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The videos for BAVS Talks 2019 are now available to view online. The afternoon of four special talks by leading Victorianists was hosted by the University of Liverpool in May. The videos can all be found on the front page of the BAVS website and are linked below. The speakers (and their talks) are: Helen …

Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA March 5-8, 2020 This session engages in a matter-oriented approach, raising questions about the ontological status of the autonomous writing subject by joining it to the vast network of relations to objects within an area—ecozone, bioregion, biome, or ecosystem. Though the contributions by science-based writers are important (e.g., Humphry Davy, …

Erin Farley is the Library & Information Officer for Local History at Dundee Central Library. She has recently completed a PhD at the University of Strathclyde on ‘The Place of Poetry in Victorian Dundee,’ focusing on creative communities and their relationships to place in the industrial city. She is on Twitter @aliasmacalias. In the mid-1830s, …

This is an open call for reviewers for Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914, co-edited by Patricia Pulham and Diane Piccitto and published by Edinburgh University Press which produces three issues annually. We especially welcome early career researchers, post-doctoral students, advanced graduate students, and post-graduates. Reviews should be 800-1000 words for single books and …

Sarah McFee is a MA English graduate from Teesside University. Her research focuses primarily on speculative fiction including portrayals of disability in the Victorian Gothic, and representations and constructions of gender and race in Neo-Victorian fiction. You can connect with her on LinkedIn. From the sixteenth century onwards, Britain built a global Empire. It enacted …

Gareth Reeves is a final year PhD candidate in the English department at Durham University. His research explores the value of self-education in fin-de-siècle London, chiefly in the novels of George Gissing. He can be found on Twitter @GarethReeves4 I am in the throes of hammering out a conference paper on George Gissing’s much-neglected, unfinished historical novel, Veranilda (1904), …

We’ve managed to keep the costs as low as possible, thanks to the support of various sponsors, not least of all the BAVS executive committee, Dundee’s Centre for Scottish Culture, and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies. The Conference Dinner at Chamber East, a lovely nineteenth-century building, is FREE for everyone (sign up …

Harriet Thompson is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate in the English department at King’s College London. Her doctoral thesis explores depictions of telegraph operators in late nineteenth-century British and American literature. Harriet’s broader research interests lie in the intersections between literature, telecommunications technologies, gender, and sexuality. Harriet is co-editor of the King’s English blog and can …

New production of Jane Clegg, St John Ervine’s 1913 drama of family, currently on at the Finborough Theatre till 18 May. https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2019/apr/26/jane-clegg-review-forgotten-suffrage-era-gem-shines-again FLASH SALE. We’ve a limited number of £12 tickets now on sale. Use code JANE12 to get your discount tickets for Saturday 11 May 7.30pm and Tuesday 14th May 7.30pm when booked online ONLY: https://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2019/jane-clegg.php …

A charity-in-formation, PBLF seeks an academic as either a specific specialist, or as General Fundraising Supervisor, or Secretarial trustee. Please see the website (95% finished) www.pblf.lifestones.biz If interested in being a co-founding trustee, please go to ‘Get Involved’ page and click on ‘Trustees’. Then click on the various possible labels to see the various job …

Proposals are invited for book chapter contributions to an edited collection entitle George Eliot and the Idea of Europe. Essays might consider, but should not be limited to such questions as: How is Europe constructed for Eliot? How does the idea of Europe inform her thinking? In what ways are her ideas of cultural inheritance …

Keynote Speakers: Professor Laura Salisbury, University of Exeter External speaker TBC   The Postgraduate Medical Humanities Conference will return in June 2019 for its sixth consecutive year. Over the last five years, we have brought together an international community for medical humanities researchers to share their diverse research and to network with academics within and …

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