Saturday 30 April 2022
10:30am-4:00pm
10:30am-12:15pm Morning Session
Meghan Burry, “Confining the Fallen Woman: The Magdalen Hospitals, 1758-1890”
Melanie Byron, “‘Still the Jago rats bred’: Degenerative Eugenics in A Child of the Jago’s Slums”
Virginia Lynn Grimaldi, “”The London Foundling Hospital: Challenging Fiscal-Military State Interpretations of Charity and Philanthropy”
12:30-1:40pm Lunch Break
1:50-2:50pm Keynote Address I
Lesley Higgins, “Contrition, Correction—and ‘Perversion’?: the Victorian Confessional Revealed”
3:00-4:00pm Keynote Address II
Janice Schroeder, “Carceral Talk and Vocal Sound in the Victorian Prison”