2022

2022 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians

Healthy Furniture: Interior Design and Hygiene in Victorian Britain

• 9 February
• Speaker: Richard W. Hayes

The Inspirations of Casta - Visual Representations through Historical Art

• 9 March
• Speaker: Tara Munroe

Research Café

• 16 March
• Speakers: Hannah Burden and Azza Hussen (University of Leicester)

'A Monkey into a Man': T. H. Huxley, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and the Making of an Evolutionary Icon

• 30 March
• Speaker: Professor Gowan Dawson (University of Leicester)

A Global History of Victorian Art

• 4 May
• Speaker: Dr Kate Nichols (University of Birmingham)

Student Research Papers

• 11 May
• Speakers: Azza Hussen, 'Haunting Images: Reading Nell's Nightmare(s) in The Old Curiosity Shop' and Wenwei Wu, 'Re-imagining the Victorian Orient: Opium and Oriental Contagion' (University of Leicester)

Statues and Figurines: Modelling the Victorians

• 18 May
• Speaker: Dr Claire Jones (University of Birmingham)