Launched in 2023, the Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network brings together an international community of postgraduate students and early career researchers (including academics, curators, independent researchers, educators and creative practitioners &c.) whose interests encompass the works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, their associates and successors.
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15 October 2025
DEPICTING FEMININITY I
Chair: Professor Serena Trowbridge
Laura Martínez Gimeno, ‘Mythological Cursed Women’
Rocío Moyano Rejano, “Though She Be but Little, She is Fierce”: The Construction of Femininity in Shakespearean Heroines Within Pre-Raphaelite Painting’
12 November 2025
DEPICTING FEMININITY II
Chair: Dr Cecilia Rose
Lydia McKelvie, ‘Love and Death Re-imagined: Artistic Interpretation of Boccaccio’s Decameron
Across Time’
Dr Shareed Mohammed, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Iconic Representation of Female Beauty: Precursor to the Anglophone Caribbean Modernist Artistic Sensibility’
10 DECEMBER 2025
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND FASHION
Chair: Dr Emily Learmont
Guest speaker: Dr Robyne Calvert, ‘Dismantling Pre-Raphaelite Dress: Facts and Fictions in Women’s Artistic Sartorial Practices’
14 January 2026
PRE-RAPHAELITE TRACES
Chair: Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper
Dr Barbara Bessac, ‘Performing the Sussex Chair: Tracing an Object Across Rooms and Stages’
Dr Glenda Youde, ‘Walking in Pre-Raphaelite Footsteps’
18 February 2026
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND MUSIC
Chairs: Karl Merrick and Christin Neubauer
Dr Orly Watson, ‘Bright Music from the World where Shadows are: Constructing a Pre- Raphaelite Musical Lineage’
Dr Marte Stinis, ‘Pre-Raphaelites and Music: A Means to an End or an End in Itself?’
Karl Merrick, ‘Died For Love: English “Folk” Song, Pre-Raphaelitism and Trans-Historicism’
11 March 2026
FRANCE AND ITALY: RECEPTIONS AND ENTANGLEMENTS
Chair: Dr Eduardo De Maio
Dr Laure Nermel, ‘The Pre-Raphaelites’ Reception in France: A Love and Hate Relationship?’
Alessia Attanasio and Vincenzo Pernice, ‘Post Raphael, Before the Sitwells: The Reception of Italian Baroque Art Among Pre-Raphaelite Painters, Victorian Exhibitions and Collectors’
22 April 2026
PRE-RAPHAELITE WOMEN ARTISTS
Chair: Dr Alex Round
Dr Meri Tek Demir, ‘Elizabeth Siddal and Christina Rossetti Among the Pre-Raphaelites: A Reconsideration of Women’s Creativity in Word and Image’
Edith Charlesworth, “Like Sunlight in the Mirror”: Henry Holiday, Florence Camm and the Long Reach of Pre-Raphaelitism’
13 May 2026
SET IN STONE
Chair: Steven Burgess
Joy Cador, ‘A Mar(b)ellous Stone? Marble in British painting (1851-1913)’
Christin Neubauer, ‘Traces of the Anthropocene: Eco-Critical Visions in Anna Blunden’s God’s Gothic’
17 June 2026
CURATING THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
Guest speakers: Hannah Squire and Helen Bratt-Wyton
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