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Victorian Psychology Now is a series of events convened at Birkbeck, University of London, that aims to bring together scholars and students from a range of disciplines to investigate new critical directions for researching Victorian psychology; and to explore how ideas, convictions and practices associated with Victorian psychology are being lent new focus in relation to contemporary understanding of relations between mind and body, brain and consciousness, emotion and reason. Victorian Psychology Now is organised by Dr Carolyn Burdett and Dr Heather Tilley, and generously supported by a Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF grant. You can find the programme with the session descriptions at this link: https://victorianpsychologynow.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/victorian-psychology-now-symposium-programme1.pdf

Victorian Psychology Now is a series of events convened at Birkbeck, University of London, that aims to bring together scholars and students from a range of disciplines to investigate new critical directions for researching Victorian psychology; and to explore how ideas, convictions and practices associated with Victorian psychology are being lent new focus in relation to contemporary understanding of relations between mind and body, brain and consciousness, emotion and reason. Victorian Psychology Now is organised by Dr Carolyn Burdett and Dr Heather Tilley, and generously supported by a Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF grant. You can find the programme with the session descriptions at this link: https://victorianpsychologynow.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/victorian-psychology-now-symposium-programme1.pdf

Victorian Psychology Now is a series of events convened at Birkbeck, University of London, that aims to bring together scholars and students from a range of disciplines to investigate new critical directions for researching Victorian psychology; and to explore how ideas, convictions and practices associated with Victorian psychology are being lent new focus in relation to contemporary understanding of relations between mind and body, brain and consciousness, emotion and reason. Victorian Psychology Now is organised by Dr Carolyn Burdett and Dr Heather Tilley, and generously supported by a Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF grant. You can find the programme with the session descriptions at this link: https://victorianpsychologynow.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/victorian-psychology-now-symposium-programme1.pdf

Victorian Psychology Now is a series of events convened at Birkbeck, University of London, that aims to bring together scholars and students from a range of disciplines to investigate new critical directions for researching Victorian psychology; and to explore how ideas, convictions and practices associated with Victorian psychology are being lent new focus in relation to contemporary understanding of relations between mind and body, brain and consciousness, emotion and reason. Victorian Psychology Now is organised by Dr Carolyn Burdett and Dr Heather Tilley, and generously supported by a Birkbeck Wellcome Trust ISSF grant. You can find the programme with the session descriptions at this link: https://victorianpsychologynow.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/victorian-psychology-now-symposium-programme1.pdf

This latest episode of Birkbeck Voices features a diverse mixture of upbeat projects, sobering research, and beautiful music. • Research Focus: Researchers Dr Fiona Candlin and Professor Alex Poulovassilis describe their newly-funded (more than £1million!) project into mapping the UK’s lesser known museums • The Calendar: Ahead of her Birkbeck Big Ideas event on 10 August (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/events-calendar/forced-marriage-and-2018honour2019-killings-in-britain), Dr Christina Julios described her research into honour killings and violence in the UK • Birkbeck People: Development and Alumni Assistant, Lucie Hickey, shares her passion for writing and performing music

Birkbeck BA Theatre and Drama student Karen Hobbs describes her experience of being diagnosed with cervical cancer during her studies, and how she used the experience to develop a comedy show, which she is taking to this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Writer and academic Vybarr Cregan-Reid discusses his new book, Footnotes: How Running Makes us Human (Ebury Press, 2016), a literary and philosophical study of running and modern life. He will read from a chapter about why so many people dislike running in a gym, and how the treadmill began its life as the harshest form of punishment short of the death penalty, endured by many, including Oscar Wilde.

Hear speakers from the National Portrait Gallery, Guildhall Art Gallery, the Bethlem Museum of the Mind, and the Salvation Army Archive, who host prestigious internships with the Birkbeck MA in Victorian Studies. They discuss the joys and challenges of collecting, curating, preserving and researching the Victorians. Speakers: Who was Emma Riches? Caroline Smith from Bethlem Museum of the Mind finds out. Katty Pearce, Assistant Curator at the Guildhall Art Gallery, gives us a taste of Albert Moore’s Pomegranates. Ruth Macdonald from The Salvation Army Heritage Centre talks about ‘The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon’ Dr Jan Marsh and Elizabeth Heath from the National Portrait Gallery talk about The Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue: mapping visual biographies across the nineteenth-century art world.

Arctic archives, broken lands, and Victorian relics are some of the topics our panelists discussed in this exciting event, which marked the publication of Adriana Craciun’s Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Speakers include Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) and Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge). This podcast is of Michael Bravo.

Arctic archives, broken lands, and Victorian relics are some of the topics our panelists will discussed in this exciting event, which marks the publication of Adriana Craciun’s Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Speakers include Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) and Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge). This podcast is of Adriana Craciun.

Arctic archives, broken lands, and Victorian relics are some of the topics our panelists discussed in this exciting event, which marked the publication of Adriana Craciun’s Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Speakers include Adriana Craciun (UC Riverside), Felix Driver (Royal Holloway) and Michael Bravo (Scott Polar Institute, Cambridge). This podcast is of Felix Driver.

What is the future for Europe? Using a mix of cultural, philosophical and political approaches, this evening will seek to answer the question of quo vadis Europa. Can the European project be saved? Which are the cultural ties upon which the EU can build? Can we identify new forms of post-statal political organisation, in order to secure civility in the disorganised world beyond state sovereignty. Will the central forces of crisis undermine the European project in its entirety? Are there particular steps that can be taken to overcome current concerns, for example the ongoing problem of democratic deficit? What roles can law and legal theory play in guiding the European Union into the future? For more information - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lawontrial .

This event placed the crisis of migration within the EU within a broader context of economic and political upheaval within the member states and aspirant member states of the European Union, as well as within countries far beyond the EU. The current migration crisis within the EU is both a global phenomenon and a further cause of doubt and concern about the political, social and cultural responses of the EU to the drawing of the boundaries of the Union. Does the EU have the capacity to master crisis? This panel of young critical European lawyers explored this multi-faceted crisis from the varying national perspectives of the candidate countries of the Balkans, Greece, Germany and the UK. For more information - http://www.bbk.ac.uk/lawontrial .

In the run up to the EU Referendum, Birkbeck School of Law is putting on a week-long series of free public events to debate the top issues facing voters. Law on Trial 2016: The EU at the Crossroads runs from 13-17 June - bbk.ac.uk/lawontrial This time on Birkbeck Voices, we speak to the key organiser behind the programme of events, Professor Michelle Everson (bit.ly/1TXoAAd), to see what’s in store at Law on Trial 2016 To book your free place at a Law on Trial 2016 event - bbk.ac.uk/lawontrial

In the wake of a packed and thoroughly successful Arts Week 2016 - bbk.ac.uk/artsweek - Birkbeck Voices offers a performance-based taste of how two events went: - Theatre Scratch Night: MA Text and Performance - http://bit.ly/25lvp41 - students perform an extract of an original piece of theatre - Moving People: Creative Writing and the Refugee: Dr Steve Willey - http://bit.ly/1szKA83 - performs two powerful pieces of poetry which he wrote after doing fieldwork in the West Bank. To experience more highlights from Arts Week 2016 - bbk.ac.uk/artsweek

Ahead of #BBKArtsWeek 2016 (bbk.ac.uk/artsweek - 16-20 May) Birkbeck Voices gives a snapshot of what to expect at the annual celebration of art and culture: - Overview: Arts week coordinators Professor Sue Wiseman and Dr Louise Owen give a broad overview of this year’s packed programme. - Local Government Sustaining the Arts: Southwark Councillor Paul Fleming MP gives an insight into what he will touch on at his Arts Week event on Monday 16 May - ow.ly/4nsv2j There are 50+ free public events at Arts Week - please book your place now - bbk.ac.uk/artsweek

There’s plenty to delve into in this latest edition of Birkbeck Voices: - Research Focus: Researcher Mark Panton speaks about his thesis on sports stadiums and urban regeneration http://ow.ly/4n6PPw - Birkbeck People: Outreach officer Faith Williams talks about her role and the pioneering project she’s leading with Haringey Council - http://ow.ly/4n6PZF - The Calendar: Recruitment manager, Eleanor Martin talks about the formal launch of the Birkbeck Talent recruitment service - http://ow.ly/4n6Q4F

In this paper I investigate the role of the Victorian wood engraver and their business of artistically producing someone else’s lines. Is this mechanics, or creation? From drawing to autograph, the line is a powerful element of the way we understand artistic identity. The line is essential to aesthetics; without it there can be no boundary, no form, no artwork. Curling into letters and forms, the line connects writing and the image. An expressive gesture, the line is what links the body of the artist – their hands and eyes in particular – with the artwork as object. Mainstream Victorian wood engravers such as Dalziel had the job of creating another person’s line, and according to common beliefs about artistic identity and work, this is a paradox, which undermines many of our assumptions about what lines mean in art.

The latest edition of Birkbeck Voices features everything from volcanology to making deals with the Devil! - Research Focus: Professor Colin Teevan speaks about writing for the stage (in his forthcoming, Kit Harington - starring, production of Dr Faustus – http://ow.ly/ZlOA1) and screen (in his award-winning drama Rebellion - http://ow.ly/ZlOuU). - Birkbeck People: Dr James Hammond speaks about his pioneering volcanology research in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea - The Calendar: Professor Nick Keep opens the door on the programme for Science Week 2016 - http://ow.ly/ZlOFt

This seminar, presented in collaboration with the History and Theory of Photography Research Centre at Birkbeck, will explore the new material Martha Weiss discovered while researching the current must-see exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, marking the bicentenary of the birth of Julia Margaret Cameron, 150 years after she first exhibited her work there. Colin Ford has worked extensively on this important photographer, most notably in the comprehensive catalogue Julia Margaret Cameron: Complete Photos (Getty, 2002).