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In the closing session of #Dickenssociety2026 Tabish Khair reads from his novel 'The Thing about Thugs'.
Now at #Dickenssociety2026: Michael D. Lewis looks at Ali Smith's Winter and the 'alarming proximity to Dickens's world' that Smith's novel explores.
Devastation over the football quickly subsides at #Dickenssociety2026 as @drchrislouttit.bsky.social introduces us to the intricacies of the Dickensian bibliomemoir.
🎉 I am thrilled to work alongside such wonderful Dickensian scholars as @liliu430.bsky.social who won the Parlow Prize and @saramalton.bsky.social and Meg Cronin who won the Paroissien Prize! 🎉
Have been too busy having a great time at #DickensSociety2026 in Aarhus and not posting much as a result, but looking forward to giving my paper on the Dickensian bibliomemoir in tomorrow's early morning slot. A quick preview of one of my slides 👇
A night to remember: we had a very festive, super tasty #Dickenssociety2026 conference dinner this evening at the absolutely fantastic(al) ARoS museum in Aarhus.
After which @sophiajochem.bsky.social offered a thoughtful, thorough, and enormously thought-provoking discussion of abortion narratives in Dickens’ ‘Dombey and Son’. #DickensSociety2026
Because we just can't get enough of A Tale of Two Cities at #Dickenssociety2026: Yizhou Feng reads the novel alongside Wei Yi's 1913 A Tale, in which 'patriots' become a 'riotous mob'!
Now Aleksandar Stevic looks into Dr. Manette as a personification of A Tale of Two Cities' neurotic response to the violence of revolution. Miss Pross emerges as one of the novel's unlikely psychiatrists in this reading at #Dickenssociety2026
On the second day of #Dickenssociety2026 Ahmed Diaa Dardir explores what he calls the 'orgiastic paradox' in A Tale of Two Cities. May the ecstatic, intoxicating frenzies begin!
Li Liu explores the complex relationship between Dickens the author, the narrator, and Dickens the public reader in Hard Times at #Dickenssociety2026
'Priceless garbage' and the hoarding dragon topos with Galia Benziman at #Dickenssociety2026: hoarding here turns out to be a form of resistance to commodification.
Heidi L. Pennington is tracing layers of secondariness in the life and work of Charles's granddaughter Ethel Dickens at #Dickenssociety2026
A very special treat to finish off the first day of #Dickenssociety2026: a dramatic monologue performed by Annie Elliot -- as nineteenth-/twenty first-century Catherine Dickens. "Real women have bodies that age.... By this time, Charles himself wasn't an oil painting!"
Now at #Dickenssociety2026: Caterina Colomba considers how the very many Dickenses of Neo-Victorian fiction can help reshape our understanding of imperial History.
Jude Nixon talks about Dickens's unhumanitarian stance on slavery, the American civil war, and Morant Bay at #Dickenssociety2026. Keep an eye out for Jude's upcoming article in @vpreditors.bsky.social on this topic!
Li Liu explores the complex relationship between Dickens the author, the narrator, and Dickens the public reader in Hard Times at #Dickenssociety2026
'Vive somebody or vive something!' Claire Woods considers Dickens's franglais and imperfect french at #Dickenssociety2026
Robert Sirabian ist kicking off the #Dickenssociety2026 meeting with a fascinating paper on the different ways in which people meet in Dickens.
And we’re off! We had a wonderful pre-symposium reception with a beautiful spread of food, glorious food! #Dickenssociety2026
Making a (very shortlived) mark for #Dickenssociety2026 at Aarhus's amazing public library, @dokk1.bsky.social
I made it!! Very excited about #Dickenssociety2026 starting tomorrow! The final stage came to 73k, which means that I travelled 606k overall. My favourite thing about this trip right now: the first time I came to a place I hadn't been before was on day 1, 7.6k from my home. You really don't HAVE 1/2
I decided my knees needed an easy day today and researched some excellent shortcuts, only to add 24 k to my trip when I realised I'd left my bathing suit in the changing room at the beach where I camped last night. So I finished day 6 of my journey to #Dickenssociety2026 at exactly 90 k. 1/2
This is what I cycle through almost all day, every day.
