Events - The Nineteenth Century Centre Forthoming and recent events of interest to scholars of the nineteenth century. Upcoming events New events will appear here shortly Previous events 2023 7th June - How Global Was the Age of Revolutions?3rd May - The perils of interpreting: the extraordinary story of two translators between Qing China and the British Empire 2022 7th December - Rethinking populism in Europe: an interdisciplinary roundtable on populist movements in history and today 2021 24th November - Billy Waters and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture10th-24th November - Nineteenth Century Centre seminar27th October - Book Launch: Jimmy Packham's Gothic Utterance and Hannah Murray's Liminal Whiteness in Early US Fiction19th May - From Fairy Queens in "Gauze and Spangles" to "Shakespeare in Black Velvet": Examining Changing Attitudes to Theatre Costume in the Long 19th Century c. 1789-19145th May - Moving Pictures: Serial Revolutions in 184821st April - 19CC Works in Progress Workshop24th March - Channels of Communication: The Wordsworths, the Wye and the Letters of 18123rd March - Listening to Silence in Romantic Poetry24th February - 19CC ECR Panel 2020 11th December - 19CC Book Launch!11th March - Epistolary Romanticism20th February - Towards a Four Nations Art History? The GF Watts Memorial Exhibition, 1905 – 0614th February - Views on Ruskin Roundtable 2019 11th December - Live for Me: Vicarious Experience and Aesthetic Education in 'The Ambassadors' and 'Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship'4th December - Views on Ruskin20th November - Building a Global Bookshelf: Asian Classical Literature for the General Readership, 1845-191518th November - 19CC Works in Progress8th November - Rethinking the Racial Politics of Decadence29th October - Seeking Asylum in the Nineteenth Century: Jane Eyre and the Guayran Emigrants29th May - Wordsworth's "Accidental" Landscape9th May - Tutankhamun: Facts, Fictions and the Mummy's Curse with Dr Eleanor Dobson8th May - Enduring Bees: Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Apian Allusion, 1844 to 185616th April - Fashioning the Victorians: The Crinoline with Dr Rebecca Mitchell27th March - Famine Fever: Dickens, Cholera, and the Physiology of Salvation8th March - Slaying Dragons and Talking to Stomachs: Science and Selfhood in the Nineteenth Century27th February - Bringing the perfume out of everything: Vernon Lee and Scent13th February - 19C Centre seminar series presents Dr Serena Trowbridge16th January - Romantic Listening 2018 12th December - Samuel Johnson and the Origins of Writing10th December - Work in progress session5th December - Neo-Gothic architecture and the Victorian museum14th November - Late Victorian Little Magazines and the Invention of the Avant-Garde31st October - 19CC book launch6th July - CLiC for 19th century scholars30th June-16th November - Drawing out the Dinosaurs29th June - Voicing the Non-Human9th May - Assuming a Modern Air: Literary Atmosphere in the work of Charlotte Bronte and Dorothy Richardson21st March - 'I have no choice': Editing Byron from Manfred to Don Juan8th March - International Women's Day: Birmingham School Illustrators7th March - Work in progress session21st February - Citizens of Nowhere: Different Cosmopolitan Styles in the Fin de Siècle15th February - Victorian Dinosaurs: Facts and Fictions of the Nineteenth-Century Mesozoic24th January - Detecting World-Literature: (Sub-) Urban Crime Fiction in the Nineteenth Century 2017 6th December - "Almost a Citizen": Robert Montgomery Bird's Racial Transformations and the Borders of Belonging1st December - CLiC Dickens Evening