Detailed Schedule for the Dickens Universe
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Schedule for July 21
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SUNDAY, JULY 21
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| 7:45-9:00 PM |
Lecture: John Bowen (University of York): "Remorse"
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| 9:15-11:15 PM |
Film: Great Expectations (1946) |
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Schedule for July 22
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MONDAY, JULY 22
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| 9:00-10:00 AM |
Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Group |
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| 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."
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| 11:45-12:45 PM |
Graduate Student-led Workshop on the Novel |
Zoom |
| 2:00-3:00 PM |
Dickensian Seminar |
Zoom |
| 4:00-5:00 PM |
Talk: John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz): "Partings Welded Together" |
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| 7:45-9:00 PM |
Lecture: Elizabeth Miller (UC Davis): "The Retronymic Ocean: Steam and the Recent Past in Great Expectations."
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| 9:15-11:15 PM |
Film: An Orphan's Tragedy (1955) |
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Schedule for July 23
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TUESDAY, JULY 23
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| 9:00-10:00 AM |
Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Group |
Zoom |
| 10:15-11:30 AM |
Lecture: Briony Wickes (Royal Holloway, University of London): "Dickens’s Woollen Threads: Sheep, Settlement, and Magwitch’s Plot"
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| 11:45-12:45 PM |
Graduate Student-led Workshop on the Novel |
Zoom |
| 2:00-3:00 PM |
Dickensian Seminar |
Zoom |
| 4:00-5:00 PM |
Talk: Mary Mullen (Villanova University): "Young Monsters, Old Ghosts: Dickens and Memoir"
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| 7:45-9:00 PM |
Lecture: Elaine Auyoung (University of Minnesota): "Learning to Feel Ashamed of Home" |
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| 9:15-11:15 PM |
Film: Fitoor (2016) |
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Schedule for July 24
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 24
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| 9:00-10:00 AM |
Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Group |
Zoom |
| 10:15-11:30 AM |
Lecture: Matthew Sussman (University of Sydney): "Laughter and the Dickensian Sense of Humour." |
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| 11:45-12:45 PM |
Graduate Student-led Workshop on the Novel |
Zoom |
| 2:00-3:00 PM |
Dickensian Seminar |
Zoom |
| 4:00-5:00 PM |
Talk: Michael Stern (Friends of the Dickens Project): "Expectations of Greatness: Dickens as Entrepreneur"
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Schedule for July 25
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THURSDAY, JULY 25
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| 9:00-10:00 AM |
Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Group |
Zoom |
| 10:15-11:30 AM |
Lecture: Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University): "Welding Parts Together" |
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| 11:45-12:45 PM |
Graduate Student-led Workshop on the Novels |
Zoom |
| 2:00-3:00 PM |
Dickensian Seminar |
Zoom |
| 4:00-5:15 PM |
Screening of Havisham! Ballet Performance |
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| 7:45-9:00 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) |
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Schedule for July 26
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FRIDAY, JULY 26
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| 9:00-10:00 AM |
Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Group |
Zoom |
| 10:15-11:30 AM |
Lecture: Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College): "At a Loss in Dickens"
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| 11:45-12:45 PM |
Graduate Student-led Workshop on the Novels |
Zoom |
| 2:00-3:00 PM |
Dickensian Seminar |
Zoom |
| 4:00-5:00 PM |
Fireside Chat with John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz) and Renée Fox (UC Santa Cruz) |
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| 7:30-8:30 PM |
Friends of the Dickens Project Fundraising Auction |
Zoom |
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Announcement of the 2025 novel |
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