The Long Nineteenth Century Research Seminar - Oxford Talks

The Long Nineteenth Century Research Seminar

Trinity Term 2022 – Reading, Writing, and Story-Telling in the Long Nineteenth Century

Onsite seminars take place in the Kloppenburg Room at Exeter College, Cohen Quad (Walton Street). Online seminars take place via Teams – links to be circulated.

For further information, and to be added to the mailing list, email:
Christina de Bellaigue, christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk
Julia Mannherz, julia.mannherz@oriel.ox.ac.uk

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Christina de Bellaigue , Julia Mannherz
Timing: Wednesdays at 11:10, onsite and online with Microsoft Teams

Monday 12 October 2015 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Law and the Making of Community in the Long English Eighteenth Century
Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick)

Monday 19 October 2015 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Socialist Workers into Ethnic Nationalists: Culture and Competition in Habsburg Austria
Jakub Beneŝ (University College, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - New Perspectives on Anarchism: Franco-Japanese transnational Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
Nadine Willems (Nissan Institute, Oxford )

Monday 2 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Electric News: Telegraphs, Riots and Community Formation in Colonial Algeria
Arthur Asseraf (All Souls, University of Oxford)

Monday 9 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Religious Communities and National Organisms: Resources, Race, and the Reconstruction of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Eliyahu Stern (Yale)

Monday 16 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Communities of Progress: The Expectations and Realities of Telegraphy in Germany
Joan-Michel Johnston (Somerville, Oxford)

Monday 23 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Defending the Urban Community: Fire and Disease in the Ghettos of Early Nineteenth-Century Italy
Myrna Martin (St Catherine's, Oxford)

Monday 30 November 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Military Occupation, International Law, and the End of the 19th Century Conception of War
Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 4 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - Between Two Worlds: Marconi in Italy and in Britain, From World War I to Radio and Television
Giovanni Paoloni (Byrne-Bussey Marconi Fellow, Bodleian Library / Sapienza University of Rome)

Wednesday 11 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - The Construction of National Identities at World Fairs, 1867-1940
Eric Storm (MEHRC/Leiden)

Wednesday 18 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - The People's Risorgimento: Italian National Discourses and Popular Culture in Rural Tuscany, c. 1846-60 AND Beyond the nation state: Catalan intellectuals and international influences 1880-1921
Joana Duyster-Borreda (Oxford), Ben Kehoe (Oxford)

Wednesday 25 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - Enchanting Nations: Commodity Market, Folklore and Nationalism in Scandinavian Literature 1830–1850
Anna Bohlin & Caroline Haux (Stockholm)

Wednesday 1 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - Nationalizing the Jewish minority: the Nineteenth Century German discourse of emancipation
Doron Avraham (MEHRC/Bar-Ilan University)

Wednesday 8 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - The Dispersal and New Acquisition of Books in Switzerland during the First Half of the 19th Century
Angeline Rais (Oxford)

Wednesday 15 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - Middle-Class music making and the Russian bourgeoisie
Julia Mannherz (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - Welcome and work-in-progress session followed by lunch
Various Speakers

Wednesday 19 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - Housing, houses, homes: knowing and shaping the working class domestic world in nineteenth century France
Will Clement (St. John’s)

Wednesday 26 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - "Džán Kudla Sings!": Performing Ethnic Identity between Chicago in the Gilded Age and Fin-de-Siecle Prague
Michael Dean (Prague)

Wednesday 2 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - Liberal, Nationalist or Socialist? The (Jewish) dilemmas of Eduard Horn in Hungary and France
Michael Silber (Jerusalem)

Wednesday 9 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - How Ruling Algeria Shaped French Conceptions of Citizenship and the Republic, c. 1870-1940
Avner Ofrath (Balliol)

Wednesday 16 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - ‘Les Anglais apprendront à boire’: wine and the other, 1860-188”
Graham Harding (St Cross)

Wednesday 23 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - Ambivalent Encounters: Ottoman Jewish Citizenship at the End of Empire
Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt University)

Wednesday 30 November 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:15 - "Work together to share the burden": family culture, family business and inter-generational transmission in the industrial bourgeoisie - France and England, 1830-1914”
Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter)

Wednesday 26 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘Cycling in South America, 1870-1920: A Liberal and Modern Pursuit?’
Matthew Brown (Bristol)

Wednesday 3 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 10 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘Illiberal Humanitarianism and Transnational Affect in Russian Campaigns Against the International “Traffic in Women”, 1880-1914’
Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Wednesday 17 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘How to Break a State: The Habsburg Monarchy’s Internal War, 1914-1918’
Jonathan Gumz (Birmingham)

Wednesday 24 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘Siberian Exile in the Last Years of Tsarism’
Sarah Badcock (Nottingham)

Wednesday 31 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘Army and Revolution in the Age of Liberalism: The Case of the 1820s Revolution in Southern Europe’
Maurizio Isabella (QMUL)

Wednesday 7 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - ‘“Why Should Only Old Blokes Wield the Pen and Ink?”: Print and Manuscript Magazine Production in English Schools, 1850-1902.’
Catherine Sloane (Queen’s, Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - 'The importance of being George: Constitutionalism and Kingship in Greece of the 1860s'
Lycourgos Sophoulis (Wolfson College)

Wednesday 11 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Honour and Class in the Post-Reform Imperial Russian Officer Corps (1861-1914)
Alexander Morrison (New College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - The Possibility of Witchcraft: Reputation, Belief, and the Legacy of the Revolutionary Penal Reforms in France
Will Pooley (Bristol)

Wednesday 25 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Writing Freedom Down: African American Handwriting in the Early Years of Freedom
Gretchen Long (Williams/Exeter College, Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Defending the patria. The Tuscan Civic Guard and the Politicisation of Artisanal Populations in Florence, 1847-1849
Ben Kehoe (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - 1. Domestic Service and Mass Leisure in France and Britain, 1890-1930/ 2. While Seeking a Situation’: Cross-cultural Experiences of Out-of-work Foreign Domestics in London, c.1880–1930
Fanny Louvier (Balliol College, Oxford), Olivia Robinson (Kellogg College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - A Zealous Anthropologist: Intersections of Political Activism and Scientific Objectivity in Maria Czaplicka’s (1884-1921) Career
Jaanika Vider (Saint Cross College, Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - ‘John, the Soldier, Jack the Tar’: Military Manliness and Emotional Objects in Georgian and Victorian England
TBA

Wednesday 29 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - The Zouave Moment: Martial Fashion in the Age of Industrial War
Carol Harrison (South Carolina)

Wednesday 25 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “Security guarantee or security harzard? Segregation in Hamburg and London at the end of the 19th century”
Christine Krüger (University of Giessen)

Wednesday 2 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - "Managing 'Treason' in the Habsburg Monarchy in the Era of Neo-Absolutism"
Mark Cornwall (University of Southampton)

Wednesday 9 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “The Victorian search for a national musical standard: authority, liberalism, and the problem of pitch in nineteenth-century Britain”
Edward Gillin (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “By Women, For Women: A study of gender in guidebooks to Europe, 1900 – 1907” & The department store as lieu de sensibilité : femininity and sensory experience in early twentieth century Paris and St Petersburg
Jasmine Proteau (Oxford), Sasha Rasmussen (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “Silences: Coping with infertility in 19th century Germany”
Christina Benninghaus (Oxford)

Wednesday 30 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “Catalonia and the Spanish Nation Building Project: Particularism , Regionalism and Catalan Nationalism, 1780-1898”
Angel Smith (University of Leeds)

Wednesday 6 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:15 - “The Humiliation of John Falcon: Franco-British Competitive Imperialism in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean"
Julie Kalman (Monash University)

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Shared Suffering? Emily Hobhouse and the translation of Tant’ Alie of the Transvaal: Her Diary 1880-1902
Rebecca Gill (Huddersfield), Helen Dampier (Leeds Beckett)

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Materials of the Mind: A Global History of Phrenology, 1815-1920
James Poskett (Warwick)

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Entangled History: the Hispanic-Anglosphere Project (Concepts, Methods and Public Engagement)
Graciela Iglesias-Rogers (Winchester)

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Roundtable on Patrick Boucheron et al, Histoire mondiale de la France (Le Seuil, 2017)
Arthur Asseraf (Trinity College, Cambridge), Christina de Bellaigue (Exeter College, Oxford), Robert Gildea (Worcester College, Oxford)

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Building Homes: The East India Company and the British Country House
Kate Smith (Birmingham)

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - ‘Marginalised Pasts: Jews and Muslims in the History of Europe’
Abigail Green

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - The Linguistic Politics of Emancipation: Early Jewish Nationalism between German, Yiddish, and Hebrew
Marc Volovici (Birkbeck)

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - CANCELLED: The Global Life of Antonio Raimondi, Scientist
We're sorry to have to announce that the scheduled final seminar in this term's series, which was to be held next Wednesday with Lucy Riall (EUI), has had to be CANCELLED due to illness.
Lucy Riall (EUI, Florence)

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Introduction and work-in-progress session
Silvia Davoli, Christina de Bellaigue, Abigail Green

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Listening in Common: The Musical Lives of Female Conservatoire Students, Paris and Petersburg 1900-1913
Sasha Rasmussen (St Hilda's, Oxford)

Wednesday 30 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - "That Actor is Napoleon!": History, Performance, and Embodiment in the Nineteenth-Century French "Napoleon Play"
Laura O’Brien (Northumbria)

Wednesday 6 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Reinventions of Tradition: The Oberammergau Passion Play and the Nineteenth-Century World
Robert Priest (Royal Holloway)

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - All Play and No Work: Children on the Stage in the United States, 1870s-1910s
Oenone Kubie (Rothermere American Institute, Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Between Tradition and Modernity: Nineteenth Century Baghdadi Jewish Networks
Joint session with the Modern Jewish History Seminar
Sasha Goldstein-Sabbah (Leiden)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Pushing at the Margins of Oriental Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century: European Women Scholars and the Shaping of Knowledge Beyond Europe
Mishka Sinha (St John's, Oxford)

Wednesday 4 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:10 - Benjamin Disraeli, Isaac D'Israeli, and the Jew Bill debate
Martin Goodman (Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford)

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Pregnancy and Midwifery in late eighteenth-century Prussia (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Marystella Ramirez-Guerra (Notre-Dame)

Wednesday 13 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Pushing at the Margins of Oriental Studies in the long nineteenth Century: European Women Scholars and the Shaping of Knowledge Beyond Europe [re-scheduled from MT2019]
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Mishka Sinha (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

14:00 - Joint Session with the Modern Jewish History Seminar and the Jewish Country Houses Project: The Rothschilds of Russia: Gender, Ethnicity, and the Political Economy of Intimacy in the Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest. Note this session is at 14:00
ChaeRan Freeze (Brandeis)

Wednesday 27 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Sexuality in early twentieth-century Morocco (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Katy Phipps (Oxford)

Wednesday 3 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Bodies, nationalities and temporalities in Worlds’ Fairs (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Shahmima Akhtar (Oxford)

Wednesday 10 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Joint reading group session with the Centre for the History of Childhood Seminar. Details tbc
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
N/A

Wednesday 17 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Bride Price and Bride Abduction in late nineteenth century Russia (final title tbc)
Please email christina.debellaigue@history.ox.ac.uk to register your interest
Philippa Hetherington (UCL)

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Weighty Matters: A Somatic History of the Industrial Revolution
Deb Oxley (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - “So Worthy an Example to Ireland”: The Subsistence and Industrial Crisis of 1845–1850 in Flanders
Eric Vanhaute (Ghent)

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - “Poor Starved Creatures Lying Unburied in the Streets”: Overseas Famine Aid for Finland, 1856-68
Andrew Newby (Helsinki)

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Juvenile Agency, Identity and Civic Engagement in Revolutionary France: Charles Nodier and the Children of Besançon, 1790–94
Antonia Perna (Durham)

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - “Men Lived as if They Dreaded Each Other”: Hugh Dorian (1834–1914) and the Grey Zone of Ireland’s Great Famine
Breandán Mac Suibhne (Galway)

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Faim et politique dans le Paris du premier dix-neuvième siècle [in French with translation]
Vincent Robert (Paris-Sorbonne)

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Hunger Re-Draws the Map, 1914-1923
Mary Cox (Oxford), Claire Morelon (Oxford)

Wednesday 28 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Introductory session: Brief encounters with Oxford's nineteenth-century historians
Various Speakers

Wednesday 5 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Historical Monuments and the Beginnings of Art Historiography in Late 19th Century Romania
Cosmin Minea (New Europe College, Bucharest)

Wednesday 12 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Basque exceptionalism vis-a-vis war and conscription
Talitha Ilacqua (Deakin Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 19 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Transfer of status session: new research from first-year Oxford DPhil students
Various Speakers

Wednesday 26 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Marginal histories? Reflections on subjects and places - Iceland in the long nineteenth century
Erla Hulda Halldorsdottir (University of Iceland)

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Book launch and discussion: 'Networks of Modernity: Germany in the Age of the Telegraph, 1830-1880
Jean-Michel Johnston (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 9 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

11:00 - Manipulating the Body, Embodying Gender and Gender Passing in Nineteenth Century Britain
Billie-Gina Thomason (Liverpool John Moores University & University of Liverpool)

Wednesday 16 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

17:00 - Middle Life in the British Civil Service: Treasury Promotions, Marriages, and Honours, c. 1847-1914
Please note this talk is at 17:00 (BST) followed by Long C19 social, online or outside
Luis Gabriel Galan-Guerrero (St Anne's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 13 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Meet your fellow 19c historians
N/A

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Digging her Grave with a Wineglass? Women and Wine in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Graham Harding (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 27 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Extracting the Last Fish: North Atlantic Peripheries in French Visual Culture, c. 1900
Maura Coughlin (Bryant University)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - The Collection of Folklore in Post-Unification Italy: Peripheral Perspectives from Sardinia
Elena Sottilotta (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 10 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Peripheries in a Periphery? Finnish Workhouses, 1860s–1920s
Johanna Annola (Tampere University)

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Border Changes and Rural Conflict in Northern Greece in the Late Nineteenth Century
Fatma Öncel (Stanford University and Sabancı University)

Wednesday 24 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - T.G. Masaryk's Foundation of Czechoslovakia in 1918: Universalististic Beginnings, Particularistic Legacies?
Martin Schulze-Wessel (St Antony’s College, University of Oxford and MLU Munich)

Wednesday 1 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

11:00 - Where Asia Meets Russia: Borderlands, Minorities, and Ideas of Colonization
Alyssa Park (University of Iowa)

Wednesday 27 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - Working-Class Libraries and Workers’ Reading History in Colonial India
Arun Kumar (Nottingham)

Wednesday 4 May 2022 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - Hand-Written Student Society Newspapers
Kirsti Salmi-Niklander (Helsinki)

Wednesday 11 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - The journal before the journal intime: Approaching Diaries from the Period of the French Revolution
Michaela Karcher (Oxford)

Wednesday 18 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - Roundtable: Writing and Reading Letters
Lucas Haasis (Oldenburg), Julia Mannherz (Oxford), Steven King (Nottingham Trent)

Wednesday 25 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

11:10 - Title TBC
TBA

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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