4:00–5:30pm
Clore Lecture Theatre
Panel Discussion: 'Curating Feeling'
with Michael Hatt, Lynda Nead, Victoria Mills and Alison Smith
Chair: Nicola Bown
6:00–7:00pm
Clore Lecture Theatre
Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture
The Language of Mourning in Fin-de-Siècle Sculpture
Professor Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck
Chair: Ruth Livesey, Royal Holloway
7:00–8:00pm
Drinks Reception, Clore Lecture Theatre
9:00–9:30am
Registration — MAL 414
9:30–9:45am
Welcome — MAL 421. Hilary Fraser, Vicky Mills
9:45–11:00am
Plenary 1 — MAL 421
Professor Kate Flint
Feeling, affect, melancholy, loss: Millais' Autumn Leaves and the Siege of Sevastopol
Chair: Hilary Fraser
11:00–11:30am
Coffee — MAL 414
11:30am–1:00pm — Parallel Panels 1
A: Painted Feelings and Victorian Art's Cathartic Missions — MAL 415
Chair: Andrew Stephenson, University of East London
'Oh Melancholy, Linger Here Awhile': Mourning and Memory in the Work of William Holman Hunt
Michaela Gibelhausen, Central Saint Martins
Ekphrasis, Empathy and Art Criticism's Cathartic Mission: Inducing Sentiment, Socializing Feeling
Julie Codell, Arizona State University
"A Desire to Fire": The Pleasures of Pyromania
Nancy Rose Marshall, University of Wisconsin-Madison
B: Thinking, Feeling — MAL 416
Chair: Carolyn Burdett, Birkbeck
Modelling the Blush
Paul White, University of Cambridge
George Eliot and Emotional Forms of Thinking
Nancy Yousef, City University of New York
C: Paterian Feeling — MAL 417
Chair: Laurel Brake, Birkbeck
'Unfeeling Wretch': Vernon Lee's Problem with Landor
Alex Wong, University of Cambridge
Pater's Portraiture of Art
Sarah Hook, University of Oxford
The Aesthetics of Ethos: Feeling the Intellect in Pater
Hao Li, University of Toronto
1:00–2:15pm
Lunch (provided) — MAL 414
2:15–3:45pm — Parallel Panels 2
A: Feeling Sculpture — MAL 415
Chair: Kate Nichols, University of Cambridge
Unspeakable beauty: Eliot and the word-defying erotics of sculpture
Beatrice Bazell, Birkbeck
Between Eternal Repose and Imminent Chaos: Antique Sculpture in Mme de Staël's Corinne
Anne Leonard, University of Chicago
The Darwinian Subject in Victorian Sculpture
Imogen Hart, University of California, Berkeley
Feeling in a Hurry: Thomas Woolner's Constance and Arthur and the Great International Exhibition
Sophie Ratcliffe, University of Oxford
B: Emotional Architecture, Madness — MAL 416
Chair: Leslie Topp, Birkbeck
Ruskin's legacy: A Passionate Architecture
Katherine J. Wheeler, University of Miami
"Our Aesthetic Life…Within Us"
Sarah Barnette, University of Oxford
Richard Dadd's Passions and the Treatment of Insanity
Karen Stock, Winthrop University
C: Embodied Emotion — MAL 417
Chair: Paul White, University of Cambridge
The Visceral Reader in Victorian Novels
Monika Class, University Konstanz
Facing up to Feeling: Suffering and Aversion in Late James
James Jiang, University of Cambridge
Feeling Cold in the Nineteenth Century
Philip Sidney, Independent Scholar
3:45–4:15pm
Coffee — MAL 414
4:15–5:30pm
Plenary 2 — MAL 421
Professor Jonah Siegel
Interesting: Desire and the Body of Inspiration
Chair: Ana Parejo Vadillo
6:00–7:30pm
Drinks Reception — Keynes Library, 43 Russell Square
8:00–10:00pm
Conference Dinner — Ristorante Olivelli, 35 Store Street, Bloomsbury. Pre-booking required, limited spaces.
9:00–9:30am
Registration — MAL 414
9:30–10:45am — Parallel Panels 3
A: Visual Culture and Christian Feeling — MAL 415
Chair: Nicola Bown, Birkbeck
Devotion and Diagnosis: visualising religious emotion in Catholic print culture and the colonial penitentiary
Karen Burns, University of Melbourne
A 'modern sentiment': Christianity and the Sculpture of the Everyday
Claire Jones, Independent Scholar
Diana or Christ? Seeing and feeling doubt in late Victorian visual culture
Kate Nichols, University of Cambridge
B: Performing Feeling — MAL 416
Chair: Karen Stock, Winthrop University
The Performance of the Industrial Sublime
Kate Newey, University of Exeter
The Language of Theatrical Gesture: Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and Sensation Fiction
Catherine Quirk, McGill University
Wilkie Collins's Dramatic Texts: Absence of Feeling and Presence of Presence
Caroline Radcliffe, University of Birmingham
C: Ruskin, The Royal Academy and Pre-Raphaelite Feeling — MAL 417
Chair: Amelia Yeates, Liverpool Hope
'A Thing Much to Wonder On': D G Rossetti and the Portrait as Marvel
Maria Cohut, University of Warwick
"And the Word Became Flesh": Empathetic Connection in Edward Burne-Jones's Nativity Diptych
Andrea Wolk Rager, Western Reserve University
The Politics of Feeling: Looking at Picture Exhibitions with Ruskin, Atkinson and Morris
Lucy Hartley, University of Michigan
10:45–11:00am
Coffee — MAL 414
11:00am–12:15pm
Plenary 3 — MAL 421
Professor Tim Barringer
Twenty Lovesick Maidens, We: Art, Music and the Emotions in Victorian Britain
Chair: Lynda Nead
12:15–1:15pm
Lunch (provided) — MAL 414
1:15–2:45pm — Parallel Panels 4
A: Touching, Feeling — MAL 415
Chair: Heather Tilley, Birkbeck
In Touch with Ruskin: Ruskin as Tactile Observer
Ann Gagné, Seneca College
Religious Feeling, Same-Sex Feeling, and the Song of Songs in Simeon Solomon
Duc Dau, University of Western Australia
"For the cake was so pretty": Tactile interventions in taste in The Mill on the Floss
Lesa Scholl, Emmanuel College, University of Queensland
B: The Art of Mourning — MAL 416
Chair: Hilary Fraser, Birkbeck
Nation's Grief: The Death of Princess Charlotte Augusta
Emily Knight, University of Oxford
Mourning for Paris: Art in the Aftermath of 'l'année terrible' (1870-71)
Justine De Young, Harvard University
C: Art and Religious Feeling — MAL 417
Chair: Kate Nichols, University of Cambridge
Kipling's presentation of responses to Buddhist art in Kim
Susie Paskins, Birkbeck
Feeling for the Past: Martyrology and the Emotions in Victorian Britain, 1850-1890
Brian H. Murray, University of Cambridge
"Twixt Two Worlds": Religious Feeling and the Visual Language of Spiritualism in Tissot's Life of Christ
Melisa Buron, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco
2:45–3:15pm
Tea/Coffee — MAL 414
3:15–4:30pm — Parallel Panels 5
A: Masculine Emotion — MAL 415
Chair: Holly Furneaux, University of Leicester
Male Tenderness in Victorian Culture
Amelia Yeates, Liverpool Hope University
Connoisseurial Intimacies: Bernard Berenson, Sexuality, and Physiological Aesthetics in the 1890s
Francesco Ventrella, University of Sussex
B: Musical Feeling — MAL 416
Chair: Flora Willson, University of Cambridge
'Weird and Hauntingly Carnal': Wagner and the Construction of Venus in Michael Field's Sight and Song
Donna Parsons, University of Iowa
Framing Emotional Responses to Music: Music Making and Musical Listening in Early 19th-Century London
Wiebke Thormahlen, Royal College of Music
C: Fin-de-Siècle Feeling — MAL 417
Chair: Katherine J. Wheeler, University of Miami
'Emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art': Oscar Wilde's melodramatic Decadence
Anna Jörngården, Stockholm University/Birkbeck
Late-Nineteenth-Century Lyric Feelings: The Affective and the Tactile
Marion Thain, New York University
4:30–5:45pm
Plenary Panel: Art and Feeling — MAL 421
Dr Meaghan Clarke — 'Modern contempt for feeling': Women and Art at the fin-de-siècle
Professor Caroline Arscott — 'Albert Moore, sensate beings and ontogeny'
Chair: Hilary Fraser
5:45–6:00pm
Closing Remarks