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Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference
'Victorian Transport'
Hong Kong 10-12 July
2014
Keynote speakers:
Stephen Davies (Hong Kong Maritime Museum)
Josephine McDonagh (King’s College, London)
Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney)
The Victorian Age is one of mobility and of
transportation: goods, people and money were transported within Great Britain,
across Europe, and to the far reaches of Empire. Ideas – whether economic,
political, educational, religious or philosophical – were imported and
exported. And far from being unemotional, the Victorians were also regularly
'transported' by emotions which doctors, scientists and psychologists tried to
theorise.
This conference seeks to redefine the parameters
of transport through inter-disciplinary approaches to material, metaphorical
and metaphysical journeys during the Victorian era. Papers on global crossings
are particularly welcome.
Topics might include but are not limited to:
- Transporting people, transporting goods
- Modes of Transportation
- Intellectual transport
- Trade and trafficking
- Penal colonies
- Theorising 'transport'
- Theories of the emotions
- Women and transport
- Transport, its politics and policies
- Transatlantic and Transpacific transportation
- Transference and the subconscious
- Dreams and Telepathy
- Transporting and translating literature abroad
- Transport hubs/ urban development
- Speed
- Transportive music
- Landscape and environment
- Immobility
- Time Travel
- Neo-Victorian Transport
A special section of the conference calls for
papers on Victorian Transport related to China and the 'China-West' axis.
Please signal in your application whether you would like your paper to be
considered for inclusion in any of these 'China' or 'China-West' panels.
Five postgraduate/ SWIF travel bursaries will
be awarded by the Conference Committee, on the basis of need and merit. Please
include a short covering letter and cv in your application for such
funding.
Abstracts of up to 300 words, together with your biodata
(ca. 100-150 words), should be sent to:
Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2013.
Notification by end-January 2014.
