Victorian Studies: Imagining the Possibilities
15th Annual Research Symposium

Friday 27 October 2023

305 Founders College

Tea, Coffee, and Welcome, 10:00-10:15am

Host:  Natalie Neill

Morning Session,  10:15-11:45 am

Moderator:  Joti Bilkhu

Asa Brunet-Jailly (English, York)
Fathers and Feelings: Sentiment, Family, and Jewish Futures in the Anglo-Jewish Novel

Michael Moir (University Archivist, York)
“But what have you done for us lately?”: A Decade of Developing Victorian Collections
at York University Libraries

Alison Matthews David (Fashion, Toronto Metropolitan University)
The Scarlet Thread: Crime, Fashion, and Forensic Identification in the Nineteenth Century

Afternoon Session, 1:15-2:45 pm

Moderator:  Deborah Neill

Michael Roberts (History, York)
Tyros and Practical Men: The Evolution of John Bourne, CE

Lesley Higgins (English, York)
“Quenched in leaves”: The Poplar Experiments of Hopkins and Monet

Richard Hornsey (Engineering, York)
“While Coopers Hill was wanted, Coopers Hill did its duty”: The Brief Existence of the Royal Indian Engineering College