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Booking for ‘Dickens Day 2023: Dickens and Time’ is open

Friday 22nd of September 2023 by Victorianist

Booking for ‘Dickens Day 2023: Dickens and Time’  is open. Taking place in-person at Senate House London, Saturday 7 October 2023, 9 am to 5 pm (BST), the day features a packed programme of keynotes, panels, and readings exploring Dickens and Time. Join other Dickensians for what is sure to be the best of times(!) The standard ticket …

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The Davy Notebook Project Updates

Monday 18th of September 2023 by Victorianist

Transcribing Davy’s Notebooks: Please continue to transcribe Davy’s Notebooks. We are supposed to get everything done and online by the beginning of next year, but there’s still so much to do. Transcription rates seem to be slowing down and we still have about 1000 pages to transcribe. Please do as much as you can to get …

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CFP: Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century Conference (5-6th January 2024)

Friday 15th of September 2023 by Victorianist

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Prize: The George Eliot Fellowship Essay Prize

Wednesday 13th of September 2023 by Victorianist

The George Eliot Fellowship is pleased to offer its annual prize for £500.00 for a previously unpublished paper on George Eliot’s life or work. The winning essay will be published in the 2024 George Eliot Review. The author will also receive two year’s honorary membership of the Fellowship. The competition is open to all, but …

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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research: The Journal of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Wednesday 13th of September 2023 by Victorianist

The International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) is pleased to announce its newjournal: Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research. Free to INCSA members, the journal will be publishedby Taylor and Francis (subject to final contract) three times each year, beginning in January 2026, andwill cover the humanities as well as the social sciences, sciences and arts. Advances in …

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Nineteenth Century Studies Association: Call For PAPERS, “Thresholds,” 45th Annual Conference Louisville, Kentucky    March 14-16, 2024

Wednesday 13th of September 2023 by Victorianist

Proposal Deadline: September 30, 2023 Website:  https://ncsaweb.net/2024-conference-information/ From its early history as an important trading hub along the Ohio River, Louisville, Kentucky stood as an important gateway between the south and the north as well as between the east and west. As the city grew rapidly throughout the nineteenth century due to its favorable geography, it …

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New Announcements from Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom

Tuesday 12th of September 2023 by Victorianist

UVC’s Statement on AI Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) has published a “Statement on Using Generative AI” (https://undiscipliningvc.org/html/about/statement_on_using_generative_ai.html). This statement offers our reflections on generative artificial intelligence (AI), discusses some of the problems raised by the technology, but also addresses the point that:  “We at UVC also believe that the present moment offers a unique …

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J. M. W. Turner – State of the Field Symposium

Tuesday 12th of September 2023 by Victorianist

This two-day symposium will consider the state and meaning of scholarship on J. M. W. Turner (1775–1851), one of Britain’s most celebrated artists. Thinking through the extensive Turner historiography, this symposium will explore some of the key ideas, underlying assumptions, and future directions of research. Panelists will consider the place of their research within the …

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CFP: 26th International Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival (Due: 12/01/24)

Tuesday 5th of September 2023 by Victorianist

CALL FOR PAPERS THE TWENTY-SIXTH INTERNATIONAL THOMAS HARDY CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL Dorchester, Dorset, UK July 27th—August 3rd 2024 Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Sixth International Hardy Conference and Festival. Several significant Hardy anniversaries occur in 2024, including the 150th anniversary of Far from the Madding …

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Call for Applications: Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies (Deadline (01/11/2023)

Tuesday 5th of September 2023 by Victorianist

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Dicing with Dracula – Adapting Bram Stoker’s Novel as a Tabletop Game

Friday 25th of August 2023 by Victorianist

Abbie Hope, postgraduate student at Edge Hill Nineteen Research Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies, reflects on the challenges and research opportunities of adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a table-top skirmish game. Image: Crooked Dice Game Design Studio 2022 marked the 125th anniversary of the publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. To celebrate the occasion, Bram’s great grand-nephew Dacre …

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Extended CFP: AVSA Victorian Waters Conference (15/09/2023)

Thursday 24th of August 2023 by Victorianist

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The Tennyson Society Talks 2023-24

Wednesday 23rd of August 2023 by Victorianist

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Call for Contributors: Victorian Periodicals Review

Thursday 1st of December 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: 2023 JOSEPH R. DUNLAP MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP

Tuesday 22nd of November 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Victorian Transformations

Monday 21st of November 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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CFP: From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference.

Tuesday 15th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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– …

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Reminder: The MMU PGR ECR Long Nineteenth Century Seminar – Humour and Satire in the Long Nineteenth Century, 24 November

Friday 11th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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Postdoctoral position in History or Literature in the IRC Starting Laureate project MILC – MedIcal Literature and Communication about Child Health (1850-1914) (deadline 23 Nov 22)

Friday 11th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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BAVS Funding Grants – forthcoming deadline 30 November

Monday 7th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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/

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CFP: Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Monday 7th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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The David Paroissien Prize (deadline: 31 January 2023)

Friday 4th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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University of Leicester Annual Public Lecture: ‘Arthur Conan Doyle and the Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer’

Friday 4th of November 2022 by Victorianist

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, …

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‘Theatrical Celebrity and the Coming of the Picture Postcard, 1890-1914’

Monday 24th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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Science and/or Poetry: Interdisciplinarity in Notebooks 

Monday 24th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Dialogues with the Dead

Wednesday 19th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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CFP: A Thomas Hardy Society Study Day

Wednesday 12th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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) …

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CFP: Music and Empire in Victorian Art, AAH 2023 

Wednesday 12th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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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The PGR/ECR Long Nineteenth Century Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series – 27 October (online) – Marginalised and Peripheral Perspectives

Monday 10th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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CFP: The Return of the Native – A Thomas Hardy Society Study Day

Tuesday 4th of October 2022 by Victorianist

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 …

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