Nineteenth-Century Places Symposium
Wednesday 29 April 2026, 10-4pm. Arts Building Room 250 and Lecture Room 2.
This is a joint session with UoB’s Nineteenth-Century Centre. Colleagues will be sharing research in progress and exploring cross-currents in work on nineteenth-century writing, place, and environment.
Places are limited for this event, but if you would like to attend for all or part of the day we’d be glad to hear from you. UoB staff and students with relevant interests, from any department, are particularly encouraged to be in touch. Please email Alexandra Harris (a.harris.2@bham.ac.uk) and Matthew Ward (m.ward.1@bham.ac.uk).
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Session One: 10-11.30am
Jessica Fay, ‘Dorothy Wordsworth in Place’
Hugh Adlington, ‘Teaching Literature and the Land’
Ellie Dobson, ‘Pompeii and the Uncanny’
—Tea and coffee break (Refreshments provided)—
Session Two: 11.50am-1.10pm
Jon Stevens, ‘The Romantics in Bruges’
Matthew Ward ‘Byron and the “sea-born city” of Allusion’
—Lunch (Not provided)—
Session Three: 2.30-4pm
John Holmes, ‘Reading Walks in Ruskin Land: Literature, Forests and Nature Recovery’
Andrew Hodgson, ‘Beddoes’s “Last Judgement”’
Oliver Herford, ‘Henry James reads Robert Louis Stevenson’
—Drinks and Conversation at Edgbaston Park Hotel—
