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The V&A is seeking to appoint a part-time Research Fellow to join the V&A Research Institute’s Deciphering Dickens project, the aim of which is to reveal the author’s mind at work. The Project is developing a digital presence for the V&A’s Dickens manuscripts, proofs, printed publications, illustrations and related material. The writer’s methods are being …

  The Irish Network for Nineteenth-Century Studies (INNS) invites proposals for our second study day, to be held in UCD on Friday, April 17, 2020. The day will include quickfire work-in-progress sessions, a discussion group on a set text or image, a breakout session for postgrads, and a keynote on Victorian detective fiction by Dr …

Spring Seminar Series, hosted by the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester. All are welcome at these free research-led seminars. No booking is required – just join us at 5.15pm in Ogden Lewis Seminar Suite 1, Fielding Johnson South Wing, University of Leicester, on alternate Wednesdays. (A map is available here). The programme …

Register Now!   The Home in Modern History and Culture: AHRC-funded Conference at the University of Nottingham Monday 27 January 2020 Keynote: Professor Jane Hamlett (RHUL) Register for free here: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/conference/fac-arts/humanities/history/the-home-in-history/index.aspx   The Home in Modern History and Culture will be the second in a series of three thematic workshops for our ‘Florence Nightingale Comes Home …

Entangled Modernities: New Directions in Settler Colonial and Critical Indigenous Studies 25th-26th May 2020, University of Kent Bonnie Devine, Titled/Untitled, 2018. Ink and crayon on paper. Courtesy of the artist. Map courtesy of Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL). ‘There was never a single beginning point to for the history of this place. It wasn’t …

Decadence and the Arts: A Symposium with Angela Dunstan, Stefano Evangelista, Hilary Fraser, Kate Hext, Ana Parejo Vadillo, Dennis Denisoff Friday 1 May Queen Mary University of London CFP Reminder (Deadline 1 February 2020) Politics and Desire in a Decadent Age Friday 15 May Queen Mary University of London Keynote by Dennis Denisoff https://bams.ac.uk/2019/11/06/cfp-politics-and-desire-in-a-decadent-age-1860-to-the-present/

The website Prismatic Jane Eyre: An Experiment in the Study of Translations is now live at prismaticjaneeyre.org. Charlotte Brontë’s novel has been translated more than 500 times into more than 50 languages: the website offers interactive maps and visualisations of this phenomenon, together with some new ways of thinking about translation and world literature. Do please visit, share, subscribe to the …

Nottingham Trent University is looking for a Lecturer in English with 19th/20th c. interests  for a full-time, fixed-term post (Feb-Aug 2020). Closing date: 12th January Interview date: 20th January Full details here:  https://vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/displayjob.aspx?jobid=7368. This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2020/01/07/job-vacancy-f-t-lecturer-in-english-6-months/

Kristof Smeyers is a final-year PhD researcher at the University of Antwerp. He studies the resonance and the range of meanings given to religious supernatural phenomena in Britain and Ireland. You can find him tweeting about the uncanny and strange @kristof_smeyers It was the year in which the poet and cultural historian John Addington Symonds …

CFP: ‘Anthrodecentrism: Humans as Footnotes in Time and Space’ 12th June 2020 Catholic University of Paris This study day will consider changes in understanding of space and time that challenge traditional ways of situating ourselves as humans at the centre of our own world. In the Western world, our centrality was first called into question by the …

Lines of Heredity: Eugenics and Gender in European Literature, 1880-1935 || May 18-19, 2020 || Leuven  http://www.mdrn.be/news/cfp-lines-heredity-eugenics-and-gender-european-literature-1880-1935   First keynote speaker: Prof. Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter). Second keynote speaker to be announced later.   During the late 19th and early 20th century evolutionary theory and new insights in heredity were becoming increasingly influential in social debates. …

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award – eugenics, class and racism in Britain   Full AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award funding for a new PhD project on eugenics, class and racism in Britain – Eugenics at the Royal Society 1860-1950 – in collaboration with the Royal Society. The PhD studentship will start in September 2020. Applicants will usually have a first degree and …

Marte Stinis is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of York, England. Her doctoral research focuses on music as an aesthetic ideal for Victorian painters, especially those associated with the Aesthetic Movement. Within this framework, she is particularly interested in the correlations of the arts, the type of terminology used in …

Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945 Liverpool John Moores University, 11-12 June 2020 Website: ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945’ Keynote Speaker: Professor Kim Wagner (Queen Mary, UCL) LJMU History, in partnership with the Invasion Network, invites papers discussing the interplay between cultures of anxiety and fears in British national and …

We are delighted to announce that registration for the Romance, Revolution & Reform Conference, ‘Reform in the Long Nineteenth Century’, is now open. This one-day, multidisciplinary conference will bring together nineteenth-century scholars from across the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences to share their research in a vibrant and friendly environment. With a dynamic selection of papers relating …

GTA PhD Studentships at Edge Hill University   Edge Hill University has launched its annual Graduate Teaching Assistant scheme. Each GTA studentship includes a ‘package’ with a total value in excess of £20,000 for UK and EU students and £30,000 for International students per annum. This includes: A stipend of £9,180 per annum Full waiver of research …

Call for Papers Women, Money and Markets (1600-1900) “Female Economies” Fourth Annual Conference, 10-12 June 2020 University of Zurich (UZH) http://www.womenmoneymarkets.co.uk     As in previous years, the conference will address women’s relationship to money and their participation in trade, banking, finance, forms of investment, speculation, gambling, consumerism, business and household management, wage labour, care …

THE THOMAS HARDY SOCIETY PATRICK TOLFREE STUDENT ESSAY COMPETITION 2020 “HARDY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE” Welcome to this year’s Patrick Tolfree essay competition, open to students of any academic level over the age of 18 and living anywhere in the world. Humanity’s relationship with nature is not a new theme for students of Hardy, but the …

In celebration of our thirtieth anniversary, the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 (WSG) has launched a bursary scheme (now in its fourth year) and also published a collection of essays. Bursary The bursary scheme is open to early career researchers, independent scholars or PhD students. This year WSG is offering two bursaries: one of £750 and …

Ester Díaz Morillo is a PhD candidate in English Literary Studies at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Spain. Her doctoral research focuses on the study of the poetic language and how it can be translated, adapted or transferred into other languages or artistic means such as painting and music. You can find …

A VISITOR ATTRACTION PRINTING FOR TOURISTS 14 July 2020 | The Hub, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria Alfred Wainwright (1907-91) is best known for his seven Pictorial Guides to the Lakeland Fells. Published between 1955-66 these handwritten, hand-drawn works of art have become the definitive guides to walking in the English Lake District. The 2020 Print Networks / …

Queen University Belfast 15-17 September 2020 Keywords Accidental, arbitrary, incidental, slapdash, hit-or-miss, unplanned, unintended (e.g. consequences), unexpected, unanticipated, unpredictable, contingent, volatility, excitement, wonder, fantasy, imagination, creativity, serendipity. Chance encounters, unforeseen opportunities, and impulsive decisions play a bigger role in our life and work than we wish to acknowledge. Is reading not always random to some …

16-18 April 2020 The third London Stage in the 19th-century World conference will be held at New College, Oxford, 16-18 April 2020, and will feature keynote addresses by Catherine Hindson (Bristol) and Susan Valladares (Durham). There will also be a launch event for Part I of the digital calendar of performances on the nineteenth-century London …

Abstracts are sought for a panel at the twelfth annual Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, to be held 15-17 July 2020 at the University of Greenwich. The panel will be under the auspices of the Kipling Society and welcomes submissions related to all aspects of Kipling’s life and works. Possible topics could include but are …

A reminder that the deadline for the next round of BAVS funding applications is 30 November 2019. Full details can be found on the BAVS website at http://bavs.ac.uk/funding. This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2019/11/22/bavs-funding-grants-forthcoming-deadline-3/

Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century 25-26th June 2020 King’s College London   Wit is a prominent feature of nineteenth-century culture that encompasses genres from satire to nonsense. Well-known examples range from Dickens’s humorous sketches to joke pages in magazines, and from political cartoons in the tradition of Cruikshank and Gillray to music …

Politics and Desire in a Decadent Age: 1860 to the Present — a one-day symposium — Call for Proposals Hosted by the Department of English and the Sexual Cultures Research Group Queen Mary University of London Friday 15 May 2020 Keynote Speaker: Dennis Denisoff (McFarlin Chair of English, University of Tulsa, author of Aestheticism and …

  Call for Papers Romance, Revolution and Reform Conference 15th January 2020 University of Southampton ‘Reform’ From fraught restructures of the voting franchise and the education system, to vast infrastructural redevelopments and the overhaul of poor relief systems, an understanding of the reform movements of the long-nineteenth century and their various implications for politics, culture …

Irish Network for Nineteenth-Century Studies (INNS) Inaugural Event NUI GALWAY December 5, 2019 The INNS Inaugural Symposium has been designed as a study day to allow Irish-based scholars of all areas and regions of the nineteenth century to discuss their work and the state of the field. The day is built around work in progress …

  CFP: ‘Poetry & Painting: Conversations’ – An Interdisciplinary Conference; Faculty of English, University of Oxford, 23 March 2020. You know how I feel about painters. I sometimes think poetry only describes. Frank O’Hara, ‘John Button Birthday’ (1957) The supposed similarity between poetry and painting was famously characterized in Horace’s ‘Ars Poetica’ by the dictum …