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Launched in 2023, the Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network aims to bring together an international community of postgraduate students and early career researchers (including academics, curators, independent researchers, educators and creative practitioners &c.) whose interests encompass the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, their associates and successors.
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Online Seminar Series October 2024 – June 2025
14 October
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’