Pre-Raphaelite Conference in Oxford, September 2013

Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future

13–14 September 2013, Ashmolean Museum and St John’s College, Oxford

Keynote speakers
◾Dr Alison Smith (Tate Britain)
◾Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck)

Context and aims

In the wake of recent major exhibitions and publications such as Tate Britain’s Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde and The Cambridge Companion to Pre-Raphaelitism, this two-day conference will present new and innovative approaches to the study of Pre-Raphaelitism by bringing together established academics, museum curators and research students. This conference also seeks to examine Pre-Raphaelitism as a bridge between Romanticism and Aestheticism, and to engage with current critical work regarding its relationship to Modernism in literature.

http://preraphaelitesociety.wordpress.com/2013/01/23/pre-raphaelite-conference-in-oxford-september-2013/

Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and Pre-Raphaelitism

http://cultureandanarchy.wordpress.com/2013/01/20/eleanor-fortescue-brickdale-and-pre-raphaelitism/

The First Ecologist: John Ruskin and the Futures of Landscape

Watts Lecture: Fiona MacCarthy

Edward Burne-Jones and G.F. Watts

Wednesday 22 February 2012
Hall, Charterhouse, Godalming, GU7 2DX
6.30-7.45pm

The seventh annual Watts Lecture will be given by acclaimed biographer Fiona MacCarthy. Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 -1898) was one of the great artists and designers of the Victorian period. A key artist in the later phase of Pre-Raphaelitism he was also closely associated with William Morris. He was also a friend of G.F. Watts and this lecture will look at these important figures and their relationship.

With new research and fresh historical perspective, MacCarthy’s new book The Last Pre-Raphaelite (‘a magnificent and deeply felt biography’. The Guardian), tells the extraordinary and dramatic story of Edward Burne-Jones as an artist, a key figure in Victorian society and a peculiarly captivating man.

A well known broadcaster and critic, Fiona MacCarthy established herself as one of the leading writers of biography with her widely acclaimed book Eric Gill.
Her biography of William Morris won the Wolfson
History Prize and the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Award.

Previous Watts Lectures have been given by Tristram Hunt MP, Sandy Nairne, A.N. Wilson, Alison Smith, Sir Andrew Motion and Dr. Nicholas Penny.

£8 (£7 for Friends)
http://www.wattsgallery.org.uk/events/talks/2011/09/08/watts-lecture-fiona-maccarthy

L129 Pre-Raphaelite Women: Jan Marsh & Franny Moyle

Monday, October 10, 2011 - 14:00
The Times Cheltenham Literature Festival

http://www.cheltenhamfestivals.com/find-events/literature/l129-pre-raphaelite-women-jan-marsh-franny-moyle

Supermodels, Sex and Death - Pre-Raphaelite Talks at Birmingham

Franny Moyle's talk 'Sex and Death in Pre-Raphaelite Art' is in the Waterhall at 2pm on Sunday 9th October.

Discovering the Pre-Raphaelites -a study day Birmingham 4th May

http://www.bmag.org.uk/events?id=1245

William Morris Birthday Lecture: William Morris today and tomorrow

Thursday 24 March, 7pm
Ian McQueen is one of the UK's leading theatre composers and a lifelong fan of Morris. His latest work is a choral symphony: ‘Earthly Paradise – Sayings, Songs and Poems of William Morris’. Scored for a large orchestra and choir, it was commissioned by BBC Radio 3.The four movements refer to the life of the great Victorian poet, designer and political activist. It was broadcast from the Barbican Hall earlier in the year.

His talk will show how Morris can be a source for thought and action in today's world, an influence that has inspired him throughout his life and a timely reminder of Morris’ relevance in a period of economic austerity.
A Friends of the Gallery event: Tickets £5.00 / £6.50 (non-members)


http://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/index/leisure/museums-galleries/william-morris/wmg-whats-on.htm

'The Truth about Witches in Pre-Raphaelite Art: How Medusa, Medea, Nimue and Others Lost Their Good Name'

[Aubrey Vincent Beardsley]

Never known the PRB world so busy and so exciting.

Saturday, March 12 · 10:30am - 1:30pm
St. Philip's Cathedral
Colmore Row, Birmingham, City Of Birmingham, B3 2QB
'The Truth about Witches in Pre-Raphaelite Art: How Medusa, Medea, Nimue and Others Lost Their Good Name' - Independent art historian, curator and long standing PRS member – Nic Peeters – will provide this lecture on how the reputations of women such as Medusa, Medea, Nimue, etc. were transformed from worthy to wicked, by the retelling of the original stories during the Victorian era.

Lecture by Nic Peeters

http://www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=132488266816865&index=1