NAVSA Newsletter, Summer 2004, News from Organizations

VICTORIANS IN SIGHT & SOUND
MVSA Annual Conference
Chicago, IL April 15-16, 2005
CALL FOR PAPERS

The Twenty-Ninth Annual Midwest Victorian Studies Association meeting will be held in Chicago once again. In keeping with its long interdisciplinary and inclusive tradition, MVSA welcomes proposals from any disciplinary perspective dealing with any aspect of Victorian visual and aural culture.

Possible approaches might include:

*the relationship between text and illustration in the Victorian novel *visual adaptations of Victorian texts *the role of advertising in changing London streetscapes and soundscapes *political iconography in the Victorian cartoon *oratory and the aural context of 19th-century politics *representations of the Victorians in 20th-century cinema *photography’s commentary on contemporary science and social life *musical re-interpretations of Victorian literature and art *20th-century adaptations of Victorian aesthetics through novels, music, art, or film *parlour music and the middle-class home *visual vocabularies and the illustrated periodical *stagecraft and sensation in the Victorian theatre…

About the conference: We will meet at the historic Omni Ambassador East Hotel in downtown Chicago. Our keynote speaker will be Elaine Hadley, from the University of Chicago, author of Melodramatic Tactics (1995) and the forthcoming volume, Living Liberalism. As always, music and art will figure prominently throughout the two days. It should be an aesthetically engaging conference and we invite all members to attend, whether presenting or not. Victorianists studying and working in the midwestern United States are especially encouraged to attend at MVSA, and to make a home in this distinguished scholarly organization.

Graduate students are especially welcome as attendees and presenters at MVSA conferences, where they will find a stimulating and collegial atmosphere, and conference fees are adjusted to make attendance more affordable. MVSA annually awards the Bill and Mary Burgan Prize for an outstanding paper by a graduate student at the conference, while the prestigious Arnstein Prize supports dissertation research of an interdisciplinary kind. Conference news can be found on the website at http://www2.ic.edu/MVSA/

Submissions: By October 31st, email a 500-word (only) abstract to Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Asst. Professor of English, Indiana University East: aclappit@indiana.edu. Please mention “MVSA 2005 Paper Submission” in the Re: line and include your own name, title, institution, email and snail mail addresses, and a phone number in the text. If you do not receive an email confirmation of receipt, please re-submit.










Australasian Victorian Studies Association	Australasian Victorian Studies Association Dates: Wed 9 - Sat 12 February Venue: University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Topic: Victorians and the Other Keynote Speaker: Jerome McGann Offers of papers from scholars in any discipline relevant to Victorian studies are invited. 'The Other' may be treated synchronically (in terms of Victorian ideas about geography, culture, race, gender, sexuality, psychology, the non-human) - or diachronically (in terms of the pre- or post-Victorian periods). Interdisciplinary contributions are welcomed. Papers should be of 20 or 30 mins duration. Please send an abstract of 200-300 words to Associate-Professor Joanne Wilkes, Department of English, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019 Auckland, New Zealand, email j.wilkes@auckland.ac.nz. Other conference-related enquiries can be directed to her as well. Closing date: 1 October 2004

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference	Call for Papers Thirteenth Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference “Women’s Texts and Cultural Contexts” April 14-17, 2005 Hilton Lafayette Hosted by the Department of English University of Louisiana at Lafayette Keynote speakers: Catherine Burroughs (Wells College), Linda Hughes (TCU), and Susan Staves (Brandeis University). We welcome a wide range of papers on the conference theme and related issues. Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panel proposals (including the name of a moderator) by October 31, 2004 to: British Women Writers Conference University of Louisiana at Lafayette Department of English PO Box 44691 Lafayette, LA 70504 Abstracts may also be submitted by email to: bwwc@louisiana.edu Additional information can be found at our website: www.louisiana.edu/bwwc

INCS	Call for Papers Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Proposals for the 2005 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies (INCS) Conference are due by Oct. 1 2004. (Please submit to Elsie Michie, enmich@lsu.edu). The conference will be held April 21-23 2005 (scheduled at the same time as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival) at Lousiana State University. Its theme is "impurities." See the INCS website for a detailed Call For Papers, www.nd.edu/~incshp/. The conference organizers apologize that the conference overlaps passover. Sessions will begin midday on thursday and end midday on saturday in order to give participants time to return home for the seder.

MVSA	VICTORIANS IN SIGHT & SOUND MVSA Annual Conference Chicago, IL April 15-16, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS The Twenty-Ninth Annual Midwest Victorian Studies Association meeting will be held in Chicago once again. In keeping with its long interdisciplinary and inclusive tradition, MVSA welcomes proposals from any disciplinary perspective dealing with any aspect of Victorian visual and aural culture. Possible approaches might include: the relationship between text and illustration in the Victorian novel visual adaptations of Victorian texts the role of advertising in changing London streetscapes and soundscapes political iconography in the Victorian cartoon oratory and the aural context of 19th-century politics representations of the Victorians in 20th-century cinema photography’s commentary on contemporary science and social life musical re-interpretations of Victorian literature and art 20th-century adaptations of Victorian aesthetics through novels, music, art, or film parlour music and the middle-class home visual vocabularies and the illustrated periodical stagecraft and sensation in the Victorian theatre… About the conference: We will meet at the historic Omni Ambassador East Hotel in downtown Chicago. Our keynote speaker will be Elaine Hadley, from the University of Chicago, author of Melodramatic Tactics (1995) and the forthcoming volume, Living Liberalism. As always, music and art will figure prominently throughout the two days. It should be an aesthetically engaging conference and we invite all members to attend, whether presenting or not. Victorianists studying and working in the midwestern United States are especially encouraged to attend at MVSA, and to make a home in this distinguished scholarly organization. Graduate students are especially welcome as attendees and presenters at MVSA conferences, where they will find a stimulating and collegial atmosphere, and conference fees are adjusted to make attendance more affordable. MVSA annually awards the Bill and Mary Burgan Prize for an outstanding paper by a graduate student at the conference, while the prestigious Arnstein Prize supports dissertation research of an interdisciplinary kind. Conference news can be found on the website at http://www2.ic.edu/MVSA/ Submissions: By October 31st, email a 500-word (only) abstract to Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Asst. Professor of English, Indiana University East: aclappit@indiana.edu. Please mention “MVSA 2005 Paper Submission” in the Re: line and include your own name, title, institution, email and snail mail addresses, and a phone number in the text. If you do not receive an email confirmation of receipt, please re-submit.

NCSA	Infantuation: Childhood, Youth, and Nineteenth-Century Culture 26TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION Augusta, Georgia and Aiken, South Carolina – March 10-12, 2005 CALL FOR PAPERS During the nineteenth century, you couldn’t turn a corner – or a page – without some broom-wielding urchin, be-ribboned cherub, or herd of baby buggies getting in your way. How much of this was due to an actual change in population and how much of it was the result of a shift in cultural focus? The NCSA invites proposals for papers addressing ways in which the nineteenth century developed, interpreted, or invented infancy, childhood, adolescence, and youth both as ontological categories and as phases in human and national development. The conference will be held in Augusta, Georgia (at the historic Partridge Inn) and Aiken, South Carolina. Augusta’s airport has frequent connections to Atlanta. The NCSA was founded to promote interdisciplinarity. We encourage proposal submitters to consider ways in which the attention to childhood and youth re-shaped fields such as medicine, art, nature, music, literature, politics, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and architecture. Possible topics include: - toys, clothing, and other artifacts - growing pains – evolving life - childhood, race, and ethnicity - boyish masculinity and politics, imperialism, and careers - women’s “babification” (as Mary Elizabeth Braddon called it) - concern for children, censorship, and new publishing criteria - babes in the woods: children, nature, and animals - youth-centeredness and developments in aesthetics, artistic genres and architecture - the place of maternity in the suffragette movement - fantasy, imagination, and the young - the changing practice of medicine and the development of Public Health initiatives - childhood and emerging disciplines such as anthropology and sexology - childhood as a middle- and upper-class phenomenon, unfamiliar to the working classes and poor - the Pre-Raphaelites’ children – where are they? - the impact of labour needs and industrialization on the boundaries of age categories - youth, crime, and criminality - age, demographics, and sciences of the city and built environment - eternal youth and the rise of consumerism - ageism and the role of the elderly in society and the family - Female Impressionists and the cult of the baby Proposals should consist of a one-page, single-spaced abstract (12 point font), with the title of the paper and author as heading; the paper must be able to be presented within 20 minutes. Proposals should be accompanied by a one-to-two page vita. Send materials to Program Director Ann Ross. E-mail submission to <annrossphd@hotmail.com> (or <aross@csudh.edu> ) is preferred; for “snail” mail, address to Ann Ross / Dept. of English / California State University, Dominguez Hills / 1000 E. Victoria Street / Carson, CA 90747-0005. The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2004. Further information about registration and accommodations will be available in the Fall from Local Arrangements Director Suzanne Ozment, who may be contacted at <suzanneo@usca.edu> or Office of Academic Affairs, University of South Carolina, Aiken, SC 29801.

NCSA	Nineteenth Century Studies, the interdisciplinary journal of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA), announces volume 18 (2005). This issue’s articles and reviews are densely interrelated with studies in British, French, and Italian nineteenth-century culture; Victorians and Romantics; painting, literature, and music; and women’s studies and queer studies. An introduction to volume 18 by members of NCSA: Dennis Denisoff and Marlene Tromp, “Men’s Needs, Women’s Desires, and the Arts” Feature Articles: Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, “Dibutades and Her Daughters: The Female Artist in Postrevolutionary France” Zahi Zalloua, “Power and Identity in Stendhal’s Le Rouge et le noir” Mary A. Armstrong, “Multiplicities of Longing: The Queer Desires of Bleak House and Little Dorrit” Sarah Annes Brown, “The Double Taboo: Lesbian Incest in the Nineteenth Century” Antonia Losano, “East Lynne, The Turn of the Screw, and the Female Dopplegänger in Governess Fiction” Roberta Montemorra Marvin, “Commercial Intrigue, National Identity, and the Italian Premiere of Rossini’s Petite Messe solennelle” Wendell V. Harris, “A Handlist of Nineteenth-Century London Art Societies and Their Predecessors” Review Essays: Carole Kruger, “Border Crossings: Recent Scholarship on Literature and the Visual Arts” Nancy Fix Anderson, “Threading Lives: Work, Art, and Pleasure in the Worlds of Nineteenth-Century Women” Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, “Women, Creativity, and the Künstlerroman” Lee Orr, “Writing the Muse: George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Music” Suzanne Donahue, “Modern Men: Inventing/Resisting the Modern in Nineteenth-Century French Visual Culture” Exhibitions Review: Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes, “Revolution/Evolution: How the French Became Modern”

Once and Future Medievalism Conference	CALL FOR PAPERS ONCE AND FUTURE MEDIEVALISM CONFERENCE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH WITH CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 27TH AND 28TH SEPTEMBER 2004 Keynote speaker: Professor John Ganim (English, University of California, Riverside) Plenary speakers: Professor Andrew Lynch (English, University of Western Australia) Dr. Louise D’Arcens (English, University of Wollongong) The Once and Future Medievalism conference takes as its theme the afterlife of medieval culture, whether this takes the form of historical reconstruction or imaginative recreation, in the academy or in high or popular culture, from the late medieval and early modern period to the contemporary era. Submissions are invited on any aspect of medievalism, from a range of disciplinary fields and cultural practices: literature, history, cultural studies, film, art, ritual practice, architecture, religion, music, television, children's literature, re-enactment groups, etc.. Preference may be given to proposals that foreground theoretical issues. For example, is there a distinctive methodology of medievalism studies? what does it mean to study or recreate the medieval in a modern or post-modern era? what is the relationship between medievalism and gothic? how do we differentiate present and future practice from the past history of medievalism? how has the meaning and signification of 'medieval' changed since the close of the Middle Ages? Abstracts (for papers of 20 minutes) should be approximately 200 words long, and should be sent to the conference secretary, Helen Hickey: h.hickey@unimelb.edu.au by June 2. FOR ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT HELEN HICKEY: h.hickey@unimelb.edu.au Once and Future Medievalism Conference The Department of English with Cultural Studies The University of Melbourne Victoria, 3010 AUSTRALIA Fax: (+61 3 98344 5494) Conference Convenor: Stephanie Trigg (sjtrigg@unimelb.edu.au) Full Registration Details See Department of English News and Events http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/medievalism/index.html

Society for the Study of Narrative Literature	Society for the Study of Narrative Literature Annual Conference at the U of Louisville We invite submissions for individual papers or panels at the 2005 International Narrative Conference, the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. The 2005 Conference, which is sponsored by the University of Louisville, will be held April 7-10, 2005 in Louisville, KY at the Brown Hotel. The Narrative Conference is dedicated to the investigation of narrative, its elements, techniques, and forms; its relations to other modes of discourse; and its power in cultures past and present. We welcome papers or panels on all aspects of narrative theory and practice, from any genre, period, nationality, discipline, or medium. We encourage literary subjects (including poetry, pre-modern narrative, and film), as well as cross-cultural and interdisciplinary topics (including folklore, history, law, philosophy, and science). Plenary speakers for the 2005 Conference include Terry Castle, Walter A. Haas Professor in Humanities. Dept. of English. Stanford University. Wai Chee Dimock, William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies. Dept. of English. Yale University. Kathryn Montgomery, Director, Medical Ethics and Humanities Program. Northwestern University. Barbara Stafford. William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor. Dept. of Art History. Univesity of Chicago. Presentations should be fifteen to twenty minutes long and in English. Panels should consist of three to four papers and may be chaired by one of the presenters, but no individual may present more than one paper or organize more than one panel. The Conference generally features 250-300 participants. Deadline for proposals is October 15, 2004. For paper proposals, maximum 500 word abstract and brief vitae; for panel proposals, maximum 700 word abstract-summarizing the panel's rationale and describing each paper-and a brief vitae for each speaker. Panels will be accepted or rejected as a whole. Proposals must include titles of papers (and panel if appropriate); presenter's (and panel organizer's) name(s) and institutional affiliation(s); mailing address, phone, fax and email address; two (2) copies of submitted materials (for hard-copy proposals). Send proposals either by electronically to narcon@louisville.edu (Send attachments readable in Word or as a .rtf file) Or by regular mail (two copies of all material) to: Narrative Conference Department of English University of Louisville Louisville, KY 40292 Participants must join the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature. For more information on SSNL visit www.narrativesociety.org Inquiries: 502-852-6801 or narcon@louisville.edu or visit the conference website at www.louisville.edu/conference/narrative Conference Directors: Beth Boehm and Debra Journet. Assistant Directors: Sonya Borton and Stephanie K. Fleischer

NVSA	Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2005 Conference CALL FOR PAPERS VICTORIAN COLLABORATION 31 ST Annual Meeting: April 15-17, 2005 at American University, Washington, D.C. NVSA welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of Victorian Collaboration. The topic can be broadly construed to include partnerships, organizations, corporations, companies, collectives, coalitions, conspiracies, alliances, movements, unions, collusion, productive friendships, brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and political collaboration (as well as differences among these concepts). We especially encourage papers in which analysis of particular collaborations, or representations of collaboration, might pose larger questions about collaborative agency in cultural production generally. How might reflection on collaboration, that is, change our understandings of authorship, art, scientific discovery, technological innovation, economic and social development, political action, and other forms of creation and change? Topics might include (but are not limited to): Literary and artistic collaboration: Collective authorship (e.g. Michael Field); collaborative authorship (Dickens and Collins, Marx and Engels); collaborative narratives (Jekyll and Hyde, Woman in White); authors and illustrators; editorial collaboration (formal or informal) in journalism or book publishing; artists, models, and patrons; theatrical and operatic companies; music and dance; artistic collectives and societies (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Society of Authors, etc.); debate over copyright and patents Scholarly and scientific collaboration: The DNB, the OED, scholarly (or pseudo-scholarly) organizations and societies (BAAS, the Anthropological Society, the Browning Society, etc.), scholarly disciplines and academic organizations (including new universities and faculties), intellectual journals (Mind, Nature, Notes & Queries, etc.); scientific expeditions; surveying and cartography; standardizing measurement; the laboratory (in academia, industry, and fiction); museums, libraries, and archives Business, economic, and technological collaboration: "the firm," the partnership, the corporation; debate over limited liability; banking and finance; the factory and industrial production; international trade; new technologies and their development (railways, the telegraph, electric lighting.); engineering; international exhibitions (e.g. the Crystal Palace); housing development; public architecture and public works (e.g. the Thames Embankment); advertising; professional societies; economic cooperatives; insurance (Lloyd's, burial societies, etc.); trades unions Social and Political Collaboration: Victoria and Albert; Parliamentary ministries, major legislation (Reform Bills, Divorce Act, Education Act, etc.), investigations and Blue Books; political movements (the Anti-Corn Law League, Young England, Chartism, women's suffrage, Fenianism, etc.); religious orders and affiliations; voluntary organizations and charitable societies; public health initiatives; "urban investigation"; the Post Office; the police force; criminal collaboration; secret societies (including espionage); collaborating with the enemy; international alliances, in peace and war; colonial administration (including the East India Company) Paper Proposals (no more than two double-spaced pages) by Oct. 15, 2004 to: Professor Vincent Lankewish English Department Burrowes Building Penn State University Email:VLankPSU@aol.com University Park, PA 16802-6200 Fax (attn: V Lankewish): (814) 863-7285 Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on your proposal: we review proposals anonymously. Please do include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample discussion time. Teaching Roundtable: The program will include a roundtable discussion on pedagogy. This years topic is Victorian Studies and Collaborative Teaching. If you would like to make a presentation, please contact Professor Don Ulin, Division of Humanities, University of Pittsburgh at Bradford, 300 Campus Drive, Bradford, PA, 16701 (fax: 814-362-5094; email: ulin@pitt.edu) describing briefly (no more than one double-spaced page) the aspects of pedagogy that you would like to share. Keep in mind that being a presenter means creating an atmosphere for stimulating discussion rather than giving a paper. The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant ($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be considered (and mention if you have other sources of funding).

Victorian Literature and Culture	Victorian Literature and Culture Call for Papers: Victorian Literature and Culture seeks articles for an upcoming special issue on Food and the Victorians edited by Ross Forman and Suzanne Daly. Essays should follow MLA guidelines and may address any aspect of the production or consumption of food or drink. Please send two copies by November 1, 2005 to: Suzanne Daly Department of English Bartlett Hall University of Massachusetts Amherst MA 01003-9269 Inquiries may be directed to sdaly@english.umass.edu or rf19@soas.ac.uk.

William Morris Society	"MORRIS IN THE 21ST CENTURY" The 50th Anniversary Conference of the William Morris Society 7-10 July 2005, Digby Stuart College, London, England. Papers are invited on any aspect of William Morris's life, work, circle and influence in Britain and elsewhere. Please send a 300-word abstract by 31 January 2005 to: Morris in the 21st Century, The William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London, W6 9TA. Or email: R.Miles@wlv.ac.uk www.morrissociety.org/2004conf.html In addition the Journal of William Morris Studies (published twice a year) welcomes submissions at any time.

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An introduction to volume 18 by members of NCSA:

Feature Articles:

Review Essays:

Exhibitions Review: