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We are sad to report the death of Richard Pearson, who was in his early fifties. He was a keen supporter of BAVS, an energetic delegate at its founding conference, and regularly gave papers at the annual conferences thereafter. Having undertaken his undergraduate studies at the University of Newcastle, Richard subsequently proceeded to postgraduate work …

Confirmed speakers: David Fairer (Leeds), Greg Garrard (British Columbia), Sue Edney (Bristol) Including a reading of poetry and prose with Simon Armitage, Helen Jukes, and Jack Thacker The influence and spirit of ‘georgic’, as a genre or mode – named for Virgil’s Georgics, the primary classical model – can be seen across western art and culture: from …

This is a call for abstracts for paper, poster and creative presentations for a one-day interdisciplinary conference on white slavery, as trafficking in women was historically called. Email a short bio and an abstract of 300 words for papers/200 word for posters to the organisers: Dr Catherine Armstrong (Loughborough University) Dr Laura Lammasniemi (University of …

Date: 17–19 July 2019 Location: College Court, University of Leicester Plenary Speakers: Professor Rosemary Ashton (UCL) and Professor Nancy Henry (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) Deadline for proposals: 14 January 2019   Call for papers   This conference will examine the legacy of George Eliot alongside trends in contemporary critical work, bringing together scholars from around …

Organised by the Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter Keynote Speakers: Professor Stefano Evangelista (English, University of Oxford); Professor Grace Lees-Maffei (Design History, University of Hertfordshire); Professor Marion Thain (Liberal Studies, NYU) Global Victorians Roundtable Speakers: Professor Nicholas Birns (NYU); Dr. Paul Young (University of Exeter) Pattern in the nineteenth century was a much-debated …

The conference website is now live for “Curiosity and Desire in fin-de-siècle Art and Literature,” 11-12 May 2018: http://iwps2018.clarklibrary.ucla.edu/. The deadline for submitting proposals is 1 December 2017. If you have already submitted a proposal to the conference email address, there is no need to resubmit it through the website portal. The organizing committee will reach …

Professor Malcolm Andrews University of Kent Professor John Drew University of Buckingham Professor Toru Sasaki Kyoto University Dr Claire Wood University of Leicester Join us for a convivial Dickensian evening to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. Four speakers will address different aspects of Dickens’s writing and …

Rachel Ablow (University at Buffalo, SUNY) and Daniel Hack (University of Michigan) have recently been appointed as the new co-editors of Victorian Literature and Culture, a journal dedicated to publishing cutting-edge scholarship. The editors’ inaugural issue, due in Fall 2018, will be organized around 1,000-word essays on “keywords” of particular interest to the field today. For further …

We are delighted to announce the recipients of BAVS funding from our May 2017 funding round, awarding a total of £3007.45 to a range of worthy projects and events. In the ‘Research Funding’ category we would like to congratulate: Rose Roberto Melissa Tricoire In the ‘Events Funding’ category, the following conference organisers have received awards: Kate …

The Armstrong Browning Library (ABL), a world-renowned research centre and rare-collections library devoted to nineteenth-century studies and located at Baylor University, has established a three-month research fellowship opportunity for leading scholars in nineteenth-century studies.   The fellowship includes funding in the amount of $20,000 for a scholar residing outside of North America or $18,000 for a scholar residing within North …

The NCSA (Nineteenth Century Studies Association) Article Prize and Emerging Scholars Award July 1st submission deadline is approaching. Information can be found below and on the NCSA website. The 2018 Article Prize recognises excellence in scholarly studies from any discipline on any aspect of the long 19th century. The winner will receive $500, presented at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2018. Entries …

We are delighted to announce the recipients of BAVS funding from our November 2016 funding round.

11-12 MAY 2018 WILLIAM ANDREWS CLARK MEMORIAL LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES “Curiosity, and the desire of beauty, have each their place in art, as in all true criticism. When one’s curiosity is deficient, when one is not eager enough for new impressions and new pleasures, one is liable to value mere academical properties …

5th International Transfopress Encounter

Université Paris Diderot (Université Sorbonne Paris Cité), 

16-17 October, 2017, Paris Diderot University & Bibliothèque nationale de France

Date for proposals: 15 February, 2017

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in Freiburg 27th to 29th July 2017.

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking nominations and suggestions of books published in 2016 which are eligible for consideration for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize.

Conference date: 7 April 2017

Date for proposals: 30 January 2017

Event date: 4-6 July 2017

Deadline for proposals: 15 January 2017

Deadline for abstracts: 15 December 2016

Conference: 27-29 July 2017

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!

Newcastle University & Durham University, 9-11 September

We are delighted to announce the recipients of BAVS funding from our May 2016 funding round. In the ‘Research Funding’ category we would like to congratulate: Helen Frisby Freya Gowrley Makiko Hayasaka In the ‘Events Funding’ category, the following conference organisers have received awards: Emily Bowles, ‘After Dickens’ Amelia Yeates and Beth Palmer, ‘Picturing the …