Day One: Ashmolean Museum, Friday 13 September |
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08:30–09:30 | Registration, Coffee and welcome from Professor Christopher Brown (Headley Lecture Theatre) |
09:30–11:00 | Session 1 (parallel sessions) |
1A. Origins (Headley Lecture Theatre) Professor Stephen Wildman, Ruskin Library and Research Centre, Lancaster University Did Ruskin like Pre-Raphaelitism?
Dr Colin Trodd, University of Manchester A Modern Painter: William Blake and the Pre-Raphaelite Syndicate
Enrique Olivares, University of Puerto Rico Sonnets for Pictures: A Genealogy of Influence
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1B. Techniques: poetry, drama and watercolour (Taylorian Institute) Dr Jodi-Anne George, University of Dundee The Aristophanes of Hammersmith: William Morris as Playwright
Peter Faulkner, University of Exeter Poetic innovation: William Morris’s Love is Enough
Dr Fiona Mann, Independent scholar The Materials and Techniques of Burne-Jones’s Watercolours 1857–1880
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11:00–11:30 | Coffee |
11:30–13:00 | Session 2 (parallel sessions) |
2A. Writing about Art (Headley Lecture Theatre) Professor Daniel Karlin, University of Bristol Robert Browning’s poem ‘A Face’ Dr Paola Spinozzi, University of Ferrara Critical Aesthetic Prose in The Germ as the Foundation of William Michael Rossetti’s and Frederic George Stephens’s Art Criticism
Dr Nic Peeters, Northern Europe correspondent British Art Journal and Judy Oberhausen, Independent Art HistoriSimonan ‘Why were there so many Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists?’
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2B. Desire (Taylorian Institute) Dr Patricia Pulham, University of Portsmouth Taking marble for a grave: Poetry, Form and Eroticism in Arthur O’Shaughnessy’s ‘Thoughts in Marble’ Dr Jose Maria Mesa-Villar, Universidad de Jaén ‘Sideways would she lean and sing a faery’s song’: an interdisciplinary approach to deception and failed communication issues in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s renditions of John Keats’ ‘La Belle Dame sans Merci’ Professor Anna Gruetzner Robins, University of Reading Doubling Desire: Michael Field and Rossetti in the 1890s
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1:00–14:00 | Lunch |
14:00–15:30 | Session 3 (parallel sessions) |
3A. Music (Headley Lecture Theatre) Dr Paul Barlow, University of Northumbria Millais’ Music Annika Eisenberg, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany ‘Sing no sad song for me’ - Musical Reception of Dante Gabriel’s and Christina Rossetti’s Poetry Dr Caroline Jackson-Houlston, Oxford Brookes University ‘Verses that no one would be able to tell from the original stuff’? ‘PreRaphaelite’ literary ballads
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3B. Pre-Raphaelite Categorisation (Taylorian Institute) Dr Amelia Yeates, Liverpool Hope University The Other Pre-Raphaelites: Narrative and Genre Painters of the 1850s and 1860s
Claire Yearwood, University of York The Arnolfini Doppelgänger: Mirrors in Pre-Raphaelite Painting
Madeleine Pearce, Birkbeck, University of London ‘Fair was the web, and nobly wrought’: Digital curation and the Pre-Raphaelites |
15:30–16:00 | Tea |
16:00–17:00 | Plenary lecture: Dr Alison Smith, Tate Gallery, Curating the Pre-Raphaelites: Past, Present and Future
Headley Lecture Theatre |
18:30 | Wine reception and viewing of exhibition of Pre-Raphaelite Drawings, Watercolours and Manuscripts, Tapestry Gallery, Ashmolean Museum |
Day Two: St John’s College |
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09:30–10:00 | Registration and coffee (St John’s College Auditorium) |
10:00 | Plenary lecture: Professor Isobel Armstrong, Birkbeck, University of London, Mirrors, Folds, Mirrors: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Poetics
St John’s College Auditorium |
11:00–11:30 | Coffee |
11:30–13:00 | Session 4 (parallel sessions) |
4A. Materialism and the spirit world (St John’s College Auditorium) Dr John Holmes, University of Reading Reading the Pre-Raphaelites in the Fortnightly Review Professor J.B. Bullen, University of Reading and Royal Holloway, University of London Raising the dead: Pre-Raphaelite Spiritualism Carey Gibbons, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London The Angelic and the Astronomical in Arthur Hughes’s Periodical Illustrations |
4B. Mythology and Belief (seminar room) Dr Stephen Cheeke, University of Bristol Rossetti and Pastiche Dr Roberto C. Ferrari, Columbia University Pre-Raphaelite Exotica: Fanny Eaton and Simeon Solomon’s Mother of Moses
Dr Carolyn Conroy, University of York Saints and Demons: Simeon Solomon’s Artwork in the Ashmolean Museum Collection |
13:00–14:00 | Lunch |
14:00–15:30 | Session 5 (parallel sessions) |
5A. Rediscoveries: Siddal, Woolner and Stanhope (St John’s College Auditorium) Dr Serena Trowbridge, Birmingham City University My Lady’s Soul: The Poetry of Elizabeth Siddal
Dr Angie Dunstan, University of Kent ‘A Poetical Sculptor’: Thomas Woolner and the Past, Present and Future of Pre-Raphaelite Sculpture Simon Poë, British Art Journal The Ascendancy of Christ by John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in St John the Evangelist, Hoylandswaine
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5B. Art and the Senses, the Verbal and the Visual (seminar room) Professor Catherine Maxwell, Queen Mary, University of London Swinburne’s Scented Language Dr Christina Bradstreet, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Scent and Salvation: The Odour of the Rainbow in Millais’s The Blind Girl and Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale’s The Lover’s World Martina John, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel States of Transition: D. G. Rossetti’s Multi-Panel-Paintings Before and After 1860
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15:30–14:00 | Tea |
16:00–15:30 | Session 6 (parallel sessions) |
6A. The Pre-Raphaelite influence on avant-gardes (St John’s College Auditorium) Professor Jason Rosenfeld, Marymount Manhattan College Pre-Raphaelite influences in film and popular culture
Dr Carol Jacobi, Tate Gallery Pre-Raphaelitism and C20th Modernism
Dr Elisa Bizzotto, IUAV University of Venice The Germ and its Offspring. An Interart and Intercultural Perspective |
6B. Interiors (seminar room) Professor Wendy Parkins, University of Kent New Approaches to Red House Dr Margaretta Frederick, Delaware Art Museum ‘Products’ of ‘artistic effect’: the lighting designs of W.A.S. Benson
Tessa Wild, National Trust A ‘lost’ Pre-Raphaelite wall painting: discovering Adam, Eve, Noah, Rachel and Jacob at Red House
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19:30 | Conference Dinner and viewing of murals in former Debating Chamber (now the Library), Oxford Union |