EVENT 2024 at Gladstone's Library

Event 2024 -Gladstone’s Library Hub conference

On the 11^th and 12^th of September 2024 Gladstone’s Library is hosting a Victorian Studies conference on the subject of Victorian 'moments of change' that is open to all members of the British Association for Victorian Studies.*

The conference is part of Event 2024 – an experiment in hosting a sustainable global Victorian Studies event. Organised by the international Victorian Studies organisations BAVS, NAVSA, AVSA, VI, and DACH-V, Event 2024 consists of central monthly online talks and panels, followed by in-person, two-day conferences at seventeen local hubs across the world. Gladstone’s Library is very excited to be one of these hubs.

As well as two and a half days of panels, Gladstone's Library will host an on-site Heritage Fair for organisations from the North-West with Victorian collections to advertise their holdings and to foster research and public engagement connections between heritage organisations and researchers.

After all of the hub events, talks from the hubs will be placed online in COVE (Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education), an online annotation platform that allows attendees to read and comment on papers delivered at all of the seventeen global hubs.

*If you aren't already a member of the British Association for Victorian Studies, it is open to independent researchers, academics, students, and heritage professionals with an interest in Victorian Studies and can be joined here for £25 (£10 if you are a student or unwaged). Becoming a member gives you access to funding provided by the association for events, public engagement activities, and research trips, as well as the BAVS newsletter with updates about new publications in the field of Victorian Studies and Victorian Studies events, as well as BAVS’ own events and usual annual conference.

 

Speakers

Keynote speakers at the Gladstone’s Library hub include Deborah Wynne (Professor, University of Chester), Holly Kirby (Assistant Curator, Attingham Park, and Visiting Lecturer, University of Chester), Mike Sanders (Professor, University of Manchester), and Michael Wheeler (Visiting Professor, University of Southampton).

Other speakers include Mark Allen (Conservator, North East Wales Archives), Hannah Burden (PhD Researcher, University of Leicester), Jim Cheshire (Associate Professor, University of Lincoln), Bethany Dahlstrom (PhD Researcher, University of Lancaster), Yanira Gonzalez (Masters student, Liverpool John Moores University), Joanne Knowles (Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University), Angela Kenny (Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851), Alice Kinghorn (Lecturer, University of Gloucester), Emma Liggins (Reader, Manchester Metropolitan University), Gaynor Llewellyn Jenkins (PhD Researcher, Liverpool John Moores University), Janette Martin (Research & Learning Manager and Modern History Curator, John Rylands Research Institute and Library), Laura McCormick Kilbride (Assistant Professor, University of Durham), Alex Patterson (Assistant Curator of Fine Art, National Museums Liverpool), Jude Piesse (Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University), Charlie Pryce (Liverpool John Moores University). Elizabeth Rawlinson-Mills (Associate Professor, University of Cambridge), Lucy Ella Rose (Lecturer, University of Surrey), Kathryn Simpson (Lecturer, University of Sheffield), Rebecca Styler (Associate Professor, University of Lincoln), Jessica Thomas (PhD Researcher, University of Chester), Charlotte Wilson (DPhil Student, University of Oxford).

 

Heritage Fair organisations

Visiting heritage organisations at the Gladstone's Library hub will include John Rylands Research Institute and Library, the Portico Library, Manchester Metropolitan Special Collections Museum, North East Wales Archives, Cheshire Archives, the Walker Art Gallery, the Athenaeum, Edge Hill University Archives, Liverpool Central Library and Archive, University of Liverpool Archives and Special Collections, Liverpool John Moores University, St Helen’s Archive Service, Unilever Archives, and Wirral Archives Service.

 

Schedule

Click here to see the full schedule for the Gladstone's Library hub.

The topics for the central online talks and panels taking place throughout the year are material culture, poetry, theatre, global Victorian Studies today, decadence, global religions, activism, and teaching, and the schedule can be found here.

 

Registration

To register for the central online talks and panels please visit: https://www.event2024.org/registration/

Once you've done this, you can buy your ticket for the Gladstone's Library hub here. Please confirm your BAVS membership in the 'Notes' section of the booking link when you book tickets on our website.

Two-day tickets for the Gladstone's Library hub (this includes attendance at all panels and the Heritage Fair, as well as tea/filter coffee and a two-course lunch in our on-site restaurant on both days, and two-course dinner in our on-site restaurant on the 11^th) are £100

One-day tickets for the Gladstone's Library hub on Wednesday the 11th (includes attendance at all panels, plus tea/filter coffee, and a two-course hot lunch in our on-site restaurant on Wednesday the 11th) are £40.

One-day tickets for the Gladstone's Library hub on Thursday the 12th (includes attendance at all panels and the Heritage Fair, plus tea/filter coffee, and a two-course hot lunch in our on-site restaurant on Thursday the 12^th)  are £40.

The conference on both days will run from 9am-6.45pm.

 

Accommodation

Accommodation can be booked starting the 15th of March. All bedrooms on the 11^th and 12^th have been set aside for event attendees. Accommodation can be booked via the Library’s Reception by emailing [email protected] or calling the Library’s Reception on +44 (0)1244 532350. Accommodation is available on a B&B basis.

We would recommend you book your accommodation before buying your conference ticket if you are planning to stay at the Library.

Students and members of the Society of Authors receive a 40% discount on room prices, and we ask that you bring proof of eligibility at check-in.

Single, double, twin, and family rooms are available and all room bookings include a continental breakfast. Accessible bedrooms with en-suite, wet-room-style bathrooms and grab handles are available on the ground floor.