Online Seminar Series October 2025 – June 2026

 

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15 October 2025

DEPICTING FEMININITY I

Laura Martínez Gimeno, ‘Mythological Cursed Women’

Rocío Moyano Rejano, “Though She Be but Little, She is Fierce”: The Construction of Femininity in Shakespearean Heroines Within Pre-Raphaelite Painting’

 

12 November 2025

DEPICTING FEMININITY II

Lydia McKelvie, ‘Love and Death Re-imagined: Artistic Interpretation of Boccaccio’s Decameron

Across Time’

Dr Shareed Mohammed, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Iconic Representation of Female Beauty: Precursor to the Anglophone Caribbean Modernist Artistic Sensibility’

 

10 DECEMBER 2025

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND FASHION

Guest speaker: Dr Robyne Calver
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14 January 2026

PRE-RAPHAELITE TRACES

Dr Barbara Bessac, ‘Performing the Sussex Chair: Tracing an Object Across Rooms and Stages’

Dr Glenda Youde, ‘Walking in Pre-Raphaelite Footsteps’

 

18 February 2026

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND MUSIC

Guest speaker: Karl Merrick

 

11 March 2026

FRANCE AND ITALY: RECEPTIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS

Dr Laure Nermel, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Reception in France: A Love and Hate Relationship?’

Alessia Attanasio and Vincenzo Pernice, ‘Post Raphael, Before the Sitwells: The Reception of Italian Baroque Art Among Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Victorian Exhibitions and Collectors’

 

22 April 2026

PRE-RAPHAELITE WOMEN ARTISTS

Dr Meri Tek Demir, ‘Elizabeth Siddal and Christina Rossetti Among the Pre-Raphaelites: A

Reconsideration of Women’s Creativity in Word and Image’

Edith Charlesworth, “Like Sunlight in the Mirror”: Henry Holiday, Florence Camm and the Long

Reach of Pre-Raphaelitism’

 

13 May 2026

SET IN STONE

Joy Cador, ‘A Mar(b)ellous Stone? Marble in British painting (1851-1913)’

Christin Neubauer, ‘Traces of the Anthropocene: Eco-Critical Visions in Anna Blunden’s God’s Gothic’
 

17 June 2026

CURATING THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
 

14 October 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

SEXUALITY AND EROTICISM

Freya Juul Jensen, ‘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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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 2025

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’