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Long Nineteenth Century Seminar
The theme for Michaelmas Term 2025 is Arts, Crafts & the People: The Social & the Aesthetic in the Long Nineteenth Century
Wednesdays at 11:10 in the Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street), except where otherwise stated. In-person only.
To find out more, join the email list at web.maillist.ox.ac.uk/ox/info/long-19c-seminar, or follow us on Bluesky @oxfordlong19thc.bsky.social.
All are welcome – and to join us for an inexpensive lunch in the Cohen Quad café afterwards.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers:
David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford),
Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Timing: Wednesdays at 11:10-12:30
Organising department: Faculty of History
Talks:
Wednesday 29 October 2025
The Art of Fiction: Victorian Women Writers and the Decorative Arts
Date: 29 October 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Tricia Zakreski (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 5 November 2025
Christ in the Flemish Lace Schools: Craft, Gender and Religion
Date: 5 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
David Hopkin (Hertford College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 12 November 2025
Toile de Jouy – French Printed Textiles in Cultural Memory
Date: 12 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Melissa Percival (University of Exeter)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Book Talk: 'Nationalism: A World History'
Date: 19 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
s:
Eric Storm (University of Leiden),
Discussant: Faisal Devji (Balliol College, Oxford),
Discussant: Abigail Green (Brasenose College, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 26 November 2025
Peasant, Painter, Patron: Anders Zorn and the Collecting of Vernacular Craft as Personal and National Heritage
Date: 26 November 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Matilda Eriksson (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Wednesday 3 December 2025
Jews, Handicrafts and Ethnography in Liberal Italy
Date: 3 December 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker
:
Luisa Levi d’Ancona Modena (Oxford)
Venue: Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details: Kloppenburg Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street)
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
