Events
Through biennial world congresses, international symposia, regional events, and online programming, the Society brings together a community of scholars, students, and other persons who study or teach the long nineteenth century. Our congresses and symposia rotate by continent and region to help ensure that scholars from around the world have an opportunity to participate in our events in person. Rotation also allows us to highlight global nineteenth-century studies scholarship in every region. Whenever possible, the SGNCS will continue to offer virtual access to attendees.
Hybrid Symposium
Postimperial possibilities in the Iberian Pacific and Atlantic Worlds (1808-1898)
May 2025
Organisers: Grupo de Estudios Asia Pacífico-Dpto. de Historia Internacional y Global (IH-CSIC); Society for Global Nineteenth Century Studies; Laboratorio Geopolítica e Ideología en el Mundo Hispano Global; Centro de Estudios Americanos de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez
World Congress 2025
18-21 July 2025
University of Birmingham, UK
Summer School
From Pearl River Delta to Greater Bay Area: The Transformation of a Region in Global Contexts
1750-present
University of macau
6-10 august 2025
Future World Congresses and Symposia
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Chile 2027 Congress
Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago
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Germany 2028 Symposium
Universität Regensburg
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Vienna 2029 Congress
University of Vienna
Previous Events
March 2022
In Conversation series: Isabel Hofmeyr (University of the Witwatersrand), author of Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House, in conversation with Stephanie Newell (Yale University)
May 2022
First issue launch reception at the annual British Women Writer's Conference in Waco, Texas
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June 2022
In Conversation series: Porscha Fermanis and Sarah Comyn (UC Dublin), editors of Worlding the South: Nineteenth-Century Literary Culture and the Southern Settler Colonies, in conversation with Robert Aguirre (James Madison University)
September 2022
In Conversation series: Moon-Ho Jung (University of Washington), author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State, in conversation with Julie Greene (University of Maryland)
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November 2022
"The Global / Oceanic / Nineteenth Century": An International Symposium, held in-person and online, with synchronous panels in Australia and Hong Kong
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December 2022
In Conversation series: Daniel Foliard (Université de Paris), author of The Violence of Colonial Photography, in conversation with Susie Protschky (Deakin University)
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June 2023
Inaugural World Congress in Singapore, 19-22 June. Learn more
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November 2023
Conference on "Transatlantic Monarchisms" held in two physical sites: the Universidad de Alcalá in Spain and the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez in Chile. Worldwide participation through Zoom. Co-sponsored by the SGNCS and held 2-3 November.
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June 2024
Nineteenth-Century Global Cities and Urban Worlds: An International Symposium, 6-8 June. Learn more
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July 2024
An Ambivalent Empire: Spain and Informal Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century, 16-17 July 2024 Viña del Mar, Chile. Hybrid Format. Co-sponsored by the SGNCS. Learn more
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August 2024
In Conversation series: Waiyee Loh (Kanagawa University), author of Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy, in conversation with Kristin Mahoney (Michigan State University). Learn more
