Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies
Autumn 2014 Programme
The next event of the autumn term for the Birkbeck Forum for Nineteenth-Century Studies will feature Sophie Thomas (Ryerson) presenting on 'A strange and mixed assemblage: Sir John Soane, Archivist of the Self' on Friday 28 November 2014 from 6.30pm to 8.30pm in Room G10, 43 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PD.
The house-museum of the architect and collector Sir John Soane in Lincoln’s Inn Fields is one of the only London museums still in existence that dates back in its present form to the early nineteenth century. During Soane’s lifetime, it housed his eclectic and ever-growing collections, and functioned as a ‘quasi’ public museum: it served a variety of purposes, from a professional and educational resource to an antiquarian’s dramatic, fantasized mise-en-scène. The close interrelation of house, museum, and archive – all spaces of gathering and holding – inevitably changed after Soane’s death in 1837, as did the nature of the house with its striking elements of monument and mausoleum. The agency of Soane and his objects, broadly understood, was subject to re-encoding as it shifted from collector to collection, captured by the more static and potentially deadening spaces of the museum. This paper focuses by contrast on what the Soane museum can tell us about archives and agential life, and about the more paradoxical aspects of self preservation, by examining Soane’s often manic efforts to remain a living presence in his own archive, which the performative qualities of his museum so effectively facilitated.
Future Autumn Term Forum events include:
Wednesday 3 December 2014, 6.00 - 8.00 pm
Our Mutual Friend Reading Project: Panel Discussion
Room 112, 43 Gordon Square
The sessions are free and all are welcome, but since the venue has limited space it will be first come, first seated.
For more information, see: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/birkbeck-forum-for-nineteenth-century-studies/birkbeck-forum-for-nineteenth-century-studies-autumnterm-2014.
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Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies
School of Arts
Birkbeck, University of London
43 Gordon Square
London
WC1H 0PD
United Kingdom
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