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May 2016
The Making of the Modern Homosexual: The Queer Life of George Ives Brian Lewis, Professor of History at McGill University, Montreal Date: May 5th. Time: 2:30pm. Place: INTS 1111 (CHASS Interdisciplinary Building South) George Ives (1867-1950) was a writer and campaigner who is credited with founding the first "gay rights" organization in Britain in the 1890s. This paper places him in international context, examining above all the range of historical and foreign influences that allowed him to make sense of himself as an "invert" at [...]
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Myths of extinction: the romance of Tupi death in 19th c. Brazil Amy Buono, Visiting Researcher, Department of Art History & Theory, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro Thursday, May 26 2:30pm – 4:00pm INTS 1111 In nineteenth-century Brazilian visual, literary, and political culture, indigenous Tupinambá culture was framed temporally in the past tense: as vanquished, dead, dying, or extinct. This presentation will examine the cultural strategies by which this took place and the complicated ways in which the Tupi became the indigenous visual [...]
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Émile Zola’s Naturalist Screen and the Crisis of Narration The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents its first event of the year with Eddy Troy, PhD Candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages. Intervening in recent scholarship on the naturalist mode of description, this talk (which emerges from a larger dissertation project, Phenomenal Screens: Thinking Crisis Through Film and Literature) argues that Émile Zola’s Rougon-Macquart novels concretize a crisis of the French realist novel. The crisis, grasped from a perspective informed [...]
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Oscar Wilde, Anticolonial Decadence, and the Aesthetics of Leprosy The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents a talk with Mackenzie Gregg, Ph.D. candidate, English. Part of the Global 19th Century Download flyer All events are free and open to the public. For a complimentary parking permit, RSVP with your name and event title to cisevents@ucr.edu. *Not available for current UCR students, faculty, and staff
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Mobility and Labor: Eadweard Muybridge in Central America, C. 1875 The Global 19th Century workshop at UCR presents a talk with Robert Aguirre, Associate Professor of English, Wayne State University. Followed by a reception Part of the Global 19th Century Download flyer All events are free and open to the public. For a complimentary parking permit, RSVP with your name and event title to cisevents@ucr.edu. *Not available for current UCR students, faculty, and staff
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The Global Travel of Mixed-Race Jamaicans and Constructions of Identity Dan Livesay, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History Claremont McKenna College At the turn of the nineteenth century, small numbers of elite, mixed-race Jamaicans traveled to Britain, then on to India, and back to Britain again in order to improve their financial and social statuses. This global movement allowed them to re-position their identities as East Indian nabobs, rather than as West Indian elites. By divorcing themselves from an enslaved, African past, they could live more [...]
Find out moreThe Global 19th Century Workshop at UCR is pleased to present a talk by Gretchen Schultz, Professor of French Studies at Brown University. Abstract: During the turbulent early 3rd Republic, a battle between wine and spirits served as proxy in the battle for a besieged French identity. As France recovered from the humiliating loss suffered in war against the Prussians, it also faced the Great Wine Blight, which devastated vineyards and the wine industry, that most essential element of Frenchness. At the same time, the [...]
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Global 19th Century Workshop at the Center for Ideas & Society.
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The Global 19th Century Group Graduate Fellows for 2017-18 will present their new research at this event. The fellowships were awarded for outstanding graduate student research in the global nineteenth century. Fellows participated in the group's September round table event; this panel follows from it as the Fellows developed their research throughout the year.
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The talk will parse some of the ambiguities surrounding the global politics of the picturesque, especially as new visual media opened up ever-expanding geographies for the armchair spectator in Britain and America.
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