The University of Hildesheim will host a Wilkie Collins Study Day in presence on Friday, 14th July 2023 from 10.00-17.00 hrs. at Bühler-Campus. Prof. Dr. Andrew Mangham from the University of Reading is our confirmed keynote speaker. Please save the date and consider taking part in our event. There is no fee, and we will be happy to help you finding accommodation. If you are interested in merely taking part, please contact Maria Anna Neuber or Prof. Dr. Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier by the end of March 2023. If you are interested in giving a presentation please send a short proposal (max. 300 words) to Maria Neuber by the end of February 2023. Any post-graduate contribution focusing exclusively on one or more texts by Wilkie Collins is welcome. Presentations are not to exceed 20 minutes.
Our fellow DACH Victorianists Sarah Wegener and Wolfgang Funk would like to invite you to join the "Victorian Reproductions" workshop that they will host in Mainz on 24 and 25 March 2023 . Attendance is free of charge. The workshop aims to uncover some of the complex textual and cultural relations and representations of reproduction in the Victorian era. Against the background of the surge of medico-scientific tracts on human anatomy and sexuality (Gray’s Anatomy; Geddes and Thomson’s Evolution of Sex; William Acton’s Function and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs; William Buchan’s Advice to Mothers) and in the wake of Darwin’s evolutionary theories in The Origin of the Species, reproduction saw an increase in currency and relevance in Victorian cultural life. In the field of Victorian literature, reproduction holds a particular fascination, since, as John Holmes notes, literature, and poetry especially, can serve as “a documentary source for understanding the significan