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Camp Dickens: Victorian Author United Modern Scholars
Some writers have thousands of Twitter followers; others have dedicated book clubs. At UC Santa Cruz, one 19th-century author has his very own summer camp.
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“The Rejected Witness by Charles Dickens” presented by Edwin Eigner
A one man dramatization of Bleak House, Charles Dickens’ passionate masterpiece of suspense, comedy, and poignant social commentary.
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A Sum of Destruction: Violence, Paternity and Art in Picasso’s “Guernica”
By John O. Jordan, Director, Dickens Project This article originally appeared in the Studies in Visual Communication (Summer 1982; Vol. 8, No. 3). John O. Jordan is Associate Professor of Literature at the Santa Cruz campus of the University of California. He teaches courses in nineteenth-century literature and has published essays on Swinburne, Dickens, Picasso, and modern African literature. This article…
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MiddleLab: Novel Readings in South LA
In January, the seniors at NAI mounted a rare cultural event: a MiddleLab Festival and two performances of a full-length theatrical adaptation of Middlemarch. The seniors casted and crewed these evening shows presenting live theatrical scenes, custom-made period costumes and original choreography that brought the novel to life.
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A Night of Dickens and Eliot
Are you team Dickens or Eliot? That was the question of the night on Tuesday, Feb. 7, when Dickens Project Founders John O. Jordan and Murray Baumgarten, visited UC Davis to talk about Charles Dickens and George Eliot in anticipation of this year’s annual Dickens Universe conference.
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Giving Day: Dickens Project Graduate Travel Grants
Our 2017 Giving Day goal is to establish a fund to assist with travel costs associated with attending any Dickens Project event. This fund will help ease the financial burden on future participants and enable them to take maximum advantage of our programming.
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2017 Winter Graduate Conference
Each year following the Dickens Universe, the Dickens Project hosts a smaller conference during the winter. This year, the Dickens Project Winter Conference will be held at the University of Kentucky, Lexington KY, on February 23-25, 2017.
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An Immersion into Dickensian Cocktails
Please join the Dickens Project for a deliciously convivial primer, lecture, demonstration and tasting during the 2017 Alumni Weekend festivities.
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From the Page to the Stage
The Dickens Project’s players will be in the spotlight during a UCSC conference in August on “Dickens, Shakespeare, and the Theater” | Article from the 1986 Spring/Summer issue of UCSC Review
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NAI presents Middlemarch Performance and MiddleLab Festival
A rare company of South Los Angeles teens to perform an original production of the 19th-century novel, “Middlemarch.”
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Dickens and George Eliot: Rivalry or Romance?
You are cordially invited to a special event with Dickens Project Founders John O. Jordan and Murray Baumgarten on Tuesday, February 7, 2017.
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Call for Papers: Form and Reform Conference
Victorianists are invited to submit proposals for the upcoming Form and Reform Conference, to be held on the campus of UC Santa Cruz, on July 27-29, 2017.