2023

2023 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians

Tiny Traces: Uncovering the Lives of African and Asian Children at London's Foundling Hospital

• 8 March
• Speaker: Hannah Dennett (University of Warwick)
• In-person: Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis 1
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Cricket Country: An Indian Odyssey in the Age of Empire

• 23 March (Thursday)
• Speaker: Dr Prashant Kidambi (University of Leicester)
• In-person: Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis 1
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In the 'Land of Pestilence': Death, Disease, and 'Doctorly' Memsahibs in Colonial India

• 29 March
• Speaker: Dr Ipshita Nath (University of Saskatchewan) 
• In-person: Fielding Johnson South Wing, Ogden Lewis 1
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Student Research Papers

• 10 May
• Speakers: Florence Heath, 'Egypt in the Life-writing of Four "Victorian" Sisters: Beatrice Webb, Kate Courtney, Margaret Hobhouse, and Rosalind Dobbs.', Hannah Burden, '"...how proud I feel to be the Queen of such a Nation" - The Coronation of Queen Victoria.', and Esther Kentish, 'Illness and Victorian Care-giving in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Life-writing.'
• In-person: Attenborough 001
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Life Beyond Meat? Speculative Food Frontiers in Late-Victorian Romance

• 24 May
• Speakers: Professor Paul Young, Dr Marc Ricard, and Fiona Schroeder (University of Exeter)
• In-person: Attenborough 001
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