Past events
Here you will find our past event programmes. Click on the images to view the full size posters.
c19c Day Conference on ‘Edification’, 9 June 2023
Spring 2023
Weds 8th Feb, 1pm-2pm. Bernhard Struck (School of History):
‘A Language ‘Better Than Football’: A Nigerian Engineer, a German Chemist, and a Guy from Hollywood – Towards a Transnational History of Esperanto’
Weds 22nd Feb, 1pm-2pm NOTE: Moved to Weds 5th April, 1-2pm. Panel led by Isobel Falconer (School of Mathematics & Statistics):
‘From the Local to the Universal: Contextualising the Gravitational Constant, 1890-1915’
Weds 8th March, 1pm-2pm. Rogério Monteiro (São Paulo):
‘Auguste Comte, the Theory of Elimination and Republican Social Theory: C19th Debates around Positivism in Brazil, Chile and France’
Weds 15th March, 2-4pm. Workshop led by Mary Orr (Modern Languages). Please note this event has been cancelled.
‘New Approaches to Research on (Women in) European C19th Sciences’
Weds 29th March, 1pm-2pm. Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow):
‘The Cholera Epidemic of 1832 in Poetry and the Popular Periodical Press’
Weds 5th April, 1-2pm. Panel led by Isobel Falconer (School of Mathematics & Statistics):
‘From the Local to the Universal: Contextualising the Gravitational Constant, 1890-1915’
Autumn 2022
Week 3 – Weds 28st Sep – Gender, Sexuality and Form.
“A Burning Maternal Flame”: Berthe Morisot, Stéphane Mallarmé and the Art of Correspondence. Speaker: Linda Goddard (Art History)
“Dad? What Are You Doing Here?” or, How Victor Hugo Found His Way into Paul Verlaine’s Gay Sex Party. Speaker: David Evans (Modern Languages)
Week 5 – Weds 12th Oct – ‘The Depiction of Violence in Early Russian Crime Fiction: Ethical Considerations’. Speakers: Claire Whitehead and Grace Docherty (University of St Andrews)
Week 9 – Weds 9th Nov – ‘From la nouvelle peinture to the Old Masters: Zola’s revisionist art criticism’. Speaker: Robert Lethbridge (University of St Andrews)
Week 11 – Weds 23rd Nov – ‘Damaging, Collecting, Assembling: Extra-illustrated Books’. Speaker: Ludmilla Jordanova (Durham University)
Spring 2022
Autumn 2021
Spring 2021
- Tuesday 16 March 2021 (Week 8), 1-3pm. c19c Postgraduate Research Conference. Via Microsoft Teams. Click here to view the full programme.
- 22-24 March 2021. The University of St Andrews hosted the 19th Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviémistes, ‘Heritages and Counter-Cultures’. The full programme is available here.
- Wednesday 14 April 2021 (Week 10), 1pm. Special session on 19th-century Russian Melodrama with views from Japan. via Microsoft Teams. Organised by Dr Margarita Vaysman (St Andrews). Speakers: Dr Daisuke Adachi (Slavic Eurasian Research Centre, Hokkaido University) and Dr Kieko Kamitake (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Tokyo University of the Arts).
- Wednesday 5 May 2021 (Week 14), 1 pm. Dickens and Autobiographical Memory. Via Microsoft Teams. Speaker: Prof. Simon James (Durham University).
- Friday 14 May 2021 (Week 14). c19c ‘Scotland Global’ Day Conference. Via Microsoft Teams. Organised by Dr Michael White (St Andrews). Speakers included: Prof. Alison Lumsden (University of Aberdeen) and Prof. Anne Schwan (Edinburgh Napier University).
Autumn 2020
Spring 2020
Spring 2019
Autumn 2018
Autumn 2017-Spring 2018
