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Victorian Studies:<\/h1>\n

Changing Optics<\/h1>\n

18th Annual Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\n

23 October 2026<\/strong><\/h2>\n

109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room)<\/p>\n

Morning Tea and Coffee, 9:30 am \u2013 10:00 am<\/p>\n

Welcoming remarks, 10 am
Natalie Neill<\/strong> (English)<\/p>\n

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Morning session, 10:15 am \u2013 11:45 am<\/p>\n

Moderator, Kim Michasiw<\/strong> (English)<\/p>\n

Aryn Martin<\/strong> (Sociology)
Making Up Mongolism<\/p>\n

David Latham<\/strong> (English)
Collecting the Pre-Raphaelites and the Aura of Authenticity<\/p>\n

Su Huai<\/strong> (STS)
Translating Power: John Fryer and the Making of Scientific Authority in the
Self-Strengthening Era<\/p>\n

\u00a7 Lunch \u00a7<\/p>\n

Afternoon session, 1:15 pm \u2013 2:45 pm<\/p>\n

Moderator, Joy Tanner<\/strong> (Theatre and Performance Studies)<\/p>\n

Bernard Lightman<\/strong> (Humanities)
Herbert Spencer, Evolutionary Scientism, and British Imperialism<\/p>\n

James Elwick<\/strong> (STS)
Black Markets in Knowledge and Ryerson’s Mint: Exam Cheating in 1870s Ontario and the Origins of Academic Integrity<\/p>\n

Lorraine Janzen Kooistra<\/strong> (English, Toronto Metropolitan University)
\u201cFrom Nation to Network\u201d? Pamela Colman Smith, the Irish Revival, and the National Imaginary<\/p>\n

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

Graduate students and faculty from all departments are invited<\/span>. To be placed on the VSNY mailing list and for further details about this event, please email\u00a0Tina Choi, Department of English <tinayc@yorku.ca>.
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