Events and Calls for Papers

To submit an event, please contact our CFP Editors Amy R. Wong at amyrwong@ucla.edu or Michael Nicholson at nicholsonm@ucla.edu.
Note: While JVC Online does not post announcements of open positions and fellowship opportunities on our website, please feel free to contact us with your call and we will post it to our twitterfeed: @JofVictCulture.

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Colloquia, Seminars, and Lectures

London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar
Senate House, London
English Departments of the colleges of the University of London
http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/54/London+Nineteenth+Century+Studies+Seminar

Psychoanalysis, Literature, and Practice: Research Seminar
Senate House, London
http://events.sas.ac.uk/ies/seminars/333/Psychoanalysis,+Literature+and+Practice

Making a Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment 1820-1840
2013 Seminar Series funded by the British Academy
https://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/tag/making-a-darkness-visible/

Victorian Popular Fiction Association Seminar Series
Senate House, London
April Seminar
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/

The London Victorian Studies Colloquium: A Residential Postgraduate Weekend
Royal Holloway Victorian Studies Centre, University of London
26-28 April 2013
http://onlinestore.rhul.ac.uk/browse/product.asp?catid=395&modid=1&compid=1

The Guild Seminar Series: Experiencing the World in the Nineteenth Century
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH)
http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/page/1122/programme-2012-13.htm

Queen Victoria’s Journals Editathon
Training Room, Radcliffe Science Library, Oxford University
Date: 24 May 2013
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_University_of_Oxford/QueenVictoriasJournals

Cultivating Community? A Case Study of Lord Armstrong and the Victorian North East
AHRC-funded Public Engagement Training Project, Durham and Newcastle Universities
Dates: May 20 – late July (exact date TBA)
http://peoplenadplace2013.blogspot.co.uk/p/reflections-on-public-engagement.html

Locating Women in Victorian Print Culture: A Workshop
University of Warwick, R1.15 Ramphal Building
Date: 13 June 2013
http://navsa.blogspot.com/2013/04/workshop-locating-women-in-victorian.html

No Wealth but Life: Why John Ruskin Matters Today (Symposium)
Hillside Club, Berkeley, CA
Date: 13 July 2013
http://events.pe.com/berkeley_ca/events/show/325520903-no-wealth-but-life-why-john-ruskin-matters-today

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Conferences

Neo-Victorian Villainy: Adaptation and Reinvention on Page, Stage and Screen
Department of Theatre, Film and Television, University of York, UK
Conference Date: 25 May 2013
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/49400

“In the Jungle of Cities”: Mobs, Murders, Crowds, Riots, and Crises in the Modern City
The University of Manchester
Conference Date: 30 May 2013
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/48832

“We Are Not Amused”: Victorian Comedy and Humour
Victorian Studies Association of Ontario’s ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
University of Victoria, BC
Conference date: 1-4 June 2013
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/48181

The Local and the Global
NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference
Venice, Italy
Conference Dates: 3-6 June 2013
http://glocalvictorians.wordpress.com/

Romanticism at the fin de siecle
Trinity College
Conference Dates: 14-15 June 2013
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/48706

“Shaw at Home”: A George Bernard Shaw Conference
The International Shaw Society, The Shaw Society, The National Trust
Ayot St. Lawrence, United Kingdom
Conference Dates: 17-22 June 2013
http://www.shawsociety.org/UK-Shaw-Conference-2013.htm#SCHEDULE

Workers and Consumers: The Photographic Industry 1860-1950
De Montfort University, Leicester
Conference Dates: 24-25 June 2013
http://www.dmu.ac.uk/research/research-faculties-and-institutes/art-design-humanities/phrc/news/2012/workers-and-consumers-the-photographic-industry-1860-1950-call-for-papers.aspx

Ninth Biennial Conference on Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Cardiff University
Conference Dates: 24-27 June 2013
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/music/newsandevents/events/conferences/13MNCB/index.html

in:flux 1845-1945: A Century in Motion
University of Birmingham, College of Arts and Law
CFP Deadline: 17 May 2013
Conference Date: 27 June 2013
http://pgculturalmodernity.wordpress.com

Charting the Crimean War: Contexts, Nationhood, Afterlives
National Army Museum, London
Conference Date: 28 June 2013
http://www.nam.ac.uk/research/calls-papers/charting-crimean-war-contexts-nationhood-afterlives

Victorian Orientalism(s)
Ragusa Ibla
CFP Deadline: 15 April 2013
Conference Date: 28-29 June 2013
https://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=201264

On Liberties: Victorian Liberals and their Legacies
Gladstone’s Library
University of Liverpool
Conference Dates: 3-5 July 2013
http://navsa.blogspot.com/2012/09/cfp-on-liberties-victorian-liberals-and.html

RLS 2013: Stevenson, Time and History
University of New South Wales
Conference date: 8-10 July 2013
http://www.rls2013.com/

Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies
Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference
Northumbria University, Newcastle
CFP Deadline: 30 April 2013
Conference Date: 8-11 July 2013
http://www.transatlanticstudies.com/25301/3701.html

Tradition and the New
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) Annual Conference
University of Salford, Manchester, UK
Conference Dates: 12-13 July 2013
http://rs4vp.org

The Victorian Tactile Imagination
Birkbeck, University of London
Conference Dates: 19-20 July 2013
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/english/our-research/research_cncs/our-events/cfp-the-victorian-tactile-imagination

Cultural Cross-currents between Russia and Britain in the Long Nineteenth
Century
Tomsk State University
Birmingham City University
Conference Dates: 19 July 2013 and 20-21 September 2013
http://culturalcrosscurrentsconference.wordpress.com

Neo-Victorian Cultures: The Victorians Today
Liverpool John Moores University
Conference Date: 24-26 July 2013
www.neovictoriancultures.org.uk

Navy and Nation, 1688 to the Present
National Maritime Museum, London
Conference Dates: 25-27 July 2013
http://www.navyhistory.org/2012/07/call-for-papers-navy-and-nation-1688-to-the-present/

In Search of “Man-Making Words”: Masculinities, Citizenship and the Nation: 1750 – 1945
Newcastle University
Conference Date: 26 July 2013
http://manmakingwords.wordpress.com/

Rethinking the Nineteenth Century
The University of Sheffield, School of English
Conference Date: 24 August 2013
http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/files/2010/05/Rethinking-the-Nineteenth-Century-CFP1.pdf

Nineteenth-Century Numbers
British Association for Victorian Studies Annual Conference 2013
Royal Holloway, University of London
Conference Dates: 29-31 August 2013
http://BAVS2013.wordpress.com

Lesser Victorians: Beyond the Canon in Victorian Fiction
Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
CFP Deadline: 31 May 2013
Conference Dates: 12-13 September 2013
http://www.essenglish.org/cfp/conf1303.html

Modern Walks: Human Locomotion during the Long Nineteenth Century, c.1800-1914
The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Conference Dates: 13-14 September 2013
http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=197917

Pre-Raphaelitism: Past, Present and Future
Oxford Brookes University
Conference Dates: 13-14 Sept 2013
http://www.english-languages.brookes.ac.uk/conferences/2013/pre-raphaelitism/

Social Fabrics: H.G. Wells and William Morris Conference
The H.G. Wells Society and the William Morris Society
The Coach House, Kelmscott House, London
CFP Deadline: 15 May 2013
Conference Date: 14 September 2013
http://www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/

Victorian Body Parts
St. Bartholomew’s Pathology Museum, Clerkenwell
CFP Deadline: 31 May 2013
Conference Date: 14 September 2013
http://victorianbodyparts.wordpress.com

Uneasy Neighbours?: Rural-Urban Relationships in the Nineteenth Century
University of Southampton, Centre for 19th-Century Research
Conference Date: 20 September 2013
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/scnr/news/events/2013/09/20_international_interdisciplinary_conference.page

Women and Political Theory in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century:
Vernon Lee and Radical Circles
Université de Paris Diderot
CFP Deadline: 31 May 2013
Conference Dates: 17-19 October 2013
http://thesibylblog.com/

Evidence: NAVSA 2013
Pasadena, CA
Conference Dates: 23-27 October 2013
http://dornsife.usc.edu/conferences/navsa/call-for-papers

“Finding the Hidden Adult in Victorian Children’s Literature”
Evidence: NAVSA 2013 (individual panel)
Pasadena, CA
Conference Dates: 23-27 October 2013
http://navsa.blogspot.com/2013/01/cfp-navsa-panel-finding-hidden-adult-in.html

Through the Looking Glass
Victorians Institute
Middle Tennessee State University
CFP Deadline: 1 May 2013
Conference Dates: 1-2 November 2013
http://www.vcu.edu/vij/Conferences.html

‘Representations of Modernity 1850-1960’: A Postgraduate Conference
Plymouth University
CFP Deadline: 1 July 2013
Conference Date: 2nd November 2013
http://rompuconference.wordpress.com

Victorian Modernities, VISAWUS
Portland, Oregon
Conference Dates: 14-16 November 2013
http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/48719

The 21st METU British Novelists Conference: The Bronte Sisters and Their Work
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
CFP Deadline: 23 August 2013
Conference Dates: 12-13 December 2013
http://www.britishnovelists.metu.edu.tr/

Sensationalism and the Genealogy of Modernity
Tel Aviv University
CFP Deadline: 31 July 2013
Conference Dates: 18-19 December 2013
http://arthist.net/archive/5991

Beyond the Victorian and Modernist Divide
Rouen University
CFP Deadline: 15 September 2013
Conference Dates: 27-28 March 2014
http://eriac.net/beyond-the-victorian-and-modernist-divide/

Cosmopolitan Wilde
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
CFP Deadline: 1 June 2013
Conference Dates: 10-13 June 2014
http://oscholars-oscholars.com/wilde-in-paris-2014/

Victorian Transport: AVSA 2014
CFP Deadline: 10-12 July 2014
Conference Dates: 30 November 2014
http://www.english.hku.hk/events/victoriantransport/

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Journals and Book Collections

Victorian Poetry Special Issue
Eds. Alison Chapman and Caley Ehnes
Submissions Due: 30 April 2013
http://web.uvic.ca/~vicpoet/2011/11/cfp-special-issue-of-victorian-poetry-on-periodical-poetry/

Upstage: A Journal of Turn-of-the-Century Theatre
Submissions due: 24 June 2013
http://www.oscholars.com/Upstage/call.htm/

“Victorians and Risk”
Victorian Review special issue for Fall 2014
Guest Ed. Daniel Martin
Submissions due: 1 September 2013
http://web.uvic.ca/victorianreview/

“‘Queens of the Marketplace’: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Rise of the Bestseller”
Special Issue of Women’s Writing
Guest Eds. Clare Clark and Clare Gill
Submissions due: 2 September 2013
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0999082.asp

Neo-Victorianism and Globalisation: Transnational Dissemination of Nineteenth-Century Cultural Texts
2014 Special Issue of Neo-Victorian Studies
Guest Eds.: Antonija Primorac and Monika Pietrzak-Franger
Submissions due: 15 October 2013
http://www.neovictorianstudies.com

The Nineteenth-Century Pacific Rim
Victorian Literature and Culture Special Issue
Ed. Tamara Wagner
Submissions due: 15 October 2013
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/english/journal/victorian

Surrealism and the Gothic
Gothic Studies (International Gothic Studies Association)
Submissions due: 1 December 2013
http://navsa.blogspot.com/2013/05/cfp-surrealism-and-gothic-1212013.html

‘Romancing the Long British Nineteenth Century’
Special Issue of the Journal of Popular Romance Studies
Guest Eds. Jayashree Kamble and Pamela Regis
Submissions due: 1 March 2014
http://jprstudies.org