BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.6.1//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news351@english.philhist.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20221124T171423 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220519T101500 SUMMARY:Neo-Victorianism and Memories of Empire: Settler (Trans-)Migration between Romance and Contestation DESCRIPTION:This lecture gives insight into a current research project on a group of nineteenth-century British colonial settler migrants who embarke d not only on one\, but (rather unusually) on several long-distance reloca tions – a process of multiple migration which today’s social scientist s often call ‘transmigration’. The project as a whole looks at the way s in which transmigrants\, their descendants and outside onlookers have ma de sense of these specific migration experiences through literature and ot her cultural forms. The central case study revolves around a community of radical Calvinists who\, after their preacher Norman MacLeod\, often calle d themselves ‘Normanists’ and migrated from Scotland via two successiv e Canadian locations to Australia and\, eventually\, New Zealand. After th ese group migrations (the last of which comprised c.1000 people)\, individ uals also moved on (or\, at times\, back) to other locations\, and links h ave been maintained between the community’s different local ‘branches ’ for over 150 years. After a general introduction to this complex case of (post)colonial migration history and its textual afterlives\, the lectu re will focus on the Normanists’ portrayal in modern fiction and drama f rom the 1970s onwards. This will also be situated in the wider context of what has been called ‘neo-Victorianism’\, i.e. the prolific reiteratio n and re-use of Victorian themes\, figures\, genres and styles in later cu lture\, to come to terms with the ways in which Victorian legacies continu e to influence the present\, but also to reassess the Victorian period thr ough the lens of modern perspectives and values. As often happens in neo-V ictorianism\, post-Normanist neo-Victorian texts veer between romanticisat ion\, an espousal of conservative values and the ‘pleasurable consumptio n’ of a suitably packaged Victorian past on the one hand\, and\, on the other hand\, a more critical perspective that aims to expose the ‘darker ’ side of Victorian life\, for instance in terms of gender- or ‘race ’-based hierarchies. The latter also ties into more general developments in recent postcolonial memory discourse. X-ALT-DESC:

This lecture gives insight into a current research project on a group of nineteenth-century British colonial settler migrants who embar ked not only on one\, but (rather unusually) on several long-distance relo cations – a process of multiple migration which today’s social scienti sts often call ‘transmigration’. The project as a whole looks at the w ays in which transmigrants\, their descendants and outside onlookers have made sense of these specific migration experiences through literature and other cultural forms. The central case study revolves around a community o f radical Calvinists who\, after their preacher Norman MacLeod\, often cal led themselves ‘Normanists’ and migrated from Scotland via two success ive Canadian locations to Australia and\, eventually\, New Zealand. After these group migrations (the last of which comprised c.1000 people)\, indiv iduals also moved on (or\, at times\, back) to other locations\, and links have been maintained between the community’s different local ‘branche s’ for over 150 years. After a general introduction to this complex case of (post)colonial migration history and its textual afterlives\, the lect ure will focus on the Normanists’ portrayal in modern fiction and drama from the 1970s onwards. This will also be situated in the wider context of what has been called ‘neo-Victorianism’\, i.e. the prolific reiterati on and re-use of Victorian themes\, figures\, genres and styles in later c ulture\, to come to terms with the ways in which Victorian legacies contin ue to influence the present\, but also to reassess the Victorian period th rough the lens of modern perspectives and values. As often happens in neo- Victorianism\, post-Normanist neo-Victorian texts veer between romanticisa tion\, an espousal of conservative values and the ‘pleasurable consumpti on’ of a suitably packaged Victorian past on the one hand\, and\, on the other hand\, a more critical perspective that aims to expose the ‘darke r’ side of Victorian life\, for instance in terms of gender- or ‘race ’-based hierarchies. The latter also ties into more general developments in recent postcolonial memory discourse.

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