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Lectures

Featured

  • The Tiger in the Smoke: The Fog of Modernity in 1950s London
    University College London
    March 2012

  • The Ruins of Modernity in 1950s London
    University of Cambridge
    October 2012

  • The Haunted Gallery: Living Images c.1900
    KASK Annual Lecture
    University of Gent
    November 2012

  • Objects of Desire: Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites
    TATE Britain
    November 2012

  • Great Expectations and Postwar Britain
    University of the Arts, London
    December 2012

  • The Fog of 1952 and Meteorological Aesthetics
    Smith School Seminars
    University of Oxford
    February 2013

  • Women in Red and Men in Black and Women in Red: Fashion, Art and Modernity in the 19th Century
    Gresham College, London
    2013 - 2014

  • Rethinking the Victorians
    Plymouth University
    May 2016

     

  • Woman in a Dressing Gown: Women and Domesticity in Post-War BritainThe Derek Jarman Annual Lecture
    The University of Kent
    November 2016
     

  • Once More the Fallen Woman
    Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
    December 2016

  • Dickens Noir: The Persistence of Victorianism in Post-War Britain
    University of Oxford
    November 2017

  • Greyscale and Colour: The Hues of Nation and Empire in Post-War Britain
    Victoria and Albert Museum, London
    April 2018

  • The Question of Colour in Post-War Art and Design
    Henry Moore Institute, Leeds.
    June 2018

  • British Blonde: Women, Desire and the Image
    Paul Mellon Centre Annual Lectures
    Victoria & Albert Museum, London and Yale University
    October - November 2023

  • Sixties Blonde: Pauline Boty
    College of Arts and Humanities, University College Dublin
    April 2024

     

  • Pauline Boty: Women, Desire and the Image in Sixties Britain
    Paul Mellon Lecture
    Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT
    April 2024

  • Introducing It Always Rains on Sunday (UK, 1947; dir. Robert Hamer)
    Research Center Work-In-Progress Seminars
    Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
    May 2024

     

  • Magical Objects and the Gothic Imagination in Post-War Britain
    Lee B. Anderson Memorial Lecture
    Bard Graduate Centre, New York
    April 2025

Videos of Previous Lectures

'Le Habit Noir': Men in Black - Professor Lynda Nead
50:11
Lynda Nead: “Life in the Elephant”: The Grain of Post-War Photography and Identity
27:54
The Crinoline Cage - Professor Lynda Nead
52:05
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: The Girl of the Period - Professor Lynda Nead
53:06
Fashion and Visual Culture in the 19th Century: Women in Red - Professor Lynda Nead
59:39
Fallen Women
15:14

Conferences

Conference Paper
Conference
Location
Date
Stilling the Punch: Violence and the Photographic Image
38th Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
University of Rome
September 2010
The Aesthetics of Violence
keynote lecture at the 1st European Congress of Aesthetics
Prado Museum, Madrid
November 2010
Heroines of the Everyday: Women in Nineteenth-Century Art
keynote lecture at conference to accompany Heroínas exhibition
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
May 2011
Disciplinarity and Interdisciplinarity: The Place of History of Art
keynote lecture at summer graduate symposium
Montehermoso, Bilbao
July 2011
“to let in the sunlight”: Dickens, Lean and Post-war Chiaroscuro
Dickens and the Visual Imagination
University of Surrey
July 2012
The Aesthetics of Sports Photography
the British Society for the History of Sport
University of Glasgow
September 2012
The Cutman: Boxing, the Male Body and the Wound
40th Annual Meeting of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport
University of Porto
September 2012
Layers of Pleasure: Women’s Dress in the 1860s
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference
University of Virginia
March 2013
The Secret of England’s Greatness
British Association of Victorian Studies, North American Victorian Studies Association, Australian Victorian Studies Association first combined conference
Venice
June 2013
Women, Fashionable Dress and Visual Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Bodies and Images: International Colloquium
University of Coimbra
October 2013
The Tiger in the Smoke: The Fog of Post-War Modernity
Politics and Urban Space
University of Paris-Diderot
December 2013
“Broken Buildings and Horrid Empty Spaces”: Bombsites and Photojournalism in Post-War Britain
Getting the Picture
University of Southern California
May 2014
Towards a History of Visual Atmosphere
The Practice of History
University of Sheffield
November 2014
Ideologies of Colour
The Colour Fantastic: Chromatic Worlds of Silent Cinema
EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
March 2015
The Chiaroscuro of Post-War Culture
Victorian Futures: Culture, Democracy and the State on the Road to Olympicopolis
Chelsea College of Arts
May 2015
The Visuality of Post-War Fog
European Society for Environmental History Biennial Conference
University of Versailles
July 2015
“30,000 Colour Problems”: Migration and Mobility in Post-War Britain c. 1948-60
International Conference of Historical Geographers annual conference
Royal Geographical Society
July 2015
“Red Taffeta Under a Tweed Skirt”: Race, Colour and Dress in Post-War Britain
The Look of Austerity
Museum of London
September 2015
Victorian Sexualities and After
Birkbeck College, London
November 2015
The Aesthetics of Boxing
21st Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science
University of Vienna
July 2016
‘Post-War Homes and Open Fires
Material Cultures of Energy: Fuel, Appliances, Lifestyles
Science Museum, London
September 2016
The Grain of Post-War Britain: Bert Hardy and Picture Post
Photography and Britishness
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
November 2016
Processing the 60s
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
September 2017
The Grain of History: Photography and Post-War Time
Photography and History
University of Birmingham
May 2018
Dickens, Lean and the Imaginary Victorian City
City, Space and Spectacle in Nineteenth-Century Performance
Palazzo Pesaro-Papafava, Venice
June 2018
The Art of the Courtroom Sketch
Art and Law
The University of Lucerne
June 2024

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