The Verbal and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Institute of English Studies North Block, Senate House, University of 23-24 June 2006

Programme

Friday 23 June

9.30-10.00am: Registration (North Block of Senate House, 3 Floor, foyer area by the lifts)

10.00am – 11.00am: Plenary Lecture , room N336 Lindsay Smith (University of Sussex), 'Lewis Carroll's Photographic Impulse'

11.00am -11.30am: Coffee

11.30am - 1.00pm: Panels Panel 1a: Illustrating Periodicals, room NG14 Panel 1b: Seeing Science, room NG15 Panel 1c: Visual Cultures of the Book, room N336

1.00pm-2.30pm: Lunch (own arrangements)

2.30pm-3.30pm: Workshops: Click here for preparatory materials Workshop 1: Working with Glass, room NG14 Workshop 2: Illustrated Text Online, room N336 Workshop 3: Curating Tate Britain's Gothic Nightmares , room NG15

3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee

4.00pm-5.00pm: Panels Panel 2a: Visualising Empire, room NG14 Panel 2b: The Language on the Walls, room NG15 Panel 2c: Optical Technologies 1, room N336

5.00pm - 6.00pm: Plenary Lecture, room N336 Brian Maidment (University of Salford), 'Scraps and Sketches – Miscellaneity and Commodity Culture in the 1830s'

6.00pm: Drinks Reception (Foyer, 3 Floor, North Block), sponsored by the Virtual Picture Gallery Project, Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway, with the support of the London Consortium for Arts and Cultural Enterprise and the AHRC The Verbal and the Visual in Nineteenth-Century Culture

Institute of English Studies North Block, Senate House, University of London 23-24 June 2006

Programme

Saturday 24 June

9.30am-10.00am Registration (for one-day participants: Third Floor foyer, North Block) 10.00am-11.00am: Plenary Lecture, room N336 Michael Hatt (Yale University), 'The Book Beautiful: Reading, Vision, and the Homosexual Imagination in the 1890s'

11.00am-11.30am: Coffee

11.30am- 1.00pm: Panels Panel 3a: Caricature and Satire, room NG14 Panel 3b: Visuality in the Novel, room NG15 Panel 3c: Optical Technologies 2

1.00pm-2.30pm Lunch (own arrangements)

2.30pm –3.30pm: Plenary Lecture, room N336 Kate Flint (Rutgers University), 'Flash! Shocking Illumination and the Nineteenth Century'

3.30pm-4.00pm: Coffee

4.00pm-5.00pm: Panels Panel 4a: Galleries and Catalogues, room N336 Panel 4b: Photography, room NG14 Panel 4c: Criminal Visualities, room NG15

5.00pm-6.00pm: Plenary Lecture, room N336 Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, University of London), 'The Haunted Portrait: The Still and Moving Image c. 1900'

6.00pm: end of conference

Convened by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies 2 Venue: Institute of English Studies, North Block, Senate House, For speakers, abstracts, and workshop materials, please visit our website: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/eh/research/verbalandvisual