Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
Thursday 25 August
10:00 – 10:30
Coffee
10:30 – 12:00 – Poetic Language(s)
- Veronica Alfano (Macquarie University) – ‘The Radical Nostalgia of Victorian Poetic Neologism’
- Alison Chapman (University of Victoria) – ‘Discovering Literary Languages at Scale: Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry’
12:00 – 13:00
Lunch
13:00 – 14:30 – Language, Education, and Nation in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
- Andy Murphy (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘Education and the Language(s) of National(ist) Literature in Ireland’
- Nicholas Wolf (New York University) – ‘Elusive Education-Policy Planning around Non-English Languages in Early Nineteenth-Century Ireland’
14:30 – 15:00
Coffee
15:00 – 16:30 – Working Literacies
- Aileen Douglas (Trinity College Dublin) – ‘“It was in the poor child’s school that I learned to write”: Joseph Barker, Sunday Schools, and Literacy’
- Simon Rennie (University of Exeter) – ‘Adult Education and Literacy in Dialect Poetry from the Lancashire Cotton Famine 1861-1865’
16:30 – 17:30 – Roundtable on Literary Languages and Victorian Periodicals
Alison Chapman (University of Victoria) and Fionnuala Dillane (University College Dublin)
Friday 26 August
9:00 – 10:30 – Education and Dialect
- Jonathan Memel (Bishop Grosseteste University) – ‘“A governess-tongue of no country at all”: Hardy, Speech, and Unlearning after 1870’
- Rosa Ortiz (independent scholar) – ‘“I’m none wanting to have learning”: Education and Regional Dialects in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles’
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee
11:00 – 12:30 – Language and/as Crime
- Martin Johnes (Swansea University) – ‘“Welsh Not”: The Exclusion and Utilization of Welsh in Victorian Elementary Education’
- Margaret Kelleher (University College Dublin) – ‘Retrieving a Bilingual Past: Reading between the Lines’
12:30 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 – Education and Linguistic Difference
- Peter Mackay (University of St Andrews) – ‘1872 and All That: Gaelic Education, Literacy, and Poetry’
- Lynda Mugglestone (University of Oxford) – ‘Voicing the Text: Literature, Spoken Language, and Victorian Education’
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee
15:30 – 16:00
Closing discussion: Karin Koehler (Bangor University) and Greg Tate (University of St Andrews)
