EVENTS

PAST EVENTS

THE SOCIETY FOR THEATRE RESEARCH

John Ruskin & the British Pantomime
A talk by Jeffrey Richards
Thursday 19 February 2009
John Ruskin, the great Victorian art critic and social critic, is perhaps the last person you would associate with the theatre. However, he was both an inveterate theatregoer and a devotee of the Christmas pantomime. Professor Richards, a leading historian of popular culture will assess pantomime's appeal to Ruskin and his stout defence of the traditional pantomime as it underwent major changes
(Source: http://www.str.org.uk/events/lectures/archive/lecture0902.shtml).
At the Art Workers Guild, London

AT RUSKIN PROGRAMME, LANCASTER UNIVERSITY

'John Ruskin and a Venetian episode in the life of the National Gallery'
Ruskin Seminar Series
Cynthia Gamble (Honorary Visiting Fellow)
23 April 2009, 4.00pm-6.00pm
Cynthia Gamble is one of the leading authorities on Ruskin and Proust. She is a Visiting Fellow of the Ruskin Library and Research Centre at Lancaster University and Vice-Chairman of the Ruskin Society.

‘John Ruskin, Henry James and the Shropshire Lads’: A journey through Shropshire’s “beautiful little places
Cynthia Gamble
25 April 2009, 6.00 pm
This lecture coincided with an exhibition at Lancaster University on Victorian Artists in Photographs: Selection from The Rob Dickins Collection, from the Watts Gallery)

'My three-cornerdest of Chaplains'. John Ruskin and the Revd John Pincher Faunthorpe, Principal of Whiteland College'
Ruskin Seminar Series
David Peacock - Ruskin Seminar Series
30 April 2009, 4.00pm-6.00pm

'John Ruskin, the Olympian Painters and the amateur stage'
Ruskin Seminar Series
Jeffrey Richards (University of Lancaster)
07 May 2009, 4.00pm-6.00pm

Inaugural Lecture- "It cannot be better done:" John Ruskin and Albrecht Dürer
Stephen Wildman, Professor of the History of Art
14 May 2009
Director, Ruskin Library and Research Centre

AT BRANTWOOD

Informal evening In association with Royal Geographical Society Friday 08 May 2009 NW region Committee members present a varied and inspirational range of cartography - from geology and politics to Arthur Ransome and Ruskin. From serious maps to childhood treasures. The evening also provides a unique opportunity to preview an art exhibition of John Dugger's Himalayan Notebooks, which opens the following day at Brantwood.

"Ruskin at Brantwood" – A Talk
Freddie Harris
09 June, 28 July, 11 August, 08 September 2009
2.15pm until 3.15pm
Gain an insight into Ruskin's life at Brantwood.

THE RUSKIN SOCIETY

John Ruskin v. Owen Jones
An illustrated talk by Dr Kathryn Ferry
Thursday 13th November 2008
The mid-nineteenth century was a period of intense debate about the future of architecture and design. Whereas Ruskin’s views are well known, those of his contemporary, Owen Jones, (1809-74) are less so. Despite this, as author of The Grammar of Ornament and a leading member of the South Kensington circle, Jones was influential in putting forward a very different view of nature and industrialization to Ruskin’s.
Dr Kathryn Ferry, as an independent architectural historian, will look at two men who seemed to argue from opposite ends of the spectrum, examining the differences and indeed the similarities in their points of view.
At the Art Workers Guild, London

‘The interpretation of history in Ruskin’s social thought’
A talk by Dr Gill Cockram
Sunday 08 February 2009
Dr Cockram is involved in research in the History of Political Ideas at the University of London and is the author of Ruskin and Social Reform (Tauris 2007) and has been commissioned to provide the entry on Ruskin in the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought.
At the Priory Church of St Bartholomew the Great

AT THE NATIONAL GALLERY, LONDON

John Ruskin and a Venetian episode in the life of the National Gallery – A talk
Dr Cynthia Gamble
Tuesday 10 February 2009
In 1852 John Ruskin attempted to persuade the National Gallery to acquire two Tintorettos which he considered at risk of neglect in the Venetian churches of San Cassiano and Santa Maria della Salute. His efforts proved fruitless. The episode marked the start of a cooling in Ruskin’s friendship with Charles Lock Eastlake, an ex-officio Trustee in 1852 and later Director of the National Gallery from 1855. Cynthia Gamble will examine the background to Ruskin’s attempts to ‘rescue’ the Tintorettos as well as charting the subsequent developments in his friendship with Eastlake.
Wilkins Board Room

AT GONVILLE AND CAIUS COLLEGE

A performance of Ruskin’s lecture on the political economy of art: “A Joy Forever”
Paul O’Keeffe
31 October 2008
Dr Paul O’Keeffe is actor and art historian, who regularly lectures at Museums in Liverpool

FORTHCOMING EVENTS

AT BRANTWOOD
"Ruskin at Brantwood" – A Talk
Freddie Harris
09 June, 28 July, 11 August, 08 September 2009
2.15pm until 3.15pm
Gain an insight into Ruskin's life at Brantwood.