PRE-RAPHAELITE SOCIETY GRADUATE NETWORK SEMINAR SERIES 2024/25

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14 October

GLOBAL PRE-RAPHAELITISM I

Meisam Ganjkhani, ‘Singing in Ruins of Authenticity: A Comparative Analysis of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and Forough Farrokhzad’s “In the Green Waters of Summer”

Christine Neubauer, ‘Transnational Visions: The Impact of German Culture on Scottish Pre-Raphaelite Joseph Noel Paton’

11 November

GLOBAL PRE-RAPHAELITISM II

Julie Vanzele, ‘The Influence and Importance of William Morris in Belgium – The Bloemenwerf House by Maria Sèthe and Henry van de Velde’

Dr Margaret Gray, ‘Art, Religion, and the “Savage” East: Zen and the Moralising Aesthetics of Ruskin, Millais and Hunt’

9 December

SENSORY EXPERIENCES

Emmi M. Farrell, ‘An Othered Woman: Frederick Sandys’ Medea as Mother and Monster’

Klaudia Kondraciuk, ‘Whiffs and Wonders: The Role of Olfactory Imagery in Millais’ Autumn Leaves’

13 January

FEMININITY AND MASCULINITY

Laura Martínez Gimeno, ‘Confinement, Curses and Sleeping Maidens: A Comparative Study in Broken Femininity in “The Lady of Shalott”

Dr Tina Anderlini, ‘A Victorian Frankenstein: Some Body Reconstructions and Gender Changes in Burne-Jones’ Art’

10 February

SEXUALITY AND EROTICISM

Freya Juul Jenson, ‘A Case Study in Queer Time: Simeon Solomon’s Sappho and Erinna in a Garden at Mytilene (1864)’

Lorraine Rumson, ‘Isn’t Shakespeare Sexy? Eroticism and Shakespearean Women in Pre-Raphaelite Paintings’

10 March

SPIRITUALITY AND AFTERLIVES

Cristina Santaemilia, ‘The Elephant in the House: The Neo-Victorian Afterlives of Fanny Cornforth’

Cecilia Rose, ‘John William Waterhouse and the Occult’

31 March

IN FOCUS: WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT

Thomas Dunwell, ‘The Importance of Art Education According to William Holman Hunt’

Dr Sheilagh Quaile, ‘Kashmiri Shawls in Two Paintings by William Holman Hunt’

12 May

CREATIVITY AND MATERIALITY

Alexandra Earl, ‘Methods and Materiality: A Technical Analysis of Evelyn De Morgan’s Artworks’

Caroline Giddis Macia, ‘Common Threads: Global Empowerment Across the British Arts and Crafts Movement and Joseon Dynasty Korean Fiber Arts’

9 June

URBAN AND RURAL ASPECTS OF PRE-RAPHAELITISM

Katherine Ann Duffy, ‘Provincial Art: Liverpool’s Role in Pre-Raphaelitism’

Dr Glenda Youde, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites and the Hogsmill River’