DACH Victorianists

Resistance and Adaptation, Flensburg, 19 - 25 July 2026 The Summer School is now in its 4th year of alternating between Vienna and Flensburg after its post-pandemic hiatus, and has had themes such as "Irish Icons and Iconoclasts" (2023), "Irish Cultures in Contact" (2024), "A Sense of Place" (2025). This year's theme is "Resistance and Adaptation." We are pleased to be hosting an exciting line up of speakers, who will be discussing themes related to Irish history, politics, culture, literature, philosophy, film, art, theatre, and more. The week-long school is ECTS-accredited, if it's compatible with your study programmes for the credit transfer. The school is geared towards students at all levels, and we already have a range of BA-, MA-, and PhD students enrolled. This year, we will also be offering introductory Irish language classes. More information about the speakers, the academic and social programme, the theme, and registration ca...

Our fellow DACH Victorianists Tim Sommer (Munich) and Barbara Straumann (Zurich) would like to invite you to their upcoming workshop, Writing Feminine Economies: Gender, Money, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Fiction , which will take place in Zurich on 18–19 June 2026 . Please find further details in the attached poster.

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!