The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking contributors to its biennial Bibliography, which will be published in Victorian Periodicals Review in Fall 2023. Contributors to the bibliography are asked to adopt at least one scholarly journal from a list, review articles about Victorian periodicals published from December 2017 through December 2020, and compile a list of annotated entries. All contributors are …
The William Morris Society in the United States calls for applications for the 2023 Joseph R. Dunlap Memorial Fellowship. The deadline is December 16, 2022. Applications are judged by committee, and the decision will be announced by January 31, 2023. The Dunlap Fellowship supports scholarly and creative work about William Morris. The fellowship offers funding of $1000 …
24-25 May 2023 Weetwood Hall Conference Centre and online Hosted by Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies in collaboration with the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship The Victorian age was characterised by social, technological, scientific, religious, and cultural transformation. As we have lived with the Victorians, our view of them has in turn transformed, with the concept …
Announcing the eighth From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference. As always, we are interested in papers on any theme within the time frame, but to celebrate the first in-person meeting since the outbreak of the pandemic, we would like to focus on the perceptions of and relationships between body, mind and spirituality in 18th– …
l19thc-november-2022-posterDownload Our online seminar will feature cross disciplinary presentations, followed by a Q&A session. The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group is organised by volunteer PGRs and ECRs at Manchester Metropolitan University. It aims to foster interinstitutional and multi faculty networking and offers platforms for its community to share the latest research on topics …
An 18-month Postdoctoral position in History or Literature is advertised for the IRC Starting Laureate project MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child Health (1850-1914). The successful candidate will work with Dr Anna Gasperini to build a body of data on legislation about child health between 1850 and 1914, with a focus on France. Knowledge of …
Just a reminder that the deadline for the next round of BAVS funding applications is 30 November. 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/2022/11/07/bavs-funding-grants-forthcoming-deadline-30-november/
WATER The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. (Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach”) Water is necessary for the existence of all of nature. Throughout …
The David Paroissien Prize is awarded each year to the best peer-reviewed essay on Dickens published in a journal or edited collection. The Prize is named for David Paroissien, a founding member of the Dickens Society and also the founder of Dickens Quarterly, which he edited from its first issue in 1983 until his final issue …
The University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies presents its Annual Public Lecture, featuring best-selling author and journalist Shrabani Basu on ‘Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer’ Date and Time: Wednesday 16 November, 5.15 pm – 6.15 pm (GMT) Location: Lecture Theatre 1, Attenborough Seminar Block, University of Leicester, UK Registration: to book your free place, …
Lecture by Prof. Rohan McWilliam Wednesday 2 Nov 2022, 17:00-19:00 This is the inaugural lecture for the newly established QMUL Centre for the Study of the Nineteenth Century and its Legacies. Attendance is free and all are welcome. Please sign up via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/manage/events/440230440097/details This talk examines the way the coming of the picture postcard in the 1890s …
Lancaster University 26-27 July 2023 What role do notebooks play in the shaping of literary and scientific history? How and why should difficult-to-decipher manuscripts be interpreted, particularly when their contents cross genres, disciplines, and time periods? What is the relationship between poetry and science in notebooks? This two-day conference hosted by Lancaster University’s Arts and …
Photo by Dialog Center Images via Flickr (Creative Commons). Guest Editors: Dr Anna Maria Barry and Dr Fiona Snailham Communication with the dead has gripped the Western imagination for centuries – from Odysseus’s journey to the underworld and Saul’s attempt to summon Samuel to the Fox sisters’ nineteenth-century mediumship and the purported appearance of Arthur …
CALL FOR PAPERS THE RETURN OF THE NATIVE A Thomas Hardy Society Study Day Saturday 15th April 2023 at 10:00am The Town Hall, Corn Exchange Building, Dorchester KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Tim Dolin (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) Professor Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter) Dr Arthur Keegan-Bole (Composer) A Seminar run by Mark Chutter (THS Academic Director) …
The 2023 Annual Conference of the Association for Art History (AAH) is coming up on 12-14 April 2023. Among the panels presented is “Music and Empire in Victorian Art”. Despite increasing interest in interdisciplinary within art history, the influence of music on nineteenth-century art remains critically under-researched, particularly within the context of Victorian Britain and …
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Saturday 15th April 2023 at 10:00am The Town Hall, Corn Exchange Building, Dorchester KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Professor Tim Dolin (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) Professor Angelique Richardson (University of Exeter) Dr Arthur Keegan-Bole (Composer) A Seminar run by Mark Chutter (THS Academic Director) And a Performance by the New Hardy Players 2023 marks the 145th anniversary of …
24 November 2022, 5.30pm BST Our online seminar will feature cross disciplinary presentations, followed by a Q&A session. The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Group is organised by volunteer PGRs and ECRs at Manchester Metropolitan University. It aims to foster interinstitutional and multi faculty networking and offers platforms for its community to share the …
Dr Matthew Ingleby (QMUL) will be leading conversation on Landlord – Tenant Relations in Bernard Shaw’s play Widowers’ Houses at the next Literary London Reading Group. The session will be taking place in person at Senate House, London – Room 35, Ground Floor on the 11th October 2022 6:00pm – 7:15pm. More information and reading materials here: Landlord – Tenant Relations …
The Department of English at West Virginia University invites applications for a tenured Associate Professor of English specializing in 19th-century British literature. The successful candidate will also serve as the next editor of Victorian Poetry. The position start date is August 11, 2023. This is a 9-month, full-time position with full benefits. We seek an …
The “Victorian Literary Languages” network studies the multilingualism of Victorian literature, examining the connections between the literary and linguistic histories of Victorian Britain and Ireland. How might critical perspectives on Victorian literature and its canons change when we take full account of the Victorian four nations, their numerous languages, and their richly diverse dialect cultures? …
By Eli Elshani and Alicia Rojas Costa Eli Elshani is a student of English literature at Leiden University. His interests primarily include European cultural history as well as the history of experimental art. He worked as a research trainee on ‘Arthurian Revival Across the Ages’, a project exploring various adaptations of Arthurian legend from the 19th and the 21st century. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eli-elshani-9573ab194 Alicia’s …
We’re pleased to announce the new Nineteenth-Century Data Collective (just launched in beta). The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective offers a framework for peer-review of datasets related to nineteenth-century literature and cultures and, post-review, a place to share and reuse data. Our editorial board (listed below) spans nineteenth-century experts from the UK, US, and Australia. The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective …
Dear colleagues, ‘Dickens Day 2022’ is fast approaching! Taking place at Senate House, London, on Saturday 8 October (9am-5pm), this one-day, in-person symposium explores the theme of ‘Beginning Dickens’. The programme includes a variety of readings; plenaries by Michael Slater, Carolyn Oulton, John Drew, and Joanna Hofer-Robinson; and panels devoted to ‘Dickens’s Early Writings: Pickwick and Mudfog’, ‘Dickens’s Early …
The BAVS Executive Committee currently has a number of positions open. If you would like to be considered for one of the roles below, please send the Secretary, Alice Crossley, an email with a Statement of Interest (indicating your suitability for and interest in the position and how you propose to contribute) of 300 words …
Second Floor Gallery The Grolier Club47 East 60th StreetNew York, NY Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) is a monumental figure in book and magazine illustration, graphic arts and poster design, as well as the history of gender and sexuality. In his brief career from 1892 to 1898, cut short by his death from tuberculosis, he was a brilliant innovator …
“Horrors belong as naturally to the fireside, as fireside belongs to Christmas” declares the narrator of the piece “Fireside Horrors for Christmas” in the December 1847 issue of Dublin University Magazine. This image of “popular fireside stories or winter’s tales” exchanged in communal settings had, as the late Catherine Belsey explained, a “long vernacular tradition” …
Launching the Solidarity Edition (2022) of One More Voice We’re delighted to announce the launch of a new edition, the Solidarity Edition (2022), of One More Voice, a resource centered on helping teachers and scholars examine and reflect on the role of race in shaping nineteenth-century literature and history. One More Voice is a digital …
Victorian Literary Languages, 25 & 26 August 2022. The second workshop of the “Victorian Literary Languages” research network, co-organised by Gregory Tate (St Andrews) and Karin Koehler (Bangor), will be taking place in Trinity College Dublin on Thursday 25th and Friday 26th of August. The aims of the network are to study the multilingualism of …
Sacramento, California March 30 – April 1, 2023 Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2022 Website: https://ncsaweb.net/2023-conference-information/ Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Sacramento, host city for NCSA’s 2023 conference, lends itself to exploring issues of revivals and re-creations of the past. Sacramento’s nineteenth-century history encompassed California’s Gold Rush, the genocide and displacement of Indigenous populations, the construction of the Transcontinental …