Material Culture in the Nineteenth Century conference on 22 & 23 November! Registration now open and more details to follow https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/classical- material-culture-i… Book your ticket before it's too late!

New issue of 19 on Victorian Ecology is now out! Read the issue at https://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/95/volume/0/issu e/26/ and check the latest update at https://www.facebook.com/19studies/

Don't forget to submit your abstract to The Disease of Caring conference! Deadline 30 July, see full details here: http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/call-for-papers -the-disease-of-c…/

Don't forget to join us for Jonah Siegel's talk 'Overlooking Damage, or Antiquities in Peril and the Ethical Sublime in Volney and Ruskin' this Thursday 14/June! More info at: 'http://www.cncs.bbk.ac.uk/thursday- 14-june-jonah-siegel-ov…/

Looking forward to Holly Furneaux's Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture 'Shooting Galleries: Soldiering, Domesticity and Art' next Wed 13/June! Only a few seats remaining so book your ticket fast here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2018-sally -ledger-memorial-l…