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8:00am PDT

Breakfast

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT

Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Everyone, Meal

8:15am PDT

Morning Coffee and Tea Service

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:15am - 10:15am PDT

Humanities Plaza @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 8:15am - 10:15am PDT
Humanities Plaza

Everyone, Meal

9:00am PDT

Victorianist Writing Retreat Morning Session A

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Cowell room 113 @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Cowell room 113

By Registration Only, Field Trips or Special Events

9:00am PDT

Victorianist Writing Retreat Morning Session B

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Hum & Soc Sci, room 250 @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Hum & Soc Sci, room 250

By Registration Only, Field Trips or Special Events

9:00am PDT

Faculty-Led Contextual Discussion Group A

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Humanities 1, room 210 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Humanities 1, room 210

Consortium Members, Faculty-Led Discussion

9:00am PDT

Faculty-Led Contextual Discussion Group B

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259

Consortium Members, Faculty-Led Discussion

9:00am PDT

Faculty-Led Contextual Discussion Group C

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Humanities Social Sciences, room 359 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Humanities Social Sciences, room 359

Consortium Members, Faculty-Led Discussion

9:00am PDT

Graduate Student Creative Writing Workshop

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Stevenson room 151 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Stevenson room 151

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

9:00am PDT

Graduate Student Pedagogy Workshop

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Cowell room 132 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Cowell room 132

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

9:00am PDT

Graduate Student Writing Workshop

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Stevenson room 152 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Stevenson room 152

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

9:00am PDT

Faculty-Led Contextual Discussion Group D (Virtual)

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT

Zoom @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Zoom

Virtual, Faculty-Led Discussion

10:15am PDT

Lecture: Amy Wong (Dominican University of California): “China’s Bleak House“

Thursday July 30, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT

Humanities Lecture Hall @ Humanities Lecture Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars

Amy Wong

Faculty, Dominican University of California

Amy R. Wong, is an Associate Professor of English at Dominican University of California. Her first book, Refiguring Speech: Late Victorian Fictions of Empire and the Poetics of Talk (Stanford UP, 2023), examines scenes of “failed” speech in late Victorian fictions of empire... Read More →

Thursday July 30, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

11:45am PDT

Faculty Seminar

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Humanities 1, room 210 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 210

Consortium Members, Faculty Seminar

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel A

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel B

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Humanities Social Sciences, room 359 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Humanities Social Sciences, room 359

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel C

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Cowell room 113 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Cowell room 113

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel D

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Cowell room 132 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Cowell room 132

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel E

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Stevenson room 151 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Stevenson room 151

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel F

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Stevenson room 152 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Stevenson room 152

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel G

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Stevenson room 175 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Stevenson room 175

Everyone, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

11:45am PDT

Graduate Student-Led Workshop on the Novel H (virtual)

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT

Zoom @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 11:45am - 12:45pm PDT
Zoom

Virtual, Graduate Student-Led Workshop

1:00pm PDT

Lunch

Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT

Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Everyone, Meal

1:00pm PDT

Talent Show Rehearsal

Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Stevenson Event Center @ Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center

Everyone, Meal

2:00pm PDT

Faculty-Led Graduate Student Seminar A

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259 @ Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

2:00pm PDT

Faculty-Led Graduate Student Seminar B

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Humanities Social Sciences, room 359 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Humanities Social Sciences, room 359

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

2:00pm PDT

Faculty-Led Graduate Student Seminar C

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Cowell room 113 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Cowell room 113

Consortium Members, Graduate Workshop or Seminar

2:00pm PDT

Dickensian Seminar A

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Stevenson room 175 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Stevenson room 175

Everyone, Dickensian Seminar

2:00pm PDT

Undergraduate Seminar

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Cowell room 132 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Cowell room 132

Undergraduates, Undergraduate and High School Student Seminar or Workshop

2:00pm PDT

Dickensian Seminar B (Virtual)

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

Zoom @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Zoom

Virtual, Dickensian Seminar

2:00pm PDT

Film Screening (Repeat of Wednesday night’s screening: "The Endings")

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT

Hum & Soc Sci, room 250 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, 2 Hagar Dr, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Kirk Davis remarks: 5 minutes
Bleak House 1959 ep.11: 28:52 to end (about 5 minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCzlhJxj-QI&t=28m52s
Bleak House 1985 (final) ep.8: 41:15 to end (about 11 minutes)
Bleak House 2005 ep.13, 14, 15 (skipping credits on 13 and 14) about 90 minutes.

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Hum & Soc Sci, room 250

Everyone, Film Screening

2:00pm PDT

Victorianist Writing Retreat Afternoon Session

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Humanities 1, room 210 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 210

By Registration Only, Field Trips or Special Events

3:00pm PDT

Victorian Tea Presented by the Friends of the Dickens Project

Thursday July 30, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT

Humanities Plaza @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 3:00pm - 3:45pm PDT
Humanities Plaza

Everyone, Reception

4:00pm PDT

Talk: Logan Browning (Rice University), “Unlocking Tulkinghorn’s Chambers”

Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT

Humanities Lecture Hall @ Humanities Lecture Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars

Logan Browning

Faculty, Rice University

Logan Browning is Professor in the Practice of English and Humanities in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Rice University and has held pivotal roles at Rice University’s SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900, serving Publisher and Executive Editor from... Read More →

Thursday July 30, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

Everyone, Plenary Lecture or Talk

5:15pm PDT

Linoleum Printing Workshop with Bleak House Illustrator Gerry Mooney Registration Required

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT

Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259 @ Humanities Lecture Hall, Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities and Social Sciences, room 259

By Registration Only, Field Trips or Special Events

5:15pm PDT

Dickensian Needlepoint

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT

Humanities 1, room 210 @ Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Complete the Interest Form here:
https://forms.gle/X2oCGMuamHzfzCbJ7

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 210

Everyone, Field Trips or Special Events

5:15pm PDT

Victorian Dance Lesson

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT

Stevenson Event Center @ Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center

Everyone, Field Trips or Special Events

6:15pm PDT

Dinner

Thursday July 30, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT

Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Everyone, Meal

7:00pm PDT

Post-Prandial Potations, Sale, and Silent Auction

Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00pm - 7:45pm PDT

Humanities Plaza @ 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00pm - 7:45pm PDT
Humanities Plaza

Everyone, Meal

7:45pm PDT

Entertainment: Dickensian Talent Show

Thursday July 30, 2026 7:45pm - 8:45pm PDT

Stevenson Event Center @ Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 7:45pm - 8:45pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center

Everyone, Meal

9:00pm PDT

Grand Party, to which everyone is invited (hosted by the Friends)

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00pm - 10:30pm PDT

Stevenson Wagstaff Fireside Lounge @ Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

Thursday July 30, 2026 9:00pm - 10:30pm PDT
Stevenson Wagstaff Fireside Lounge

Everyone, Field Trips or Special Events

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