Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History
Seminar Series 2011-12: semester 2
Unless otherwise advertised seminars take place in Dean Walters Building, room 112, at 5.30.
17th April 2012
LJMU Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History presents Dr Rob Burroughs, Leeds Metropolitan University: 'Elizabeth Gaskell and the Sailor' Mary Barton and Nautical Melodrama’
Thursday April 17th
5.30 pm
Dean Walters Building Room 112
All Welcome
14th and 15th Apr 2012THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE RETURNS!
From William Cavendish, A General System of Horsemanship (London, J. Brindley: 1743) vol. I, plates 33 and 32. Reproduced by permission of The Warden and Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford.
Bolsover Castle
Time: 11am-4pm
Suitable for: Everyone
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/events/the-duke-of-newcastle-returns-bol-14-apr/
This public event, organised jointly by English Heritage, Professor Peter Edwards from Roehampton University and Dr Elspeth Graham from LJMU, combines a programme of 15 talks by scholars who work on the Duke and Duchess of Cavendish and the cultural history of horses and horsemanship, with displays of early modern horsemanship by Action Horses, a company that provides reconstructions of historical horsemanship. The event also marks the re-opening of Bolsover Castle after a period of closure.
The event celebrates the publication of Peter Edwards and Elspeth Graham (eds) The Horse as Cultural Icon: the real and the symbolic horse in the early-modern world (Brill,2011) and offers new interpretations of the lives and works of William Cavendish, first Duke of Newcastle and Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, in Bolsover Castle - their favourite residence. Although the focus of the days will often be on the role that Newcastle played in the development of horsemanship and the significance of this, the series of talks over the weekend will integrate these issues of horses and horsemanship into a wider reappraisal of the lives of William and Margaret Cavendish.
Please click here for the programme of events for the day.
22nd March 2012
Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge: 'Liberalism and Empire, Now'
28th February 2012
Dr Bella Adams, LJMU:‘“Delving and Carving Rude Nature”: An Ecocritical Reading of Don Lee's Wrack and Ruin
7th February 2012
Dr Sonny Kandola, LJMU:‘A “Rantin', Drinkin'' Bard: Robert Burns and the (Scottish) Supernatural’
Research Seminar Series Autumn 2011
The Seminars will take place in Room 112, Dean Walters Building, Liverpool John Moores University at 5.30-7.00
6 December
Dr Tracy Hargreaves, University of Leeds:
‘Censoring intimacy: British Cinema of the 1960s’
15 November
Dr Carolyn Burdett, Birkbeck, University of London:
'Miming, breathing, balancing: the arts of empathy and the Victorian fin de siècle'
Tuesday 1st November
Dr Helen Rogers, Reader in Cultural History, LJMU:
‘Oh, What Beautiful Books!’: Captivated Readers in an Early-Victorian Gaol'
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