Reminder: BAVS 2012 Registration Deadline
BAVS 2012
‘Victorian Values: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics’
University of Sheffield, Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September
Registration Open: BAVS 2012, University of Sheffield, Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September
British Association for Victorian Studies Conference 2012
Victorian Value: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics
Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September
I suppose the persons interested in establishing a school of Art for workmen may in the main be divided into two classes, namely, first, those who chiefly desire to make the men happier, wiser and better; and secondly, those who desire them to produce better and more valuable work (John Ruskin)
The 2012 conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies will be held in Sheffield, the thriving heart of the Victorian Steel Industry. In 1875, on the outskirts of the city, John Ruskin established the Museum of St George, a collection of art objects and natural artefacts displayed for the aesthetic education of the city’s workers. Inspired by Ruskin, the theme of this year’s conference aims to explore the relationships between different kinds of value in the Victorian period, to return to the period’s central debates about how to measure, establish and uphold value in the emergent modernity of Victorian Britain, and to think about the representation and legacy of those values both in and beyond the field of Victorian Studies.
Key-Note Speakers
Professor Dinah Birch (University of Liverpool)
Dr Simon James (Durham University)
Professor Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds)
Dr Wendy Parkins (University of Otago, New Zealand)
Includes: a Postgraduate Forum on Publishing Articles
Location
The conference venue and accommodation are all located at The Edge, a purpose-built facility just outside Sheffield city centre. Please see here for a map of The Edge and here for general travel information.
Alternative accommodation suggestions are listed in a document on the right hand side of this page.
Fees and Registration and Online Booking Form
The cost of the conference is as follows:
All-inclusive (conference, accommodation and meals): £272
Post-graduate and unwaged all-inclusive: £200
Standard (no accommodation): £185
Postgraduate standard: £150
Day rate: £75
You can now book online here.
Please note that the fee no longer includes BAVS membership. To become a member of BAVS, or to renew your membership, please follow this link.
Registration will be via the online shop, which can be accessed by following the link on the right hand side of the page. Registration will be open until 31st July.
Contacts
If you have any questions about the conference, please send the conference organisers an email bavs2012@gmail.com.
Reminder: BAVS CFP Deadline, March 31st
REMINDER: BAVS 2012
University of Sheffield
Thursday 30th August – Saturday 1st September
Victorian Values: Ethics, Economics, Aesthetics
CFP Deadline: 31st March 2012
I suppose the persons interested in establishing a school of Art for workmen may in the main be divided into two classes, namely, first, those who chiefly desire to make the men happier, wiser and better; and secondly, those who desire them to produce better and more valuable work
(John Ruskin)
The 2012 conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies will be held in Sheffield, the thriving heart of the Victorian Steel Industry. In 1875, on the outskirts of the city, John Ruskin established the Museum of St George, a collection of art objects and natural artefacts displayed for the aesthetic education of the city’s workers. Inspired by Ruskin, the theme of this year’s conference aims to explore the relationships between different kinds of value in the Victorian period, to return to the period’s central debates about how to measure, establish and uphold value in the emergent modernity of Victorian Britain, and to think about the representation and legacy of those values both in and beyond the field of Victorian Studies.
Keynote Speakers: Dinah Birch (Liverpool), Simon James (Durham), Francis O’Gorman (Leeds), and Wendy Parkins (University of Orago, NZ).
PAPERS MAY ADDRESS, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO, THE FOLLOWING TOPICS:
• The representation and circulation of different kinds of currency
• Aesthetes in the marketplace
• Critical/cultural evaluation, from Ruskin and Arnold to Leavis and beyond
• The ethical turn in Victorian Studies
• Political economy and the art of government
• The transmission of value at home and abroad
• Value rewritten, from Woolf to Waters
• Domestic economy and the aesthetics of the home
• Ethical dilemmas, aesthetic solutions
• Value on display: collection and exhibition
• New economies, from Cobden to Carpenter
• Commodity culture and the value of ‘things’
• Sincere characters: the ethics of self and text
• Work ethics: Madox-Brown, Marx and Morris
Please send the title of your paper and an abstract of around 250 words to bavs2012@gmail.com by 31st March 2012.
