BAVS Funding Grant – forthcoming deadline
BAVS Funding Grant – forthcoming deadline
The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) is committed to the support of its members’ activities such as conferences and events. The BAVS Funding Grant is designed to support Victorian Studies events organised by its members. A maximum of £400 is available per application; applications can be made individually or as a group.
The application form, including guidance notes, is available from: http://www.bavsuk.org/funding.htm. The next deadline for applications is 31 May 2013.
Any enquiries about BAVS Funding should be directed to the BAVS Funding Officer, Amelia Yeates (yeatesa@hope.ac.uk).
Update – UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes
Update – UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes
From April to June 2013, UCL will bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners, and popular writers to explore Sherlock Holmes’ critical heritage from all kinds of perspectives and across a number of events.
Starting on April 24, from 6-8PM, Dr Benjamin Poore (York) and Tom Ue (UCL; Birkbeck) will discuss BBC One’s TV drama Sherlock as part of George Potts (UCL) and Marc Farrant (Kingston)’s seminar series ‘Complex TV,’ which focuses on a range of TV programmes that have significantly shaped the medium in the twenty-first century. Poore and Ue will be looking at Moriarty as the series’ super villain, and technology both as a theme and an informing presence on its narrative structure. This meeting will take place at Foster Court 130: http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=386&d=77&w=False
The UCL Festival of the Arts (May 7-17) will launch an interactive display on Holmes’ textual history by Dr Jon Cranfield (Liverpool John Moores) and Ue. On May 11 and 12, three workshops, part of ‘Something Else for the Weekend,’ will provide festivalgoers with the opportunity to get up close and personal with UCL research. The meetings will take place at Roberts 110 on May 11 from 2PM-3PM and May 12 from 1PM-2PM and at Roberts 106 on May 11 from 3PM-4PM (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/silva/festival-of-the-arts/something-else-for-the-weekend/directions).
June 8 will see The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate IV, featuring leading experts on Holmes and reaching tens of millions of readers internationally. This meeting will take place at Cruciform B404-LT2: http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=386&d=64&w=False Time TBD.
The conversations that emerge from all these events will converge at the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference, jointly organised by Cranfield, Ue and Marlies Gabriele Prinzl (UCL), and it will be held at Senate House on June 21-22. Independent scholars and researchers from numerous institutions around the world, including Dr David Grylls (Oxford), Professor Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong), and Professor John Mullan (UCL), will share their insights on Holmes.
For more information, including details on registration, please refer to the official conference website. Updates for all events are also available via our Facebook page and/or Twitter (@SHolmesPastPres).
UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes is generously supported by Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road; Intellect Books; MX Publishing; UCL Arts and Humanities, including the Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies; UCL English; UCL European Institute; and the UCL Public Engagement Unit. We look forward to welcoming you at one or more of these events.
For more information, please contact: shpastpresent@gmail.com
Event: 1820-1840 Seminar Series, Durham University
The following British Academy-funded seminar series may be of interest to Victorianists:
‘Making a Darkness Visible: 1820-1840′, Durham University
Fri 24 May – Dr Gregory Dart (UCL): ‘Cockney Adventures and Early Dickens’
Responses from Prof Simon James (Durham University) and Dr Meiko O’Halloran (Newcastle University)
5.00pm, Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham
Mon 10 Jun – Prof John Plotz (Brandeis University): ‘From Tale to Sketch and Story: Short Fiction in Transition, 1820-40’
Response from Dr Penny Fielding (University of Edinburgh)
5.00pm, Williams Library, St Chad’s College, Durham
Please contact peter.garratt@durham.ac.uk or david.stewart@northumbria.ac.uk for further details of upcoming events in the series.
CFP: Women and Political Theory in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century: Vernon Lee and Radical Circles
CFP: Women and Political Theory in the 19th and First Half of the 20th Century: Vernon Lee and Radical Circles
“Vernon Lee” (Violet Paget, 1856-1935) is well-known for her remarkable erudition, her sharp analyses of arts, music, and literature, her travel accounts uncovering the mysterious presence of the genius loci, her studies on aesthetic contemplation hinging on the central notion of empathy, her fiction (novels and short stories), her theatre work, and even her involvement in the defence of the city centre of Florence.
But little is known about Vernon Lee as a campaigner against war, against imperialism, and as a free woman striving for an ideal society based on equal rights and universal brotherhood, whose voice grew louder and louder in her fight for peace in Europe and the world.
Indeed, as Phyllis F. Mannocchi declared in her Florence paper, 28 Sept. 2012 : “In the scholarship on Vernon Lee, not much attention has been paid to the fact that as she approached late middle age, Vernon Lee seemed to discover her voice as a political ‘radical,’ a supporter of women’s suffrage a participant in the anti-war movement, and an expert in international relations. Vernon Lee’s ‘radical’ politics were ‘natural’ to her. After all, she was a ‘born internationalist,’ who had lived in France, Germany, Switzerland, England, and Italy, and was multi-lingual. After expressing her opposition to the Boer War (1899 – 1902), Vernon Lee began to write more often on social, political, and international issues. WHY is it that so little is known of her writing on these issues during this later period of her life?” (Phyllis Mannochi, International Conference Violet del Palmerino: Vernon Lee’s Cosmopolitan Salon, 1889-1935, Florence, 27-28 Sept. 2012. Accessible: thesibylblog.com)
This conference will aim to further the knowledge on Vernon Lee’s and other women’s radical theories in the 19th and first half of the 20th century, in relation to contemporaneous British, Italian, French, Swiss, and German radical circles.
We invite contributions on: Alice Abadam, Annie Besant, Clementina Black, Irene Forbes-Mosse, Isabella and Emily Ford, Mathilde Hecht, Emily Hobhouse, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Clémence Royer
Favoured topics will include:
Vernon Lee and (Fabian) Socialism
Vernon Lee and Anti-Semitism
Vernon Lee and Fascism
Vernon Lee and Nazism
Vernon Lee and Bolshevism
Vernon Lee and India (Gandhi)
Vernon Lee and International Relations
Vernon Lee and women’s suffrage
Vernon Lee and women’s role in society
Vernon Lee and the relations between men and women Vernon Lee’s pacifism: the Boer War; WWI; the coming of WWII Vernon Lee and vivisection Vernon Lee and the UDC (Union of Democratic Control) Vernon Lee and the concert of nations (League of Nations) Vernon Lee and economics Vernon Lee and Europe Vernon Lee and the Dreyfus affaire Vernon Lee’s philanthropy
Please send your abstracts (title + about 450 words) before 31st May 2013 To Michel Prum prum.michel@wanadoo.fr Sophie Geoffroy geoffroysophie974@gmail.com
Comité scientifique/ Scientific Board: Françoise BARRET-DUCROCQ (Paris Diderot) Florence BINARD (Paris Diderot) Sophie GEOFFROY (Université de La Réunion) Guyonne LEDUC (Lille 3) Phyllis MANNOCCHI (Colby University) Michel PRUM (Paris Diderot) Shafquat TOWHEED (London Open University)
Event: Lewis Caroll’s Mathematics
Event: Lewis Caroll’s Mathematics
Conference jointly organised by The British Society for the History of Mathematics and The Lewis Carroll Society in association with The Birmingham and Midland Institute
Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute, Margaret Street, Birmingham, B3 3BS
Date: Saturday, 18th May 2013. Programme ends at 17:00.
Time: Talks begin at 10:30 (tea/coffee and registration from 10:00)
Full Programme available on the website: http://lewiscarrollmanofscience.com
Speakers include: Keith Hannabuss and Robin Wilson
The event follows the success of the Lewis Carroll, Man of Science meeting of 2011 and is organised jointly by the BSHM, the Lewis Carroll Society and the Birmingham and Midland institute.
Bookings are currently being taken for this event.
Attendance Fee £25 – includes coffee and buffet style lunch.
Special rate of £20 for BSHM, LCS and BMI members
Pre-payment would be appreciated, but bookings may be made by email.
Please make cheques payable to The Lewis Carroll Society and send them to: 50 Lauderdale Mansions, Lauderdale Road, London, W9 1NE.
For all enquiries and bookings please contact Mark Richards (markrichards@aznet.co.uk).
Click Here for a PDF document with some travel advice.
Click Here for a PDF flyer for the event which you may use to inform your colleagues of this event.
For details of the BSHM vis: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/bshm/
For details of the Lewis Carroll Society visit: http://lewiscarrollsociety.org.uk
For details of the Birmingham and Midland Institute visit: http://bmi.org.uk/
Deadline Extended – Call for papers: “Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Deadline Extended – Call for papers: “Contact and Connections”: Travel and Mobility Studies Symposium
Thursday 27th June 2013, University of Warwick
Keynote speakers:
Dr Cathy Waters (University of Kent)
Professor Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University)
Submissions are invited for the first annual symposium of the University of Warwick Travel and Mobility Studies Research Network, on the theme of “Contact and Connection”.
The symposium aims to address the various connections and forms of contact produced through different forms and representations of travel practice. How does travel connect cultures? What new cultural formations are produced through the process of travel? What are the implications of connection across local, national and global mobile networks? How does travel connect people to the spaces around them and through which they move? What new theoretical connections are produced through the intersections of travel and mobility theory with other disciplines?
Proposals are welcome from researchers working across the arts, humanities and social sciences, including such subjects as travel literature (fiction and non-fiction), the visual arts, tourism studies, migration and migrants, commodity circulation, transnationality, philosophies of travel, and mobility theory in any historical period and within any global context.
Topics might include:
Cultural connections forged through travel
Contact zones in colonial contexts
Intra-national and local networks of mobility
Global networks and transnationality
Connections within and between literature, visual arts, and other cultural modes
Circulation of people, commodities, texts
Connections between people and places
Theoretical connections within travel studies
Touristic connections with spaces of travel
Meeting points and places of contact
*Deadline extended*: Please send abstracts of 300 words for a 15-20 minute paper or expressions of interest by 1st May 2013.
Email: Dr Charlotte Mathieson c.e.mathieson@warwick.ac.uk or Dr Tara Puri T.Puri@warwick.ac.uk
For more information on the Network visit http://go.warwick.ac.uk/travelstudies
CFP: Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities
CFP: Legacy: Mythology and Authenticity in the Humanities
This conference focuses on the influence of cultural ‘legacies’ within current humanities research. By highlighting the work of postgraduates and early career researchers, this interdisciplinary conference will examine the various ways in which ‘legacies’ are created, restructured, perpetuated and even rejected. It will also question whether newer disciplines respond to cultural mythologies by establishing their own ‘legacy’ as a means of achieving academic authentication.
The recent confirmed identity of Richard the III, Faber’s choice of cover illustration for its anniversary issue of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, and the recent film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit are just a few of the numerous examples that demonstrate how cultural legacies evolve within academic research and the public forum.
These inherited cultural legacies are continually being redefined, rebranded and reevaluated, creating a cyclical pattern that challenges the ways in which we approach and define them. This brings into question the social and political significance of ‘legacy’ and its relevance within the humanities, both as a research theme and as a lens by which to view the progression of our respective disciplines.
The conference will conclude with a roundtable discussion with Professor Dominic Shellard the Vice-Chancellor of De Montfort University, Dr Will Buckingham of the School of Humanities at De Montfort University, and Mr Sam Causer of the Leicester School of Architecture.
We invite 20 –minute papers from early career academics, post-doctoral researchers and doctoral students which might address, though not limited to, the following areas:
- Folkloric ‘legends’ and the academic ‘legacy’
- The creation of oral and written legends
- National identity and institutional ‘legacies’
- The development of individual, theoretical, and collective ‘legacies’
- ‘Legacy’ and institutional validation
- Obedience and Iconoclasm towards ‘legacy’ in contemporary humanities studies
- ‘Legacy’ and the curated archive
Please email abstracts, of not more than 200 words, along with a short biographical statement to Anna Blackwell and Elizabeth Penner by 29 April 2013.
Email: dmulegacyconference@gmail.com
Official Website: http://dmulegacyconference.wordpress.com
Conference Date: 28 June 2013
Conference Fee: £15 including lunch and refreshments
Centre for Adaptations Centre
Centre for Textual Studies
De Montfort University
The Gateway
Leicester, UK, LE1 9BH
Events – UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes
Events – UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes
From April to June 2013, UCL will bring together academics, enthusiasts, creative practitioners, and popular writers to explore Sherlock Holmes’ critical heritage from all kinds of perspectives and across a number of events.
Starting on April 24, from 6-8PM, Dr Benjamin Poore (York) and Tom Ue (UCL; Birkbeck) will discuss BBC One’s TV drama Sherlock as part of George Potts (UCL) and Marc Farrant (Kingston)’s seminar series ‘Complex TV,’ which focuses on a range of TV programmes that have significantly shaped the medium in the twenty-first century. Poore and Ue will be looking at Moriarty as the series’ super villain, and technology both as a theme and an informing presence on its narrative structure.
This meeting will take place at Foster Court 130: http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=386&d=77&w=False
The UCL Festival of the Arts (May 7-17) will launch an interactive display on Holmes’ textual history by Dr Jon Cranfield (Liverpool John Moores) and Ue. On May 11 and 12, two workshops, part of ‘Something Else of the Weekend,’ will provide festivalgoers with the opportunity to get up close and personal with UCL research. Times and locations TBD.
June 8 will see The Great Sherlock Holmes Debate IV, featuring leading experts on Holmes and reaching tens of millions of readers internationally.
This meeting will take place at Cruciform B404-LT2: http://crf.casa.ucl.ac.uk/screenRoute.aspx?s=386&d=64&w=False Time TBD.
The conversations that emerge from all these events will converge at the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference, jointly organised by Cranfield, Ue and Marlies Gabriele Prinzl (UCL), and it will be held at Senate House on June 21-22. Independent scholars and researchers from numerous institutions around the world, including Dr David Grylls (Oxford), Professor Douglas Kerr (Hong Kong), and Professor John Mullan (UCL), will share their insights on Holmes. For more information, including details on registration, please refer to the official conference website:
http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/ies-events/conferences/SherlockHolmes
Updates for all events are also available via the Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/SherlockHolmesPastAndPresent and/or Twitter (@SHolmesPastPres).
UCL Explores: The Critical Heritage of Sherlock Holmes is generously supported by Blackwell’s Charing Cross Road; Intellect Books; MX Publishing; UCL Arts and Humanities, including the Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies; UCL English; UCL European Institute; and the UCL Public Engagement Unit.
We look forward to welcoming you at one or more of these events.
For more information, please contact: shpastpresent@gmail.com
CfP: ’1845-1945: A Century in Motion’, Birmingham
Interdisciplinary postgraduate conference – call for papers
1845-1945: A Century in Motion
University of Birmingham, 27th June 2013
Keynote speaker – Dr Matthew Rubery, Queen Mary University of London
How did the rapid period of industrialisation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries help to shape societies and lifestyles in the West? What types of social changes, movements and developments characterise this time period? This interdisciplinary postgraduate conference, in affiliation with the Centre for the Study of Cultural Modernity and hosted by the College of Arts and Law, seeks to explore the various ways in which this century was one of ‘motion’, in every sense of the word. The conference title seeks to encapsulate both the uncertainty and upheaval of this period as well as the physical and cultural movements that occurred at this time. We invite papers addressing these themes from postgraduate researchers and early-career academics working on this period from a variety of backgrounds.
Topics could include, but are not limited to:
Cultural or social movements
- political movements
- the Women’s Movement
- arts movements (musical, artistic, literary)
- religious and philosophical
- popular cultural trends (food, fashion, advertising)
Physical movements
- mass movement of people (mobilisation of soldiers, migration from towns to cities)
- transatlantic and inter-continental travel (including emigration and immigration)
- leisure and tourism
- transport
- changing landscapes
Development and progress
- media (cinema, audio technology and radio, print media)
- scientific and medical advances
- technology
- economic growth and/or recession
- development of nationhood
These headings are suggestions only; we welcome proposals exploring crossovers between these topics, or addressing them from interdisciplinary perspectives. Abstracts of 250-300 words for 20 minute papers along with a short biographical note of no more than 50 words should be sent to pgculturalmodernity@contacts.bham.ac.uk by the 17th May 2013. We welcome any questions that you may have; please do not hesitate to contact us at the above address.
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