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London Renaissance Seminar: Peele and the Ends of Narrative – 27th November

Peele and the Ends of Narrative: London Renaissance Seminar at the Early Modern Reading Group – Friday 27th November 2015

For the Early Modern Reading Group’s first meeting of the new academic year, Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) will give a short talk and lead discussion of George Peele’s play The Old Wives Tale (1595).  Professor Guy-Bray writes:

George Peele’s The Old Wives Tale is remarkable for the fact that it dramatizes how narrative becomes stage action: that is, the characters in the story that the old wife is telling become actual people moving about the stage. I want to use this play and its consideration of narrative to address questions of the purpose of narrative more generally. Do literary texts require narrative? Is it possible to escape narrative?

The Old Wives Tale is available on EEBO here.  Please bring a copy of the text with you.

The reading group will meet at 6pm in Room 221, 43 Gordon Square; drinks and snacks will be provided.

The Early Modern Reading Group is a postgraduate reading group which meets every month to discuss a variety of texts from the early modern period.  For more information, visit the Early Modern Reading Group on Dandelion or the London Renaissance Seminar website.

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‘Tower Block Revisited: Aspects of British Public Housing Post-WWII’ – 26th June

The Architecture Space and Society Centre at Birkbeck is delighted to welcome our Summer term speaker:

Professor Stefan Muthesius
‘Tower Block Revisited: Aspects of British Public Housing Post-WWII’

Friday 26 June, 6pm, Birkbeck School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, room B03

Tower Block public housing in Britain has been subjected to diametrically opposed viewpoints. This talk suggests approaches that may be taken by the art and architectural historian. Miles Glendinning and Stefan are at present preparing a successor to their 1994 book on the subject of Council Tower Blocks, a shorter account that tries to stay closer to the actual buildings.

Stefan Muthesius taught at the School of Art History and World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia. His publications include The English Terraced House (Yale University Press, 1982); Art, Architecture and Design in Poland 966-1990 An Introduction (Langewiesche, 1994);  Tower Block. Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (with Miles Glendinning, Yale, 1994),  The Postwar University. Utopianist Campus and College (Yale, 2000); The Poetic Home. Designing the 19th-century Interior (Thames & Hudson, 2009).

This event is free and open to the public.

Go to the website for more information on the ASSC and book a place on Eventbrite

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New Issue of 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Volume 19 (2014)
The Victorian Tactile Imagination

Whilst the art historian Bernard Berenson introduced his theory of the ‘tactile imagination’ in the late 1890s, the articles gathered here point to its flourishing much earlier in the nineteenth century. Contributors chart how reconceptualization of the touch sense in scientific and psychophysiological discourses made it a particularly important mode through which to question the distinction between mind and body, and explore issues of agency and will, and the nature of the real. A range of Victorian tactile episodes and practices are given new emphasis and attention here, including the merging of tree and human in Thomas Hardy’s fiction; the figure of the fidget; the haptic turn in mountaineering; the hand in literature; the disturbing power of touch in dreamscapes; and the search for authenticity in sculpture. Special forum sections extend the reach of the Victorian tactile imagination by considering how cultural and educational commentators disciplined blind people’s touch, and the importance of accounting for touch, as well as vision, in our interpretation of object culture.

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Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies

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Dear all,

The first meeting of the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies will take place this Thursday, 23rd October, at 6pm in the Keynes Library. Hilary Fraser will be in conversation with other Birkbeck colleagues on the subject of her new book, ‘Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman’. To see the full programme of events for this term, and for information on other nineteenth-century events within the University of London and beyond, please email c19@bbk.ac.uk to sign up to our mailing list.

Best wishes,
Emma Curry
Events Intern for the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
c19@bbk.ac.uk

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Early Modern Reading Group

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Birkbeck students run two groups that may be of interest to anyone researching or studying in the early modern period.

The first is the Early Modern Reading Group. This meets at Gordon Square about once a month to read and discuss an early modern text selected by the group. The group is very informal, the aim is to share the different perspectives that arise from our research interests, usually with a glass of wine. More information can be found on the Birkbeck Dandelion Network here: http://dandelionnetwork.org. If you join the group on Dandelion you will be sent details of the next meeting and the selected text each month.

The Birkbeck Early Modern Society is a thriving student society affiliated to the Students Union. It welcomes a variety of early career and senior academic speakers once a month who speak on early modern topics, very broadly defined. Our first speaker is Brodie Waddell on 10 October, and further events can be found on the Society’s website here:http://www.emintelligencer.org.uk. The Society cost £7 to join for the year, or you can come for a single event for a small charge. Meetings are usually held at 6.30pm on a Friday and wine and refreshments are served and there is always an opportunity to ask questions of the speaker afterwards. Other events such as visits to galleries and museums are organised from time to time. Please email Laura Jacobs, the Secretary at bbkems@gmail.com if you would like to be added to the mailing list and follow us on Birkbeck EMS @Twitter.

If you would like any further information on either of these groups please feel free to get in touch with Sue Jones(suejonze@googlemail.com) or me  (becky.tomlin@virgin.net).

I hope to meet you soon,
Becky Tomlin

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Navigate: a reading group for the discussion of Travel Writing

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Anna Brownell Jameson’s Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (1838)
facilitated by Honor Rieley, Oxford
Tuesday 28th Oct, 7:30-8:45pm
Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square

Please join us for the first 2014 meeting of Navigate: a reading group for the discussion of Travel Writing.

Selected passages of the book will be circulated online in advance. Please email alexis.stephanie.wolf@gmail.com to get a copy, or check the dandelion page at http://dandelionnetwork.org/group/navigate closer to the date.

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

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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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