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Sunday, July 26
 

2:00pm PDT

Universe Participants Check-In and Registration
Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Sunday July 26, 2026 2:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Stevenson Circle

5:15pm PDT

6:15pm PDT

Dinner
Sunday July 26, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

7:00pm PDT

7:45pm PDT

9:15pm PDT

 
Monday, July 27
 

8:00am PDT

Breakfast
Monday July 27, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

8:15am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

10:15am PDT

Lecture: Barbara Leckie (Carleton University): “How to Begin: Reading Bleak House through Earth, Climate, and Hannah Arendt’s ‘Enacted Stories’”

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Barbara Leckie

Carleton University
Barbara Leckie is a Professor in the Department of English and the Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture at Carleton University. Her work includes Open Houses: Poverty, the Architectural Idea, and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century Britain (2018), C... Read More →
Monday July 27, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

1:00pm PDT

Lunch
Monday July 27, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

2:00pm PDT

2:00pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

Talk: Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University): “The Family Picture Gallery”

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Carolyn Williams

Distinguished Professor of English, Rutgers University
Carolyn Williams is Distinguished Professor and Kenneth Burke Chair in English at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Before she devoted herself to melodrama – including melodrama as it appears in the novel – she wrote Transfigured World: Walter Pater’s Aesthetic Histo... Read More →
Monday July 27, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

5:15pm PDT

Dickensian Needlepoint
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Monday July 27, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 200

5:15pm PDT

5:15pm PDT

6:15pm PDT

Dinner
Monday July 27, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

7:00pm PDT

7:45pm PDT

9:15pm PDT

Film Screening TBA
Monday July 27, 2026 9:15pm - Wednesday July 29, 2026 11:15pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall
 
Tuesday, July 28
 

8:00am PDT

Breakfast
Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

8:15am PDT

Morning Coffee and Tea Service
Tuesday July 28, 2026 8:15am - 10:15am PDT
Humanities Plaza

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

10:15am PDT

Lecture: Talia Schaffer (Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY): “Starting with Service: Phil, Esther, and the Shape of Character in Bleak House“

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Talia Schaffer

Distinguished Professor of English, Queens College, CUNY
Talia Schaffer is a Distinguished Professor of English at Queens College, CUNY and the Graduate Center, CUNY, whose work focuses on gender, disability, care, and domesticity in Victorian fiction. Her books include Communities of Care: The Social Ethics of Victorian Fiction, (Pr... Read More →
Tuesday July 28, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

1:00pm PDT

Lunch
Tuesday July 28, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

2:00pm PDT

2:00pm PDT

2:00pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

Talk: John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz & the Dickens Project): “Revisiting Supposing“

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John Jordan

Research Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
John O. Jordan is a research professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Co-Director of the Dickens Project. His primary research interests include Victorian literature and culture, Charles Dickens and narrative theory. John is the author of Supp... Read More →
Tuesday July 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

5:15pm PDT

Dickensian Needlepoint
Complete the Interest Form here:
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Tuesday July 28, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 200

5:15pm PDT

6:15pm PDT

Dinner
Tuesday July 28, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

7:00pm PDT

7:45pm PDT

Lecture: Hilary Schor (University of Southern California): “The Clerk’s Tale”

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Hilary Schor

Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law, University of Southern California
Hilary Schor is a Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and Law at the University of Southern California, where she co-directs the Center for Law, History, and Culture. A specialist in Victorian literature, contemporary fiction, and feminist theory, her research examines the intersections... Read More →
Tuesday July 28, 2026 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

9:15pm PDT

 
Wednesday, July 29
 

8:00am PDT

Breakfast
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

8:15am PDT

Morning Coffee and Tea Service
Wednesday July 29, 2026 8:15am - 10:15am PDT
Humanities Plaza

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

10:15am PDT

Lecture: Sophia Hsu (Lehman College, CUNY): “On Counting and Not Counting Populations”

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Sophia Hsu

Associate Professor of English, Lehman College, CUNY
Sophia Hsu is Associate Professor of English at Lehman College, CUNY. Her research and teaching cover such topics as nineteenth-century British literature, the novel, race, population, and the medical humanities. She also co-edits the journal Dickens Studies Annual and co-dire... Read More →
Wednesday July 29, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

1:00pm PDT

Lunch
Wednesday July 29, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

2:00pm PDT

2:00pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

Talk: Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University): “Transforming Bleak House: The Bondwoman’s Narrative and Other Fanfics”

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Sara Hackenberg

Professor of English, San Francisco State University
Sara Hackenberg is Professor of English at San Francisco State University and has published on penny fiction, popular transatlantic serial novels, early film serials, and Victorian visual culture. Her forthcoming monograph The Mysteries of Modern Life: Mystery Fiction, Popular ... Read More →
Wednesday July 29, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

5:15pm PDT

Dickensian Needlepoint
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Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 200

5:15pm PDT

Victorian Dance Lesson
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Wednesday July 29, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center

6:15pm PDT

Dinner
Wednesday July 29, 2026 6:15pm - 7:00pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

7:15pm PDT

7:15pm PDT

Free Time
Wednesday July 29, 2026 7:15pm - 11:00pm PDT
TBA
 
Thursday, July 30
 

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

8:15am PDT

Morning Coffee and Tea Service
Thursday July 30, 2026 8:15am - 10:15am PDT
Humanities Plaza

10:15am PDT

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

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars
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Amy Wong

Associate Professor of English, 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

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

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

2:00pm PDT

2:00pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

4:00pm PDT

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

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars
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Logan Browning

Professor of English, 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

5:15pm PDT

Dickensian Needlepoint
Complete the Interest Form here:
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Thursday July 30, 2026 5:15pm - 6:15pm PDT
Humanities 1, room 200

5:15pm PDT

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

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

7:00pm PDT

Post-Prandial Potations
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:00pm - 7:45pm PDT
Stevenson Plaza

7:45pm PDT

Entertainment: Dickensian Talent Show
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Thursday July 30, 2026 7:45pm - 9:00pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center

9:00pm PDT

 
Friday, July 31
 

8:00am PDT

Breakfast
Friday July 31, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

8:15am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

9:00am PDT

10:15am PDT

Panel Discussion with Miriam Margoyles (actress), Helena Michie (Rice University), and Rebecca Stern (University of South Carolina)

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars
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Helena Michie

Teacher and Author, Rice University
Helena Michie, a Guggenheim and National Endowment for the Humanities fellow, teaches Victorian literature and feminist theory at Rice University. Author of five books on Victorian studies and gender, including the award-winning Love Among the Archives, she is currently developin... Read More →
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Miriam Margolyes

Actor and Memoirist
Miriam Margolyes is an award‑winning actress and memoirist known for her vivid character work on stage and screen, including her role as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films. A longtime friend of the Dickens Project, she has performed and recorded numerous Dickensian characters and brought Victorian literature to audiences worldwide... Read More →
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Rebecca Stern

Associate Professor of English, University of South Carolina
Rebecca Stern is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. She is working on her second monograph, Forming: Deep Time and Aesthetic Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain... Read More →
Friday July 31, 2026 10:15am - 11:30am PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

11:45am PDT

1:00pm PDT

Lunch
Friday July 31, 2026 1:00pm - 1:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

2:00pm PDT

Dickensian Seminar A
Friday July 31, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
Friday July 31, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT
TBA

3:30pm PDT

Fireside Chat with John O. Jordan (UC Santa Cruz), Renée Fox (UC Santa Cruz)

Speakers, Faculty, & Scholars
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John Jordan

Research Professor of Literature, UC Santa Cruz
John O. Jordan is a research professor of literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz and the Co-Director of the Dickens Project. His primary research interests include Victorian literature and culture, Charles Dickens and narrative theory. John is the author of Supp... Read More →
Friday July 31, 2026 3:30pm - 4:30pm PDT
Humanities Lecture Hall

5:00pm PDT

Early Dinner
Friday July 31, 2026 5:00pm - 5:45pm PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

6:00pm PDT

7:00pm PDT

8:00pm PDT

8:30pm PDT

Victorian Dance
Friday July 31, 2026 8:30pm - 11:00pm PDT
Friday July 31, 2026 8:30pm - 11:00pm PDT
Stevenson Event Center
 
Saturday, August 1
 

8:00am PDT

Breakfast
Saturday August 1, 2026 8:00am - 8:45am PDT
Cowell/Stevenson Dining Hall 520 Cowell-Stevenson Road, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA

8:15am PDT

9:00am PDT

Everyone Departs: See You Next Year!
Saturday August 1, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
Saturday August 1, 2026 9:00am - 10:00am PDT
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