The Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture – 16-18 July 2015

CFP: The Arts and Feeling in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture Birkbeck College, University of London, 16-18 July 2015

Keynote Speakers: Professor Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art, London); Professor Tim Barringer (Yale University); Meaghan Clarke (University of Sussex); Professor Kate Flint (University of Southern California); Professor Michael Hatt (University of Warwick); Professor Jonah Siegel (Rutgers); Alison Smith (Tate Britain)

“She saw no, not saw, but felt through and through a picture; she bestowed upon it all the warmth and richness of a woman’s sympathy; not by any intellectual effort, but by this strength of heart, and this guiding light of sympathy…” (Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1860)

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Cliché Issue 18 – Call for papers for Issue 19

FORUM is pleased to announce the publication of Issue 18: Cliché, which can be viewed here. This issue examines the critical effect of cliché on writing and the reader and questions when, if ever, clichés are appropriate, and why we react to them with fear and disdain.

Call for Papers Issue 19: The New Materialisms

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World War One in Tower Hamlets – Volunteers needed

To mark the centenary of the beginning of the First World War, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives is embarking on a major series of events with the
help of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

A touring exhibition will be developed to examine how local residents lived throughout
the years 1914 – 1918. In addition, a new digitised resource will be created based on the Poplar Military Service Tribunal, 1916-1918. The Register contains some 3,500 names of men seeking exemption from the call-up to military service and will be made freely available online to help people researching their family history. It will also provide new insights into the war’s impact on the local economy and life on the home front, as well as the history of conscientious objectors.

We are seeking volunteers to

  • Undertake indexing of the Register – inputting names, addresses and other information from the handwritten register into a spreadsheet. This can be done from home via a computer.
  • Help to research the history of WW1 in the archives to develop the exhibition
  • Assist with public events to commemorate the centenary to be held this August

If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Gary Haines, World War One in Tower Hamlets Project Co-Ordinator, via email on gary.haines@virgin.net or call Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives on 020 7364 1290.

The project will run from June-September 2014.

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CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: OUR MUTUAL FRIEND TWEETS – May 2014 – November 2015

On 1st May 2014, Birkbeck’s Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies will begin a project to read Dickens’s final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, in its original monthly instalments. The reading project will run from May 2014 to November 2015, matching the 150th anniversary of the novel’s original serialised publication (May 1864 – November 1865).

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