NAVSA/NASSR 2006

The countdown is on for this year's conference, the unprecedented co-convening of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR) and the North American Victorian Studies Association. Hosted by Purdue University over Labor Day weekend (August 31-September 3, 2006), the conference features plenary talks by Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur, and a host of special sessions, workshops, and seminars focusing on each period. Headliners include Timothy Barringer, Alan Bewell, Ross Chambers, Anna Clark, Julie Codell, Tracy Davis, Mary Favret, Neil Fraistat, Regenia Gagnier, Catherine Gallagher, Elaine Hadley, Andrea Henderson, Sonia Hofkosh, John Kucich, Christopher Lane, Celeste Langan, Thomas Laqueur, Rosemary Lloyd, Deidre Lynch, Ghislaine McDayter, Andrew Miller, Timothy Morton, Daniel O'Quinn, Thomas Pfau, Adela Pinch, Marjorie Stone, and Martin Wiener. The conference will include such special features as a silent-film festival (with live organ in a restored 20s theater) and a swing band (following the banquet). Online registration will open in April.

If you are not planning to give a talk but would like to chair a panel, or if you have questions about the event, please contact Dino Franco Felluga at dfelluga@cla.purdue.edu.