CNCS Postgraduate Conference Programme: 'Nineteenth-Century Culture in the Flesh'

CNCS Postgraduate Conference Programme:

Nineteenth-Century Culture in the Flesh

Mill Hill Lane, Durham University

10am: Welcome Dr James Koranyi (Durham)

10.15 – 11.15: Keynote Prof. Carrie Vout (Cambridge),

Antiquity incarnate? Nineteenth-century encounters with classical sculpture

11.15-12.30: Panel 1

Bori Papp (Northumbria), Costume as Repositories of Knowledge: Mapping the Carl Rosa Company’s regional networks.

John Haycraft (Oxford), Wrought from within upon the flesh: The Language of Physiognomy in Pater’s portraits.

12.30 – 1.30: Lunch 

1.30 – 2.45: Panel 2

James Inkster (Newcastle), Criminally Old Flesh: William Thackeray’s Berry London (1844).

Taylor Moore (Oxford), The Breaking up of Laws: Sexual Mythology and the Politics of Transgression in Alfred Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.

2.45-3.45: Oriental Museum with Prof. Jonathan Saha (Durham)

4-4.30: Close and Conclusion, Shio Mitsuhashi (Durham) and Ben Thompson (Northumbria)

Download a copy of the programme which includes abstracts and speaker bios from the link below:

CNCS PG Conference programme 2026