University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies Spring Seminar Programme

The University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies is delighted to invite you to the hybrid Spring Seminar Series. The programme is outlined below; each talk starts at 5.15 pm (UK time) and lasts for approximately 50 minutes, followed by Q&A. You can book for our first two events now by following the Ticket Tailor links here [https://le.ac.uk/victorian-studies/events/spring-seminar-series]. Booking links for the remaining events will be available soon.

2025 Spring Seminar Series: Global Victorians

The Purloined Heart: Intertextuality Between Dickens and Poe

• 19 February
• Speaker: Dr Katie Bell (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester)

Victorian Statumania: Poets and Public Monuments

• 26 February
• Speaker: Dr Jack Quin (Dublin City University)

‘What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?’: Medicalising Drunkenness in the British Royal Navy

• 12 March
• Speaker: Dr Manon Williams (Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester)

Student Showcase

• 26 March
• In-person only

Indian women in the colonial archive: photographic practices, caste and sexuality

• 7 May
• Speaker: Dr Tara Puri (University of Bristol)

The Politics of Shame in Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South

• 14 May
• Speaker: Anja Hartl (University of Innsbruck)