2019
2020
Elizabeth Gaskell's House, 84 Plymouth Grove, Manchester M13 9LW
10.15AM-4.30PM
As John Ruskin’s bicentenary draws to a close, you are invited to an exciting day of talks, workshops, and a book launch on the theme of Ruskin and the environment. The event will culminate in the launch of Oak Earth, a chapbook written by the Guardian Country Diarist and Manchester Metropolitan University lecturer Dr Paul Evans. The chapbook was commissioned as part of the HLF and Guild-funded project ‘Ruskin in Wyre’ and written in response to Ruskin Land.
Speakers and workshop leaders include: Dr Rachel Dickinson (Master of the Guild and lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University), Jenny Robbins (Guild director and director of the Wyre Community Land Trust, and Tim Selman (Wyre Community Land Trust) and Dr Jennie Bailey (writer and educator). The day takes place in the beautiful surroundings of Elizabeth Gaskell’s house and, weather permitting, will be in the garden as well as inside.
All participants will receive a free copy of Paul’s new book.
The event is free and has been made possible by generosity of the Guild of St George and Manchester Metropolitan University. BOOK HERE.
The Ruskin, Lancaster
4.15pm
In her book: ‘Creative States of Mind: Psychoanalysis and the Artist’s Process’ (Routledge 2019), Patricia Townsend writes about the states of mind that artists experience as they journey through the process of making a new artwork. In this talk, Patricia will discuss the main findings of her research and will relate these to her own process of making the moving image work Black Sun.
The moving image artwork Black Sun is featured in ‘Ruskin: Museum of the Near Future’.
John J. Reilly Center, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Paul Mellon Centre
1pm
Companion Dr Thomas Hughes speaks at the research lunch at the Paul Mellon Centre, London. His subject is: Surface, Depth and Form; John Ruskin’s ‘The Nature of Gothic’.
More details and booking here. Free but booking required.
The Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AT
4.15pm – 6.00pm
Dr Marcus Waithe of Magdalene College, Cambridge will speak on ‘Insulting Ruskin: Fors Clavigera and the Uses of Offence’, and the winner of the 2019 Ruskin Society Book Prize will be announced. The shortlist for the 2019 Ruskin Society Book Prize is:
Suzanne Fagance Cooper, To See Clearly: Why Ruskin Matters (Quercus)
Suzanne Fagance Cooper, The Ruskin Revival: 1969-2019 (Pallas Athene)
Robert Hewison, Ruskin and His Contemporaries (Pallas Athene)
Andrew Hill, Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World (Pallas Athene)
Booking is now open. The event is free for members of the Society.
To book, please register here: https://
Anglia Ruskin University, East Road , Cambridge, CB1 1PT
Light refreshments from 5.30pm, talk starts at 6pm
About this Event
Award-winning Financial Times journalist Andrew Hill, author of Ruskinland: How John Ruskin Shapes Our World, examines the legacy and lessons of the work of the controversial and prescient Victorian thinker. Ruskin’s prescriptions for social and economic reform have a new relevance today in tackling contemporary problems, including
• social inequality
• excessive executive pay
• flawed economic orthodoxy
• advancing automation
• environmental disaster
• meaningless work
Andrew Hill will show how the thread of concern about how we live and work ran through Ruskin’s life and career as art critic, scientist, environmentalist, philanthropist and social reformer.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ruskinomics-revisited-tickets-88629863307
The Ruskin, Lancaster
4.15pm
Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper (Research Curator, York Art Gallery) will examine the interconnections between Ruskin’s observations of changing Alpine skyscapes and landscapes over 40 years, with his own concerns about personal fragility and decline.
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/the-ruskin/visit/events/ruskin-seminar-with-suzanne-fagence-cooper
The Ruskin, Lancaster
4.15pm
Dr Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (Associate Professor of British History, University of Chicago) explores fossil fuels, economic growth, and the relevance of Ruskin’s thinking for understanding the ecological concerns of the late nineteenth century as well as those of our own era.
Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret Street, Birmingham. B3 3BS
11am
John Peek Conference Room