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News from Other Organizations
Although NAVSA reserves its e-mail distribution list for organization-related purposes, we are pleased to provide information here about related activities:
- Minds, Bodies, Machines {More}
- 12th Annual Dickens Symposium {More}
- Birth of the Bestseller {More}
- Byron and Modernity {More}
- RSVP conference announcement {More}
- Third International George Gissing Conference {More}
- Mourning and Its Hospitalities Conference {More}
- Victorians Institute Conference: Victorian Secrets {More}
- Consecrated Women Conference {More}
- Tennyson Bicentenary Conference {More}
- RSVP Prizes {More}
- NVSA Rudikoff Prize {More}
- Trollope Prize {More}
- MVSA Walter L. Arnstein Prize {More}
- INCS Essay Prize {More}
- Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Essay Prize {More}
- Online archive of British Sermons, 1660-1851 {More}
- OSCHOLARS {More}
- CLIO: Call for work in Victorian Historiography {More}
Minds, Bodies, and Machines
London, 6-7 July 2007
This interdisciplinary conference, convened by Birkbeck's Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of London, in partnership with the Department of English, University of Melbourne, and software developers Constraint Technologies International (CTI), will take place on 6-7 July 2007 at Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury
The two-day conference will explore the relationship between minds, bodies and machines in the long nineteenth century. Recent research on the Enlightenment's frontier technologies has established that era's preoccupation with developing machinery that could simulate the cognitive and physiological processes of human beings. According to some critics, however, these Promethean ambitions were shelved during the nineteenth century, when the android as artefact was relocated to the realm of the imagination, where it became a threatening figure. According to this reading, the android as scientific project and a figure of possibility only re-emerges in our own era. The aim of this conference is to test this claim by exploring the continuities and discontinuities in the imagining of the human/machine interface in the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries.
The conference organisers Hilary Fraser (Birkbeck), Deirdre Coleman (Melbourne) and Paul Hyland (CTI) invite proposals for papers that examine the intersection of minds, bodies and machines during the long nineteenth century. Topics include: the virtual and the real; technologies of the sublime; evolution and machines; techniques of communication; technologies of travel; medical technology; miniaturisation; self-reproduction; and spiritualism.
The conference programme will include plenary addresses, seminars and workshops. Confirmed speakers include: Dr Caroline Arscott, Professor Jay Clayton, Professor Steven Connor, Professor Iain McCalman, Professor Peter Otto, Professor Kevin Warwick and Dr Elizabeth Wilson.
A selection of papers arising from this conference will be published in the online journal 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Abstracts for papers of 20 minutes, as well as details of expected audio-visual needs, should be submitted no later than 28 FEBRUARY 2007. Please send proposals by email to submissions@mindsbodiesmachines.org. For further information, see www.mindsbodiesmachines.org/conferences.html
12th Annual Dickens Symposium
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA
AUGUST 17-20 2007On May 11, 1842, Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine arrived in Montreal on the final leg of the "English" part of Dickens's first North American tour. They stayed until May 30th at Rasco's Hotel in what is now Old Montreal. At the time of Dickens's arrival, Montreal was the most populous city in British North America, and would soon to be made the capital in 1844. Its port was booming, and it already gave promise of becoming the economic engine for the rest of Canada. Dickens loved Montreal, which was also the venue for his first return to acting since his authorship days.
In honour of Dickens's visit to Montreal 165 years ago, the Dickens Society will be holding its annual meeting in Canada for the first time since the Society was established in 1970. Papers on any aspect of Dickens's life and work are invited for the 12th Annual Dickens Symposium, which will take place at the Hotel Du Fort in downtown Montreal from August 17-19, 2007. Papers dealing with Dickens's experiences in Canada would be especially welcome. Proposals should be 1-2 pages long and final papers should be readable in 20 minutes.
Please send proposals by post or email (MS Word only) to:
Prof. Goldie Morgentaler Dept of English University of Lethbridge 4401 University Drive Lethbridge, AB. Canada. T1K 3M4 Ph: (403) 329-2365 Email: goldie.morgentaler@uleth.caDeadline for proposals is April 1 2007.
Conference participants will have the opportunity to take part in a walking tour of Old Montreal with stops of particular interest to Dickensians. Montreal is a glorious place to visit in the summertime!
Birth of the Bestseller
The 19th-Century Book in Britain, France, and Beyond
A Conference in New York
March 29-31, 2007
The Bibliographical Society of America invites you to attend its Birth of the Bestseller conference next March. This innovative event will gather participants from around the world and from a wide range of disciplines, including art history, literary history, and cultural studies. Together we will explore the terrain of 19th-century bestsellers and consider how they came to dominate the public imagination.
The 19th century witnessed enormous changes in the world of books. The rise of a mass readership, the invention of machine-driven technologies, new reproduction methods, and an astonishing variation in literature, authorship, publishing, periodicals, printing, typography, illustration, marketing, taste, and design all made the 19th century an era of intense complexity. Despite growing interest in this period, many of its aspects remain largely unstudied. This three-day conference offers numerous short papers and lectures by five distinguished speakers: John Sutherland, Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Marie E. Korey, Michael Winship, and Margaret D. Stetz.
Registration for all participants is a modest $40 per person. This fee covers all sessions, receptions, and coffee/tea breaks. For more details on the conference, visit http://www.bibsocamer.org/.
Birth of the Bestseller is organized by the Bibliographical Society of America and cosponsored by the Grolier Club of New York, the Morgan Library & Museum, and the Fales Library, New York University, with the collaboration of the Museum of Biblical Art. The project is made possible by the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Generous financial support has also been provided by the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, Bauman Rare Books (New York), Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey K. Elliott, Kelmscott Books (Baltimore), 19th Century Shop (Baltimore), and Ursus Books (New York).
This conference is occasioned by concurrent exhibitions at:
Grolier Club – Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros' Eragny Press, 1894-1914
Morgan Library & Museum – Victorian Bestsellers
Fales Library, New York University – Nothing New: The Persistence of the Bestseller
Byron and Modernity
Please note that the deadline for submission of proposals has been extended to March 1, 2007.
Keynote speakers: Professor Christopher Ricks, Professor Jerome McGann, and Professor Tilottama Rajan
Submissions are invited for "Byron and Modernity" an international conference, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, to be held in Vancouver at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites October 26-28, 2007. We welcome papers that explore the way Byron and Byronism have been interpreted since the Romantic period, in Byron’s reception through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the place of Byronism in fashion, popular, and print culture. But we are especially interested in papers that take Byron’s presence in modern culture as an opportunity to address wider questions surrounding modernity and modernism. If "the modern" marks the time when the subject left the safety of the local to experience the world, if modernism celebrates change itself as the driving force of global power, to what extent is Byron, the cosmopolitan wanderer and genius of self-promotion, an exemplary, if not pivotal figure of modernity? The Byron circle might be called the first avant-garde: what part did the figure of Byron play in other modern avant-garde movements or in the development of criticism, theory, and culture that followed them? Byron was a social critic and a fashion icon: his work straddles high and low culture, aristocratic pretension and bourgeois consumerism, the power of the mind and the experience of the body. What can his influence tell us about similar contradictions in modern poetry and literature? What might Byron’s presence in popular culture and, by contrast, his relative absence from critical culture tell us about culture generally in the modern world? We are less interested in Byron the man than we are in "Byron" the idea, a specter of art, power, and transgression that haunts modern consciousness.
Proposals of 500 words for 20 minute papers may be sent by email to: byron07@interchange.ubc.ca
Deadline for submissions: March 1, 2007 (Original deadline: January 31, 2007)
Conference website: www.english.ubc.ca/PROJECTS/byron_conference
RSVP Conference
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will be holding its annual conference at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia from 14-16 September 2007. Its theme will be "Time and the Victorian Press." In addition to considering proposals on all aspects of research into nineteenth century periodicals and serials, RSVP particularly welcomes papers that address the broad topic "Time and the Victorian Press," including areas such as:
- periodical rhythms and periodicities
- local, national, global time
- modernities
- technologies and time
- memory
- presentism then and now
- historical pasts and projected futures
- historicity
- signs of the times
- time and space
- synchronicity and/or simultaneity
- visual culture and time
- speed
- dailiness, weekliness, monthliness, etc.
- timeliness
- nostalgia
- topicality
- time and reading
- time warps, gaps, duration
- leisure time, work time
We welcome proposals for individual papers or panels of three. Papers should be 15-20 minutes in length (no longer), and panels should plan on an hour and a half session. We hope to build in as much time as possible for conversation. Please email a two-page (maximum) abstract of the paper/panel, and a one-page c.v. for each participant to the Programme Chair, Mark Turner, King's College London, mark.2.turner@kcl.ac.uk. The deadline for submission is 1 February 2007. Please direct all queries about local arrangements to David Latane at dlatane@vcu.edu. For further information about RSVP and the conference, please consult our website: http://www.rs4vp.org.
RSVP is pleased to be able to waive fees for a select number of graduate students presenting papers at the conference. If you wish to be considered for such an award, please indicate so on a cover letter attached to your proposal. Recipients will be notified in early spring of 2007.
Third International George Gissing Conference
WRITING OTHERNESS: THE PATHWAYS OF GEORGE GISSING'S IMAGINATION
LILLE, FRANCE
27-28 MARCH 2008
(Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The efforts of scholars in the last half-century have served to confirm
George Gissing's ranking among the major writers of fiction of his age. The
steady flow in recent years of multifaceted comment on his writings speaks
for itself, and the impressive amount of unpublished material made available
over the last two decades is providing invaluable new clues to his artistic
practices. Interestingly, Gissing's growing pertinence is not merely that of
a leading exponent and translator of late Victorian culture. His art is also
increasingly regarded as rooted in his recognition of separateness,
understood as aesthetic gesture as much as theme. Papers are therefore
sought on all aspects of Gissing's contacts and/or confrontations with the
Other, on his receptiveness to and negotiation of, ego-threatening novelty,
to be defined in a variety of ways: cultural, intellectual, ideological,
artistic. Discussions of his (mis-)representation of the defamiliarized self
in his fictional constructs and personal writings, are also invited: the
venue being Lille in France, Gissing's last homeland, papers on the
correlative issue of his reading of Englishness and foreignness will be most
welcome.
Advisory Committee: Professor Pierre Coustillas (University of Lille 3);
Professor Constance Harsh (Colgate University); Dr Christine Huguet
(University of Lille 3); Dr Simon J. James (Durham University); Dr Emma
Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University); Dr Diana Maltz (Southern
Oregon University); Dr Bouwe Postmus (University of Amsterdam); Dr John
Sloan (Harris Manchester College, Oxford).
Proposals (200-300 words), together with brief CV, should be sent to
Christine Huguet (Conference organiser) at the following address:
christine.huguet-meriaux@univ-lille3.fr.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 4 June 2007
Conference Venue and Enquiries: Maison de la Recherche, Université Charles
de Gaulle-Lille 3 (CECILLE Research Centre, University of Lille, with the
academic support of IES, University of London). Conference information and
registration forms available at:
http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/recherche/colloque-george-gissing
WRITING OTHERNESS: THE PATHWAYS OF GEORGE GISSING'S IMAGINATION
LILLE, FRANCE
27-28 MARCH 2008
(Thursday & Friday following the Easter weekend)
CALL FOR PAPERS
The efforts of scholars in the last half-century have served to confirm George Gissing's ranking among the major writers of fiction of his age. The steady flow in recent years of multifaceted comment on his writings speaks for itself, and the impressive amount of unpublished material made available over the last two decades is providing invaluable new clues to his artistic practices. Interestingly, Gissing's growing pertinence is not merely that of a leading exponent and translator of late Victorian culture. His art is also increasingly regarded as rooted in his recognition of separateness, understood as aesthetic gesture as much as theme. Papers are therefore sought on all aspects of Gissing's contacts and/or confrontations with the Other, on his receptiveness to and negotiation of, ego-threatening novelty, to be defined in a variety of ways: cultural, intellectual, ideological, artistic. Discussions of his (mis-)representation of the defamiliarized self in his fictional constructs and personal writings, are also invited: the venue being Lille in France, Gissing's last homeland, papers on the correlative issue of his reading of Englishness and foreignness will be most welcome.
Advisory Committee: Professor Pierre Coustillas (University of Lille 3); Professor Constance Harsh (Colgate University); Dr Christine Huguet (University of Lille 3); Dr Simon J. James (Durham University); Dr Emma Liggins (Manchester Metropolitan University); Dr Diana Maltz (Southern Oregon University); Dr Bouwe Postmus (University of Amsterdam); Dr John Sloan (Harris Manchester College, Oxford).
Proposals (200-300 words), together with brief CV, should be sent to Christine Huguet (Conference organiser) at the following address: christine.huguet-meriaux@univ-lille3.fr.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 4 June 2007
Conference Venue and Enquiries: Maison de la Recherche, Université Charles de Gaulle-Lille 3 (CECILLE Research Centre, University of Lille, with the academic support of IES, University of London). Conference information and registration forms available at: http://evenements.univ-lille3.fr/recherche/colloque-george-gissing
Mourning & Its Hospitalities | (after . . . )
Call for papers
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . . )
a three-day international conference at the University of Queensland, Australia
18-20 July 2007
followed by
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after ...)
a one-day symposium on teaching
21 July 2007
Plenary speakers
- J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
- Derek Attridge, Professor of English, Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York
Mourning is the repetition of what we do not have. But it is not just a yearning for what will never again make itself present: what distinguishes mourning from what Freud and his time called melancholia is that mourning affirms--or learns to affirm--this absence. On a thin thread of words, mourning calls up what was perhaps never there to begin with, and brings it into being. And that means that mourning is at the heart of so much we most value, and its continuing claim on us. The late Jacques Derrida catalogues many of these in the course of his work: friendship, justice, the debt and the gift, inheritance, responsibility, hospitality, tradition; literature, and the arts in general. In that mourning is inseparable from speculation in all senses of the word, its hospitality to the new is also at the heart of the scattered and various disciplines that make up the humanities.
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . .) will have as its focus the implications for the humanities of the work
of mourning. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, and panels of
papers, that will develop some aspect of this topic. Proposals should
be no more than 200 words. The deadline for submission is February 23
2007.
We are particularly interested in:
- considerations of the work and functions of the post- (-colonial, -structuralist or -modernist)
- considerations of the work of writers, literary and philosophical, on the work of mourning and hospitality
- the roles of the humanities in a post-humanities age, of theory after theory, and of literature after literature
- the concepts of tradition
- the debates about critical literacy and the role of literature in the primary and secondary education systems; teaching the humanities in the current political and economic climates
We intend to publish a collection of essays from this conference.
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after . . . )
is a one-day symposium on teaching, with the participation of the conference's plenary speakers. There will be separate bookings for this event, with a limited number of places available.
What is the use of literary study now, in this new university [that
has lost the guiding mission that has sustained it since the early
nineteenth century]? Should, ought, or must we still study literature?
What is the source now of the obligation to study literature? Who or
what addresses to us a call to do so? Why should we do it? To what
purpose? Can literary study still be defended as a socially useful
part of university research and teaching or is it just a vestigial
remnant that will vanish as other media become more dominant in the
new global society that is rapidly taking shape?
(J. Hillis Miller, "Governing the Ungovernable: Literary Study in the
Transnational University", 1995)
Discussion will focus on a small number of ten-minute papers on the
issues raised by this statement. These papers will be circulated in
advance rather than read live.
For further information, or to propose a panel or paper, contact:
Jude Seaboyer (j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au)
or
Tony Thwaites (tony.thwaites@uq.edu.au)
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . .)
and
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after . . . )
are initiatives of the School of English, Media Studies and Art
History at the University of Queensland.
Call for papers
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . . )
a three-day international conference at the University of Queensland, Australia
18-20 July 2007
followed by
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after ...)
a one-day symposium on teaching
21 July 2007
Plenary speakers
- J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Professor of English, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine
- Derek Attridge, Professor of English, Department of English and Related Literatures, University of York
Mourning is the repetition of what we do not have. But it is not just a yearning for what will never again make itself present: what distinguishes mourning from what Freud and his time called melancholia is that mourning affirms--or learns to affirm--this absence. On a thin thread of words, mourning calls up what was perhaps never there to begin with, and brings it into being. And that means that mourning is at the heart of so much we most value, and its continuing claim on us. The late Jacques Derrida catalogues many of these in the course of his work: friendship, justice, the debt and the gift, inheritance, responsibility, hospitality, tradition; literature, and the arts in general. In that mourning is inseparable from speculation in all senses of the word, its hospitality to the new is also at the heart of the scattered and various disciplines that make up the humanities.
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . .) will have as its focus the implications for the humanities of the work of mourning. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers, and panels of papers, that will develop some aspect of this topic. Proposals should be no more than 200 words. The deadline for submission is February 23 2007.
We are particularly interested in:
- considerations of the work and functions of the post- (-colonial, -structuralist or -modernist)
- considerations of the work of writers, literary and philosophical, on the work of mourning and hospitality
- the roles of the humanities in a post-humanities age, of theory after theory, and of literature after literature
- the concepts of tradition
- the debates about critical literacy and the role of literature in the primary and secondary education systems; teaching the humanities in the current political and economic climates
We intend to publish a collection of essays from this conference.
Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after . . . ) is a one-day symposium on teaching, with the participation of the conference's plenary speakers. There will be separate bookings for this event, with a limited number of places available.
What is the use of literary study now, in this new university [that has lost the guiding mission that has sustained it since the early nineteenth century]? Should, ought, or must we still study literature? What is the source now of the obligation to study literature? Who or what addresses to us a call to do so? Why should we do it? To what purpose? Can literary study still be defended as a socially useful part of university research and teaching or is it just a vestigial remnant that will vanish as other media become more dominant in the new global society that is rapidly taking shape? (J. Hillis Miller, "Governing the Ungovernable: Literary Study in the Transnational University", 1995)
Discussion will focus on a small number of ten-minute papers on the issues raised by this statement. These papers will be circulated in advance rather than read live.
For further information, or to propose a panel or paper, contact:
Jude Seaboyer (j.seaboyer@uq.edu.au)
or
Tony Thwaites (tony.thwaites@uq.edu.au)
Mourning & its Hospitalities | (after . . .) and Hospitalities of Literature | (teaching after . . . ) are initiatives of the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland.
Victorians Institute Conference: Victorian Secrets
Victorian Secrets
University of Alabama
Fall 2007: November 9-11
Keynote Speaker:
John Kucich (Rutgers University)
Conference Website: http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will host the Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the Victorians Institute--including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology, and theology--as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Topics for papers of 15 to 20 minutes in length might include:
- Secrecy and social respectability
- Secrecy and gender construction
- Secrecy and Victorian formulations of race
- Secrecy and religion
- Secrecy and business
- Theories of Victorian secrecy
- Textual secrecy: narrative red-herrings; the revelation of characters' interior lives; secret letters, billet-doux, clandestine encounters
- The revelation of hitherto unknown individuals, collectives or texts from the Victorian period
Four presses have expressed interest in reviewing an edited collection of essays emerging from the conference, so please keep that possibility of future publication in mind when constructing proposals and authoring presentations.
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu.
Victorian Secrets
University of Alabama
Fall 2007: November 9-11
Keynote Speaker:
John Kucich (Rutgers University)
Conference Website: http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm
The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will host the Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the Victorians Institute--including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology, and theology--as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Topics for papers of 15 to 20 minutes in length might include:
- Secrecy and social respectability
- Secrecy and gender construction
- Secrecy and Victorian formulations of race
- Secrecy and religion
- Secrecy and business
- Theories of Victorian secrecy
- Textual secrecy: narrative red-herrings; the revelation of characters' interior lives; secret letters, billet-doux, clandestine encounters
- The revelation of hitherto unknown individuals, collectives or texts from the Victorian period
Four presses have expressed interest in reviewing an edited collection of essays emerging from the conference, so please keep that possibility of future publication in mind when constructing proposals and authoring presentations.
Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu.
CONSECRATED WOMEN: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS
OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Call for Papers
31 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2007
At the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
The Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) invite both individual and panel proposals on the history of women religious of Britain and Ireland. Papers are invited for the conference themes:
- Creativity in the convent: creativity across all visual, musical, material or literary forms; convent patronage.
- Religious sisters and the provision of healthcare: a broad definition of healthcare will be applied--apothecaries, home visiting and care of the elderly as well as hospitals or infirmaries--at home or in a missionary context.
- Finance and business: what financial models and practices did women religious apply? How was their work and property financed?
- Canonical issues, constitutions and the approval of congregations:
the impact of Canon Law; episcopal, curial and papal interventions.
Contributions might be at macro or micro level. Studies of the
20thC are particularly welcomed.
- Exile and identity: the dynamics of migration and inter-cultural and trans-cultural experiences in the lives and identities of women religious.
Abstracts of not more than 300 words: panellists should send separate abstracts for each paper. Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcomed. H-WRBI encourages papers on consecrated women from all historical periods and from different religious traditions within the history of Britain and Ireland.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 10 MARCH 2007
Please send all proposals to
Dr Caroline Bowden (c.bowden@rhul.ac.uk)
Call for Papers
31 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER 2007
At the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London
The Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) invite both individual and panel proposals on the history of women religious of Britain and Ireland. Papers are invited for the conference themes:
- Creativity in the convent: creativity across all visual, musical, material or literary forms; convent patronage.
- Religious sisters and the provision of healthcare: a broad definition of healthcare will be applied--apothecaries, home visiting and care of the elderly as well as hospitals or infirmaries--at home or in a missionary context.
- Finance and business: what financial models and practices did women religious apply? How was their work and property financed?
- Canonical issues, constitutions and the approval of congregations: the impact of Canon Law; episcopal, curial and papal interventions. Contributions might be at macro or micro level. Studies of the 20thC are particularly welcomed.
- Exile and identity: the dynamics of migration and inter-cultural and trans-cultural experiences in the lives and identities of women religious.
Abstracts of not more than 300 words: panellists should send separate abstracts for each paper. Proposals from postgraduate students are particularly welcomed. H-WRBI encourages papers on consecrated women from all historical periods and from different religious traditions within the history of Britain and Ireland.
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: 10 MARCH 2007
Please send all proposals to
Dr Caroline Bowden (c.bowden@rhul.ac.uk)
Tennyson International Conference, July 2009
The Tennyson Society is mounting a conference at the University of Lincoln, UK, 17-20 July 2009, to mark the bicentenary of the Laureate's birth. The title will be 'The Young Tennyson', and the plenary speakers
are: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Linda K Hughes, Angela Leighton and Seamus
Perry. Seminar papers are sought which will reflect upon this topic,
which may be flexibly interpreted. Papers should be of 20 minutes
duration and in the first instance participants are invited to submit a
title and a 250-word abstract of their paper to either of the organisers
by 1 September 2007. Offers to organise a panel session will
also be considered.
All communications to the joint organisers: Prof Marion Shaw: M.Shaw@lboro.ac.uk or Prof Roger Ebbatson: J.R.Ebbatson@lboro.ac.uk
The Tennyson Society is mounting a conference at the University of Lincoln, UK, 17-20 July 2009, to mark the bicentenary of the Laureate's birth. The title will be 'The Young Tennyson', and the plenary speakers are: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, Linda K Hughes, Angela Leighton and Seamus Perry. Seminar papers are sought which will reflect upon this topic, which may be flexibly interpreted. Papers should be of 20 minutes duration and in the first instance participants are invited to submit a title and a 250-word abstract of their paper to either of the organisers by 1 September 2007. Offers to organise a panel session will also be considered. All communications to the joint organisers: Prof Marion Shaw: M.Shaw@lboro.ac.uk or Prof Roger Ebbatson: J.R.Ebbatson@lboro.ac.uk
RSVP Prizes
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) invites applications for two prizes:
Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2007 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. The winner receives a plaque, $300, and publication of the prize essay in VPR. Send paper submissions by mail, postmarked by 1 April 2007, to Kathryn Ledbetter, Department of English, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616. Please include a description of current status in graduate school.
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to announce the first winners of the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded for a work published the preceding year which has made a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. The prize was made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a long and devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals. This year's prize winners are Linda K. Hughes for Graham R.: Rosamund Marriot Watson, Woman of Letters (Athens: Ohio University Press), and Peter Morton for "The Busiest Man in England": Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (New York and Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan). Both books are reviewed in the current issue of VPR. If you publish a book in 2006 that you would like to have considered for the 2007 Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, please send the information to Anne Humpherys, ahumpherys@gc.cuny.edu.
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) invites applications for two prizes:
Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2007 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. The winner receives a plaque, $300, and publication of the prize essay in VPR. Send paper submissions by mail, postmarked by 1 April 2007, to Kathryn Ledbetter, Department of English, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616. Please include a description of current status in graduate school.
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to announce the first winners of the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, awarded for a work published the preceding year which has made a significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. The prize was made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a long and devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals. This year's prize winners are Linda K. Hughes for Graham R.: Rosamund Marriot Watson, Woman of Letters (Athens: Ohio University Press), and Peter Morton for "The Busiest Man in England": Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (New York and Houndsmills: Palgrave Macmillan). Both books are reviewed in the current issue of VPR. If you publish a book in 2006 that you would like to have considered for the 2007 Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize, please send the information to Anne Humpherys, ahumpherys@gc.cuny.edu.
NVSA Rudikoff Prize
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce the
winner of the Sonya
Rudikoff Award for the best first book on Victorian literature and/or
culture. The Sonya Rudikoff Award was
established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman's late wife.
Our award winner for 2005 is Suzy Anger's Victorian Interpretation.
NVSA is currently accepting nominations for books published in 2006. For
further details, please visit: http://www.stonehill.edu/nvsa/rudikoff.htm.
THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION is pleased to announce the winner of the Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book on Victorian literature and/or culture. The Sonya Rudikoff Award was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman's late wife. Our award winner for 2005 is Suzy Anger's Victorian Interpretation. NVSA is currently accepting nominations for books published in 2006. For further details, please visit: http://www.stonehill.edu/nvsa/rudikoff.htm.
Trollope Prize
The Trollope Prize is awarded annually to the best undergraduate essay in English on the works of Anthony Trollope. A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Trollope was a prolific author of essays, travel books, and novels, including Barchester Towers and The Eustace Diamonds. He is best known for his depictions of upper-class English life.
The Trollope Prize was established by anonymous benefactors to encourage the reading and enjoyment of this important yet under-read literary giant of the 19th century. The Expository Writing Program at Harvard University is pleased to administer this important prize.
The writer of the winning essay will receive $2,500, as well as a hard-cover copy of one of Trollope's forty-seven novels. The essay will be published on the Trollope Prize website and eventually be included in a collection of Trollope Prize-winning essays.
Submissions are invited from around the world and must be in English. Comparative essays, such as those comparing the work of Trollope and Austen or Trollope and Dickens, will also be considered. Each submitted essay must be sponsored by a faculty member from the English department, or other humanities department, of the writer's undergraduate institution. The faculty sponsor of the winning essay receives $1,000 for curriculum development; the sponsor's department receives $500. Second and third place prizes may also be awarded.
Submissions must be received by 4 p.m., Friday, June 1, 2007.
Note: Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse (W&M), a NAVSA member, advised the 2006 winner, Matthew R. Sherrill, as well as a third-prize co-winner, Lauren Klapper-Lehman.
The Trollope Prize is awarded annually to the best undergraduate essay in English on the works of Anthony Trollope. A contemporary of Charles Dickens, Trollope was a prolific author of essays, travel books, and novels, including Barchester Towers and The Eustace Diamonds. He is best known for his depictions of upper-class English life.
The Trollope Prize was established by anonymous benefactors to encourage the reading and enjoyment of this important yet under-read literary giant of the 19th century. The Expository Writing Program at Harvard University is pleased to administer this important prize.
The writer of the winning essay will receive $2,500, as well as a hard-cover copy of one of Trollope's forty-seven novels. The essay will be published on the Trollope Prize website and eventually be included in a collection of Trollope Prize-winning essays.
Submissions are invited from around the world and must be in English. Comparative essays, such as those comparing the work of Trollope and Austen or Trollope and Dickens, will also be considered. Each submitted essay must be sponsored by a faculty member from the English department, or other humanities department, of the writer's undergraduate institution. The faculty sponsor of the winning essay receives $1,000 for curriculum development; the sponsor's department receives $500. Second and third place prizes may also be awarded.
Submissions must be received by 4 p.m., Friday, June 1, 2007.
Note: Professor Deborah Denenholz Morse (W&M), a NAVSA member, advised the 2006 winner, Matthew R. Sherrill, as well as a third-prize co-winner, Lauren Klapper-Lehman.
MVSA Walter L. Arnstein Prize
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces the Sixteenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies. It awards $1500 for dissertation research in British Victorian Studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a U.S. or Canadian university. Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology; proposals, however, should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will render them of interest to scholars studying Victorian Britain across a range of disciplines, approaches, and subfields. Forms may be requested from Linda K. Hughes at l.hughes@tcu.edu or by mail: English Department, TCU Box 297270, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2007; the award will be announced at the Association's 2007 annual meeting, to be held at the University of Illinois April 20-21. The Association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not justify it.
The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces the Sixteenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies. It awards $1500 for dissertation research in British Victorian Studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a U.S. or Canadian university. Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology; proposals, however, should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will render them of interest to scholars studying Victorian Britain across a range of disciplines, approaches, and subfields. Forms may be requested from Linda K. Hughes at l.hughes@tcu.edu or by mail: English Department, TCU Box 297270, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2007; the award will be announced at the Association's 2007 annual meeting, to be held at the University of Illinois April 20-21. The Association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not justify it.
INCS Essay Prize
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations for its fourth annual essay prize. The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship about any nineteenth-century topic or world region. We encourage members of INCS to submit or nominate an essay written by a current member of INCS and published in a book or journal in 2006. The winner will be announced at the 2007 conference. Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, no later than February 5, 2007. For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/.
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies invites nominations for its fourth annual essay prize. The $500 prize recognizes excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship about any nineteenth-century topic or world region. We encourage members of INCS to submit or nominate an essay written by a current member of INCS and published in a book or journal in 2006. The winner will be announced at the 2007 conference. Please send three paper copies of the nominated essay to Professor Teresa Mangum, Department of English, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 52242, no later than February 5, 2007. For more details about the essay competition, the conference, or the organization, we invite you to visit the INCS website at http://www.nd.edu/~incshp/.
Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Essay Prize
The Journal of Victorian Culture, one of the leading journals in its
field, has inaugurated a prize competition for graduate students. The aim
of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate
research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the
UK and abroad. The essay, which must be no longer than 9000 words in
length (including notes), may be on any aspect of Victorian culture
appropriate for the scope of the journal (this embraces literature and
history, including cultural, intellectual, social, political, economic and
religious history; the history of music, science, technology, medicine,
theatre and visual culture; historical geography). JVC is, in accordance
with its remit, particularly keen to encourage essays demonstrating
interdisciplinary approaches. The essay must not be under consideration
for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other
journal until the outcome of the competition is known. Applicants who are
completing doctoral degrees are advised to check with their institutions
any regulations covering the publication of material extracted from their
theses prior to the submission of the whole thesis.
The prize
Publication of the winning essay in JVC; 100-pounds cash prize, a free year's
subscription to JVC.
Conditions
Word limit: maximum of 9000 words
Closing date for submissions to the Editor: 30 June 2007
The competition will open to anyone currently registered for a higher
research degree, or is within 3 years of the completion of one. An entry
form will be available on the JVC website and will require the signature
of the Academic Supervisor, confirming the entrant's status.
Judging
Entries should be submitted to the journal in the normal manner, but must
also be accompanied by the downloadable JVC Essay Prize entry form
(available from the publisher's website). All published essays will be
subject to the same copyright terms as everything else published in JVC.
The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be
considered. There is only one prize and the judges reserve the right to
award no prize if submitted material is not of an appropriate standard.
The judges for the prize will be the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Victorian Culture. The process of selection will, accordingly, fulfil the
requirements of peer review. The judges reserve the right to recommend
revisions to the prize-winning essay prior to publication.
The Journal of Victorian Culture, one of the leading journals in its field, has inaugurated a prize competition for graduate students. The aim of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The essay, which must be no longer than 9000 words in length (including notes), may be on any aspect of Victorian culture appropriate for the scope of the journal (this embraces literature and history, including cultural, intellectual, social, political, economic and religious history; the history of music, science, technology, medicine, theatre and visual culture; historical geography). JVC is, in accordance with its remit, particularly keen to encourage essays demonstrating interdisciplinary approaches. The essay must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the competition is known. Applicants who are completing doctoral degrees are advised to check with their institutions any regulations covering the publication of material extracted from their theses prior to the submission of the whole thesis.
The prize
Publication of the winning essay in JVC; 100-pounds cash prize, a free year's
subscription to JVC.
Conditions
Word limit: maximum of 9000 words
Closing date for submissions to the Editor: 30 June 2007
The competition will open to anyone currently registered for a higher
research degree, or is within 3 years of the completion of one. An entry
form will be available on the JVC website and will require the signature
of the Academic Supervisor, confirming the entrant's status.
Judging
Entries should be submitted to the journal in the normal manner, but must
also be accompanied by the downloadable JVC Essay Prize entry form
(available from the publisher's website). All published essays will be
subject to the same copyright terms as everything else published in JVC.
The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be
considered. There is only one prize and the judges reserve the right to
award no prize if submitted material is not of an appropriate standard.
The judges for the prize will be the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Victorian Culture. The process of selection will, accordingly, fulfil the
requirements of peer review. The judges reserve the right to recommend
revisions to the prize-winning essay prior to publication.
British Sermons 1660-1851
Bob Tennant (University of Glasgow) and Robert Ellison (East Texas Baptist University) announce plans to create an online archive of British sermons from approximately 1660 to 1851. They are forming an interdisciplinary team to determine the parameters of the project, establish technology standards, and apply for start-up funding. Anyone interested in being involved in any capacity is invited to email them at B.Tennant@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk or rellison@etbu.edu.
Bob Tennant (University of Glasgow) and Robert Ellison (East Texas Baptist University) announce plans to create an online archive of British sermons from approximately 1660 to 1851. They are forming an interdisciplinary team to determine the parameters of the project, establish technology standards, and apply for start-up funding. Anyone interested in being involved in any capacity is invited to email them at B.Tennant@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk or rellison@etbu.edu.
OSCHOLARS
As many will have seen on VICTORIA and elsewhere, THE OSCHOLARS has returned to monthly publication on a new website. Our editorial team has held together and there are new members. While still giving pride of place to Wilde studies, it is broadening out to cover other key figures of the fin-de-siecle and the decadent and symbolist movements, covering theatre and the visual arts as well as literature. This will be particularly reflected in our review section, but also throughout the journal. A new supplement devoted to Vernon Lee and edited by Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux of the Université de la Réunion is now part of our mix, and the French fin-de-siecle has its own journal twinned with THE OSCHOLARS and sharing many of the same contributors, called Rue des Beaux-Arts. A further supplement devoted to George Moore and edited by Mark Llewellyn of the University of Liverpool is also in preparation.
Some contacts were lost during our interregnum, and we hope that former subscribers who have not heard from us will contact oscholarship@tiscali.fr for reinscription on our mailing list. Anti-Spam filters should be adjusted accordingly!
D C Rose
Editor
1 rue Gutenberg
75015 Paris
As many will have seen on VICTORIA and elsewhere, THE OSCHOLARS has returned to monthly publication on a new website. Our editorial team has held together and there are new members. While still giving pride of place to Wilde studies, it is broadening out to cover other key figures of the fin-de-siecle and the decadent and symbolist movements, covering theatre and the visual arts as well as literature. This will be particularly reflected in our review section, but also throughout the journal. A new supplement devoted to Vernon Lee and edited by Sophie Geoffroy-Menoux of the Université de la Réunion is now part of our mix, and the French fin-de-siecle has its own journal twinned with THE OSCHOLARS and sharing many of the same contributors, called Rue des Beaux-Arts. A further supplement devoted to George Moore and edited by Mark Llewellyn of the University of Liverpool is also in preparation.
Some contacts were lost during our interregnum, and we hope that former subscribers who have not heard from us will contact oscholarship@tiscali.fr for reinscription on our mailing list. Anti-Spam filters should be adjusted accordingly!
D C Rose Editor 1 rue Gutenberg 75015 Paris
CLIO
CALL FOR PAPERS
CLIO: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
invites submissions of original research in Victorian literature and
historiography. Our traditional focus is on literature as informed by
historical understandings and historical writings considered as
literature.
Recent publications in Victorian studies and the British long
nineteenth century include essays on Carlyle and chaos (Jonathan
Taylor), George Eliot's historicism (Michael Carignan), Hegel's
aesthetics (Tilottama Rajan), and historicizing Austen by Diane Long
Hoeveler.
Books recently reviewed include Robert Aguirre's Informal Empire:
Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture(reviewed by Ruth
Hoberman), Grace Moore's Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class,
Race, and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens (reviewed by
Anthony Chennels), and Gautam Chakravarty's The Indian Mutiny and
the British Imagination (reviewed by Ann-Barbara Graff).
Consult the CLIO website, http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/clioguideSubmission.htm, for submission
guidelines and instructions for manuscript preparation. Please do not
submit unrevised dissertation chapters or conference papers: we can only
consider fully revised essays that make self-sufficient arguments.
Send all inquiries to clio@ipfw.edu addressed to the editor-in-chief,
Lynette Felber.
CALL FOR PAPERS
CLIO: A JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, HISTORY, AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY invites submissions of original research in Victorian literature and historiography. Our traditional focus is on literature as informed by historical understandings and historical writings considered as literature.
Recent publications in Victorian studies and the British long nineteenth century include essays on Carlyle and chaos (Jonathan Taylor), George Eliot's historicism (Michael Carignan), Hegel's aesthetics (Tilottama Rajan), and historicizing Austen by Diane Long Hoeveler.
Books recently reviewed include Robert Aguirre's Informal Empire: Mexico and Central America in Victorian Culture(reviewed by Ruth Hoberman), Grace Moore's Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race, and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens (reviewed by Anthony Chennels), and Gautam Chakravarty's The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination (reviewed by Ann-Barbara Graff).
Consult the CLIO website, http://www.ipfw.edu/engl/clioguideSubmission.htm, for submission guidelines and instructions for manuscript preparation. Please do not submit unrevised dissertation chapters or conference papers: we can only consider fully revised essays that make self-sufficient arguments.
Send all inquiries to clio@ipfw.edu addressed to the editor-in-chief, Lynette Felber.