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Image of William Dyce, Pegwell_Bay, Kent: a Recollection of October 5th 1858

Past Events

  • A Vote of My Own: Celebrating Women’s Suffrage in England, 24 March 2018, 2-6pm. Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent, Canterbury. A one-day event to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage organized by the Centre of Victorian Literature and Culture.
  • Writing the Brontes 200 Years After: A Symposium, 18 March 2016, 4-6pm, Keynes Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent, Canterbury. Organised by the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Brontë’s birth, the symposium worked around the idea of what it means to “write” the Brontës nowadays: main challenges, questions without an answer, the reliability of the many biographies that have been published, theories and hypothesis about a literary family whose life remains a mystery in many senses.
  • Victorian Modernities, 25-27 June 2015. Co-sponsored by the Centre for Victorian Literature and Culture (University of Kent) and the Dickens Project (University of California, Santa Cruz).
  • Victorian Sustainability, British Association for Victorian Studies conference, University of Kent, Canterbury, 4-6th September 2014.
  • Cosmopolitanism, Aestheticism, and Decadence, 1860-1920: Conference co-sponsored by the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) and the Faculty of English Language and Literature of the University of Oxford.