Dates: Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 July 2026
Times: See Programme for further details.
Location: In Trinity College Dublin. See Programme for further details.
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This year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) contemplates “Movements and Migrations” in the nineteenth-century periodical press. The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration as people moved to urban centres; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or other crises. As people moved across Britain and the globe, they created new networks of communication and political alliances. “Migration in this period,” Josephine McDonagh writes, “was a print phenomenon [that] triggered people’s curiosity about emigration, and provided the means, the motives, and the informational framework in which their journeys took place.” Periodicals were a key site where migrations and movements were presented, debated, negotiated, and imagined.
This conference has been partially funded by the generosity of the Trinity College Dublin Arts and Social Sciences Benefactions Fund and by Fáilte Ireland.
For further information please email Dr Clare Clarke at clare.clarke@tcd.ie