Victorian Studies: Expect the Unexpected

17th Annual Symposium

24 October 2025

109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room)

Welcoming remarks
Marlis Schweitzer (Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)

Moderator, James Elwick (Science, Technology, and Society)

Alana Duggan (Art History and Visual Culture) Stories in the Negative: Reading Against the Settler Script in the Notman Artworld

William Whitla (Humanities) Discovering Jerusalem and Troy: Problems in Reading Victorian Culture

Nicole Dufoe (English) “A Plea for the West Indies”: Victorian Fictions of Colonial Healing

Moderator, David Latham (English)

Dorothy de Val (Music) Bringing Music to Life: Wilkie Collins and the Victorian Songbook

Tina Choi (English) Panoramic Perspectives and the Shaping of Cartographic Literacy

Victor Shea (Humanities) “On all such subjects the state of the market is the detective test”: Culture and Education in the Liberal Imperialism of Macaulay’s “Minute” (1835) and the Durham Report (1839)