Special Events
Professor Heard's Frightful Victorian Magic Lantern Show
‘Professor’ Heard introduces modern audiences to the weird and wonderful magic lantern entertainments once presented in public halls and private drawing rooms throughout the 19th century. Each show is different and draws on a unique collection of original 19th century mechanical moving pictures, sights, frights, moral warnings, adventures, pictorial curiosities and fascinating information.
Mervyn Heard has created shows and special presentations for international art galleries, museums and festivals including Tate Britain's Gothic Nightmares exhibition, the National Portrait Gallery and the Hayward Gallery. He has also advised on several films and TV programmes, including Michael Winterbottom's Jude (1996) and Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow (1999). His most recent TV work has been ‘Jack the Ripper – Tabloid Myth: Revealed’ for Lion TV, to be shown on Channel 5 in June 2009. He is the author of Phantasmagoria: The Secret Life of the Magic Lantern (2006) and was co-editor, with Richard Crangle and Ine Van Dooren, of Realms of Light: Uses and Perceptions of the Magic Lantern from the 17th to the 21st Century (2005).
See http://www.heard.supanet.com/index.html for further information.
Paul Hodkinson: Goth DJ set
Paul Hodkinson is best known as a Senior Lecturer based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, the author of Goth. Identity, Style and Subculture (2002), and co-editor of Youth Cultures: Scenes, Subcultures and Tribes (2007). However, outside academia, Paul has a dual identity as DJ Spurious and in this guise, will be playing a set for us in the bar on Thursday night. See set listings from some of his previous gigs at http://www.paulhodkinson.co.uk/dj.php
Exhibition in the Ruskin Library
Lancaster University's internationally renowned Ruskin Library will be open during the day throughout the conference (11 am - 4 pm), and on Thursday (23 July) will stay open until 7 pm for conference delegates: free refreshments will be served.
Within the Summer Miscellany display of books, manuscripts and drawings relating to John Ruskin and his circle there will be a section relevant to the conference, including Ruskin's copy of Holbein's 'Dance of Death' in the 1833 Pickering edition by Francis Douce. Among other exhibits will be Edward Burne-Jones's celebrated image of 'Chaucer in his Study' (1863), which belonged to Ruskin and used to hang in the hall at Brantwood.
You can find more information about the Ruskin Library at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/ruskinlib/
