Victorian Colloquium

The Victorian Colloquium is a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty working on the British nineteenth century and related fields. Our primary responsibility is to invite scholars from other universities (as well as Princeton-affiliated scholars) to share their work with us at formal talks, often followed by receptions and dinners that allow students the opportunity to speak more informally with our guests. Along with our neighbors at Rutgers, delegates from the Victorian Colloquium also organize a yearly symposium for graduate students at both universities; the 2017 theme was “The Un/natural Nineteenth Century.” Many members of the Victorian Colloquium are moreover active participants in the Long Nineteenth Century Workshop, an interdisciplinary works-in-progress group for graduate students working in the period. But beyond our purely academic initiatives, the Victorian Colloquium seeks to foster a close intellectual community of students (and faculty!) with shared interests. Happy hours and dinners give Princeton Victorianists a chance to connect across cohorts, and to share advice and experiences. The first events for 2017-18 will be announced in the summer. We hope to see you there next academic year.

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Victorian Colloquium
Feb 28, 2024, 12:00 pm

This talk approaches the Victorian sculptor Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907) as an artist whose neoclassical works and life narrative transform our understanding of art, materiality and racial formations in the 19th century Atlantic world. As among the first professional, colored sculptors in the West (she was of Black and Anishinaabe…

Location
McCosh B14 (Hinds Library)
Speaker
2023 - 2024
Victorian Colloquium
Nov 1, 2023, 4:30 pm

In making incarnation a key term for her fiction, George Eliot exemplifies a broader Victorian effort to transmute Christian sentiment into a secular ideal of sympathy and an aesthetic of realism. At the same time, the critical tendency to situate Eliot in relation to a New Testament paradigm has obscured her engagement…

Location
McCosh Hall, Room B14 (Hinds Library)
Speaker
2023 - 2024
Gossip Etherealized: Mid-Victorian Sensation Fiction and the Logic of the Record.
Mar 22, 2023, 4:30 pm
Location
100 Jones Hall
Speakers
2022 - 2023
Victorian Colloquium
Oct 27, 2022, 4:30 pm

Professor Cornelia Pearsall is Professor of English at Smith College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.

Sponsored by The Department of English and The Bain-Swiggett Fund

Location
Hinds Library (McCosh Hall B14)
Speaker
2022 - 2023
CANCELED -- Victorian Colloquium
Apr 28, 2022, 4:30 pm

War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson

Location
McCosh 40
Speaker
2021 - 2022
Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Apr 1, 2022, 12:00 am

The 13th annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium, Print Ecologies, will feature three panels of graduate students presenting on interdisciplinary themes from the environmental humanities, media studies, book history, and more.  

Location
Zoom informaton: https://rutgers.zoom.us/s/93740593560; password-- Zoom Password: 015002
2021 - 2022
Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Feb 19, 2021, 12:00 am

Friday, February 19

1:30 – 3:00, Panel 1: Capital Accounts

On the Threshold of Friendship: Socialist Sympathy at the Fin de Siècle

Gemma Holgate (Royal Holloway, University of London)

The Social Division of Intellectual Labor as a Condition of England in Kingsley's Alton Locke

Marie Sanazaro (Princeton University)…

Location
Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98388144318 Meeting ID: 983 8814 4318
2020-2021
CANCELED: Victorian Colloquium
Apr 13, 2020, 4:30 pm

This event has been canceled.

 

 

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Speaker
2019-2020
Victorian Colloquium
Feb 27, 2020, 4:30 pm

Outline and the Racialization of Surface in Hardy's "Sketch of Temperament"

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2019-2020
Victorian Colloquium
Nov 18, 2019, 4:30 pm

It Really Works: George Eliot, Trans Studies, and the Rhetoric of Technique

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Co-sponsored with the Theory Colloquium.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2019-2020
Victorian Colloquium Welcome Gathering
Sep 19, 2019, 4:30 pm
Location
Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn. Food and drinks personally purchased.
Speaker
2019-2020
Victorian Colloquium
Apr 15, 2019, 4:30 pm

Thomas Hardy's Poetry: Waiting and the Ethics of Attention

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Victorianist Colloquium
Mar 27, 2019, 4:30 pm

Victorians, Obviously

 

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium
Feb 22, 2019, 12:00 am
Location
McCormick 106
Speaker
2018-2019
Victorian Colloquium and the Princeton Environmental Institute
Nov 27, 2018, 4:30 pm

Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Victorian Colloquium and the University Center for Human Values
Oct 15, 2018, 4:30 pm

Panel Discussion:  Ethics and Victorian Studies

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2018-2019
Victorian Colloquium Fall Social
Sep 19, 2018, 4:30 pm
Location
Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn
Speaker
2018-2019
Victorian Colloquium and Department of Comparative Literature
Apr 24, 2018, 4:30 pm

Title TBA

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018
Victorian Colloquium
Mar 29, 2018, 4:30 pm

Thinking with Characters:  Rumination and the Concept of Moral Time

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018
Victorian Colloquium, Center for the Study of Religion, Department of English, Program in Judaic Studies
Feb 26, 2018, 4:30 pm

Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Location
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall
Speaker
2017-2018