Victorian Colloquium

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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.

Past Events

2022 - 2023

Mar 22
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Sierra Eckert, Perkins Fellow, Humanities Council; Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Digital Humanities
100 Jones Hall 4: 30 PM
Oct 27
Cornelia Pearsall, Smith College
Hinds Library (McCosh Hall B14) 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.

2021 - 2022

Apr 28
Cornelia Pearsall, Department of English Language and Literature, Smith College
McCosh 40 4: 30 PM

War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson

Apr 01
Zoom informaton: https://rutgers.zoom.us/s/93740593560; password-- Zoom Password: 015002 (All day)

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.  

2020-2021

Feb 19
Zoom: https://princeton.zoom.us/j/98388144318 Meeting ID: 983 8814 4318 (All day)

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)

2019-2020

Apr 13
Cornelia Pearsall, Department of English Language and Literature, Smith College
4: 30 PM

This event has been canceled.

 

 

Feb 27
S.Pearl Brilmyer, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

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

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Nov 18
Grace Lavery, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 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.

Sep 19
Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn. Food and drinks personally purchased. 4: 30 PM

2018-2019

Apr 15
Emily Harrington, Department of English, University of Colorado, Boulder
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

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

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.

Mar 27
Jonathan Farina, Department of English, Seton Hall University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Victorians, Obviously

 

Feb 22
McCormick 106 (All day)
Nov 27
Benjamin Morgan, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change

Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.

Oct 15
Talia Schaffer, Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University and Natalie Prizel, Council of the Humanities, English Department, and Humanistic Studies, Haarlow-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Panel Discussion:  Ethics and Victorian Studies

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Sep 19
Yankee Doodle Tap Room, Nassau Inn 4: 30 PM

2017-2018

Apr 24
Yopie Prins, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Michigan
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Title TBA

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Mar 29
Amanda Anderson, Department of English, Brown University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Thinking with Characters:  Rumination and the Concept of Moral Time

Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.

Feb 26
Karen Weisman, Department of English, University of Toronto
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 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.

Dec 08
Ian Duncan (Department of English, University of California, Berkeley), Frances Ferguson (Department of English, University of Chicago), Naomi Levine (Harvard Society of Fellows), Meredith Martin (Department of English, Princeton University), Deborah Nord (Department of English, Princeton University), Emily Steinlight (Department of English, University of Pennsylvania)
East Pyne, Room 127 1: 30 PM

State of the Field: Victorian Studies

2016-2017

May 01
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Chloë Kitzinger, Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows
Hinds Library 4: 30 PM

Please join us for a lecture by Chloë Kitzinger, a Perkins-Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Princeton Society of Fellows, and Lecturer in Slavic Languages and Literatures and Humanistic Studies at Princeton.

Apr 20
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Ian Duncan, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

We're delighted that Professor Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley) will be coming on Thursday, April 20th at 4:30 to give a talk on "Dickens’s Teratology: The Natural History of Bleak House." His paper explores how the transformist biology of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and Geoffroy St.

Feb 10
Punch's almanac image: Man is But a Worm
106 McCormick Hall (All day)

This graduate student conference will examine how conceptions of the natural and the unnatural fundamentally shape cultural expression in 19th-Century Britain.

Dec 08
Victorian street scene
Elaine Hadley, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

The Victorian Colloquium is welcoming Professor Elaine Hadley (U of Chicago) at 4:30 pm in the Hinds Library to give a talk about Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure and education as it is figured in labor and economic terms set out by Gary Becker.

Oct 06
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Isobel Armstrong, Long-Term Visiting Fellow, Council of the Humanities, Princeton University
Hinds Library (Room B14), McCosh Hall 4: 30 PM

Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, Univ. of London), long-term visiting fellow at the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, will speak on "The Victorian Novel: A Challenge to Some Orthodoxies," at 4:30 pm in the Hinds Library.

Sep 14
Image: Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus
Yankee Doodle Tap Room 4: 30 PM

Please join us on the patio of the Yankee Doodle Tap Room (inside, in case of inclement weather) at 4:30 pm for our annual happy hour. Enjoy the company of fellow Victorianists, learn about the year’s upcoming events, and kick off the fall semester!