CFP: Dickens and Death

Dickens Death Day Virtual Event June 7th, 2025

The Dickens Society is delighted to share a call for presentations for an online event entitled Dickens and Death, which will be livestreamed on the morning of Saturday, June 7th 2025, and then will be aired on the Society’s YouTube channel on Dickens’s Death Day (June 9th). This will feature a series of around 5-6 pre-recorded sound bites of around 10 minutes each, followed by an online Zoom discussion for 1-2 hours as the main event on June 7th. We invite proposals centered on the theme of Dickens and Death. These could include presentations on specific death scenes, patterns of death imagery in Dickens’s novels, letters and journalism, or discussions of Dickens’s own death. Please submit a proposal of around 100-200 words by May 1st, 2025 to Céleste Callen drcelestecallen@gmail.com.

Dickens After Death, John Everett Millais, June 10 1870. Charles Dickens Museum