Monday 11 October 2010

Autumn Semester Programme for the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

Thursday, 28th October, 5.15 p.m.: seminar
Exhibition Space, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover St.
Catriona Kennedy (University of York): ‘Reading, Writing & Fighting: British Soldiers’ Narratives of the Napoleonic Wars’

Wednesday, 8th December, 4.00 p.m.: seminar
Room 4.23, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover St.
Elystan Griffiths (University of Birmingham):
‘Heinrich von Kleist and Violence’
(Jointly organised with the Department of Germanic Studies)

Thursday, 9th December, 5.15 p.m.: seminar
Exhibition Space, Jessop West, 1 Upper Hanover St.
Barbara Taylor (University of East London):
‘Woman over Time: Femininity and Feminism in the 1790s’

Saturday, 5th February, Humanities Research Institute, Gell St.
In Celebration Arthur Henry Hallam: A Bicentenary Seminar
Speakers include Michael Bentley (St Andrews) on Henry Hallam
and Whig historiography and Marion Shaw (Loughborough University & the Tennyson Society) on Hallam and Tennyson

ALSO OF INTEREST:
Centre for Gender Studies in Europe and Department of Germanic Studies joint seminar: Mon., 29th Nov., 4.00 p.m., Room 4.23, Jessop West:
Elisa Müller-Adams (University of Trier/University of Sheffield)
‘A German View of Mid-19th Century London’