{"id":596,"date":"2026-09-24T21:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/?page_id=596"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:13:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T21:13:20","slug":"2025-fall-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/?page_id=596","title":{"rendered":"2025 Fall Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"279\" class=\"wp-image-589\" style=\"width: 350px;\" src=\"http:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM-e1760929976135.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM-e1760929976135.png 1070w, https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM-e1760929976135-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM-e1760929976135-1024x817.png 1024w, https:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM-e1760929976135-768x613.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-13-at-11.14.50-PM.png\"><\/a><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Victorian Studies: Expect the Unexpected<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>17th Annual Symposium<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>24 October 2025<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcoming remarks<br><strong>Marlis Schweitzer<\/strong> (Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator, <strong>James Elwick<\/strong> (Science, Technology, and Society)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alana Duggan<\/strong> (Art History and Visual Culture) Stories in the Negative: Reading Against the Settler Script in the Notman Artworld<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>William Whitla<\/strong> (Humanities) Discovering Jerusalem and Troy: Problems in Reading Victorian Culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nicole Dufoe<\/strong> (English) \u201cA Plea for the West Indies\u201d: Victorian Fictions of Colonial Healing<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moderator, <strong>David Latham<\/strong> (English)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dorothy de Val<\/strong> (Music) Bringing Music to Life: Wilkie Collins and the Victorian Songbook<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tina Choi<\/strong> (English) Panoramic Perspectives and the Shaping of Cartographic Literacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Victor Shea<\/strong> (Humanities) \u201cOn all such subjects the state of the market is the detective test\u201d: Culture and Education in the Liberal Imperialism of Macaulay\u2019s \u201cMinute\u201d (1835) and the Durham Report (1839)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vsny.apps01.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/VictorianStudies_12thSymposium_Oct2019.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorian Studies: Expect the Unexpected 17th Annual Symposium 24 October 2025 109 Atkinson College (Harry Crowe Room) Welcoming remarksMarlis 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) &hellip; 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