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The conference is a supernumerary conference for NAVSA,
BAVS, and AVSA. The dates will be June 3-6, 2013 and the deadline for proposals
is October 4, just a few days after the NAVSA '12 Wisconsin conference.
NAVSA's regular conference will occur in 2013 at the Huntington, the
Getty, and Pasadena from October 23-27. You can find more information
about the Venice conference at the following web site: http://glocalvictorians.wordpress.com/
The deadline, once
again, is October 4.
The Venice
Professionalization Workshop
This workshop is intended for graduate students and recently
minted PhDs and will address such issues as grant-writing; postdoctoral
fellowships; the writing of proposals; job letters and the market; the
interview process and job talks; teaching portfolios; how to turn a seminar
paper into a published article; the digital humanities, pros and cons; the
differences among Canadian, American, British, and also Australian markets; and
negotiating contracts. The workshop will occur on San Servolo every
morning, May 27-31, June 3, and June 7. A number of scholars have
expressed their willingness to participate, provided they can arrange their
schedule and funding, including Andrew Miller, Carolyn Williams, Alison
Byerley, Barbara Leckie, Pamela Gilbert, and Kate Flint. There will not
be a firm list of visitors until the new year.
The workshop will cost US$800. That will include the
program fee, rental of the classroom, and lodging for the period May 25 to June
2, plus an additional night on June 7, so 10 extra nights in Venice. This
means that participants would have 10 extra nights in Venice for less than they
could arrange any other way, thanks to the help of Venice Int'l U, so the
workshop is a bonus of sorts (two and a half hours every morning, leaving the
afternoons to visit Venice each day). The only cheaper lodging option is
the Venice hostel but it only allows you to stay for a maximum of 3 nights.
The next cheapest is Domus Ciliota at €70/night (the price, however, goes
up in June). It's already sold out for those dates (if it were available, it
would be over $1000 for 10 nights, with the June rate increase). The housing
will be in in dorm rooms on San Servolo from May 25 to June 7, not
counting the nights of the conference itself; the conference runs from June
3-6. You can find information about the island here:
http://www.sanservolo.provincia.venezia.it
In most cases, there will be three students together in one room, with a bathroom in the unit. San Servolo is just a 10-minute vaporetto ride away from Piazza San Marco, the tourist heart of Venice.
Note that the conference will run the first-come-first-served
seminar format NAVSA ran successfully at Vanderbilt last year and will be
running again in Wisconsin:
This means that, even if an individual does not get accepted
in response to the general call, s/he will have the ability to join the
conference and have his/her paper listed in the conference program.
Hopefully, that will be enough to secure funding from home institutions.
