Royal Holloway’s Centre for Victorian Studies is delighted to host the London Victorian Studies Colloquium and the Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture in April 2024.
Registration is now open for the London Victorian Studies Colloquium! The LVSC is an annual residential colloquium for postgraduates and postdocs working in Victorian Studies. The Colloquium is an informal event, combining postgraduate papers, training and professionalisation workshops, and time for networking in the beautiful Victorian surroundings of Royal Holloway. This year’s keynote speaker is Dr Adrian Wisnicki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), who will be giving the Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture. Full details of this year’s LVSC programme can be found here. Please follow this link to purchase your ticket. Please note that booking closes on 2nd April 2024. Places are limited to 25 and are first come, first serve – book soon to avoid disappointment. Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture 2024 Dr Adrian Wisnicki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) 6:00pm Thursday 18th April, Online and in-person This event will take place in a hybrid format. A number of tickets are available for in person attendance, but registration is essential as these are limited. For those not able to attend in person, we will be streaming the lecture on Teams. To register for in person or online attendance, please follow this link to the Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sally-ledger-memorial-lecture-thursday-18-april-2024-tickets-861727087917
Sally Ledger was a celebrated scholar of nineteenth-century literature and culture, whose publications on fin de siècle writing, the radical tradition, and gender politics reshaped the field of Victorian Studies. She was also an inspiring teacher, and a generous and much-missed colleague. Having held posts at Exeter, Bristol and Birkbeck, Sally was the Hildred Carlisle Chair of Victorian Studies at the time of her death in 2009. The Sally Ledger Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate her groundbreaking research, and to continue her commitment to the democratic possibilities of education, and the rich interdisciplinarity of nineteenth-century literature and culture. This year, the lecture is being held in conjunction with the London Victorian Studies Colloquium for PGR students and recent ECRs, reflecting Sally’s tireless support not only of her own graduate students, but early career scholars across the profession. Having been on hiatus during the pandemic, we are especially pleased to invite colleagues to rejoin us in 2024 to remember Sally and continue her legacy.
Adrian S. Wisnicki is an Associate Professor of English and Digital Humanities Program Coordinator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is a founding developer of Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom(https://undiscipliningvc.org), lead developer for One More Voice(https://onemorevoice.org), and director of Livingstone Online(http://livingstoneonline.org). His recent book is Fieldwork of Empire (Routledge, 2019). He has interests in Victorian and postcolonial studies, the digital humanities, artificial intelligence, activism, and racial and social justice.
If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact the colloquium organisers, Yasmin Akhter and Dr Helen Kingstone, at victorianstudiesrhul@gmail.com
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