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Detailed Schedule for the Dickens Universe

Schedule by Day

SAT

July 19

SUN

July 20

MON

July 21

TUE

July 22

WED

July 23

THU

July 24

FRI

July 25

SAT

Jul 26

The Dickens Universe will begin on Sunday, July 20, and end on Saturday, July 26, at College Nine and John R. Lewis College, UC Santa Cruz. Faculty and grad students should arrive Saturday afternoon, July 19, for a round of important meetings to be held through Sunday morning. 

You'll notice from the schedule that the program is 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 sessions are only available to faculty and grad students representing our consortium schools. Those items have asterisks in the schedule. If you have a question, don't hesitate to contact the office.

The schedule will also be available on Sched.com and via their mobile app.  (Last updated 06/30/2025)

 

Schedule for July 19
SATURDAY, JULY 19
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2:00-5:00 PM Faculty and Graduate Students
Check-in and Registration
College Nine and John R. Lewis College Map (PDF)		 Community Room
5:30-7:30 PM * Welcome Dinner University Center's
Alumni Room
7:30-9:00 PM * Orientation for Faculty and Graduate Students University Center's
Alumni Room

Schedule for July 20
SUNDAY, JULY 20
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8:00-8:45 AM * Breakfast Dining Commons
8:45-10:00 AM * Consortium Faculty Planning Meeting 71 Social Sciences 2
* All Graduate Students Meeting 75 Social Sciences 2
10:00-10:30 AM * Morning Coffee and Pastries 71 Social Sciences 2
10:30-12:00 PM * Plenary Meeting of Faculty and Graduate Students 75 Social Sciences 2
1:00-1:45 PM * Lunch Dining Commons
2:00-5:00 PM Universe Participants
Check-in and Registration
College Nine and John R. Lewis College Map (PDF)		 Community Room
2:00-3:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting 153 Social Sciences 1
5:15-6:00 PM Road Scholar and First-Timer Orientation 72 Social Sciences 2
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Dining Commons
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) Multipurpose Room
7:45-9:00 PM Lecture: Teresa Mangum (University of Iowa): "Curious Old Age in The Old Curiosity Shop"
 Multipurpose Room
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening:
 71 SocSci 2
Schedule for July 21
MONDAY, JULY 21
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Community Room
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 71 Social Sciences 2
C: 75 Social Sciences 2
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 153 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 149 Social Sciences 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Daniel Novak (University of Alabama): "'Magic Reel': Photography, Theatre, and Narrative in The Old Curiosity Shop"
 Multipurpose Room
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 145 Social Sciences 1
C: 149 Social Sciences 1
D: 153 Social Sciences 1
E: 161 Social Sciences 1
F: 71 Social Sciences 2
G: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar Namaste Lounge
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Dining Commons
Farce Rehearsal Multipurpose Room
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 75 Social Sciences 2
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 145 Social Sciences 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 161 Social Sciences 1
C: Namaste Lounge
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Sunday night's screening) 71 Social Sciences 2
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University): "How Melodrama Works"
 Multipurpose Room
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Multipurpose Room
Teacher Workshop 153 Social Sciences 1
Dickensian Needlepoint TBA
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Dining Commons
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Multipurpose Room
7:45-9:00 PM Lecture: Tara Menon (Harvard University): "Whose Novel is This Anyway? Speech and Character in The Old Curiosity Shop"
 Multipurpose Room
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening
 71 Social Sciences 2
Schedule for July 22
TUESDAY, JULY 22
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Community Room
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 71 Social Sciences 2
C: 75 Social Sciences 2
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 153 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 149 Social Sciences 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Jacob Risinger (Ohio State University): "Sure Enough" Multipurpose Room
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 145 Social Sciences 1
C: 149 Social Sciences 1
D: 153 Social Sciences 1
E: 161 Social Sciences 1
F: 71 Social Sciences 2
G: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar Namaste Lounge
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Dining Commons
Farce Rehearsal Multipurpose Room
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 75 Social Sciences 2
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 145 Social Sciences 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 161 Social Sciences 1
C: Namaste Lounge
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Monday night's screening) 71 Social Sciences 2
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: Jonathan Grossman (UC Los Angeles): "The Tragedy Tolled in Clock"
 Multipurpose Room
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Multipurpose Room
Dickensian Needlepoint TBA
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Dining Commons
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Multipurpose Room
7:45-9:00 PM

Lecture: Maha Jafri (Sewanee: University of the South): "Curiouser and Curiouser: The Uncanny and the Size of Life"

Multipurpose Room
9:15-11:15 PM Film Screening
 71 Social Sciences 2

Schedule for July 23
WEDNESDAY, JULY 23
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:15-10:15 AM  Morning Coffee and Tea Service Community Room
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 71 Social Sciences 2
C: 75 Social Sciences 2
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 153 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 149 Social Sciences 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Galia Benziman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Seeing in the Dark: Realism, Objects, and Transitional Attachment"
 Multipurpose Room
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 145 Social Sciences 1
C: 149 Social Sciences 1
D: 153 Social Sciences 1
E: 161 Social Sciences 1
F: 71 Social Sciences 2
G: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar Namaste Lounge
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Dining Commons
Farce Rehearsal Multipurpose Room
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 75 Social Sciences 2
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 145 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar A 110 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar B 153 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Professionalization Seminar C 161 Social Sciences 1
2:00-4:00 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Wednesday night's screening)

 71 Social Sciences 2
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz): "Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop"
 Multipurpose Room
Undergraduate Writing Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Multipurpose Room
Dickensian Needlepoint TBA
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Dining Commons
7:15-9:15 PM Early Film Screening 71 Social Sciences 2
7:15-11:00 PM Free Time
Schedule for July 24
THURSDAY, JULY 24
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Community Room
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 71 Social Sciences 2
C: 75 Social Sciences 2
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 153 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Publication Workshop 145 Social Sciences 1
* Graduate Student Writing Workshop 149 Social Sciences 1
10:15-11:30 AM Lecture: Robyn Warhol (Ohio State University), Helena Michie (Rice University) and Huw Edwardes-Evans (Rice University): "Curious Endings, Curious Beginnings: Close Reading with Project Endings" Multipurpose Room
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 145 Social Sciences 1
C: 149 Social Sciences 1
D: 153 Social Sciences 1
E: 161 Social Sciences 1
F: 71 Social Sciences 2
G: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar Namaste Lounge
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Dining Commons
Farce Rehearsal Multipurpose Room
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 75 Social Sciences 2
B: Zoom
Undergraduate Seminar 145 SocSci 1
* Faculty-led Graduate Student Seminars A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 161 Social Sciences 1
C: Namaste Lounge
2:00-3:45 PM Repeat Film Screening (repeat of Wednesday night's screening) 71 Social Sciences 2
3:00-3:45 PM Victorian Tea presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project Community Room
4:00-5:00 PM Talk: Clark Cloyd (The Paideia School), Ray Crosby (Kern Valley High School), and Catherine Springer (The Paideia School): "Teaching Dickens at the High School Level"
 Multipurpose Room
5:15-6:15 PM Victorian Dance Lesson Multipurpose Room
Dickensian Needlepoint TBA
6:15-7:00 PM Dinner Dining Commons
7:00-7:45 PM Post-Prandial Potations Multipurpose Room
7:45-8:45 PM Farce: "Curiosity Killed the Shop: A Dickensian Travesty," written and directed by Adam Abraham (University of Miami) Multipurpose Room
9:00-10:30 PM Grand Party, to which everyone is invited (hosted by the Friends) Namaste Lounge
Schedule for July 25
FRIDAY, JULY 25
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:15-10:15 AM Morning Coffee and Tea Service Community Room
9:00-10:00 AM Faculty-led Contextual Discussion Groups A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 71 Social Sciences 2
C: 75 Social Sciences 2
D: Zoom
Nineteenth-Century Seminar 153 SocSci 1
10:15-11:30 AM Roundtable with all the Speakers 
 Multipurpose Room
11:45-12:45 PM Graduate Student-led Workshops on the Novel A: 110 Social Sciences 1
B: 145 Social Sciences 1
C: 149 Social Sciences 1
D: 153 Social Sciences 1
E: 161 Social Sciences 1
F: 71 Social Sciences 2
G: Zoom
* Faculty Seminar Namaste Lounge
1:00-1:45 PM Lunch Dining Commons
Road Scholar Lunch University Center's
Alumni Room
2:00-3:00 PM Dickensian Seminars A: 75 Social Sciences 2
B: Zoom
3:30-4:30 PM Fireside Chat with John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz) and Renée Fox (UC Santa Cruz) Multipurpose Room
5:00-5:45 PM Early Dinner Multipurpose Room
6:00-7:00 PM Early Post-Prandial Potations, Dickens Project T-shirt and Sweatshirt Sale, and Book Sale Multipurpose Room
7:00-8:00 PM Friends of the Dickens Project Fundraising Auction Multipurpose Room
8:00-8:20 PM Announcement of the 2026 novel. Copies will be available for sale. Multipurpose Room
8:30-11:00 PM Victorian Dance Multipurpose Room
Schedule for July 26
SATURDAY, JULY 26
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8:00-8:45 AM Breakfast Dining Commons
8:00-10:00 AM Check-out, Return Keys and Meal Cards
Please see Dickens Project staff for assistance with luggage.		 Community Room
9:00 and 10:00 AM Everyone departs. See you next year!
Return Shuttles to SJC and SFO Airports
Reservations required. Click links above to access the reservation pages for each airport shuttle.		 Community Room