Long Nineteenth Century Seminar

The theme for Trinity Term 2025 is Writing Histories/Histories of Writing

Wednesdays at 11:10 in the Ruskin Room, Exeter Cohen Quad (Walton Street), except where otherwise stated, and online via Microsoft Teams.

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.

For online access, Microsoft Teams links will be sent to the mailing list in advance, or email mailto:christina.debellaigue@exeter.ox.ac.uk for a link.

All are welcome – and to join us for an inexpensive lunch in the Cohen Quad café afterwards.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Christina de Bellaigue, Catherine Sloan
Timing: Wednesdays at 11:10-12:30
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Written developments: literacy, child development, and young writing lives in mid-nineteenth-century England
Date: 7 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Catherine Sloan (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Rethinking modern Spain: transnational and global perspectives
Date: 21 May 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Pol Dalmau (Pompeu Fabra)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

Honoring the enemy: anticolonial ethics in nineteenth-century Daghestan and twenty-first century cultural memory
Date: 4 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rebecca Gould (SOAS)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

The Renaissance as an ideological construct in nineteenth-century Russian historical fiction
Date: 18 June 2025, 11:10 - 12:30
Speaker : Rashel Zemlinskaya (Oxford)
Venue: Cohen Quadrangle, Walton Street OX1 2HD
Venue Details: Ruskin Room, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark