2025

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

Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments

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

'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

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
• Sir Bob Burgess Building 2.05

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

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

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

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