Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder 29 January 2027 – Online Despite enduring narratives that cast modern science as the agent of rationalisation, the relationship between scientific knowledge and the occult has never been a simple story of succession or exclusion. In recent years, scholarly discourse has increasingly challenged this presumed binary, […]

Empathy and the Victorian Novel Online Event – Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester Thursday 22 October 2026, 5:00pm – 6:45pm (UK time) Elaine Auyoung (University of Minnesota) – “George Eliot and the Fragility of Readerly Empathy”  Suzanne Keen (Scripps College) – “Other-directedness before and after Comte: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and Thomas Hardy’s The Woodlanders” Rachel Ablow (University at Buffalo, SUNY) – “Empathy, […]

Organised by British Association for Victorian Studies, BAVS@Home offers occasional online events that explore different aspects of nineteenth-century culture and its relevance to the contemporary world. Event details Format: Live, online, via Zoom Date: 30 September 2026 Time: 20:00 (JST), 12:00 (BST), 7:00(EST) Speakers Mr. Takuya Matsuzawa is currently a PhD student of Law at Waseda University Graduate School […]

Belcher Visiting Fellowship in Victorian Studies Applications are invited for the Belcher Visiting Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College are pleased to invite applications for two Belcher Visiting Fellowships in Victorian Studies, for the academic year 2027-2028 and the academic year 2028-2029 respectively. Applications are particularly encouraged […]

Thursday 17 September, 12pm ET / 5pm BST COVE is planning to build on the platform created for EVENT 2024 by starting a works-in-progress series. Papers will be made available for annotation followed by a live Zoom meeting. The first session will be on “Building in a Time of Crisis,” and will include the following […]

Romance, Revolution and Reform journal is currently accepting 15-20 minute papers and creative workshops for their January 2027 Conference, Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century. We especially encourage submissions from PGRs and ECRs. See the attached CFPs for more information. Please send your 300 word abstracts with a 100 word biography to Charlotte at rrr@soton.ac.uk […]

Pleasing Terrors: The 2026 M R James Symposium ; Drayton Arms Theatre, 8 November 2026 Pleasing Terrors: The M R James Festival, is a Festival celebrating the life and work of Montague Rhodes James, the classic British ghost story writer and scholar. The 2026 inaugural edition includes a scholarly and literary symposium on the life and […]

Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, the day will focus on how the concept of family informed Dickens’s life and works. The day begins with a brilliant opening plenary panel dedicated to ‘Dickens and Women’, and closes with a talk and dramatic reading by Malcolm Andrews on ‘Michael […]

Dates – 28 to 30 June 2027Theme – Politics, Place and Print CultureKeynote speakers – Philip Connell (University of Cambridge) and Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin)  We’re thrilled to host the 14th International Walter Scott Conference at the University of Edinburgh, under the theme of ‘Politics, Place and Print Culture’. The conference will run from 28 to 30 […]

 2026-08-17 VICTORIAN SOUNDINGS Following from the Association’s recent conference in Auckland on the topic of ‘Victorian Soundings’, we seek contributions for a Special Issue on this theme. We invite scholarly articles (5000-8000 words) from both conference participants and other scholars. Information about the kinds of submissions we are after is below. The Guest Editor will be […]

The PRS Review invites contributions for a special issue on Pre‑Raphaelite Networks –the artistic, social, transnational, and digital connections that shaped the movement and continue to inspire creators today. Topics may include (but are not limited to): Global Pre‑Raphaelitism: how PRB ideas travelled beyond England. Transnational craft: art and craft as sites of cross‑cultural exchange. Creative circles: friendships, studios, […]

We would like to propose an edited volume that would explore the literal and metaphorical uses of light in the fictionalizations of the Victorian period in various media and genres. The remit The Victorian period saw the introduction of a multiplicity of overlapping technologies and cultural practices of lighting, which radically transformed labour and the […]

Queering the Pre-Raphaelites In advance of the first US exhibition on Anglo-Jewish artist Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), opening March 2027 at the Delaware Art Museum, we invite papers that “queer” the Pre-Raphaelites, their associates, and their followers. Solomon rose to prominence in the early 1860s with Old Testament scenes that critics believed he was uniquely suited […]

Lauren Alex O’Hagan is Research Fellow in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University and Affiliate Researcher in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Örebro University. She specialises in the study of visual and material culture across a range of historical periods, geographical settings and subjects. Her most recent […]

 The Cinema Museum, London, SE11 4TH  Saturday 21st November 2026 The third British Music Hall Society Conference will take place on Saturday 21 November 2026 at London’s Cinema Museum, 10.00am to 7.00pm. The theme this year is CATERING FOR PEOPLE’S DESIRES AND NEEDS IN THE MUSIC HALL. We have had a tremendous response to our […]

CONAN DOYLE’S ORIENT 2nd October 2026 at Senate House, London Arthur Conan Doyle never visited Asia, but he had many and various dealings with the Orient in fact and in imagination, as an author of fiction (including the Sherlock Holmes stories), a traveller, an imperialist, a war correspondent, an amateur Egyptologist, and an investigator of […]

Long 19th-Century British and Interdisciplinary Humanities Panel Session 58th Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Annual Conference March 6-9, 2027 Newport, Rhode Island Weather in 19th-Century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene Panel Chair: Dewey W. Hall, Ph.D. Weather in 19th-century Literature and Art in the Age of the Anthropocene concerns the question of evidence […]

Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller’s Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: British and American Traditions (MLA Options for Teaching) was published in 2003; Anna Powell and Andrew Smith’s Teaching the Gothic (Palgrave) was published in 2006. While both texts are excellent guides for teachers of the Gothic, quite a lot has happened in the twenty […]

The following post has been copied from The Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network. Please click here to see their original post. Our 2025/26 seminar series came to a triumphant conclusion on 17th June with guest speakers Helen Bratt-Wyton and Hannah Squire sharing their experiences of curating the Pre-Raphaelites at Wightwick Manor. We are so grateful to […]

Call for Contributions Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline  ed. Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & Thijs Porck The long nineteenth century (1786–1914) was a dynamic and transformative period for the scholarly study of Old English. Marked by significant advances in editing, philology […]

Call for Papers: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026 Region: East of England Type: Conference Cost: Free We welcome students, early career and established scholars of Pre-Raphaelitism, from any discipline, to contribute to a workshop, in anticipation of an exhibition programmed for summer 2028. We invite case-studies which demonstrate new research, evidence and […]

The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming summer BAVS newsletter. These may include CFPs, notices of Victorianist interest, new publications, and more. Additionally, they are always looking for new reviewers and feature contributors.  For further details, please visit the BAVS […]

BAVS 2026 PGR Pre-Conference Online Workshop Monday 13 July, 10am-4.30pm (drop-ins welcome!) Online via Microsoft Teams This pre-conference workshop is designed for postgraduate researchers attending the BAVS 2026 Conference in Liverpool (27–29 July), offering a supportive space to connect and prepare for the event. PGRs not attending BAVS 2026 and early career researchers who feel […]

Would you like to join the BAVS Committee? Upcoming vacancies are advertised each summer, with roles starting in September of the same year. Please note that all roles are unpaid and that applicants are expected to be members of the British Association for Victorian Studies. https://bavs.ac.uk/committee-vacancies/ 2026 Vacancies The BAVS Committee has nine positions open. […]

Conference: Visualising the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (University of St Andrews, Scotland, 10-11 June 2027) During the long nineteenth century, the landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean were in transition. Inside and outside the shifting territories of the Ottoman Empire, urban areas and infrastructure expanded, networks of transport and travel grew, rural hinterlands were linked to global […]

Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post. Nineteenth-Century Matters offers unaffiliated early career researchers […]

BAVS 2026 PGR Pre-Conference Online Workshop Monday 13 July, 10am-4.30pm (drop-ins welcome!) Online via Microsoft Teams This pre-conference workshop is designed for postgraduate researchers attending the BAVS 2026 Conference in Liverpool (27–29 July), offering a supportive space to connect and prepare for the event. PGRs not attending BAVS 2026 and early career researchers who feel […]

HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK have together developed a UK-wide survey of the support and access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD. HistoryLab+ is the UK’s national network for early career historians (ECHs). It is open to people (a) approaching the end of their doctorate in History (or a related subject) or (b) with a doctorate in […]

HistoryLab+ and HistoryUK have together developed a UK-wide survey of the support and access to resources available to historical researchers post-PhD. HistoryLab+ is the UK’s national network for early career historians (ECHs). It is open to people (a) approaching the end of their doctorate in History (or a related subject) or (b) with a doctorate […]

The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The […]