EVENT: Pre-Raphaelite Society Online Seminar Series

Online Seminar Series October 2026 – June 2027

Wednesdays, 7.30 – 9 pm (UK time)

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21 October
LOVE BEYOND DEATH

Ana Orbegozo-Desdentado, ‘The Myth of Willowwood’
Dr Cecilia Rose, ‘Pre-Raphaelite Ghosts: Spiritualism and the Paranormal in the Works of Rossetti, Millais and Bell Scott’

18 November
SISTERHOODS

Paul Heritage-Redpath, “Get Thee to a Nunnery”: Maria Rossetti’s Career Choices’
Rosie Parkes, ‘Poetic Sisterhood in Christina Rossetti’s “Monna Innominata”

16 December
STAGING PRE-RAPHAELITISM

Special seminar, curated and chaired by Dr Vincenzo Pernice

20 January
HEROINES AND RESILIENCE

Rim Kanso, ‘Andromeda, the Making of a Hero: A New Reading of the British Representations of the Mythological Figure in the Victorian Era (1837–1901)’
Dr Larissa Vilhena, “If We Pay, We Starve!”: Light, Shadow and the Power of Feminine Resilience in William Holman Hunt’s Illustration for Tennyson’s “Godiva” (1842)’

17 February
DEATH, DESIRE AND TRANSGRESSION

Rocío Moyano Rejano, ‘Ophelia as an Archetype of Tragic Femininity and Corporeal Beauty in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings’
Dr Laure Nermel, “On One Side Sat a Man Like Death / On the Other a Woman Sat
Like Sin”: Queering the Art and Social Customs of the Pre-Raphaelites’

10 March
PRE-RAPHAELITE ORIENTALISM

Dorka Lippai, ‘Oranges, Dogs, and Slippers: Marital Symbols and Subversions in William Holman Hunt’s A Street Scene in Cairo: The Lantern-Maker’s Courtship’
Dr Orly Watson, ‘The Golden Journey to Samarkand: The Pre-Raphaelite Response to the “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” and the Development of English Orientalist Music, with Special Reference to Edward FitzGerald, James Elroy Flecker, William Holman Hunt, Granville Bantock and Frederick Delius’

24 March
CREATIVE DEPICTIONS AND INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PRE-RAPHAELITES

Special seminar, curated and chaired by Naomi Hamill

21 April
PRE-RAPHAELITISM ABROAD

Emanuela Borgatta, ‘The Aesthetic and Aphrodisiac Chimera in Gabriele d’Annunzio’
Dr Glenda Youde, ‘Louis Janmot: A French Pre-Raphaelite?’

19 May
FOLKLORE AND THE GOTHIC

Jennifer Moorhouse, “A Charmed Web She Weaves Always”: The Magic of Making Within ‘The Lady of Shalott’
Karl Merrick, ‘Folk Horror and the Eco-Gothic in Pre-Raphaelite Poetry’

16 June
PORTABLE PRE-RAPHAELITE PICTURES

Special seminar, curated and chaired by Dr Larissa Vilhena