The Ruskin Seminar Series brings specialist guest-speakers to Lancaster.

In 2020-2021, we explore the international significance of Ruskin’s legacy in our seminar series ‘Ruskin Beyond Britain’.

The series will place Ruskin’s legacy in a global context, featuring presentations from an international community of researchers who are exploring how Ruskin’s ideas have affected societies from Russia to Brazil, from America to Italy, and from France to China.

Each seminar will include a presentation and response, followed by questions and discussion with participants. The Ruskin Seminar Series is free, online and open to all. To join, book online using the title links below. If you would like to join The Ruskin’s reading group, email the-ruskin@lancaster.ac.uk.

Professor Laurence Roussillon-Constanty: Found in Translation - A French Perspective on Ruskin

16.00 – 17.30, 19 November 2020

Response: Professor Dinah Birch CBE, BA, MA, DPhil, FRSA, FEA

Professor Claudio Amaral: John Ruskin, Rui Barbosa and the Industrialization of Brazil

16.00 – 17.30, 10 December 2020

Response: Professor Ruth Conroy Dalton

Dr Nan Zhang: ‘The Cultivated and Observant Eye’ - Ruskin, China, and the Art of Living

12.00 – 13.30, 28 January 2021

Response: Professor Jianxin Zhou

Dr Suzanne Fagence Cooper: Storm Clouds and the Sea of Ice - Ruskin in the Alps

16.00 – 17.30, 25 February 2021

Response: Andrew Hill

Professor Michael J. Hughes: A Ruskinian View of Russia?

16.00 – 17.30, 18 March 2021

Response: Professor Charlotte Alston

Gabriel Meyer: Ruskin and the California Dream

16.00 – 17.30, 22 April 2021

Response: Dr Chris Donaldson