DACH Victorianists

UPDATE: We are very pleased to circulate the final programme for this workshop (see below). Hannah Pardey and Carolin Gebauer warmly invite you to attend their upcoming digital DACH Victorianists workshop. If you would like to register, please email Hannah and Carolin by 12 June 2026 . ARCHIVE: The show must go on! The next and ninth DACH Victorianists Workshop will be hosted by Carolin Gebauer (University Wuppertal) and Hannah Pardey (University Düsseldorf) and is entitled 'Terraqueous' Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology . It will take place on Friday, 26 June 2026 . Abstracts of 250-300 words, along with a short bio, can be sent to either of the organisers until 1 March 2026 . For further information and the full CfP, see below.

UPDATE: We are very pleased to circulate the final programme for this workshop (see below). We hope to see lots of you virtually at these events, and we look forward to continuing our conversations and collaborations across the DACH region this year! Julia Ditter (Konstanz) and Anne Korfmacher (Graz) look forward to hosting our 8th digital DACH workshop, entitled Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age , which will take place on 5 December 2025 . See the full programme below for further information or click here to download the CfP in PDF format.

"A Sense of Place", Vienna, 14 - 18 July 2025 Registration is now open for an ECTS-accredited week of lectures, seminars, and screenings with internationally renowned Irish studies and cultural theory scholars at the Vienna Centre for Irish Studies! Aspects such as cultural memory, the cultural partition of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, semantic spaces and borderlines analyzed by Juri Lotman, Mikhail Bakhtin’s Chronotope, epic landscape and the (post)modern cityscape; (what belongs in) the literary canon, rhetorical topoi or commonplaces, sustainability studies, postcolonialism and belonging, history, politics, etc., will be addressed by the invited speakers of the Irish Studies and Cultural Theory Summer School. For more information on registration, fee, etc., see below.

Our summer workshop this year will be another open-topic event, where members can present their current research projects. This half-day virtual workshop will take place via Zoom on Friday, 27 June 2025 . Next to new project presentations, this event will feature a panel discussion with Nina Engelhardt (Stuttgart/Klagenfurt) and Marlena Tronicke (Münster/Köln), who will share their experiences of finishing a Habilitation in (Neo-)Victorian Studies in the DACH region. There will also be occasions for informal socialising. Our winter workshop will be hosted by Julia Ditter and Anne Korfmacher on the topic of "Literature and Medicine". Please also save the date, 5 December 2025 , for this event. A CFP will go out in the summer. We are very pleased to circulate the final programme for this workshop (see below). We hope to see lots of you virtually at these events, and we look forward to continuing our conversations and collaborations across the DACH region this year!

+++UPDATE: Registration is now open on Eventbrite . You can also register by emailing the organiser Dr James Aaron Green .+++ By the end of the Victorian era, the ‘decline narrative’ of ageing (Gullette) seemed firmly established in the zeitgeist, whether in fictional accounts that used the aged figure to personify an exhausted century or in the political usage of younger persons as the symbolic vehicle for progress and futurity. But other instances paint a more complex picture: aged characters rejuvenated by ‘youthful’ love plots; medical accounts that emphasise post-menopausal women’s gains in strength and energy; and social commentaries that view the reproductive capacity of youth as a source of national decline rather than salvation. This one-day workshop aims to explore what is gained for Victorian studies by bringing together topics of age and ageing with those of progress and decline. It is especially interested in cases that ‘write against’ the truisms of old-age loss...

Dear colleagues, Today, a brief announcement on our own behalf: together with my colleague and fellow DACH Victorianist Anja Hartl, I (Ariane) am co-editing a collection on Textures in Nineteenth-Century Material and Literary Cultures . The volume is under contract for publication in the series 'Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century' (series editor: Pamela Gilbert) at SUNY Press. The book offers a systematic and interdisciplinary exploration of textures in British nineteenth-century material and literary cultures. It introduces texture as an analytical category and critically productive terminology in the field of (new) materialist and literary studies and shows how textural methodologies can reveal the intricate and complex layering of texts and objects in the long nineteenth century. We are currently seeking additional contributions for the following three sections of the volume: I: Literary Culture: Poetics and Aesthetics II: Material Culture: Skin and ...