International Conference 20-21 May 2019
Co-organized by Historic Royal Palaces and the University of Warwick, in partnership with the Royal Collection Trust, the Bodleian Library, the University of Oxford and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, to mark the bicentenary of Queen Victoria’s birth.
Conference Schedule
Day 1 20 May 2019
9.15 - 9.45 ARRIVAL
9.45 – 10.00 Introduction by Joanna Marschner (HRP) and Michael Hatt (University of Warwick)
10.00 - 11.00 Keynote Lecture Title TBC John Plunkett University of Exeter
11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE
11.30 – 13.00 Session 1: Victoria and the Spaces of Representation
11.30 - 11.50 Jennifer Davey (University of East Anglia) Her Majesty as a Stateswoman: Press Depictions of Victoria’s Political Influence
11.50 - 12.10 Michael Ledger-Lomas (King’s, London) Religion in Common Life: Constructing Sacred Space at Victoria’s Court
12.10 - 12.30 Lee Butcher (English Heritage) Placing Victoria: Towards a More Than Representational History of the Victorian Monarchy
12.30 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 Session 2: Picturing Victoria
14.00 - 14.20 Pamela Fletcher (Bowdoin College) Unmistakeably Visible: Queen Victoria in Frith’s ‘The Marriage of the Prince of Wales’
14.20 – 14.40 Helen Trompeteler (Royal Collection Trust) Afterlives: Photography and Mourning
14.40 - 15.00 Eva Ehninger (Humboldt University) Royalty as Family: Queen Victoria in Private Photography Albums of the Late-Nineteenth Century
15.00 – 15.30 Discussion
15.30 – 16.00 TEA
16.00 - 17.00 Session 3: Image as Exemplar: Victoria as Mentor and Model
16.00 - 16.20 Priya Atwal (King’s, London) The Politics of Royal Friendship in an Anglo-European Context, 1846-54
16.20 – 16.40 Lisa van der Borch and Miara Fraikin (The Royal Collections of the Netherlands) Military Queens: A Study of Victoria’s Influence on Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
16.40 – 17.00 Discussion
17.00 - 18.00 Reception and Private View of New Displays
17.30 - 17.45 Claudia Williams Introduction to “The Young Victoria” display
17.45 - 18.00 Polly Putnam Introduction to “Victoria: Woman and Queen” display
18.00 - 19.30 Private view
Day 2 21 May, 2019
9.00 - 9.30 ARRIVAL
9.30 - 11.00 Victoria on Screen: Magic Lantern and Early Film
Bryony Dixon (British Film Institute) Victoria: The Queen on Screen
Jeremy Brooker (Chairman of the Magic Lantern Society) Happy and Glorious: Queen Victoria through the Magic Lantern
11.00 - 11.30 COFFEE
11.30 - 13.00 Session 4: Victoria’s Global Image
11.30 - 11.50 Maria Nugent (Australian National University) Matriarchy, Authority and Intimacy: Queen Victoria’s Image in Aboriginal Australia
11.50 - 12.10 Sarah Carter and Sharon Venne (University of Alberta) Queen Victoria and the First Nations of Western Canada’s Peace and Friendship Treaties
12.10 - 12.30 Dee Wu (University of Warwick) Queen Victoria’s Changed Images in Mainland China and the Rising Anglophile Sentiment among the Chinese Middle Class
12.30 - 13.00 Discussion
13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 Session 5: Gifting and Diplomacy: The Circulation and Impact of Victoria’s Image
14.00 - 14.20 Laura-Maria Popoviciu and Andrew Parratt (Government Art Collection) Victoria, Now and Then
14.20 – 14.40 Elizabeth Cory-Pearce (Tavistock Institute) Exchanges between Maori and Queen Victoria upon the Reception of her Offspring at Rotorua, Aotearoa New Zealand
14.40 - 15.00 Gaye Sculthorpe (British Museum) Nineteenth Century Gifts, Twentieth Century Returns: Curating Victoria’s Gifts from Oceania
15.00 – 15.30 Discussion
15.30 - 16.00 TEA
16.00 - 17.00 Plenary Panel: Interpreting Victoria Today Chair: John Plunkett (University of Exeter) Panellists: Margaret Homans (Yale University), Adrienne Munich (Stony Brook University), Julius Bryant (Victoria and Albert Museum)