PRESENTATIONS

VICTEUR Project PRESENTATIONS

Presentations by VICTEUR ResearcherS

2026

  • S. Datta. “Cultural Analytics for Good: Building Inclusive Evaluation Frameworks for Historical IR” European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026). Delft, The Netherlands, 29 March – 2 April 2026.
  • D. Greene, “Exploring Historical Literature Using Information Retrieval”. Quantitative Diachronic Linguistics and Cultural Analytics. King’s College London, 15 January 2026.

2025

  • I. Molnar, “East European Migrants in Britain: Joseph Conrad’s ‘Amy Foster’ and Ioana Baetica Morpurgo’s “Imigrantii”/ “The Immigrants”. North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) pre-session, 8 November 2025.
  • C. O’Neill, “Situating the Queer Migrant in British Noir: A Digital Methods Approach to Giri/Haji (2019)”. International Conference: British Noir, Université Paris, 6-8 November 2025.
  • I. Molnar, “Disruptive Technology and Cultural Legacy: the Case of Katherine Cecil Thurston” at IASIL Culture and Technology Galway,  July 2025.
  • G. Meaney, “Migration and Narration: Data, Archives, Nations,” Keynote at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference, July 2025, University of Galway, Ireland.
  • K. Mishler, K. Wade, I. Molnar, and M. Butler, “From All The Year Round to BookTok: Irish Writers and Disruptive Publishing Technologies,” Curated Panel at the International Association for the Study of Irish Literature Conference, July 2025, University of Galway, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney, “Cultural Memory and Cultural Analytics,” in Dynamics, Mediation, Mobilization – Future Directions in Memory Studies Conference, Advancing Interdisciplinary Memory Studies Initiative Biennial Conference, June 2025, Nottingham Trent University, UK.
  • G. Meaney, “Women’s Voices and Life Writing,” Presentation to CONUL (Consortium of National and University Libraries in Ireland) Webinar, in collaboration with the Library of Queen’s University Belfast and Adam Matthews Digital, January 2025, Belfast, UK (online).
  • S. Guan, M. Lin, C. Xu, X. Liu, J. Zhao, J. Fan, Q. Xu, and D. Greene, “PreP-OCR: A Complete Pipeline for Document Image Restoration and Enhanced OCR Accuracy”. At 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2025), July 2025, Vienna, Austria.
  • S. Datta, “Tales and Truths: Exploring the Linguistic Journey of 19th Century Literature and Non-Fiction”. At European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2025), April 2025, Lucca, Italy.

2024

  • S. Datta, “Unveiling Temporal Trends in 19th Century Literature: An Information Retrieval Approach”. ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL’24), December 2024, Hong Kong.
  • S. Guan, “Advancing Post-OCR Correction: A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data”. 32nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2024), December 2024, University College Dublin, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney, “Migrating Dickens: Time, Memory and Borders in Ali Smith’s Winter”. VICTEUR Colloquium: Migration, Adaptation and Ex/Change – Victorian and Contemporary Culture, November 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • D. Greene, “Mapping Meaning: Semantic Networks in 19th-Century Texts”. VICTEUR Colloquium: Migration, Adaptation and Ex/Change – Victorian and Contemporary Culture, November 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • K. Mishler, “‘All the Small Dexterities of an Organ-Boy in Managing His White Mice’: A Case Study of Count Fosco in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1860)”. VICTEUR Colloquium: Migration, Adaptation and Ex/Change – Victorian and Contemporary Culture, November 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • K. Wade, “‘The Shelf-Life of the Nineteenth-Century Novel: What Eighty Years of Catalogue Data Can Tell Us about Mudie’s Select Library,’” in VICTEUR Colloquium: Migration, Adaptation and Ex/Change – Victorian and Contemporary Culture, November 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • C. O’Neill, “‘Weder Fisch noch Fleisch’: Reading Difference in the Migration Narratives of James Joyce’s Ulysses and Terezia Mora’s Alle Tage”. 48th Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, September 2024, Courtland Grand Hotel, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  • G. Meaney, “Counter Factual or Non Event? Disestablishment and Disraeli in Trollope’s Palliser Novels”. EVENT 2024, British Association of Victorian Studies, September 2024, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
  • K. Mishler, “‘…Wily and Suspicious by Nature’: The Enduring Stereotypes of Italian Migrants in Victorian Literature and Culture: A Case Study of Count Fosco in Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White (1860); Or: Italians with White Mice”. British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS 2024), September 2024, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
  • K. Wade, “‘The Arrival of the Book-Box Will Be Your Only Event’: Reading Experiences of the Literary Public in the Time of Mudie’s Select Library (1842–1937)”. EVENT 2024, British Association of Victorian Studies, September 2024, Queen’s University Belfast, UK.
  • S. Guan, “Advancing Post-OCR Correction: A Comparative Study of Synthetic Data”. Poster presented at ACL 2024, August 2024, Bangkok, Thailand.
  • K. Mishler, “Migration and Metro-Coloniality: Transnationalizing the Irish Gothic (1860)”. IASIL 2024, August 2024, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • C. Brophy, “Dead and Gone: Using Digital Humanities to Invoke Spectres of Irish Women in the British Library 19th Century Digitised Fiction Collection”. IASIL 2024, August 2024, Gakushuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
  • I. Molnar, “Imagining Transylvania: A Digital Mapping-Informed Reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula”. 16th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA 2024): Places and Spaces in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture, July 2024, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.
  • G. Meaney, “Containment, Censorship and Subversion: Single Mothers and Their Children in Irish Culture, 1890–1960″. Keynote at Ireland’s Carceral Memory Symposium, July 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney and D. Greene, “Cultural Analytics and Irish Studies: Perspectives on 19th Century Literature”. Roundtable at American Conference for Irish Studies (ACIS 2024), June 2024, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
  • K. Wade, “From ‘Adventures and Native Life’ to ‘Pseudo-Political Romance’: Imperialist World Hierarchies in the Catalogues of Mudie’s Select Library”. ACIS 2024, June 2024, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick, Ireland.
  • K. Mishler and L. Cassidy, “Fragments in the Digital Mirror: Two Centuries of Irish Women’s Biomythography”. International Auto/Biography Association (IABA) World Conference 2024, June 2024, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
  • K. Wade and C. Brophy, “‘This Cannot Be Trusted to Paper’: Digitally Reconstructing an Early Nineteenth-Century Literary Life”. IABA World Conference 2024, June 2024, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
  • L. Wright, “Masculinities, Art, and Class in Shaw’s Love Among the Artists”. George Bernard Shaw’s Ireland Conference, June 2024, MoLI, Dublin, Ireland.
  • L. Wright, “Masculinities and Violence in Irish Fiction”. AEDEI Spanish Association for Irish Studies Conference, May 2024, University of Alcalá, Spain.
  • I. Molnar, “The Good Immigrant: Migrant Exceptionalism in Richard Doddridge Blackmore’s Dariel: A Romance of Surrey and Joseph Conrad’s Amy Foster”. UCD-DCU PhD Webinar Series, May 2024, Dublin, Ireland (online).
  • S. Datta, “A Deep Learning Approach for Selective Relevance Feedback”. European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2024), March 2024, Glasgow, Scotland.

2023

  • K. Wade, “Machine Learning Meetup: Considerations on Human Identity within the Metaverse Environment”. Roundtable Discussion at Trinity College Dublin, November 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
  • D. Greene, “Exploring Large-Scale Open Data: The Curatr Platform”. Public Talk at National Open Research Festival (NORFest 2023), November 2023, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
  • D. Greene, “Introduction to Curatr”. Public Talk at London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar Series, October 2023, London, UK.
  • L. Cassidy, “‘Call Me Eire and Weed All the Aryans Out of Your Area’: Irish Feminist Mythmaking in Anne Enright’s The Green Road (2015) and Denise Chaila’s Music”. Reading Ireland in the Twenty-First Century: 6th International Postgraduate Conference in Irish Studies, September 2023, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
  • L. Cassidy, “‘I Dance on the Grave of Dead Traditions’: Mother Ireland, Multicultural Myth, and Denise Chaila’s Music”. Bodies and Boundaries Conference, September 2023, Dublin City University, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney, “Sustainable Archives and Transnational Narratives: Ireland and Egypt in the British Library Nineteenth Century Corpus”. International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL 2023), July 2023, British University of Egypt, Cairo.
  • C. Brophy, “Intergenerational Justice and Memory Formation: The Canon and ‘The Common Good’”. IASIL 2023, July 2023, British University of Egypt, Cairo.
  • K. Wade, “‘Little Things That Do Little People a Little Good’: The Circulation of Reprint Copy in the Early 19th Century Newspaper Industry”. Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Conference 2023, July 2023, University of Surrey, UK.
  • C. Brophy, “‘Poor Bridget’: Reading Real Social History in the British Library’s Nineteenth Century Collection”. Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland (SSNCI) Conference 2023, June 2023, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
  • K. Wade, “‘Little Things That Do Little People a Little Good’: The Circulation of Reprint Copy in the Early 19th Century Newspaper Industry”. Lightning Talk at Irish Network for Nineteenth Century Studies (INNS) Study Day, June 2023, Belfast, UK.
  • G. Meaney, “European Migrants and Victorian Fiction: A Cultural Revolution Analytics Approach”. Keynote at Before Maastricht: Identity and Place in European Writing before the EU, April 2023, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg.
  • M. Mulvany, “Spectral Traumas and Pleasures in Anne Enright’s The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch”. Historical Fictions Research Conference 2023, February 2023, University of Oxford, UK.
  • B. Wickes, “Reading and Refugees”. Roundtable at 19th and 20th Century Literature Forum, MLA Annual Convention 2023, January 2023, San Francisco, USA.

2022

  • I. Molnar, “Dracula in Context: Geography and Reception in Transylvania”. Dublin Gothic Exhibition Launch, October 2022, Museum of Irish Literature, Dublin, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney, “Archontic and Transmedia Practices as Counter Memory: The Case of Neo-Victorianism”. Nordic Association for Memory Studies in Association with the Centre for Studies in Memory and Literature, October 2022, University of Iceland, Reykjavík.
  • K. Wade, “An Index of Popularity: A Quantitative Perspective on the Long Reach of Mudie’s Select Library”. British Association of Victorian Studies (BAVS 2022), September 2022, University of Birmingham, UK.
  • G. Meaney, “The Importance of Being Ambiguous: Gender, Class and Migration in the Palliser Novels”. BAVS 2022, September 2022, University of Birmingham, UK.
  • B. Wickes, “Bodies with Organs: The Politics of Noise in the British Library’s Digital Archives”. BAVS 2022, September 2022, University of Birmingham, UK.
  • B. Wickes and G. Meaney, “Introducing CURATR”. BAVS 2022, September 2022, University of Birmingham, UK.
  • K. Wade, “Social Network Analysis and the Visualisation of Emigrant Correspondence Corpora,” Workshop at ISLE Summer School, July 2022, University of Newcastle, UK.
  • K. Wade, “Mudie’s Select Library and Irish Novels, 1848–1907″. International Association for the Study of Irish Literature (IASIL 2022), July 2022, University of Limerick, Ireland.
  • G. Meaney, “Gender, Class and Migration: Tracking Irishness in the British Library 19th Century Corpus”. IASIL 2022, July 2022, University of Limerick, Ireland.

2021

  • G. Meaney, “European Migrants in the British Imagination: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Culture”. Seminar Presentation at Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, November 2021, Dublin, Ireland.
  • B. Wickes, “Victorian Literature and Migration”. London Nineteenth Century Studies Seminar, November 2021, London, UK.
  • B. Wickes, “Future Directions for Victorian Literature”. iEdge Hill Nineteenth-Century Studies Centre Seminar, October 2021, Edge Hill University, UK.

2020

  • G. Meaney, “Meaningful Data: Developing a Cultural Analytics Approach to Fiction,” Keynote Address at National Association of English Studies Conference, November 2020, Ireland.