{"id":1488,"date":"2022-05-16T11:56:31","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T10:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/centreforindigenousandsettlercolonialstudies\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2023-12-12T17:28:28","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T17:28:28","slug":"the-victorian-diversities-research-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/centreforindigenousandsettlercolonialstudies\/2022\/05\/16\/the-victorian-diversities-research-network\/","title":{"rendered":"The Victorian Diversities Research Network"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Victorian Diversities Research Network was founded to respond to a pressing need amongst UK academics for more support in answering the clarion call to diversify and decolonise the curriculum that rang out across the academy in North America, Europe, and the UK in response to the killing of George Floyd and the BLM protests in summer 2020. In collaboration with the Institute of English Studies, we held a launch event for the network on April 12 2021, \u00a0<\/sup>\u2018Diversifying Victorian Studies: From Theory to Method\u2019 began as a roundtable discussion between Dr. Lars Atkin (University of Kent), Dr. \u00c9adaoin Agnew (Kingston University), Dr. Kaori Nagai (University of Kent), Assoc. Prof. Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo University), Dr Emma Barnes (University of Salford) and Chloe Osbourne (Royal Holloway University of London). Discussion was animated and wide-ranging, with case-studies ranging from Ryan Fong\u2019s experiences teaching Jane Eyre <\/em>alongside nineteenth-century Native North American writings to Kaori Nagai\u2019s proposition that the animal fable operates as a transnational genre that de-centres the European subject by centring non-European knowledge and non-human experience. A recording of the event and a resources page highlighting pedagogical projects and archives of non-European literature produced in the long nineteenth-century can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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In April 2023, Lars and \u00c9adaoin were invited by colleagues at Decolonising the Discipline<\/a> to speak at an online roundtable on ‘Decolonising Research Practices.’ Speakers included\u00a0 Nicole King (Oxford), Shazia Jagot and Alexandra Kingston-Rees (York), and the event was convened by the Institute of English Studies<\/a>. A transcript of the event can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

We followed this event with an in-person workshop at the University of Bristol in July 2023. Titled ‘Unsettling Victorian Studies’, speakers from across the UK, Europe and the US gathered to present innovative new research on the global nineteenth-century. Crossing borders, both disciplinary and geographical, the papers examined crime fiction in colonial Bengal, Indian women’s periodicals, race, gender and age in Victorian literature, black British performance culture,\u00a0 and settler colonialism within Britain. In the closing round table, Ross Foreman (Warwick), Adrian Wisnicki (Nebraska-Lincoln), Fariha Shaikh (Birmingham), Emma Barnes (Salford), Kaori Nagai (Kent) and Billie Gavurin (Bristol) spoke passionately about the ethical and pedagogical pay-offs of teaching a truly global nineteenth-century studies.<\/p>\n

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Launch of Victorian Diversities AHRC Network<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In September 2023, we got the very welcome news that our AHRC networking grant application and been accepted. Between February 2024 and February 2026 we will be holding a series of online reading groups, symposiums and school-facing events to build the great conversations that we have already had into more focused pedagogical initiatives. Currently, we’re putting together a schedule of monthly reading groups in which we invite members to talk through a text or collection of texts by a non-European writer, and share ideas about how this text might be taught. These sessions will be open to educators and researchers working in secondary, FE and HE and we very much welcome suggestions for texts to cover.\u00a0 If you would like to join the network, run a reading group and stay on our mailing list please contact Dr Lars Atkin (L.E.Atkin@kent.ac.uk<\/a>) and Dr \u00c9adaoin Agnew (e.agnew@kingston.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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