ONLINE SEMINARS: Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network (October 2025 – June 2026)

Online seminar series October 2025 – June 2026

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15 OCTOBER – DEPICTING FEMININITY I

Laura Martínez Gimeno, ‘Mythological Cursed Women’

Rocío Moyano Rejano, “Though She Be but Little, She is fierce”: The Presence of Shakespearean Heroines in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings’

12 NOVEMBER – DEPICTING FEMININITY II

Lydia McKelvie, ‘Love and Death Re-imagined: Artistic Interpretation of Boccaccio’s Decameron Across Time’

Dr Shareed Mohammed,‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Iconic Representation of Female Beauty: Precursor to the Anglophone Caribbean Modernist Artistic Sensibility’

10 DECEMBER – THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND FASHION

Guest speaker: Dr Robyne Calvert

14 JANUARY – PRE-RAPHAELITE TRACES

Dr Barbara Bessac, ‘Performing the Sussex Chair: Tracing an Object Across Rooms and Stages’

Dr Glenda Youde, ‘Walking in Pre-Raphaelite Footsteps’

18 FEBRUARY – THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND MUSIC

Guest speaker: Karl Merrick

11 MARCH – FRANCE AND ITALY: RECEPTIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS

Dr Laure Nermel, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Reception in France: A Love and Hate Relationship?’

Alessia Attanasio and Vincenzo Pernice, ‘Post Raphael, Before the Sitwells: The Reception of Italian Baroque Art Among Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Victorian Exhibitions and Collectors’

22 APRIL – PRE-RAPHAELITE WOMEN ARTISTS

Dr Meri Tek Demir, ‘Elizabeth Siddal and Christina Rossetti Among the Pre-Raphaelites: A Reconsideration of Women’s Creativity in Word and Image’

Edith Charlesworth, “Like Sunlight in the Mirror”: Henry Holiday, Florence Camm and the Long Reach of Pre-Raphaelitism’

13 MAY – SET IN STONE

Joy Cador, ‘A Mar(b)ellous Stone? Marble in British painting (1851-1913)’

Christin Neubauer, ‘Traces of the Anthropocene: Eco-Critical Visions in Anna Blunden’s God’s Gothic’

17 JUNE – CURATING THE PRE-RAPHAELITES

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