Spring seminar series

Each spring we host a series of seminars on topics spanning the breadth of Victorian studies. Find out about our 2025 series on this page, or learn more about our past spring seminar series.

Seminars take place at 5.15pm on Wednesdays - all are welcome. In 2025, the majority of our seminars are hybrid - please book via Ticket Tailor to receive a joining link. 

2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians

The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe

• 19 February
• Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester)
• Online
• Book your free ticket

Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments

• 26 February
• Speaker: Dr Jack Quin (Dublin City University)
• Attenborough 1707 and online
• Book your free ticket

'What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?': Medicalising Drunkenness in the British Royal Navy

• 12 March
• Speaker: Dr Manon Williams (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester)
• Attenborough 1707 and online
• Book your free ticket

Student Showcase

• 26 March
• Speakers:
  • Elliot Andrews (Centre for Victorian Stories, University of Leicester): Humorous Procrastinators: Linley Sambourne's Illustrated Letters
  • Hannah Burden (Centre for Victorian Stories, University of Leicester): ‘My life as a happy one is ended!’ Queen Victoria's Reading in Mourning
• Room tbc
• Book your free ticket

Indian women in the colonial archive: photographic practices, caste and sexuality

• 7 May
• Speaker: Dr Tara Puri (University of Bristol)
• Attenborough 1707 and online
• Book your free ticket

The Politics of Shame in Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South

• 14 May
• Speaker: Anja Hartl (University of Innsbruck)
• Attenborough 1707 and online
• Book your free ticket

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