SIMEON SOLOMON AND MARGINALITY IN LATE VICTORIAN BRITAIN
An International Symposium
Yale Center for British Art

May 5-6, 2006

In October 2005, Love Revealed, a major exhibition about the work of the
Jewish and homosexual Victorian artist Simeon Solomon, opened at the
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery in the UK. To mark this important
intervention in nineteenth-century British cultural history, the Yale
Center
for British Art is holding a symposium that takes the extraordinary career
of Solomon as a starting point for an examination of marginality in late
Victorian Britain and beyond. Papers will explore the social, sexual and
political contexts in which he worked, and will address the nature of
marginality. Sessions on aestheticism, on the classical tradition and
sexuality, and on history and Jewishness will complicate our understanding
of the relationship between margin and center in Victorian Britain and its
Empire.

The keynote lecture on Friday 5 May at 5.30 will be given by Colin Cruise
(University of Staffordshire), curator of the Solomon exhibition and editor
of the accompanying publication. Other participants will include: Joe
Bristow (UCLA), Jonathan Shirland (University of York), Elizabeth
Prettejohn
(University of Bristol), Morna O\'Neill (Yale Center for British Art),
David
Feldman (Birkbeck, London), and Gayle Seymour (University of Central
Arkansas).

The symposium is free and open to the public. Advance registration is
required. To register or for more information, please contact Serena
Guerrette by e-mailing serena.guerretteyale.edu.