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Detailed Schedule for the Dickens Universe

Schedule by Day

SAT

July 20

SUN

July 21

MON

July 22

TUE

July 23

WED

July 24

THU

July 25

FRI

July 26

SAT

Jul 27

The Dickens Universe will begin on Sunday, July 21, and end on Saturday, July 27. Faculty and grad students should arrive Saturday afternoon, July 20, for a round of important meetings to be held through Sunday morning. 

You'll notice from the schedule that the program is very full, although you have a free evening to go into town or explore the beautiful campus. We also don't expect you to attend everything, so pace yourself.

Some of the programs are only available to faculty and grad students representing our consortium schools. Those items have asterisks in the schedule. If you have a question, please contact the office.

The schedule will also be available on Sched.com and via their mobile app.  (Last updated 01/29/2024)

 

Schedule for July 20
SATURDAY, JULY 20
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2:00-5:00 PM Faculty and Graduate Students
Check-in and Registration
 Map: TBA		 Cowell College Circle
5:30-7:30 PM * Welcome Dinner Cowell Provost House
7:30-9:00 PM * Orientation for Faculty and Graduate Students Cowell Provost House

Schedule for July 21
SUNDAY, JULY 21
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8:00-8:45 AM * Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:45-10:00 AM * Consortium Faculty Planning Meeting 210 Humanities 1
* All Graduate Students Meeting 259 Humanities & Social Sciences
10:00-10:30 AM * Morning Coffee and Pastries Humanities Plaza
10:30-12:00 PM * Plenary Meeting of Faculty and Graduate Students Humanities Lecture Hall
1:00-1:45 PM * Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
2:00-5:00 PM Universe Participants
Check-in and Registration
Map: TBA		 Stevenson College Circle
2:00-3:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting 210 Humanities 1
5:15-6:00 PM Road Scholar and First-Timer Orientation Stevenson Event Center
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) Humanities Plaza
7:45-9:00 PM Lecture: John Bowen (University of York): "Remorse"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening: Great Expectations (1946)
 Humanities Lecture Hall
Schedule for July 22
MONDAY, JULY 22
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 259 Hum/SocSci
B: 359 Hum/SocSci
C: Stevenson 152
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 210 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 420 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Presentation Workshop 520 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 620 Humanities 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Summer Star (San Francisco State University): "'You can stuff your sorries [and wittles] in a sack, Mister': The problem of forgiveness in Great Expectations"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 420 Humanities 1
B: 520 Humanities 1
C: 620 Humanities 1
D: 259 Hum/SocSci
E: 359 Hum/SocSci
F: Stevenson 151
G: Stevenson 152
H: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar 210 Humanities 1
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 520 Humanities 1
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 420 Humanities 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 620 Humanities 1
B: 259 Hum/SocSci
C: 359 Hum/SocSci
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Sunday night's screening): Great Expectations (1946) 210 Humanities 1
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Stevenson Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz): "Partings Welded Together"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 210 Humanities 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Stevenson Event Center
Teacher Workshop 210 Humanities 1
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Humanities Plaza
7:45-9:00 PM Lecture: Elizabeth Miller (UC Davis): "The Retronymic Ocean: Steam and the Recent Past in Great Expectations"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening: An Orphan's Tragedy (1955)
 Humanities Lecture Hall
Schedule for July 23
TUESDAY, JULY 23
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 259 Hum/SocSci
B: 359 Hum/SocSci
C: Stevenson 152
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 210 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 420 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Presentation Workshop 520 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 620 Humanities 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Briony Wickes (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Dickens's Woolen Threads: Sheep, Settlement, and Magwitch's Plot" Humanities Lecture Hall
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 420 Humanities 1
B: 520 Humanities 1
C: 620 Humanities 1
D: 259 Hum/SocSci
E: 359 Hum/SocSci
F: Stevenson 151
G: Stevenson 152
H: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar 210 Humanities 1
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 520 Humanities 1
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 420 Humanities 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 620 Humanities 1
B: 259 Hum/SocSci
C: 359 Hum/SocSci
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Monday night's screening): An Orphan's Tragedy (1955) 210 Humanities 1
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Stevenson Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: Mary Mullen (Villanova University): "Young Monsters, Old Ghosts: Dickens and Memoir"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 420 Humanities 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Stevenson Event Center
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Humanities Plaza
7:45-9:00 PM

Lecture: Elaine Auyoung (University of Minnesota): "Learning to Feel Ashamed of Home"

 Humanities Lecture Hall
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening: Fitoor (2016)
 Humanities Lecture Hall

Schedule for July 24
WEDNESDAY, JULY 24
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:15-10:15 AM  Morning Coffee and Tea Service Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 259 Hum/SocSci
B: 359 Hum/SocSci
C: Stevenson 152
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 210 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 420 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Presentation Workshop 520 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 620 Humanities 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Matthew Sussman (University of Sydney): Lecture Title "Laughter and the Dickensian Sense of Humour"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 420 Humanities 1
B: 520 Humanities 1
C: 620 Humanities 1
D: 259 Hum/SocSci
E: 359 Hum/SocSci
F: Stevenson 151
G: Stevenson 152
H: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar 210 Humanities 1
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 520 Humanities 1
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 420 Humanities 1
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar: Publishing in Academic Journals 620 Humanities 1
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar: The Job Market 259 Hum/SocSci
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar: Grant Writing 359 Hum/SocSci
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar: Public Humanities Stevenson 152
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Tuesday night's screening): Fitoor (2016)

210 Humanities 1
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Stevenson Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: Michael Stern (Friends of Dickens Project): "Expectations of Greatness: Dickens as an Entrepreneur"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 420 Humanities 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Stevenson Event Center
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
7:15-9:15 PM Early Film Screening: Great Expectations (1922) Humanities Lecture Hall
7:15-11:00 PM Free Time
Schedule for July 25
THURSDAY, JULY 25
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 259 Hum/SocSci
B: 359 Hum/SocSci
C: Stevenson 152
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 210 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 420 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Presentation Workshop 520 Humanities 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 620 Humanities 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University): "Welding Parts Together" Humanities Lecture Hall
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 420 Humanities 1
B: 520 Humanities 1
C: 620 Humanities 1
D: 259 Hum/SocSci
E: 359 Hum/SocSci
F: Stevenson 151
G: Stevenson 152
H: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar 210 Humanities 1
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 520 Humanities 1
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 420 Humanities 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 620 Humanities 1
B: 259 Hum/SocSci
C: 359 Hum/SocSci
2:00-3:45 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Wednesday night's screening): Great Expectations (1922) 210 Humanities 1
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Stevenson Community Room
4:00-5:15 PM Screening of Havisham! Ballet Performance
 Humanities Lecture Hall/Zoom
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Stevenson Event Center
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations Stevenson Patio
7:45-8:45 PM Performance: Lura Johnson (Resident Pianist of the Baltimore Symphony and Principal Pianist of the Delaware Symphony) and discussion with Jason Rudy (University of Maryland) Stevenson Event Center
9:00-10:30 PM Grand Party, to which everyone is invited (hosted by the Friends) Stevenson Wagstaff Fireside Lounge
Schedule for July 26
FRIDAY, JULY 26
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 259 Hum/SocSci
B: 359 Hum/SocSci
C: Stevenson 152
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 210 Humanities 1
10:15-11:30 AM Herbert Furse Memorial Lecture: Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College): "At a Loss in Dickens"
 Humanities Lecture Hall
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 420 Humanities 1
B: 520 Humanities 1
C: 620 Humanities 1
D: 259 Hum/SocSci
E: 359 Hum/SocSci
F: Stevenson 151
G: Stevenson 152
H: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar 210 Humanities 1
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
Road Scholars Special Catered Lunch
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 520 Humanities 1
B: Zoom
4:00-5:00 PM Fireside Chat with John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz), Renée Fox (UC Santa Cruz), and Murray Baumgarten (UC Santa Cruz) Humanities Lecture Hall
5:30-6:15 PM Early Dinner Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
6:30-7:15 PM Early Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Humanities Plaza
7:00-8:00 PM Friends of the Dickens Project Fundraising Auction Humanities Lecture Hall
8:00-8:20 PM Announcement of the 2025 novel. Copies will be available for sale. Humanities Lecture Hall & Plaza
8:30-11:00 PM Victorian Dance Stevenson Event Center
Schedule for July 27
SATURDAY, JULY 27
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Stevenson Coffeehouse & Patio
8:00-10:00 AM Check-out, Return Keys and Meal Cards
Please see Dickens Project staff for assistance with luggage.		 East Conference Office and Outside Cowell Apartments
9:00 and 10:00 AM Everyone departs. See you next year! Cowell College Circle
Return Shuttles to SJC and SFO Airports
Reservations required. Click links above to access the reservation pages for each airport shuttle.		 Cowell College Circle