Events

EVENTS for 2012-13

• Annual VSAO Conference, 27 April 2013
  Victorian Play(s): Excess and Expression
  York will host the 46th annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario at our Glendon campus, with talks by Ann Colley, Dennis Denisoff, Simon Reader, Marlis Schweitzer, and Carolyn Williams. For more information, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/vsao


• Research Seminar, 26 April 2013
  Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University)
  "Gilbert and Sullivan: The Momentum of Parody."
  2:00 Friday afternoon
  Stong College, Room 201 (Sylvester's)
  Carolyn Williams will give the fifth annual VSNY Research Seminar


• Library Seminar, 4 February 2013
  Scott Library, Room 531
  Wednesday 3:00-4:30 pm.
  Learn about the latest databases, search engines, online archives, and other resources available to you through York's libraries. The seminar is led by one of our specialist librarians, Lisa Sloniowski.


• 5th Annual VSNY Symposium, 19 October 2012
  Making Connections in Victorian Research
  Friday, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, 101 Stong College (Master's Dining Room)
  

Morning Session, 10:00 - 11:45 am

Susan Tarnow: "Out of Focus: The Politics of Victorian Science in Dressing for Health."

James Clifford and Colin Coates: "Text Mining for the Nineteenth-Century Commodity Trade."

Tanya Pikula: "Bram Stoker's Dracula: Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies, and Porn."

Lunch: 201 Stong College (Sylvester's)

Afternoon Session, 1:15 - 3:00 pm

Tina Choi: "Geographical Play in the Victorian Board Game."

Alanna McKnight: "Defining Needle-workers in Toronto, 1834-1861."

Bernard Lightman: "Herbert Spencer and Beatrice Webb: The Apprentice Rebels."

(More events for 2012-13 to be announced.)

EVENTS for 2011-12

• Annual VSAO Conference, 28 April 2012
  York will host the 45th annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario at our Glendon campus, with talks by Sherrin Berezowski, Martin Danahay, Deborah Reed-Danahay, Audre Jaffe, Kathy Psomiades, and Alisha Walters. For more information, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/vsao
• Research Seminar, 27 April 2012
  Kathy Psomiades (Duke University)
  "Elizabeth Grosz's Feminist Darwin: Some Thoughts about Feminism and Historicism Today."
  2:00 Friday afternoon
  Stong College, Room 201 (Sylvester's)
• 4th Annual VSNY Symposium - 21 October 2011
  Diverse Directions in Victorian Research
  Friday, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm, Stong College, Master's Dining Room

Introductions - Lesley Higgins

Morning Session, 10:00 - 11:45 am
Moderator: Melinda Baldwin

Amanda Paxton (English): "Alias Sade: Victorian Christian Discourses and Love Noir"

Michael Moir (Scott Library): "The Recent Arrival of Old Curiosities at York University Libraries"

Allan C. Hutchinson (Osgoode Hall Law School): "Is Eating People Wrong? A Victorian Meal"

Lunch: Stong College 201 (Sylvester's)

Afternoon Session, 1:15 - 3:00 pm
Moderator: Benjamin Mitchell

Elicia Clements (Humanities and English): "Oscar Wilde's Music: A Critical Response to Walter Pater"

John Bell (English): "A Female Satirist and the Victorian Canon: The Exclusion of Frances Trollope"

Ann Shteir (Humanities and STS): "Where are the Goddesses? Jane Louden, Science, and Mythologies"

(Other events during the year to be announced)

 

EVENTS for 2010-11:

• Annual VSAO Conference, 30 April 2011
  York will host the 44th annual conference of the Victorian Studies
  Association of Ontario at our Glendon campus, with talks by James
  Eli Adams, Aviva Briefel, Gregory Brophy, Peter Capuano, and Lorraine
  Janzen Kooistra. For more information, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/vsao
  
  
• Research Seminar, 29 April 2011
  James Eli Adams (Department of English, Columbia University)
  "The Age of Bounderby: Reflections on the Self-Made Man"
  2:00 Friday afternoon
  Stong College, Room 201 (Sylvester's)
  
  Professor James Eli Adams will speak about his current research and the
  challenges of publishing in scholarly journals. This event is
  open to all York students and faculty.
  
  
• Research Matters, 3 February 2011
  Sponsored by the Associate Dean of Research, York
  Thursday, 12 noon - 2:00 pm
  Bethune College, Room 320
  
  Moderator: Tina Choi
  
  Bernard Lightman: "The Creed of Science and the Victorian World"
  
  Katharine Wrobel: "The 'Limits of Benevolence': Feelings and the Education of the Literary Hero"
  
  Michael Michie: "Colonial Networks and the Victorian Empire: The Transcolonial Careers of Henry Samuel Chapman"
  
  Lesley J. Higgins: "Editorial 'Forepangs' and Foibles: The Lessons of Hopkins's Collected Works"
  
  
  
• 3rd Annual Symposium - Friday 22 October 2010
  New Directions in Victorian Research
  Friday, 10:00 am - 2:45 pm
  Bethune College 203A (Norman's)

Introductions - David Latham

Morning session, 10.15 am - 11.45 am
Moderator: Katey Anderson

Alison Halsall: "The Polysemic Pliancy of Elizabeth Siddal in H. D.'s White Rose and the Red"

Benjamin Mitchell: "Somewhere Between Light and Shadow: Alfred Russel Wallace, Spirit Photography and the Trial of Henry Slade"

Scott McLaren: "The Unmapped Country Within Us: New Acquisitions in Victorian Print Culture"


Lunch: in Sylvester's, Stong College 201


Afternoon session, 1:10 - 2:45 pm
Moderator: Victor Shea

Constance Crompton: "Building Gentility: Eugen Sandow and Middle-Class Masculine Muscles"

Michael Michie: "'A Strange Dice-box of a World': the transcolonial careers of Henry Samuel Chapman"

Melinda Baldwin: "'I wish I were wise enough to understand more of it': Nature's audience, 1869-1880."

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Sponsored by the Office of the Associate Dean of Research, LA&PS




EVENTS for 2009-10:

• Annual VSAO Conference, 24 April 2010
  York will host the 43rd annual conference of the Victorian Studies
  Association of Ontario at our Glendon campus, with talks by Jo Devereux,
  Kate Flint, Ann-Barbara Graff, Lesley Higgins, and Bernard Lightman.
  For more information, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/vsao
  
  
• Research Seminar, 23 April 2010
  Kate Flint (Department of English, Rutgers University)
  "Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination"
  2:00 Friday afternoon
  Room 201 (Sylvester's), Stong College
  
  Professor Kate Flint will speak about her current research and the challenges of Victorian interdisciplinary studies. This event is open to all York graduate students and faculty.
  
  
• Reinventing the Victorians, 4 March 2010
  Novelist Maureen Jennings
  7:00 Thursday Evening
  244 Accolade East, York University
  
  How has the Victorian period inspired recent creative work? Join us for a book discussion with a popular author. This year Maureen Jennings will discuss her Murdoch-mystery novel, Vices of My Blood.
• Library Seminar, 3 February 2010
  Scott Library, Room 531
  Wednesday 3:00-4:30 pm.
  
  Learn about the numerous databases, search engines, online
  archives, and other resources available to you through York's libraries.
  The seminar is led by one of our specialist librarians, Lisa Sloniowski.


• 2nd Annual Symposium, 23 October 2009
  New Directions in Victorian Research
  Friday 10:00 am-2:45 pm
  Bethune College, 203A (Norman's)
  
  Introductions: Lesley Higgins
  Morning session, 10:10-11:45
  Moderator: William Whitla
  
  Katey Anderson: "Other Travellers, Other Tales; Or, the Voyage of the Beagle Minus Darwin"
  
  Jennifer Judge: "'Who, it may be asked, takes Mr. Dickens seriously?': Dickens and the Problem of Satire"
  
  Tina Choi: "Victorian Insurance and Unrealized Futures"
  
  Lunch: in Sylvester's, Stong College 201
  
  Afternoon session, 1:10:2:45
  Moderator: James Elwick
  
  Kat Wrobel: "'Wrongs long endured': The Social Problem Novel and the Uses and Abuses of Sympathy"
  
  John Morden: "Slides of the Peerless Prodigies of Physical Phenomena"
  
  David Latham: "Metaphor and the Province of Art: Finding Ourselves in the Present Text"




EVENTS for 2008-09:



• Annual VSAO Conference, 25 April 2009
  York will host the 42nd annual conference of the Victorian Studies Association
  of Ontario at our Glendon campus, with talks by Rob Breton, Ann Colley,
  Frederick D. King, Stephanie McAllister, and Keith Wilson. For more
  information, please visit: http://www.yorku.ca/vsao


• Research Seminar, 24 April 2009
  Keith Wilson (Department of English, University of Ottawa)
  "Imagining Thomas Hardy's London: An Unplanned Convergence"
  2:00 Friday afternoon
  Stong College, Room 201 (Sylvester's)
  
  Professor Keith Wilson will speak about his current research and the
  challenges of Victorian studies.


• Library Seminar, 4 March 2009
  Scott Library, Room 531
  3:00-4:30 Wednesday afternoon
  
  Learn about the numerous databases, search engines, online archives,
  and other resources available to you through York's libraries. The seminar
  is led by one of our specialist librarians, Lisa Sloniowski.


• Inaugural VSNY Annual Symposium, 17 October 2008
  Victorian Research Possibilities
  Friday, 10:00 am-2:45 pm
  Bethune College, 203A (Norman's)
  
  Introductions: David Latham
  Morning session, 10:10-11:45
  Moderator: Tina Choi
  
  Victor Shea and William Whitla: "Constructing the Victorian Canon"
  
  Lisa Sloniowski: "'Licensed Haunts of Loafers': Nineteenth-Century Resources at York Libraries"
  
  James Elwick: "'An inconvenient test': Women in 19th-century Competitive Written Examination Networks, Objectivity, and Educational Reform"
  
  Lunch: in Sylvester's, Stong College 201
  
  Afternoon session, 1:10-2:45
  Moderator: Bernard Lightman
  
  Natalie Neill: "'Mirth and Marvels': Nineteenth-Century Gothic Parody"
  
  Kenneth Carpenter: "A Veritable Psychology: Walter Pater's Art Criticism"
  
  Lesley Higgins: "Editing Hopkins; or, On the Trail of the Cardinal's Girlfriend"
  
  The Symposium is funded by the Faculty of Arts; Vice-President, Academic; and the Department of English.



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