From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria

✨ Here are some moments from the 9th From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ✨

📚 So many discussions had, presentations heard, and ideas exchanged. 📚

#QAQV9 #AcademicConference

✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙

🎉The QAQV9 Conference is over — and what a success it was! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing contributions. We’re so grateful for this community and can’t wait to see you at the next one! 💙 Your energy and engagement made it unforgettable.

#QAQV9 #Academicconference #Victorian

It's the final countdown🎶

🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich

🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria

🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry

#QAQV9

🎉 Don't forget about our QAQV9 conference and the amazing keynote speakrs that we host! 🎉

Jerome De Groot 🗓 24 September | 🕙 10:15

Valerie Purton 🗓 25 September | 🕟 16:30

Mina Gorji 🗓 26 September | 🕐 13:00

Venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room: 1.110, Warsaw

#conference2025

The next IGA conference will be at the University of Hull, England on 28-31 July 2026!

You can find the CFP and more information at hullgothic.wordpress.com

Olga Tokarczuk's Eighteenth Century, Co-chairs Katarzyna Bartoszyska and Deidre Shauna Lynch We are assembling a roundtable on the novels of Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk. We hope to identify other scholars who are interested in how her fiction lays claim to the legacy of eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, repurposing the Enlightenment’s encyclopedism and universalism and its concepts of print communications, the public sphere, and the trans-national republic of letters. How do we re-see our period —its modernity, its concerns with gender, nature, violence, nation—through the lens provided by this 21st-century Polish novelist? Alternately, how might we trace continuities from the eighteenth century to the present in the formal experiments or thematic concerns of novels such as Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and The Books of Jacob, and what new architectures of totality or concepts of voice might we discover by doing so?

#18thc pals, pls RT: @kasiaiskasia.bsky.social & I are assembling a roundtable for the American Society for 18th-C Studies mting in Philly in April, on Olga Tokarczuk's 18th Century. Abstracts due 9/22. Pls help us think together about this fabulous novelist's wayward ways with our period & its 📚.

It’s here!! 🎉 The CfP for the FIFTH ANNE-VERSARY Anne Lister Soc’y Mtg, 3-4 Apr 2026 in Halifax! We seek proposals from scholars & researchers across the Listerverse, on any topic from Anne’s life & times to her afterlives. Due 1 Nov. For more details ➡️ english.northwestern.edu/about/anne-lis…

+ an opportunity for remote participation

Publishing today!

Ghosts and the Gothic, edited by @ruthheholt.bsky.social and @joparsons.bsky.social

The first book to examine ghostly presences (and absences) in #Gothic texts bit.ly/3I59Uzy
#Ghosts #GothicStudies

Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526181923/

Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org

Robert Louis Stevenson's The Body Snatcher The core of Robert Louis Stevenson's famous story The Body Snatcher probably derives from an urban legend from the Edinburgh region. It was written in the Scottish village of Pitlochry, where Stevenso...

Ruth Richardson in @thelancet.com discusses how “The Body-Snatcher” shows RL Stevenson’s “acute analysis of degrees of guilt; the complicit socialisation of maleness… the dark silences that can exist in social relations that pass as bonhomie”
#C19th #horror
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Chinoiserie Chinoiserie, the word itself coming from French, refers to the trend of importing paintings, porcelain, clothes and trinkets from China to display them in the houses of the wealthy as luxury items, wh...

Chinoiserie in History, Culture, and at a Conference

In our latest blog post, Dr Maria Szafrańska-Chmielarz comments on the #BACS2025 conference and discusses #chinoiserie, both as an element of #Victorian culture, but also as a theme that resonates in the present qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/chinoiserie/

Our Agnieszka also wrote about her some time ago👇
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/forgotten-wo...

Online Talk: Devoney Looser, Wild for Austen - Chawton House The first of a series of digital events for our Jane Austen Book Club with Devoney Looser, author of Wild for Austen: A Rebellious, Subversive, and Untamed Jane.

Join us at virtual @chawtonhouse.bsky.social for a Jane Austen Book Club event with @devoney.bsky.social to celebrate her new book, 'Wild for Austen'.
You may have thought Austen was a quiet spinster, but Devoney Looser puts that myth to rest.
Tickets here: chawtonhouse.org/whats-on/onl... #booksky

We’re excited to share the full schedule for #QAQV9 “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” conference ⤵
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wp-content/u...

David Bowie's final project was a musical set in London Shortly before his death, the star wrote dozens of notes for a musical set in 18th Century London.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

The QAQV9 conference’s list of panels concludes with bold rewritings and radical retellings. These panels explore evolving visions of womanhood—poetic, political, and deeply personal.

🌹 WOMANHOODS

📚 20th-CENTURY REWRITINGS

See you soon!

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

📚 Here's another set of panels from our upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🌐 BORDER CROSSING IN THE 18th CENTURY II

🕰 DICKENS & THE PAST

🎨 RECOVERING THE PAST THROUGH THE ARTS

🌏 TRANSCULTURAL & TRANSTEMPORAL

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 5

#victorian #conference #dickens

🏴‍☠️ Outlaws, Borders & Dangerous Books ✒️

Here's another set of panels for the upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🎭 BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE 1750s

🗡 REBELS & OUTLAWS

🌍 BORDER CROSSINGS

🚻 DICKENS & GENDER

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

We just can't wait!

Dickens, Dirt, and Education One of the pressing social issues that deeply concerned Charles Dickens was the need for universal education and comprehensive sanitary reform, both of which he deemed essential to improving the lives...

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Magdalena Pypeć explores Dickens’s fight for education and sanitation — twin causes he saw as inseparable. From A Christmas Carol to 19th‑century ragged schools, she traces how cleanliness shaped learning.

Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/dickens-dirt...

#dickens

QAQV9 conference is coming!

📅 24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here's more of our panel highlights:

🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes

⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms

👀 The Victorians Look Back

📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back

Stay tuned for more!

#victorian #conference

Reflections on AI in Research, Writing, and Teaching I was toying with the idea of using AI at the initial stages of research. Gathering ideas, inspirations, reading and doing the digging can be really time-consuming, almost a drag. Recently, I have bee...

In her latest QAQV blog post, dr Dorota Osińska explores how AI is reshaping the way we research, write, and teach. From students’ cautious curiosity to ChatGPT’s “hallucinated” Victorian poetry, she shares firsthand insights on the AI in academia.

Read it here: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/reflections-...

QAQV9 conference is coming!

24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here are some of our panels highlights:

✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK

🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS

🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME

🦇 GOTHICISING

Stay tuned for more!

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC

Background is of a young woman in Regency dress between an open door. Text reads: 2 weeks, VJC logo, July 19-20, 2025.

Dearest Viewer,

#VirtualJaneCon begins in two weeks. We hope you are as excited as we are.

See you very soon,

Virtual JaneCon

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

shorturl.at/ePhU5

SAVE THE DATE!

BARS Digital Symposium: Expanding Queer Romanticisms
25th July 2025, 3pm - 6.15pm BST

View the programme at the link below ⤵️

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6045

BARS Digital Symposium: ‘Global Romanticism’ – 23 July 2025 (UK Time; BST)

Current research on Romanticism will be explored by bringing together speakers across the world, addressing different areas of Romantic writing, its production and intercultural connections.

www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6052