Call for Papers: Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages, Deaths
Call for Papers: Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages, Deaths
Conference to be held at the Aristotle university of Thessaloniki, Greece OCTOBER 19-20, 2012 Organized by The School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
and The Department of English Language and Literature, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Co-organizers
Valerie Kennedy (Bilkent)
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou (Thessaloniki)
In Dickens’s bicentenary year we wish to invite proposals for papers on crucial thresholds, moments of transition, and life cycles as these are represented, questioned or complicated in Dickens’s writings. We invite contributions that explore these topics, including but not limited to papers which focus on the
following:
Births (birth rituals; births of boys vs. birth of girls; legitimacy and illegitimacy; birth and class identity vs. innate identity);
Marriages (marriage and money; marriage and love; sadistic and masochistic marriages; marriage and theatrical performance);
Deaths (death by murder; death by drowning or ‘accident’); funerals and theatrical performance; death and gender and social class).
Plenary speakers
Michael Hollington
Catherine Waters
Please send abstracts of 250 words to both Valerie Kennedy
kennedy@bilkent.edu.tr and Katerina Kitsi katkit@enl.auth.gr by May 15th,
2012.
Conference website: http://www.enl.auth.gr/dickens/index.html
CALL FOR PAPERS The Other Dickens: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Contexts
CALL FOR PAPERS The Other Dickens: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Contexts
Please find below the CFP for The Other Dickens at the University of Portsmouth UK next July. Where better to be in 2012 than in the city where it all began? Please note that the deadline has been extended to 15 January 2012.
International Conference: 6-8 July 2012
Centre for Studies in Literature, University of PortsmouthKeynote Speakers: Professor Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University), Professor Ann Heilmann (University of Hull), Professor Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary, University of London), Professor Lillian Nayder (Bates College) and Professor Gail Turley-Houston (University of New Mexico)
‘The Other Dickens: Victorian and Neo-Victorian Contexts’ is an interdisciplinary conference which will form part of Portsmouth’s bicentenary celebrations of Dickens’s birth in the city on 7 February 1812. We invite scholars working in the fields of literature, film, history, cultural and media studies to consider the other Dickens – those aspects of Dickens (both of his life and work) that remain relatively unexplored, or require re-evaluation. Our objective is to foster interaction between Victorian and contemporary scholars in order to re-examine Dickens in his Victorian context; to assess his continuing importance in contemporary culture, in film and television adaptations, on the internet, and as a character in neo-Victorian fiction; and to explore the rising interest in Dickens’s family members and associated figures (e.g. Ellen Ternan, Catherine Dickens, née Hogarth) in biography and biofiction. Conference participants will be invited to challenge popular perceptions of Victorian Dickens and to explore his cultural impact on new genres and technologies. Papers will be selected with these criteria in mind and possible topics may include:
Dickens and journalism
Dickens and performance
Dickens and the internet
Dickens and adaptation
Dickens and biography
Dickens and biofiction
Neo-Victorian Dickens
Dickens as a character in fiction, film and TV
Postcolonial Dickens
Dickens’s family in fiction and biography
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biographical note listing your affiliation, to: theotherdickens@port.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2012
Dr Christopher Pittard
Senior Lecturer in English Literature
School of Historical, Social and Literary Studies
University of Portsmouth
Milldam LB 2.04
Burnaby Road
Portsmouth
PO1 3AS
A reminder of the end-of-the-year deadline for the CALL FOR PAPERS: CHARLES DICKENS AND THE MID-VICTORIAN PRESS (1850-1870)
A reminder of the end-of-the-year deadline for the CALL FOR PAPERS: CHARLES DICKENS AND THE MID-VICTORIAN PRESS (1850-1870)
28-31st March 2012, University of Buckingham UK
A full set of conference pages can be viewed at http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/djo, where online bookings & reservations can now be made.
DETAIL
‘Household Words’ and ‘All the Year Round’ are key mid-century weekly journals, showcasing the work of over 350 contributors as well as that of their illustrious founder and ‘Conductor.’ Critical analysis of their contents is an increasingly diverse and dynamic field, soon to be assisted by an open-access scholarly online edition (see http://www.djo.org.uk ) based at the University of Buckingham. To celebrate the Bicentenary of Dickens’s birth, and the public launch of the website, you are warmly invited to an international conference that aims to position ‘Household Words’ and ‘All the Year Round’ within the broader context of nineteenth-century periodical culture, through invited papers and contributions from experts in these and a range of rival publications, and website workshops.
Submissions are invited, in three main areas relating to the conference theme:
a) original close readings of one or more articles from Household Words and All the Year Round, or the work of an individual contributor. Many articles in the journals―whether by Dickens, a known contributor, or anonymous―repay close scrutiny, whether approached in stylistic, rhetorical, ideological, or historical terms. Yet the published literature in the field is small, and something that the conference seeks to redress.
b) appraisals of the contribution made by either or both journals, more generally, to key areas of debate in the mid-Victorian press. Public health, social policy, science and technology, education, gender roles, the urban experience, imperial expansion, emigration and the law, are just some of these. Aesthetic and cultural analysis of the journals, as miscellanies, in terms of the dynamics of genre they present, or in terms of broad thematic or bibliographic concerns that the paper sets out to explore, will also be welcome.
c) contrastive readings of other contemporary periodical publications―whether weekly, monthly or quarterly―in relation to Household Words and All the Year Round, that will assist us in positioning the latter in relation to the crowded mid-century marketplace. Such publications might include Chambers’s Journal, The Examiner, Punch, Bentley’s Miscellany, the Illustrated London News, The Cornhill Magazine, as well as political and literary reviews, and ‘penny bloods.’
The list of invited speakers currently includes:
Laurel Brake, Holly Furneaux, Louis James, Patrick Leary, Hazel Mackenzie, Robert L. Patten, Paul Schlicke, Joanne Shattock, Michael Slater, John Sutherland, John Tulloch, Cathy Waters, Tony Williams, and Ben Winyard.
Submissions from graduate students and as yet unpublished scholars will be particularly welcome. 500-word proposals for 20-minute papers to reach DJO@buckingham.ac.uk by Friday 30 December 2011.
An edited selection of the Conference Proceedings, embracing the three main areas above, will be published by the University of Buckingham Press in 2012. A complimentary copy will be included with every conference booking. For further details, see http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/djo
Informal enquiries, suggestions, to
John ML Drew
John.drew@buckingham.ac.uk
Leverhulme Research Project Director, http://www.djo.org.uk
Joint Meeting of MIVSS (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar) and MRS (Midlands Romantic Seminar)
Joint Meeting of MIVSS (Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar) and MRS (Midlands Romantic Seminar)
“Borders in the Long 19th Century”
Friday 13 January 2012, 11.30am–5pm (Martin Hall, Loughborough University)
There will be a joint meeting of the Midlands Romantic Society and the Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar, in January at the University of Loughborough, on the subject of Borders in the Long Nineteenth Century . The event is particularly keen to attract postgraduates and as you will see (below) there are some travel bursaries available.
11. 30 am – Welcome (All sessions will take place in NN.0.07, Martin Hall)
11.45 Session 1: Spatial and Social Borders (Chair – Kate Hill)
Keynote 1: ‘Public Good vs. Public Pleasure: social boundaries and public parks in Victorian England’, Katy Layton-Jones (Leicester)
‘Quiet: towards a phenomenology of the urban in Dickens’, Julian Wolfreys (Loughborough)
12.45 Lunch (in venues around campus)
1. 30 Session 2: Romantic and Victorian Borders 1 (Chair – Rebecca Styler)
Keynote 2: ‘Teaching and Researching Across the Romantic / Victorian Border’, Julian North (Leicester)
‘Romantic and Victorian Collecting: Continuity and Change’, Kate Hill (Lincoln)
2. 40 Tea break (Martin Hall foyer)
3pm Session 3 – Romantic and Victorian Borders 2 (Chair – Anne-Marie Beller)
‘Ann Radcliffe’s The Romance of the Forest, the Past and the Sublime’, Jon Dent (Loughborough)
‘From Ivanhoe to Rebecca and Rowena: Walter Scott’s Shaping of Victorian Writing’, Celine Sabiron (Oxford)
4.15 Session 4: General Discussion – Borders, Boundaries and Thresholds (Chair: Carol Bolton)
5.00 Refreshments – wine / orange juice
Details of the venue and directions can be found here: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/about/findus.html
This event is free, but please register by e-mailing Anne-Marie Beller (a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk) or Carol Bolton (c.j.bolton@lboro.ac.uk). There are 5 travel bursaries available for postgraduate students, provided through funding by BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies). If you would like to apply for one of these, please contact Kate Hill (khill@lincoln.ac.uk) stating your name, affiliation and approximate travel costs.
Job Vacancy at the Florence Nightingale Museum: Collections Assistant
Job Vacancy at the Florence Nightingale Museum: Collections Assistant
20,000 pro rata, 3 days per week
Closing date: 10th February 2012 Interview date: 20th February 2012 at the Florence Nightingale Museum
Background:
The Florence Nightingale Museum celebrates the life and work of the best known figure in nursing history. Located within St Thomas’ Hospital, the museum was opened in 1989 and now forms a key part of London’s medical heritage. The collection consists of personal material associated with Florence Nightingale, items relating to the Crimean War and nursing artefacts. The museum archives include approximately 800 letters from Florence Nightingale and an important rare book collection of 284 titles. The museum is located in the grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital, at the heart of the cultural re-generation taking place on the South Bank, and has 40,000 visitors a year.
The Collections Assistant must be a highly organised individual with past experience in working with collections, good documentation skills and an eye for detail. This post will involve basic curatorial duties as well as working with a wide range of people, including academic researchers and family historians
For application forms and further details please email natasham@florence-nightingale.co.uk <mailto:natasham@florence-nightingale.co.uk>
Please telephone or email to request a hard copy application.
The closing date for applications is 9am on 10th February 2012.
To apply:
Complete an application form and email or post to:
Natasha McEnroe (Director)
Email: natasham@florence-nightingale.co.uk <mailto:natasham@florence-nightingale.co.uk>
Postal address:
Florence Nightingale Museum
Gassiot House
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London
SE1 7EW
Natasha McEnroe
Director
The Florence Nightingale Museum
Gassiot House
2 Lambeth Palace Road
London
SE1 7EW
T:0207 620 0374
F:02079281760
http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk <http://www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/>
Museum of London Dickens Exhibition Opens
Dickens and London: Museum of London
Opening times: Monday to Sunday: 10am-6pm (galleries will begin to close at 5.40pm)
Closed: 24 to 26 December
Open until: 10 June 2012
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens in the first major UK exhibition for over 40 years. Paintings, photographs, costume and objects are on display, chosen to highlight specific aspects of Dickens’s work. Highlights of the exhibition include: rarely seen manuscripts of Bleak House and David Copperfield, an audio-visual experience bringing to life the famous painting of Dickens’ Dream at the desk and chair where he wrote his novels, and a specially commissioned film by one of the UK’s leading documentary filmmakers, William Raban, which explores the similarities between London after dark today and the night time city described by Dickens over 150 years ago.
For further details and tickets, see: http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/London-Wall/Whats-on/Exhibitions-Displays/Dickens-London/Default.htm
Where an entry fee applies to an event or exhibition, the Museum’s concessionary rate applies to under 16s, students, the unemployed and senior citizens. Proof of concession must be shown at the event.
Urgent: Correction to Job Vacancy post at Exeter
Urgent: Correction to Job Vacancy post at Exeter
The post that concerned the Job Vacancy at Exeter University contained some incorrect information and a problematic link. Sincere apologies for any inconvenience or confusion this has caused. Here is the correct information:
The College wishes to recruit a full time Teaching Fellow to support the delivery of 19th/20th century literature and critical theory teaching in the Department of English at its Cornwall Campus. This post is available on a fixed term basis from 1st January 2012 until 30th June 2012 and will be based at the Cornwall Campus, near Falmouth.
Job title: Teaching Fellow
Job reference: R10906
Date posted: 06/12/2011
Application closing date: 14/12/2011
Location: Cornwall
Salary: 31,798 per annum
Package: Generous holiday allowances, flexible working, pension scheme, car lease scheme and relocation package (if applicable)
Job category/type: Academic
College of Humanities, Department of English
The post will include: twelve to fourteen hours of seminar teaching per week (and related marking), convening (leading) module delivery, a number of lectures, personal tutoring, supervision of undergraduate dissertations, and the provision of research and writing support to undergraduate students.
The successful applicant will have completed a PhD and will have a substantial record of scholarship. S/he will be required to demonstrate a capacity for high-quality teaching at university level in the primary area of 19th century English literature, as well as experience in teaching related fields such as critical theory or literature from 1800 to the contemporary. An interest in scholarship relating to gender in the Victorian period would be an advantage, as this is a maternity cover post which includes the opportunity to teach an existing specialist option in this field.
The successful applicant will possess sufficient breadth or depth of specialist knowledge in the discipline to develop teaching programmes and the provision of learning support and use a range of delivery techniques to enthuse and engage students. They will participate in and develop external networks, for example to contribute to student recruitment, secure student placements, facilitate outreach work, generate income, or build relationships for future activities.
For further information please contact Professor Marion Gibson, e-mail marion.h.gibson@ex.ac.uk.
Interviews are expected to take place in December 2011 or early January 2012.
The University of Exeter is an equal opportunity employer which is ‘Positive About Disabled People’: if you have a disability, you should mention this in your application. Whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from groups currently underrepresented in the workforce. HOW TO APPLY FOR THIS POSITION:
Please send your completed application, CV and equal opportunities form to humanities-deans-office@exeter.ac.uk quoting the reference number R10906 / P42872 in any correspondence.
To download the application and equal opportunities form please follow the below links;
http://www.admin.ex.ac.uk/personnel/jobs/app_form.rtf
Urgent: Teaching Fellowship Vacancy at Exeter University
Urgent: Teaching Fellowship Vacancy at Exeter University.
The College wishes to recruit a Teaching Fellow to support the delivery of Creative Writing and other modules within the English programme. This post is available from 1st January 2012 to 31st December 2012.
For Job description and Person specification please see the vacancy website at:
Please note that the closing date for applications is 14th December 2011.
The British Library has announced public access to their collection of digital facsimiles of 19th-century newspapers.
The British Library has announced public access to their collection of digital facsimiles of 19th-century newspapers.
Here’s the press release: http://bit.ly/vt3Vra
And here’s the archive: http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/
This is fabulous news for any researcher who is not able to use a library that subscribes, via Gale Cengage, to the British Library 19th-century British Newspapers database — and in the United States, at least, that includes most people. With this new website, the searches are free, and then you pay for a period of time, from 48 hours to a month, during which you can explore the full search results.
A detailed comparison of the title lists has not been conducted, so it isn’t clear to how, if at all, the content differs from the subscription version; the BL press release speaks of an ongoing digitization without specifying what’s in the works. Of course, with both archives (the subscription and this pay-as-you-go version), researchers need to bear in mind that not included in these searches are some very important Victorian newspapers whose descendants are still publishing: The Times, especially, but also such titles as the Manchester Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the Edinburgh Gazette, and the Inverness Courier.
Such caveats aside, this is a wonderfully helpful collection that includes not only major London papers but also many provincial titles, and the British Library’s efforts to make all of them more accessible to everyone are vastly welcome. Victorianists everywhere should be very pleased.
One feature of this new is a mode that allows users to see the underlying, uncorrected text and then submit corrections. Some researchers have been pressing the big vendors for the inclusion of this feature for years and years, and it is wonderful to see that the British Library has gone in this direction. Over time, this interactivity will improve the usefulness of the archive for everyone.
_______________
Sent by Patrick Leary pleary@victorianresearch.org
‘Apocalypse’: John Martin (1784-1854) Exhibition at Tate Britain, London
‘Apocalypse’: John Martin (1784-1854)
Exhibition at Tate Britain, London
Until January 15th, 2012
Open: Saturday – Thursday, 10.00–18.00 Last admission 17.15/ Fridays, 10.00–22.00 (10.00–18.00 on Friday 23 December) Last admission 21.15
Curator’s Talk: Friday 9th December, 13.00-14.00, £5
This beautifully-presented exhibition places John Martin’s famous paintings of natural disasters and the Day of Judgement in the context of his early and later work. It also shows how Martin’s huge Biblical and apocalyptic canvasses influenced the work of twentieth and twenty-first century film-makers. Don’t miss the dramatic sound and light show in the penultimate gallery, as the Tate tries to capture something of the experience of a Victorian visitor to a panorama show.
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/exhibitions/johnmartin/default.shtm
