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Neo-Victorian Cultures: The Victorians Today
24-26 July 2013
Liverpool John Moores University
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Helen Davies (Teesside University)
Prof. Margaret Stetz (University of Delaware)
A. N. Wilson (Author of The Victorians and The
Potter's Hand)
While aesthetic, political and artistic returns to the
Victorians have been prevalent throughout the twentieth century, the last
decade has seen a particular surge in scholarly work addressing the seemingly
ever continuing desire to reassess and adapt Victorian texts, theories, ideas
and customs. This work has focused in particular on manifestations of the
neo-Victorian on page and on screen, and this conference seeks to build on but
also expand these debates by bringing together writers, practitioners and
researchers working on the lasting presence of the Victorians since 1901 in a
wide variety of realms, ranging from art and architecture to science, politics,
economics, fiction and film. In doing so, the event aims to further expand the
vibrant field neo-Victorian studies both within and beyond the arts and
humanities through an examination of the Victorians¹ continuing influence on
twentieth and twenty-first century culture. We therefore welcome and encourage
abstracts from postgraduate students, academics and independent researchers
from all academic realms in the hope of capturing the diverse work being done
on Victorian afterlives across a wide spectrum of disciplines and across
traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, the
following:
- the ethics, politics and aesthetics of adaptation
- neo-Victorian politics, economies and economics
- neo-Victorianism on page, screen and canvas
- neo-Victorian subcultures
- the Victorians in contemporary architecture, art and design
- neo-Victorian journalism/ the Victorian press and contemporary journalism
- the Victorians in contemporary science and medicine
- the neo-Victorian canon
- teaching neo-Victorianism
- the neo-Victorian marketplace; marketing the (neo-)Victorians
- Steampunk
Presentations should take the form of 20-minute papers. We
also welcome proposals for fully-formed panels or roundtables. For individual
papers, please submit a 300-word abstract as well as a short biographical note.
For panel and roundtable proposals, please provide a brief outline of the
session¹s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker
and for the proposed panel chair or discussant. All proposals should be emailed
to the organisers at organisers@neovictoriancultures.org.uk no
later than 1 March 2013. Please
do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions about the event. You can
also follow us on Twitter (@Neo_Vic_Cult) and on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NeoVictorianCultures).
