Blood, Absinthe, and Aphorisms:
New Currents in Aestheticism and Decadence
A two-day conference sponsored by The Victorian Committee, the PhD Program in English, Dickens Studies Annual, and the Office of the President.
THURSDAY, APRIL 30
and FRIDAY, MAY 1, 2009
The Victorian Committee of the CUNY Graduate Center was founded in 1978, and the first conference took place in 1982. Topics of recent conferences were:
1998: Victorian Collaborations
1999: Victorian Consumption, Taste and Fashion
2000: Northeast Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference:
Victorian Breakdowns
2001: The Great Exhibition and Its Legacies
2002: The Victorian Material Object
2003: Colonial Victorianisms
2004: What’s New in Victorian Studies?
2005: Victorian Passions
2006: Victorian Medicine and the Medical Imagination
2007: The Victorian Animal
2008: Aging and Last Works in Victorian Literature and Culture
Dickens Studies Annual is published by the AMS Press in cooperation with Queens College and the CUNY Victorian Committee. Information may be obtained by writing to: The Editors, Dickens Studies Annual, Ph.D. Program in English, The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016-4309.
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The CUNY Graduate Center Victorian Committee invites you to its seminars held during the first week of each month October through April (no meeting in January) at the Graduate Center. To be added to the distribution list, please email Anne Humpherys at ahumpherys@gc.cuny.edu.
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Website Design: Mia Chen
Poster Design: Anne McCarthy
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