CURRENT RESEARCH

LIST OF PAPERS FROM THE VENICE CONFERENCE PAPERS

Acciavatti, Anthony (Harvard University) Apostles of Procedure and Impersonation: The delusory revival of the arts and crafts of India through the Indo-Saracenic movement

Adams, Edward (Washington and Lee University) Ruskin’s Decline and Fall of Venice

Afinoguénova, Eugenia (Marquette University, Wisconsin) “Ten O’Clock! Velásquez is Awaiting Us!”: Class, Gender, Bildung, and Emotions in the 19th-century Prado Museum

Aiello, Lucia (University of Strathclyde) “Euthanasia’s Narrative”: The Battle for Florence as the Struggle for History in Mary Shelley’s Valperga

Akiyama, Yasuo (Tokyo Ruskin Library) & Yasuo Kawabata (Japan Women’s University) A Quest for Another Pearl of Great Price: Ryuzo Mikimoto and the Tokyo Rasukin Kyokai (Tokyo Ruskin Society)

Amblard, Marion (Université Stendhal) Sir David Wilkie and David Roberts on the Continent: The impact of their travels on their career and their art

Bertonèche, Caroline (Université Stendhal - Grenoble III) John Keats, John Ruskin and the Severn circle: the Italian exile of a British coterie of artists

Bordeleau ,Anne (University of Waterloo, Ontario) Cockerell and Ruskin: Between nature and history

Brewster, Glen (Westfield State College, Massachusetts) “New Words” and “New Ideas”: Henry Crabb Robinson as Cultural Tourist

Broome Saunders, Clare (University of Oxford) ‘Venice has not been wanting in female learning among its other distinctions, to render it illustrious’: Louisa Stuart Costello, Venice, and the scholarly travel writer

Burns, Karen (Monash University, Australia) Atmospheric Vision: Weather, Photography and The Stones of Venice

Casaliggi, Carmen (University of Limerick) Lessons of Multiple Perspective: Ruskin, Turner and the Inspiration of Venice

Challis, Debbie (University College London) Artist in the House: Mary Severn Newton

Chatterjee, Anuradha (University of South Australia) Travelling the surface: John Ruskin and the production of the new theory of the adorned “wall veil”

Cinquegrani, Maurizio (King’s College London) Travel, Cinematography and the City: Architecture, Topographies and Exhibitions of the British Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Cogeanu, Oana (Al. I. Cuza- University of Iasi, Romania) Travelling for America: J. Ruskin and WM.D. Howells

Coleman Wolsk, Nancy (Transylvania University) Purposeful Traveler: May Alcott Nieriker and the Picturesque

Damien, Elsa (University of Manchester) Ruskin and Murray's Handbooks: Battles for Tourist Guidance in Mid-19th Century Italy

Ekmekçioglu, Neslihan (Hacettepe University, Turkey) The Magical Play of Sunlight in Venice : An Enchanting Source for Ruskin and Turner

Elsner, Anna Magdalena (University of Cambridge) Death in Venice – Exploring Ruskinian themes in Proust’s depiction of Venice

Farahbakhsh, Alireza (University of Guilan, Iran) Social Protest through Architecture: A Study of Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’ as the Embodiment of His Artistic and Political Views

Filipovska, Tatjana (“SS. Cyril and Methodius” University in Skopje) Ruskin on Canaletto’s painting

Finnerty, Páraic (University of Portsmouth) Rival Italys: Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin and Henry James

Fontana-Giusti, Gordana (University of Kent) The Stones, the Fold and the Spirit of Sacrifice

Frost, Mark (University of Portsmouth) Ruskin, Venice, and the Guild Idea: Peter Kropotkin and the anarchist inheritance

Fusco, Carla (Università degli studi G.D’Annunzio) Beppo, or Lord Byron’s Transgressive Venice

Gaull, Marilyn (The Editorial Institute at Boston University) Ruskin and the Culture of Weather: The dark ecology

Giese-Vögeli, Francine (University of Bern) John Ruskin and the Alhambra in Granada

Gilli, Laura (Iulm University, Italy) John Ruskin: Decadence and Untruth of Architecture

Hélard, André (Classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles, à Rennes) Ruskin between Venice and Chamonix

Hilton, J. A. (Independent Scholar) ‘Sailing to Byzantium’: Ruskin’s Imaginary Travel to Greece

Huffman Rockness, Miriam (Independent Scholar) "A Destination - and a Destiny": The Ruskin/Trotter Friendship

Huseynov, Olena (National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy) Phenomenon of “Tour to Venice” in post-soviet interpretation

James, Kevin. J. (University of Guelph, Ontario) Hunch-backs, a ‘Flannel God’ and Island Kings: Cultural Geographies of the Inishkea Islands in the Irish Tourist Imagination

Jenner, Ross (University of Aukland) Lordship and Servitude, Ornament and the Particular in The Stones of Venice

Jones Nakanishi, Wendy (Shikoku Gakuin University) The Anxiety of Influence: Ambivalent relations between Japan’s “Mingei” and Britain’s “Arts and Crafts” Movements

Keck, Stephen L. (American University of Sharjah, UAE) Ruskin and the Remaking of Venice

Kershner, Sybille (University of Applied Sciences, Zwickau) Displaced: Ricarda Huch in Trieste

Kite, Stephen (Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff) ‘Careful watchfulness’: Drawing towards Venice – 1845

Kovtun, Liliya (State Academy of Slavic Culture, Moscow) Dreams about Venice in Russian literature of XIX century

Krueger, Christine L. (Marquette University, Wisconsin) British History as European History and the Scholar Gypsy

Kucich, Greg (University of Notre Dame) Lady Morgan and Women’s Cosmopolitan History and Virtual Travel

Lane, Cindy (University of Western Australia) Italian imaginings of Western Australia in 1906

Levernier, James A. (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) Mark Twain’s Italy during the Age of Ruskin

Lund, Joshua (University of Pittsburgh) New World in the Tropics: Burton’s Brazil and the regeneration of Empire

Mallozzi, Illaria (University of Pisa) Hardy and Ruskin, two ideas of Venice

Mamoli Zorzi, Rosella (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) Against Palladio: Reading Ruskin in the train between Vicenza and Venice

Marks, Thomas (University of Oxford) ‘Sweet Cemetery Shore’: Ruskin’s Italy and the Architecture of Mourning

Masui, Hiroko (Japan Women’s University) Ruskin's The King of the Golden River and its appreciation in Japan

McCarthy, Bernadette (University College Cork) From 19th-Century Venice to a Stone Cottage in Sussex: Gregory, Yeats and Pound and Visual Venetian Connection to Anglo-American Modernism.

McKeown, William (University of Memphis) The Presentation of the Virgin: Ruskin and Images of Girlhood in Venetian Renaissance Painting

Millim, Anne-Marie (University of Glasgow) The Photographic Gesture in the Diaries of John Ruskin

Mlsová, Nella and Mls Karel (University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic) Wandering to Italy – notes and pictures by many-sided folk-artist Alois Beer

Moen, Kristian (University of Bristol) “This Image Traced in the Camera Obscura of the Mind”: Transforming Visions in Théophile Gautier’s Venices

Murphy, Margueritte (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY) Becoming Cosmopolitan: Viewing and Reviewing the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris

Ozturk, Anthony (Glion Institute) Venice and the Architecture of the Alps

Parker, Joshua (Fatih University, Istanbul) A Venice all of Evil

Plaszczewska, Olga (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Krakow) John Ruskin’s Venice seen by a Pole: Maria Konopnicka’s impressions on Venetian art – Impressions from Travels (1884) and Italia (1901)

Price, Megan (University of Oxford) Ruskin and the Stones of Oxford

Protz, Uta (European University Institute, Florence) Ruskin and Turner's Drawings of Venice: The Conservation of Lost Skies

Pulham, Patricia (University of Portsmouth) ‘Something which is not death nor sleep’: Death, Desire and the Effigy in Victorian Writings on Italy

Purdy, Strother Carpaccio, Ruskin, and Henry James

Riede, David G. (Ohio State University) Ruskin and the 'Melancholy Deeps of Things.'

Roussillon-Constanty, Laurence (Université de Toulouse) Importing Italy: Ruskin, Italian Art and Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Russell, Shannon (John Cabot University, Rome) "I cannot but fear you as I love you": Italy and the Unconventional Woman in Madame de Stael's Corinne: or Italy and After

Sato, Shoji (Brain Functions Laboratory Inc. Yokohama, Japan) Was Ruskin Demented?: An observation on Ruskin’s dementia, tracing back his mental disorders during the last dozen years of Ruskin’s life

Schwartz, John Pedro (American University of Beirut) Constructing Modernity on (the Ruins of) the Museum

Seddon, R. Martin (Lancaster University) Ruskin and Visual Media

Shin, Kyung-Sook (Yonsei University, Seoul) Two Victorians in Venice?: Topographies of Memory in Mary Shelley and John Ruskin

Simmons, Clare A. (Ohio State University) Macaulay’s Rome and the Defence of Classicism

Sliti, Adel (High Institute of Applied Studies in Humanities, Gafsa, Tunisia) “Great Works colonize us”: Derek Walcott's Caribbean Optics of Survival in Tiepolo's Hound

Sorenson, David R. (Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia) ‘A Flowing Light-Fountain’: Carlyle, Ruskin and the Architecture of Heroism in The Stones of Venice

Spates, Jim (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY) John Ruskin’s “Death in Venice”: An Early 21st-Century Revisitation of a Late 19th-Century Tragedy

Syndikus, Candida (Universität Münster) From the “Town of the Dead” to “Death in Venice”: The German painter Anselm Feuerbach and Venice

Terry, Allie (Bowling Green State University, Ohio) Stendhal and the Violence of the Italian Renaissance

Varela Braga, Ariane (University of Neuchâtel) Owen Jones – travel as inspiration

Waithe, Marcus (University of Sheffield) Memorial Studies and “fast-gaining waves”: Ruskin, Venice and the processes of preservation

Watts Sommer, Laura (Daemen College, Amherst, NY) “Oh Venice… My beautiful, my own…”: Francesco Hayez and the Regionalist Condition of Nineteenth- Century Italian Painting

Wildman, Stephen (Lancaster University) “A gold and purple arch”: Ruskin’s watercolour, North West Porch of St. Mark’s, Venice (1877)

Wilmer, Clive (Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge) Ruskin, Venice and Verona

Wynne, Catherine (University of Hull) Ireland, Italy and the Holy Land: Elizabeth Butler’s Artistic and Literary Landscapes

Yilmaz, Ahenk (Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey) Remembering with (out) Architecture: Ruskin’s Lamp of Memory and Ars Memoriae

LIST OF PAPERS, RUSKIN SEMINAR SERIES, LENT TERM (15 January-19 March 2009)

15 January: Stephen Wildman (University of Lancaster) ‘Ruskin and the Old Masters’ exhibition

22 January: Alan Davis (University of Lancaster) ‘Etching and Editing Turner: what really upset Ruskin in the National Gallery basement, and some consequences for the conclusion of Modern Painters’

29 January: Andrew Tate (University of Lancaster) ‘The First Theatrical Pre-Raphaelite? Ruskin’s Molière’

05 February: Stephen Wildman (University of Lancaster) ‘A “blunt and untrained faculty”?: Ruskin and David Cox’

12 February: Andrew Tate (University of Lancaster) Readings: Ruskin and literature with a focus on Classical Studies and Shakespeare

26 February: Charles Nugent (Independent scholar) ‘New light on Edward Lear’s 1836 Lake District drawings’

05 March: Elsa Damien (University of Manchester) ‘Ruskin and Murray’s Handbooks: Battles for Tourist Guidance in mid-19th Century Italy’

12 March: Dinah Birch (University of Liverpool) ‘Ruskin and Tennyson’

19 March: Brian Hodgson (University of Lancaster) ‘The London of Ruskin’s Youth’

LIST OF PAPERS, RUSKIN SEMINAR SERIES, AUTUMN TERM (09 October-11 December 2008)

09 October: Stephen Wildman & Andrew Tate (Lancaster University), Introduction to the year, with a reading of a new article by Van Akin Burd, ‘Ruskin and his “Good Master,” William Buckland

16 October: Andrew Tate (Lancaster University): Readings (including ‘Fiction, Fair and Foul’)

23 October: David Barnes (Queen Mary, University of London): 'Ruskin,Venice and Italian Nationalism'

30 October: James Deboo (Lancaster University):‘Ruskin and Wordsworth’

19 November: Robin Holt (Management School, Liverpool University): ‘The Gothic Frame’

27 November: Robert Hewison (City University London):‘Ruskin and Zorzi: Observations on an Anglo-Venetian Alliance’.

04 December: Brian Ingram (Lancaster University)‘Ruskin and Scott’.

11 December: Daniel Karlin (Sheffield University): ‘The Monkey and the Cocoanut: Ruskin reads Browning’

LIST OF PAPERS FROM TIPPING POINTS CONFERENCE

Laura E. Tabbut (Middlebury College) “Biography of the Poppy: John Ruskin and the Dark Kora of Proserpina”

LIST OF PAPERS FROM JOHN RUSKIN’S POSTERITY:
RUSKINIAN LEGACY THROUGH LITERATURE AND ART WRITINGS

Aubert, Nathalie (Brookes University, Oxford) La lampe de la mémoire : Proust, Ruskin et Le Temps retrouvé

Boucher-Rivalain, Odile (Cergy-Pontoise) La nature du gothique selon Ruskin et quelques définitions ultérieures

Brogniez, Laurence et Freché, Bibiane (ULB, Bruxelles) Ruskin en Belgique : passages en revues (1880-1914)

Bury, Laurent (Lyon 2) Ruskin vu par quelques femmes du XXIe siècle: le regard de la marge?

Cherly, Maria (Université d’Angers) Proust et Ruskin : la Bible en heritage

Enaud-Lechien, Isabelle (IRHIS, Lille 3) Les “ théories impressionnistes” à l’aune des Elements of Drawing de John Ruskin

Ergal, Yves-Michel (Strasbourg 2) Marcel Proust du côté de chez Ruskin

Hélard, André (Rennes) De l’innocence de l’oeil au parti pris des choses : échos ruskiniens dans la littérature française

Hullo-Pouyat, Céline (Paris IV-Abu-Dhabi) Achille Carlier : une vision ruskinienne de la restauration

Larangé, Daniel S. (Université McGill, Montréal) L’apport esthétique de John Ruskin à l’oeuvre picturale et littéraire de Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Larangé, Daniel S. (Université McGill, Montréal) L’apport esthétique de John Ruskin à l’oeuvre picturale et littéraire de Khalil Gibran (1883-1931)

Leonard, Diane R. (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) That Golden Stain of Time : Ruskin avant-textes for Proust’s Église de Combray

Martin, François-René (Ensba, Ecole du Louvre) and et Pascale Cugy (Paris IV, Ecole du Louvre), Focillon lecteur de Ruskin : de la critique de la société moderne à l’Eloge de la main

Mastrorilli, Antonella (ENSAPL, Lille) “Le temps est un grand peintre”: les déclinaisons de la restauration philologique et le débat en Italie entre XIXe et XXe siecles

Mezzalama, Giulia (Politecnico di Torino) Venise 1901: patine et polychromie contre les règles de la nouvelle modernité

Prungnaud, Joëlle (Lille 3) Médiateurs ou disciples ? Les écrivains d’art des Nineties et l’héritage ruskinien

Roussillon-Constanty, Laurence (Toulouse 3) Anéantissement de l’image / épiphanie de la peinture : de John Ruskin à Daniel Arasse

Rovera, Silvia (Université Paris XII-Université de Turin), John Ruskin et Henri de Régnier : promeneurs dans Venise

Sdegno, Emma (Università Ca’Foscari, Venise) On Modern Landscape : Ruskin et le discours contemporain sur le paysage