Victorian Expansions: Cross-Cultural Migrations 2026Friday 24 April 10:00am - 7:30pm The Victorian era witnessed the mass movement of peoples and ideas, from empire-builders and settlers migrating to colonial peripheries, to artists, writers, and thinkers from around the world moving to the imperial metropole to create eclectic literary, artistic, and musical forms and genres that combined global influences. In a climate increasingly characterised by anti-immigration rhetoric and policy, “Victorian Expansions: Cross-Cultural Migrations” will promote a view of the long nineteenth century as characterised by the mobility and convergence of peoples, ideas, and artistic forms. This project will bring together the latest critical research and creative work by academics, writers and artists, as well as postgraduate students aimed at recognising the inherent diversity and dynamism underlying Victorian, and indeed British, culture and identity. Our primary event will be the Victorian Expansions Conference, which will bring together interdisciplinary research by senior scholars as well as postgraduate students from across the UK. The conference will also feature two special events: a public lecture (keynote) and a reading by a creative writer. |
