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News and special announcements

--Great news for teachers! We have been approved to offer 5 units of in-service credit this summer for the Dickens Universe. Cost for the units is $100, payable to Extension. Forms and information will be available at Registration on Sunday July 27. Contact the Dickens Project if you'd like more information.

--The Project is pleased to announce the addition of the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Louisiana State University as our latest consortium members.

-- The Dickens book for the 2008 Universe is Hard Times (latest Penguin edition). Once again, we'll pair Dickens with a book by another Victorian author. This time, it will be Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell (Oxford World Classics edition). Dates will be Sunday July 27 to Saturday August 2. Details and a registration form are available here. Folks 55 and older may register through Elderhostel. The program number is 4650.

--The weekend conference will be a symposium on "Collaborations" featuring Dickens Project faculty. No public Call for Papers will be issued.

-- The international conference in 2007 took place in Genoa. You can find details about "Dickens, Victorian Culture, Italy" here. The next conference, called "Dickens, Victorian Culture, Uneasy Pleasures," will take place in Jerusalem in June 2009. The deadline for abstracts is Aug. 15, 2008.

--The 2008 Winter Conference (organized by graduate students) was held at UC Davis February 22-24. The 2009 Winter Conference will be at Vanderbilt University.

-- The Dickens Project office has moved (again!) to the new Humanities Building at Cowell College. The new space, sans the library collection, is in Room 327. Our phone number and email remain the same and the Dickens Universe will again be held at Kresge College in 2008. The library collection and the Ada Nisbet Archive will be boxed up and stored securely until 2009. Unfortunately, this means these materials will not be available to scholars. During this same period, UCSC's McHenry Library is going through a renovation and the Dickens first editions in Special Collections will be moved to another remote location and will only be available with two weeks' prior notice.

-- Your donations to the Friends of the Dickens Project are always warmly received and greatly appreciated. Every gift counts and helps to sustain the scholarly work of the Project. You can easily and securely give online through UC Relations. Be sure to indicate that your gift is for the Friends of the Dickens Project. Thank you.