The conference brings together delegates from three continents to consider the breadth and depth of the great writer and social campaigner’s impact upon his own time and ours to better understand the nature of his legacy, and the idea of artistic impact.

It will be opened by Ian Dickens, President of the Dickens Fellowship and the adventurous great-great grandson of the novelist himself.  6 panels of speakers over two afternoons will discuss and debate Dickens’s impact on British fiction, World fiction, Heritage and Culture, London, and the Digital Humanities.  It concludes with the launch of a new University of Buckingham online resource for Dickens Studies.

Consult the full programme at https://dickensimpact.art.blog

or sign up for any or all of the panels at