LCVS research seminar programme 2015-16 (in partnership this year with the School of English Victorian research seminar at University of Leeds)
The Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, based at Leeds Trinity University, is pleased to announce this semester’s programme. All are welcome to these free events; please email LCVS@leedstrinity.ac.uk to confirm attendance, so LCVS can ensure adequate refreshments!
Elly McCausland (University of York)
‘“Ever fresh and fascinating to the boy and girl of today”: King Arthur and the nineteenth-century child’
Monday 25 January, 6:00 pm
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
Alexander Bubb (King’s College London)
‘Meeting without Knowing it: the Intertwined Careers of Rudyard Kipling and W. B. Yeats’
Wednesday 24 February, 6:00 pm
Alumni Room, School of English, University of Leeds
Kathryn Simpson (Cardiff Metropolitan University)
‘Woolf on the Wing: Inspiring Flight in Woolf’s Fiction’
Monday 14 March, 6:00 pm
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
Malcolm Shifrin (Victorian Turkish Baths Project)
‘Some like it (very) hot: the Victorian Turkish bath and Leeds’
Monday 25 April, 6:00 pm
The Leeds Library, Commercial St, Leeds
Rob Burroughs (Leeds Beckett University)
‘Elizabeth Gaskell and the Sea’
Monday 23 May, 6:00 pm
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
‘Virginia Woolf and Heritage’: 26th annual international conference
Thursday 16 – Sunday 19 June
Leeds Trinity University
See woolf2016.com for details.
Ian Hesketh (University of Queensland)
‘Victorian Jesus: Imagining the Anonymous Author of Ecce Homo (1865)’
Monday 4 July, 6:00 pm
South Room (AG21), Leeds Trinity University
For more details, please see the LCVS website: http://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/research/research-centres/seminar-programme