Victorian Studies:
Changing Optics
18th Annual Symposium
23 October 2026
109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room)
Morning Tea and Coffee, 9:30 am – 10:00 am
Welcoming remarks, 10 am
Natalie Neill (English)
Morning session, 10:15 am – 11:45 am
Moderator, Kim Michasiw (English)
Aryn Martin (Sociology)
Making Up Mongolism
David Latham (English)
Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aura of Authenticity
Su Huai (STS)
Translating Power: John Fryer and the Making of Scientific Authority in the
Self-Strengthening Era
§ Lunch §
Afternoon session, 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm
Moderator, Joy Tanner (Theatre and Performance Studies)
Bernard Lightman (Humanities)
Herbert Spencer, Evolutionary Scientism, and British Imperialism
James Elwick (STS)
Black Markets in Knowledge and Ryerson’s Mint: Exam Cheating in 1870s Ontario and the Origins of Academic Integrity
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (English, Toronto Metropolitan University)
“From Nation to Network”? Pamela Colman Smith, the Irish Revival, and the National Imaginary
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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