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Victorian Studies: A Closer Look

16th Annual Research Symposium

Friday 25 October 2024

109 Atkinson Building (the Harry Crowe Room)

 

Morning Tea and Coffee, 9:30 am – 10:00 am

Welcoming remarks, 10 am

Lesley Higgins

 

Morning session, 10:15 am – 11:45 am

Moderator, Adrian Grek (English, York)

Leslie Howsam (History, Windsor and TMU)

“Slow Scholarship: Four Decades with Eliza Orme’s Ambitions”

Deborah Neill (History, York)

“A Liverpool Merchant Goes to Africa: John Holt & Co. in the Gulf of Guinea, 1862–1914”

Jennifer Bonnell (History, York)

“Early Insecticide Controversies and Beekeeper Advocacy in the Great Lakes Region,

1880–1940”

Lunch

  

Afternoon session, 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm

Moderator, Bernie Lightman (Humanities, York)

Christopher Fanning (English, Queen’s)

“Picton’s Parnassus: Literary Life in Mid-19th-Century Rural Ontario as Seen in the Pages of The Hallowell Free Press, 1831–34”

Azadeh Monzavi (Communication and Culture, TMU)

“The Keepsake: A Symbol of Victorian Women’s Art and Craft”

Natalie Neill (English, York)

“”Visiting Literature: Reflections on a Study-Abroad Course”

 

If you’d like to attend, please RSVP to Lesley Higgins <19higgins55@gmail.com>.

Graduate students and faculty from all departments are invited. To be placed on the VSNY mailing list and for further details about this event, please email Tina Choi, Department of English <tinayc@yorku.ca>.

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