The Nineteenth-Century Study Group

This interdisciplinary study group currently involves members from the Departments of English, History and Art History, and welcomes interested nineteenth-century scholars from across the University.

The group has two main objectives:
- To cultivate a more consolidated sense of the nineteenth-century research field in the University,
- To encourage interdisciplinary conversation, that can in turn promote a richer sense of the culture of our research period, and lead to new avenues for collaborative research.

We meet five times each semester to discuss texts, images and theory from our shared field. Material for discussion is circulated to the group prior to meetings via our blog.

Programme for Semester 2, 2009

August 7
Cultures of Impermanence in Nineteenth Century Australia

4th September
The Gothic

9th October
Castaways

13th November
Film Session 2

All meetings held in the Rogers Room, John Woolley Building A20, from 1-3pm. Feel free to bring lunch. Coffee and tea provided.

For further information, or to join this group, contact .

Programme for Semester 1, 2009

March 5
Unlikely Friendship

April 3
Elocution and Etiquette

May 1
Accidental Encounters

June 5
Film Session 1

Programme for Semester 2, 2008.

August 15
Surveying Landscape

September 5
Orientalism Revisited

October 3
The Body in Pain

November 14
Colonial Travel

Programme for Semester 1, 2008.

Friday, April 4
Greg Dening's Theories of Ethnohistory

Wednesday, April 30
Nineteenth-Century Spiritualism

Friday, May 16
Spectacle

Wednesday, May 28
Crowds and Crime

Current Members

(convenor)