CEH is excited to host a workshop with Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature Clara Dawson, exploring multispecies representations and the avian poetics of the 19th century.

Visiting from the University of Manchester, Clara is currently a Visiting Fellow with the Aarhus Insitute of Advanced Studies (AIAS). To read more about Clara and her research, please click here here.

The event is free for everyone to attend. Coffee and tea provided.

Abstract

This workshop will examine a series of short texts and images representing nineteenth-century birds in different forms: natural history, specimen skins in museums, and poems. The workshop will pose two questions about the history of birds: what stories can we uncover from natural history texts and archives that bring to the surface the historical violence perpetuated differently against people and animals? And what disturbances to human-animal relations are registered by nineteenth-century poets?

Texts will be provided and no advance reading necessary.