Josephine McDonagh (King's College London): The Political Picaresque: Sunshine and Shadow. and Radical Responses to Migrancy and Settlement around 1850
Charlotte Ribeyrol (Sorbonne University; Trinity College Oxford) "Red Brick Lip": Morris, Burges and the Poetry of Architecture
Steve Edwards (Birkbeck): Making a Case: Daguerrotypes
2016
Lene Østermark-Johansen (Copenhagen): The Rhythms of Life and Art: Symons and the Interrelationship between Sculpture and Dance at the Fin de Siècle
Joseph Bristow (UCLA): Homosexual Blackmail in 1890s London: The Fitzroy Street Raid, the Oscar Wilde Trials, and the Case of Cotsford Dick
Vybarr Cregan-Reid (Kent): Running Wilde: Outdoor Exercise and the Peculiar History of the Treadmill
Collecting and Archiving the Victorians
Adriana Craciun, Felix Driver and Michael Bravo: Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration#
Bethan Stevens (Sussex): The Wood Engraver's Self Portrait: The Dalziel Brothers 1839-1893
Marta Weiss (V&A) with Colin Ford: Julia Margaret Cameron: New Discoveries
2015
Defining Digital Dickens: Mutual Friends/Virtual Friends
Richard Adelman (Sussex): Our Strange Disquietude: Ruskin and Gothic Literature
David McAllister (Birkbeck): Better Thoughts of Death: Dickens, Association Psychology and the Birth of the Garden Cemetery
Adapting Our Mutual Friend for TV and Radio, Featuring Sandy Welch, Mike Walker and Jeremy Mortimer
Sue Zemka (Colorado): Prosthetic Hands and Phantom Limbs
Sean Grass (Iowa): What Money Can Make of Life: Willing Subjects and Commodity Culture in Our Mutual Friend
Michael Hatt (Warwick) and Jason Edwards (York): Roundtable on the 'Sculpture Victorious' Exhibition
Anna Henchman (Boston): Darwin's Earthworms and the Sense of Touch
Roundtable on Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, featuring Catherine Edwards (Birkbeck) and Victoria Mills (Cambridge)
Dominic Janes (Birkbeck): Picturing the Victorian Closet
Roundtable on the Our Mutual Friend Reading Project
2014
Roundtable on the Our Mutual Friend Reading Project
Sophie Thomas (Ryerson): A Strange and Mixed Assemblage: Sir John Soane, Archivist of the Self
Paul White (Cambridge): The Evolution of the Blush
Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck): Women Writing Art History in the Nineteenth Century: Looking Like a Woman
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt): Cartomania: Sensation, Celebrity and the Democratized Portrait
Nicholas Gaskill (Rutgers): Interior Designs: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Progressive Art of Pure Colour
Mary Hunter (McGill): Ladies in Waiting: Time and Gynecology in Toulouse-Lautrec's Rue des Moulins (1894)
Sarah Thomas (Birkbeck): Curating 'Empire' at Tate: Dissonance and British Art
Workshop: From Text to Screen and Back: Adaptation Across Media
Pamela Gilbert (Florida): Body Objects and History: The Skin of the Marquis
Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson): The Eco-Politics of Women's Pagan Desires
Vladimir Jankovic (Manchester): Climate Fetishism in the Long Nineteenth Century?
Jennifer Tucker (Wesleyan): Facing Facts: The Tichborne Cause Celebre and the Rise of Modern Visual Evidence
Angela Dunstan (Kent): Sculptography, Sculpting Machines, and Inanimate Sculptors: Sculpture, Authenticity and Replication in Victorian Literature
James Chandler (Chicago): The Melodramatic Imagination Revisited
Richard Taws (UCL): Proofs of Life: The Dauphin and his Doubles in Nineteenth-Century France
Mary Jean Corbett (Miami University, Ohio): Behind the Times? Sarah Grand, Social Purity and Virginia Woolf
2013
Kate Flint (USC): Intrusive Light: Flash Photography and Documentary Work
Elizabeth Helsinger (Chicago): Mediating Song: Pre-Raphaelite Balladry in Poetry and Paint
Benjamin Morgan (Chicago): How Matter Learned to Think: Wilkie Collins, Walter Pater and Psychological Aesthetics
Reading Blindness in the Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Archive: Roundtable with Hannah Thompson (RHUL), Heather Tilley (Birkbeck) and Matthew Rubery (QMUL)
Alison Booth (Virginia): A Network of Trollopes, an Italy of Women: Historical Biography, Nationhood and Events
On Cosmopolitan: Panel Discussion with Stefano Evangelista (Oxford), Alex Murray (Exeter) and Matthew Poyolsky (Utah)
Eugenia Gonzalez (Birkbeck): Victorian Dolls and Material Play
Amy Levy and Controversy
Martin Myrone (Tate Britain): Spectacle and the Sublime: Romantic Visuality and Contemporary Exhibition Culture
Diana Maltz (SOU): Decadence for Kids? Mabel Dearmer and Children's Book Illustrations in the 1890s
Simon Dentith (SOU): The Mill on the Floss Under the Sign of Hindsight
2012
Thomas Dixon (QMUL): Beyond Little Nell: Victorian Tears Revisited
Susan Matthews (Roehampton): Reading Blake in the 1790s: Counterrevolution and European Visual Culture
Mary A Favret (Indiana): The Feeling of Reading
Tom Mole (McGill): Nineteenth-Century Anthologies and the Lyricization of Literature
Andrew H Miller (Indiana): A Case of Metaphysics: Counterfactuals, Realism, Great Expectations