Dickens and Impact

A free, online conference exploring the legacy of Dickens

Thursday 17th & Friday 18th September 2020, The University of Buckingham

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Conference Programme – To register as an attendee for each day (or for panels within each day), click on the ZOOM links below. Speakers will be sent separate joining instructions

Thursday, 17th September –DAY 1 ZOOM LINK

14:00 BST Introduction to Conference J Drew, P Orford
14:15 Opening Address Ian Dickens, President of the International Dickens Fellowship

Panel 1 – The Impact of Dickens on 20th-century Fiction in English
14:30 Katie Bell – Dark Humour in the works of Charles Dickens and Flannery O’Connor
14:50 Jo Turner – ‘Let me behold what I shall be, in days to come!’: The Afterlife of Ebenezer Scrooge in Marie Corelli’s The Strange Visitation
15:10 Deborah Siddoway – ‘Bleak House, the fact that Esther gets smallpox…’: Dickens in Ducks, Newburyport
15:30 General Q&A – please join in!

Panel 2 – The Impact of Dickens on International 20th-century Fiction
16:00 Megumi Kumagai – Where is Dickens?: The Absence of Charles Dickens in Neo-Victorian Representations of Japanese Subculture
16:20 Ahmed Diaa Dardir – The Many Lives of Dickens: Arab Counterpoints and Echoes of the Dickensian Text tbc
16:40 Mithal Challab – The Echoes of Dickensian Character in the Modern Iraqi Novel
17:00 General Q&A – please join in!

Panel 3 – The Impact of Dickens on Heritage and the Environment
17:30 Helena Kelly – You are now entering Charles Dickens country: The Mystery of the Medway Towns
17:50 Emily Smith – Housing Dickens’s Legacy: An Exploration into the portrayal of Dickens within the Charles Dickens Museum pre-recorded
18:10 Lee Jackson – That Old Curiosity Shop: Inventing “Dickens’s London”
18:30 General Q&A – please join in!

19:00 Inside the Dickens Museum – Virtual Tour of the Charles Dickens Museum London, with the curator Louisa Price

Friday, 18th September – DAY 2 ZOOM LINK

Panel 4 – The Impact of Dickens in the Digital Humanities
14:30 Julie Kane – Encoding Esther: the Evolution of a Digital Humanities
Project
14:50 Anne-Marie Millim and Marten Düring – ‘Dickens in Switzerland and Luxembourg: Assessing Impact via the Impresso Digital Newspaper-Mining Tool’
15:10 Claire Wood & Hugo Bowles – An Introduction to ‘The Dickens Code’
15:30 General Q&A – please join in!

Panel 5 – The Impact of Dickens on his City
16:00 Carolyn Vellenga Berman – Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper
16:20 Alice Turner – ‘Don’t fret your eyelids’ –  Dickens’s Cockneys and their Influence on Popular Culture
16:40 Joanna Hofer-Robinson – Dickensian Afterlives and the Demolition of Field Lane
17:00 General Q&A – please join in!

Panel 6 – Impact Roundtables
17:30 Dickens Journals Online: Text Correctors Forum
17:50 Dickens Journals Online: Serial Readalong Participants Forum
18:10 The Drood Inquiry: Participants Forum
18:30 General Q&A – please join in!

Grande Finale
19:00 Launch of new University of Buckingham Digital Dickens resource
19:15 Final Remarks: J Drew, P Orford

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