Celebrating Mr. Dickens
University of Delaware
February 18, 2012, 10:30am – 4:30pm
Join UD alumni and friends for a Saturday Symposium on February 18, 2012 in honor of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. The program will include faculty talks on Dickens and his world, a buffet lunch, a tour of two special exhibits on Dickens in the University Library and a performance of Dickens’s most celebrated public reading, “Sikes and Nancy” by Mic Matarrese from the Resident Ensemble Players.
The cost is $50 per person, Registration for the first 25 students/staff is free (lunch not included), space is limited!
Produced by the Department of English along with generous support given by the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, University of Delaware Library. Exhibits of Dickens in the library are curated by Mark Samuels Lasner and Jaime Margalotti.