Events

Upcoming Events

Friday, March 30, 2:00 p.m. Slocum Puzzle Room, Lilly Library

Discussion with Seth Koven, Department of History, Rutgers University

Professor Koven, a leading scholar of Victorian and Edwardian culture, will
discuss a chapter from his forthcoming book, The Match Girl and the Heiress: Love, Friendship, and Christian Revolution in the London Slums. The chapter, entitled "Victorian Childhoods and Two Victorian Children," along with a short description of Koven's book, is available for attendees. To receive a copy, contact Victorian Studies at victstu@indiana.edu.

Professor Koven is the author of the award-winning Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London, which was published in 2004.

Koven's visit is presented by the Victorian Studies program and the European History Workshop.

Friday, April 20 - Sunday, April 22, 2012

Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference
"Hard Times" or "Great Expectations"?: How the Victorians Saw Themselves

Join us in beautiful Bloomington, Indiana, as we explore the Victorians' perceptions of themselves and celebrate the bicentennial of Charles Dickens's birth. In addition to scintillating presentations and discussions, the conference will offer a showing of a rare 1917 film of A Tale of Two Cities and a Dickens variety show, including a professional performance of Dickens's "Sikes and Nancy."

Our first keynote speaker will be John R. Reed, whose many academic publications include Dickens and Hyperreality (2011), Victorian
Conventions (1975), The Natural History of H. G. Wells (1982), Decadent Style (1985), Victorian Will (1989), and Dickens and Thackeray: Punishment and Forgiveness (1995). Our second keynote address will be by Anne Helmreich, Senior Program Officer of the Getty Foundation. An art historian and former director of the Humanities Center at Case Western Reserve University, she has published The English Garden and National Identity (Cambridge UP, 2002).

500-word abstracts and 1-page (only) vitas should be submitted to MVSA by October 20, 2011. For more information, including the call for papers, see the conference website.