Victorian Persistence Seminar – May 25th 2022

The next session of the Victorian Persistence seminar will take place on May 25th 2022 at 5pm Paris time (4pm-6pm BST) at the Université Paris Cité (Bâtiment ODG, salle 165) and on Zoom.

Pr. Susan Zieger (University of California, Riverside) will give a paper entitled “Artificial Life: The Cold Chain and Dracula’s Logistical Network.” Her respondent will be Pr. Sara Thornton (Université de Paris – LARCA). 

To obtain the zoom link, please email estelle_murail@yahoo.fr or clemence.follea@u-paris.fr

All are welcome!

Victorian Persistence seminar: The present-day globalization of Victorian writing can be traced back to the extraordinary plasticity of its textual and visual forms, as it travelled from place to place and media to media. Such temporal, geographical, cultural and intermedial persistence is the subject of this seminar which considers the different modes of resistance of Victorian aesthetics, ideology and technology within the nineteenth-century as well as survival and rebirth in later times and digital form. The idea of the seminar is to allow speakers to discuss their area of research with others through a study of texts and chosen images, and thus open out their subject to other corpora, centuries, disciplines. A respondent is chosen for each session to allow a dialectical approach which might enrich and develop the project of the speaker.

This seminar takes place at the Université Paris Cité and is supervised by Professor Sara Thornton. It is part of the “Frontières du Littéraire” pathway within the LARCA research group (UMR 8225 du CNRS).
For further information, you can visit our blog at the following address: https://victorianpersistence.wordpress.com/

Upcoming sessions:

31 May 2022, 5.30pm, ONLINE: Dr. Jolene Zigarovich (University of Northern Iowa): “Missing, Abandoned, and in Legal Limbo: Victorian Presumption of Death Laws and the Novel.” Her respondent will be Dr. Stéphanie Prévost (Université de Paris – LARCA).

14 June 2022, 5pm: Timothy Gao (Bristol University) will present his recent book Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel. Respondent: Clémence Follea (Université de Paris – LARCA). Bâtiment ODG, salle 165.