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.
Registration Open: Victorian Popular Fiction Association 4th Annual Conference, 11–13 July 2012
Victorian Popular Fiction Association 4th Annual Conference
11–13 July 2012
Institute of English Studies, University of London, Senate House
Theme: Hard Cash: Money, property, economics and the marketplace in Victorian Popular Culture
For programme and to register: http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/ies-conferences/VictorianPF4
Keynote speakers: Regenia Gagnier: ‘The global circulation of British literature and culture: British fiction, economics and the marketplace’, and Deborah Wynne: ‘Hades! The Ladies! Male Drapers and Female Shoppers’
Guest Speakers: David Waller, author of The Perfect Man: The Muscular Life and Times of Eugen Sandow Victorian Strongman and Helen Rappaport author of Beautiful For Ever: Madame Rachel of Bond Street – Cosmetician, Con-Artist, and Blackmailer
The VPFA conference is now an established event on the annual conference timetable and offers a friendly and invigorating opportunity for established academics and post graduate students to share their current research. Our theme this year is Hard Cash: Money, property, economics and the marketplace in Victorian Popular Culture. This theme enables us to develop the interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century popular culture, and changing attitudes to money and economics across the period.
For further information about the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, see: http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/victorian/
Victorian Network: latest issue available
Publication Announcement: The Victorian Network
Latest issue now available
Production and Consumption in Victorian Culture and Literature
http://victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn
The Victorian Network Editorial Board would like to announce the publication of the new issue of The Victorian Network, a special number on the theme of Production and Consumption in Victorian Culture and Literature. A sparkling introduction by Guest Editor Dr. Ella Dzelzainis (University of Newcastle) ranges from Malthus to Marx, and papers from scholars world-wide similarly range across a wide spectrum of nineteenth-century writers, and approaches, focussing especially on the gendered dimension of our economic theme.
Please find the issue on the website here: http://victoriannetwork.org/index.php/vn
On the website you can also find previous issues of Victorian Network, “The British Empire and Victorian Literature and Culture”, “Victorian Literature and Science”, “Crossing the Line: Affinities Before and After 1900″ and “Theatricality and Performance in Victorian Literature and Culture”.
The next issue, themed “Sex, Courtship and Marriage in Victorian Litereature and Culture”, is forthcoming in Winter 2012.
Extended CFP: Victorian Network Journal
CfP: Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture
Victorian Network
30 September 2011
Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed (from 2012) online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.
The fifth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Newcastle University), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century investments in concepts of productivity and consumption. Accelerating industrialisation, the growth of consumer culture, economic debates about the perils of overconsumption as well as emerging cultural discourses about industriousness, work ethic and the uses of free time radically altered the ways in which Victorians thought about practices of production and consumption. Literary authors intervened directly in these economic and social debates while also negotiating analogous developments within a literary marketplace transformed by new forms of writing, distributing and consuming literature.
We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
• Literature of industrialisation
• Victorian (global) spaces of production, forms and practices of consumption
• Images of the industrial city, the factory, factory workers, and machines
• Consumption as spectacle, the rise of the department store and the advertising industries
• Changing concepts of literary production and new agents in the literary marketplace: publishers, editors, book sellers
• Celebrity authors, audiences, and self-marketing in the literary sphere
• Economic theory, finance, and nineteenth-century literature
• Leisure, spare time and other modes of ‘unproductiveness’
• Productivist and consumerist ideologies and the politics of social class
• Reassessing Marxist perspectives on Victorian literature and culture
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. The deadline for submissions to our next issue is 30 September, 2011. Contact:victoriannetwork@gmail.com
Call for Contributions: ‘Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture’
Call for Articles: Victorian Network Postgraduate Journal
5th issue: ‘Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture’
DEADLINE for article submissions: 15 August, 2011
The fifth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Newcastle University), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century investments in concepts of productivity and consumption. Accelerating industrialisation, the growth of consumer culture, economic debates about the perils of overconsumption as well as emerging cultural discourses about industriousness, work ethic and the uses of free time radically altered the ways in which Victorians thought about practices of production and consumption. Literary authors intervened directly in these economic and social debates while also negotiating analogous developments within a literary marketplace transformed by new forms of writing, distributing and consuming literature. We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the following:
• Productivist and consumerist ideologies and the politics of social class
• Victorian (global) spaces of production, forms and practices of consumption
• Changing concepts of literary production, authorship and the reading audience
• Biological and physiological models of productivity, attrition and idleness
• New agents in the literary marketplace: publishers, editors, book sellers
• Economic theory and nineteenth-century literature
• Reassessing Marxist perspectives on Victorian literature and culture
• Idleness, spare time and other modes of ‘unproductiveness’
• The effects of industrialisation: mechanization, work routine and ‘human motors’
All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the in-house submission guidelines. Please note the extended deadline for submissions to our next issue is 15 August, 2011. Contact: victoriannetwork@gmail.com
