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CFP: Re-Exhibiting the Museum – New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Exhibition, Collection, and Display

Monday 7th of July 2025 by Victorianist

Unpacking artworks for the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition, 1857 (Manchester Archives) To be held at the Library of Birmingham on 12 November 2025, this single day conference aims to shift the academic conversation away from the dominant narratives of nineteenth-century museum-making, too often centred around major national museums and galleries based in London, and instead …

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CFP: Special issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant

Wednesday 2nd of July 2025 by Victorianist

2028 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Margaret Oliphant, the brilliant and prolific Victorian novelist, biographer, essayist, reviewer and short-story writer. This special issue of the journal Women’s Writing will celebrate her rich and varied body of work, showcasing the latest developments in Oliphant studies and exploring what this once-neglected but increasingly widely recognised …

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CFP: Victorian Jewish Life – University of Heidelberg (February 9-10, 2026) EXTENDED DEADLINE

Tuesday 1st of July 2025 by Victorianist

Victorian Jewish LifeUniversity of Heidelberg – February 9-10, 2026Extended deadline: 14 July 2025 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewish culture in England was also experiencing an all-time high. International movements for reform and emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the …

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CFP: Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network – Online Seminar Series

Monday 23rd of June 2025 by Victorianist

This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/06/23/cfp-pre-raphaelite-society-graduate-network-online-seminar-series/

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CFP: Dickens Day 2025: ‘Dickens and Art’

Friday 20th of June 2025 by Victorianist

Dickens Day 2025: ‘Dickens and Art’ Event date: Saturday 11 October 2025, Senate House, London, UK (in-person) CFP deadline: Monday 30 June 2025 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year’s Dickens Day on the topic of ‘Dickens and Art’. Dickens’s frank admission in Pictures from Italy that he was not mechanically acquainted with art …

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CPF: Victorians Journal Winter 2026 Special Issue – Reading Victorian Religion

Friday 13th of June 2025 by Victorianist

Call for Papers // Victorians Journal Winter 2026 Special Issue: ReadingVictorian Religion// Guest Editor, Amanda Vernon The Victorians witnessed a significant reconfiguration of the religious landscape over the course of the nineteenth century. Increased freedom for religious minorities, new historical approaches to biblical criticism, renegotiations of the relationship between science and theology, and the emergence …

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Conference: ‘Under an African summer’s sun’ Re-mapping the Brontës: Place, Race and Empire

Tuesday 10th of June 2025 by Victorianist

Join us at our 2025 Brontë Society Conference in Bradford on Saturday September 6 as it celebrates UK City of Culture.  A wide-ranging conference programme spans everything from the Brontës’ Irish identity, to polar landscapes, racialisation, ‘the Question of China’, Africa in the juvenilia and more. We’re also delighted to welcome Professor Corinne Fowler, Professor …

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Event: ‘Victorian Bodies’ Hybrid Panel – Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester

Friday 6th of June 2025 by Victorianist

The University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies is hosting a free hybrid event, exploring the theme of ‘Victorian Bodies’. Date: Wednesday 18 June 2025, 5.15 pm to 18.45 pm (BST) Format and Location: hybrid, online and in-person, Room 1707, Attenborough Tower, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK Speakers Jessica Cox (Brunel University of London), ‘“The Dodging …

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Announcement: BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference Registration Now Open!

Tuesday 3rd of June 2025 by Victorianist

Bookings for the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference are now open! The conference is hosted by the University of Oxford and will take place 23-25 July 2025, with a professionalisation afternoon on 22 July. For further information and to book, please visit: https://english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025 BAVS is offering 8 conference fee bursaries and 8 …

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Call for Contributors: ‘Literature, Multilingualism, and the Four Nations, 1800-1900’

Friday 23rd of May 2025 by Victorianist

Deadline: 31 July 2025 “We are inviting proposals for contributions to an edited book, provisionally titled Literature, Multilingualism, and the Four Nations, 1800-1900, which builds on the work that we started during the AHRC-funded research network ‘Victorian Literary Languages’. The network hosted three workshops in 2022 and 2023 and is the basis for a special issue of …

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CFP: Victorian Jewish Life – University of Heidelberg (February 9-10, 2026)

Tuesday 20th of May 2025 by Victorianist

Victorian Jewish LifeUniversity of Heidelberg – February 9-10, 2026 In the heyday of Victorian England, the era when the sun never set on the British Empire, Jewish culture in England was also experiencing an all-time high. International movements for reform and emancipation were shaping laws about Jewish rights, and as the century progressed, immigrants from …

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CFP: BAVS Talks 2025/Centre for Victorian Studies Poster Showcase

Tuesday 13th of May 2025 by Victorianist

On 27 June 2025, the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester will host BAVS Talks as part of year-long celebrations to mark the British Association for Victorian Studies’ 25th anniversary. Talks by prominent Victorian Studies experts will be followed by a Postgraduate Poster Session and Networking Reception in the Sir Bob Burgess …

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EVENT: BAVS Talks 2025

Tuesday 13th of May 2025 by Victorianist

Date: Friday 27 June 2025, 2 pm to 5.30 pmFormat and Location: in-person, Lecture Theatre 2 and Room 1.01, Sir Bob Burgess Building, University of Leicester, Freemen’s Common, LE2 7TF Join us for a special event organised as part of the year-long celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the British Association for Victorian Studies …

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COMPETITION: The Thomas Hardy Society, Patrick Tolfree Essay Competition 2025

Thursday 1st of May 2025 by Victorianist

Welcome to this year’s Patrick Tolfree essay competition, open to students of any academic level of the age of 18 and over, living anywhere in the world. ‘Hardy and Marriage’ is the theme of this year’s competition. Essays up to 2,500 words in length are warmly invited. They may focus on, but are by no …

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CFP: Visual Theology III, Part One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith

Monday 28th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Visual Theology III Beauty and FaithPart One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.Roger Scruton Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, 24-26 October 2025, and the second part in the UK, summer …

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Book Prize: The BAVS-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2025

Monday 28th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Annually, BAVS awards the Rosemary Mitchell Book Prize to the best second monograph published that year in Victorian studies. The prize is judged by a panel of BAVS scholars. Unlike other book prizes, this is specifically intended to honour the work of mid-career Victorianists in all disciplines who publish a monograph over the past year. …

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CFP: Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and Punishment

Monday 28th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Neo-Victorian Criminalities, Detection, and PunishmentUniversity of Wolverhampton, 23rd-24th June 2025Keynote speakers: Professor Claire Nally, Lee Jackson, and Nat ReeveOrganisers: Dr Helen Davies, University of Wolverhampton, and Dr Maria IsabelRomero-Ruiz, University of Malaga The contemporary fascination with Victorian criminalities and the popularity of the detection genre within Neo-Victorianism necessitates close critical attention. In particular, neo-Victorian literary …

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Event: Nineteenth-Century Legacies Royal Holloway, University of London

Monday 28th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Tuesday 3rd June 202509:00 – 18:00Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham) On Tuesday 3rd June Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person colloquium examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence …

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CFP: Edited Collection Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Autumn 2026)

Friday 25th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Call for Book Chapter Submissions Edited Collection: Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Autumn 2026) The long nineteenth century saw a rich tapestry of humour and comedy, from the satirical sketches of Charles Dickens to the political cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank, and from the lively routines of the music hall to the …

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Studentship Opportunity: The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place

Friday 18th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Northumbria University and the British Library are pleased to offer an exciting PhD studentship opportunity: The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place The establishment of The Northern Echo newspaper, in 1870, disrupts our understanding of the concept of a ‘regional/national’ press in Britain. This project seeks to challenge current understandings of nineteenth-century press history …

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CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom – Race and Dis/ability Assignment Cluster (2025)

Wednesday 16th of April 2025 by Victorianist

Overview Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies. Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025 Submit your proposal by …

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Event: Postgraduate Research Symposium & Public Lecture – University of Lincoln

Monday 14th of April 2025 by Victorianist

LSHH 2025 Postgraduate Research Symposium & Public Lecture Wednesday 7th May 3pm – 6.30pm, Co-op Lecture Theatre (MB0312) This showcase provides a platform for LSHH PGR (PhD) students to present papers on their research, and this year the event will also feature a keynote lecture in assocation with the Nineteenth Century Ressearch Group: Professor Roger …

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CFP: Dickens Day 2025 ‘Dickens and Art’

Wednesday 2nd of April 2025 by Victorianist

Dickens Day 2025: ‘Dickens and Art’ Event date: Saturday 11 October 2025, Senate House, London, UK (in-person)CFP deadline: Monday 30 June 2025 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year’s Dickens Day on the topic of ‘Dickens and Art’. Dickens’s frank admission in Pictures from Italy that he was not mechanically …

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CFP: Dickens and Death

Wednesday 2nd of April 2025 by Victorianist

Dickens Death Day Virtual Event June 7th, 2025 The Dickens Society is delighted to share a call for presentations for an online event entitled Dickens and Death, which will be livestreamed on the morning of Saturday, June 7th 2025, and then will be aired on the Society’s YouTube channel on Dickens’s Death Day (June 9th). …

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‘Her rippling flaxen hair:’ How R. Murray Gilchrist uses the figure of Lilith to represent anti-heteronormative transgression in ‘My Friend’

Saturday 29th of March 2025 by Victorianist

Kaya Purchase has just graduated with an English Literature MA from the University of Liverpool. She is currently applying to do a PhD in creative writing. She loves writing both creative pieces and literary journalism. Her words have been featured in Aurelia Magazine, Tribune and World Literature Today and she regularly contributes book reviews and …

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CFP: Pre-Raphaelite Society Review – Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphaelites, and Utopian Visions

Monday 24th of March 2025 by Victorianist

Pre-Raphaelite Society Review Special Issue: Autumn/Winter 2025 Title:  Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphaelites, and Utopian Visions Our Autumn/Winter Special Issue aims to dispel the notion that the Pre-Raphaelites were only interested in high literary culture and art, rather than politics, current affairs or the lives of working people.  D.G. Rossetti famously wrote ‘My friends […] consider …

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CFP: Cultivating Connections, Research Opportunities at the Royal Horticultural Society Plan Collector Archive

Friday 21st of March 2025 by Victorianist

Deadline: 11 April 2025 Archives Workshop: 12 May 2025 RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London This one-day workshop seeks to raise awareness among humanities scholars of the rich archival holdings at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Working with nineteenth-century archival sources selected from the Plant Collector Archive, delegates and archivists will work together to …

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CFP: ‘Beauty and Faith’, a two-part conference event

Tuesday 18th of March 2025 by Victorianist

Visual Theology III Beauty and FaithPart One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith 24-26 October 2025 Deadline for Part One proposals: 30 April 2025 Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.Roger Scruton Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, …

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Nineteenth-Century Matters 2025 – University of Edinburgh

Monday 17th of March 2025 by Victorianist

OutlineNineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its ninth 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 …

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CFP: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global Nineteenth Century

Monday 17th of March 2025 by Victorianist

28-29 August 2025, School of English, University of St Andrews Female detection in the nineteenth century took many forms. In Britain, America, Australia, and India, amongst other countries, women worked with the police to uncover crime. Many were employed by private enquiry offices or ran their own agencies; rode buses, trains, and trams detecting crime; …

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