Professor Tom Gretton (in collaboration
with the European Studies group and with Art and Art History)
Art History
University College London
Title: “Aftermath and New Dawn: The Role of the Artist in the Graphic
Work of J.-L. David and N.T. Charlet, 1815 – 1830”
Thursday, March 2
5:00-6:00
Art Building E109
Tom Gretton is Senior lecturer and Head of Department in the department of Art
History at University College London. His major research projects are in two
principle areas: “popular prints” in Mexico in the generation before
the outbreak of the 1910-1917 revolution in Mexico, particularly the work of
J. G. Posada; and the development of general interest weekly illustrated periodicals
intended for a bourgeois readership in Europe in the second half of the nineteenth
century. He also works on aspects of art after the fall of Napoleon, particularly
on the impact of the introduction of Lithography.
Professor Caroline Webber
French
Barnard College, Columbia University
Title: “Marie Antoinette’s Catastrophic Costumes”
Monday, March 20
4:00-5:00
315 Phillips Hall
Caroline Weber is Associate Professor of French at Barnard College, Columbia
University. Her paper is part of her latest book project, "Queen of Fashion:
What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution," which will be published
by Henry Holt in October 2006. Her previous publications include Terror and
its Discontents: Suspect Words in Revolutionary France (2003); "Fragments
of Revolution" (a special issue of Yale French Studies, 2002); and various
articles on Enlightenment philosophy and literature.
Professor Susan Bernstein
Department of English
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: "Roomscapes: Women Writers in the British Museum from George Eliot
to Virginia Woolf"
Tuesday, April 25
7:00 pm
EPB Gerber Lounge
Susan David Bernstein is a professor of English, Women's Studies, and Jewish
Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the author of Confessional
Subjects: Revelations of Gender and Power in Victorian Literature and Culture
(1997). Her editions of two nineteenth-century novels by Anglo-Jewish writer
Amy Levy, have just been published by Broadview. Bernstein’s research
focuses on Victorian studies, including women writing natural history, sensation
fiction and Darwin, and on Jewish vulgarity in Victorian fiction. In addition,
she has published articles on Anne Frank's diary and the politics of identification,
and on confessional discourse in feminist theory. Her current project focuses
on the transformation of gendered spaces of reading and writing in the Reading
Room of the British Museum between 1857 and 1929.