Date: June 23 – 24, 2006 Venue: London, England Convened by Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE STEVEN BANN, KATE FLINT, MICHAEL HATT, BRIAN We invite proposals for 20 minute papers on the interplay between the verbal and the visual in nineteenth-century culture. Suggestions for panels are also welcome. Topics might include: Ekphrasis; Spectators, Viewers, Readers, Observers; Optics; The Virtual and the Real; Graphic Satire; The Illustrated Press; The Culture of Periodicals; Imaginary Galleries; Narrative Painting; Advertising; New Technologies; Then and Now. Proposals to s.ledger@bbk.ac.uk |