Workshop: Frankenstein Bicentennial Project (2/28/2014; 4/28-30/2014)

Frankenstein Bicentennial Workshop

Arizona State University

April 28-30, 2014
Deadline: February 28, 2014

No work of literature has done more to shape the way humans imagine science and its consequences than Frankenstein, Mary Shelley’s enduring tale of creation and responsibility. In Frankenstein, Shelley established the creature and creator tropes that continue to resonate with contemporary audiences and influence the way we confront emerging technologies, conceptualize scientific research, imagine the motivations and ethical struggles of scientists and weigh the benefits of research with its unforeseen pitfalls.

The Frankenstein Bicentennial Project – a global, interdisciplinary network of people and institutions headquartered at Arizona State University – will celebrate the bicentennial of the writing and publication of Frankenstein from 2016-2018 with exhibits, performances, scientific demonstrations, writing contests, film screenings, installations, public conversations and educational experiences that use the Frankenstein myth as a touchstone for science education, ethics and artistry.

From April 28-30, 2014, ASU will host a National Science Foundation-funded workshop to build a community of scholars across a wide variety of fields to collaborate on the project, to begin designing and planning public programs, intellectual endeavors and tangible outcomes like journal issues, books or performances as part of the Bicentennial celebration. The committee will accept at least 5 applicants to participate in the workshop, along with approximately sixty ASU faculty and invited guests. We will give preference to early-career researchers in relevant fields, but senior scholars should not be dissuaded from applying. All allowable, workshop-related travel expenses (e.g., economy round-trip airfare, 2-3 nights at the workshop hotel, transfers and meals).

If you are interested in participating in the workshop, the committee invites you to submit an application at http://frankenstein.asu.edu/apply. You will be asked to submit a 1-2 page CV and a cover letter discussing your interest in Frankenstein and what you could contribute to the workshop. You will also be asked to select which of our eight working groups you are most interested in:·
Exhibits and Installations:Frankenstein and the Creation of Life·
Frankenstein: A Critical Edition for Scientists and Engineers·
“It’s Alive!” Frankenstein on Film·
Monsters on Stage: Frankenstein in Theater and Performance·
“MOOCenstein” – Frankenstein Goes Global·
Engineering Life: Distributed Demonstrations· 

Reinventing the Dare: Frankenstein, Science Fiction and the Culture of Science·
Bringing Nonfiction to Life: Frankenstein and Science Writing

Special Event: One-day Workshop "Hopkins' Audiences" (4/4/2014)

One-day Workshop

Hopkins' Audiences
Newcastle University

April 4, 2014

“I cannot think of altering anything”, Hopkins told Robert Bridges of The Wreck of the Deutschland, “Why shd. I? I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.” This one-day workshop, held in celebration of the new Oxford Collected Works edition of Hopkins' correspondence, will debate how Hopkins' notion of his public-both real and imagined-informs the nature of his writing and reception.

Speakers: Noel Barber, S.J., Matthew Campbell, Andrew Hodgson, Michael D. Hurley, Jude V. Nixon, Francis O'Gorman, Michael O'Neill, Catherine Phillips, Aakanksha Virkar-Yates, James Williams, Jane Wright.

Cost of workshop including refreshments and lunch will be £25 waged and £10 student rate. For further information, see http://hopkinsaudiences.wordpress.com/or contact martin.dubois@ncl.ac.uk

Kindly supported by: British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) - http://www.bavsuk.org. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University Oxford University Press

Special Event: One-day Workshop "Hopkins' Audiences" (4/4/2014)

A One-day Workshop

Research Beehive, Old Library Building, Newcastle University

April 4, 2014

9am – 5:30pm

Hopkins' Audiences 

“I cannot think of altering anything”, Hopkins told Robert Bridges of The Wreck of the Deutschland, “Why shd. I? I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.” This one-day workshop, held in celebration of the new Oxford Collected Works edition of Hopkins’ correspondence, will debate how Hopkins’ notion of his public—both real and imagined—informs the nature of his writing and reception. For whom did Hopkins write? What are his poetry’s modes of address? How did regard or disregard for the expectations of audience shape his work? What relation has it to the difficulty of his poetry?

The structure of the day will be informal, combining papers, panels, and open discussion.

Organisers: Martin Dubois and R.K.R. Thornton

Supported by: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Newcastle University
Oxford University Press

Contact: martin.dubois@ncl.ac.uk

For more information visit: http://hopkinsaudiences.wordpress.com/

Graduate Workshop: NASSR 2014 "Romantic Connections" (6/12/2014)

Graduate Student Workshop

NASSR 2014

University of Tokyo

June 12, 2014

The NASSR Tokyo supernumerary "Romantic Connections" Conference offers graduate students a special opportunity to network in a global community of Romanticists. We invite graduate students at any stage of their degrees to attend "Emerging Connections, a one-day workshop to be held at the University of Tokyo on the day before the main conference (June 12th, 2014).

Panels will be led by scholars from North America, the U.K, and Asia. We will cover a broad range of topics, including skills, professionalisation, and the future of the academy. An evening reception will provide the opportunity to network with other young scholars. Fees for the day (excluding accommodation) will be around $100 (10,000 yen).

Registration for Emerging Connections will be available alongside registration for the larger conference. For questions and information about the event, please contactgraduates@romanticconnections2014.org.

The graduate workshop precedes the main NASSR conference, "Romantic Connections" which runs from June 13-15, 2014 in Tokyo, Japan. Abstracts for conference presentations are due November 30.

Workshop: Locating Women in Victorian Print Culture (6/13/2013)

Locating women in Victorian print culture

Thursday 13 June 2013

R1.15 Ramphal Building, University of Warwick

A workshop co-organised by the University of Warwick’s Institute of Advanced Study and the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies.

Speakers:

Laurel Brake (Birkbeck, University of London) 

Beth Palmer (University of Surrey)
Margaret Beetham (University of Salford)
Tara Puri (University of Warwick) 

The last few decades have seen an increasing interest in nineteenth century print culture. This workshop aims to build on this recent scholarship by bringing together academics working on different aspects of Victorian periodicals. The papers will focus both on questions of gender and genre, as well as the methodological challenges presented by these capacious and diverse entities. Beginning with inquiries as basic as what constitutes a periodical, the papers will explore questions like: What is women’s role as editors, contributors, and readers of these periodicals? How does the form and the multi-generic nature of the periodical shape its reading? And where do women’s magazines fit into women’s literary history?

Programme:

• 11.00 - 11.30:  Welcome and coffee
• 11.30 - 13.30:  Laurel Brake, Young Oxford in Print 1869-1889. The (Humphry) Wards and the (Walter) Paters. Beth Palmer, Locating the editor in women's literary magazines 
• 13.30 - 14.30:  Lunch
• 14.30 - 16.30:  Margaret Beetham, Sable Sisters, Missionary Wives, and Bad Mothers: Domestic Femininity in Victorian Religious Periodicals. Tara Puri, Thinking about materiality in women’s magazines 
• 16.30 - 17.00:  Closing remarks
• 17.00:  Wine reception 

Please note:

Attendance at the workshop is free and lunch is provided. However, numbers are limited so please email Tara Puri to register: T.Puri@warwick.ac.uk. 

Two travel bursaries are available for postgraduate students to attend the workshop. If you would like to be considered, please submit a short outline of your research.

North West Periodicals Research Workshop (3/8/2013)

North West Periodicals Research Workshop

University of Central Lancashire library

Fri, 8 March, 1pm

The programme includes 2 short talks on Victorian periodicals:

• Visual culture and mechanical objectivity in 19th-century engineering periodicals – Dr Jonathan Westaway, UCLAN
• The hidden world of water drinkers: What we have learnt from temperance periodicals – Dr Annemarie Mcallister, UCLAN

There will be an opportunity to browse UCLAN’s special collections of periodicals, including Victorian engineering and astronomy journals and the UK’s largest collection of temperance periodicals.

For further details, go to: http://www.academia.edu/2605501/North_West_Periodicals_Workshop_8_March_2013

Reminder: Venice Professionalization Workshop (10/31/2012; 5/27-31, 6/3, 6/7/2013)

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 NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference itself; the NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference runs from June 3-6.

You can find more information about the NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference, “The Global and the Local,” here: http://glocalvictorians.wordpress.com/

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 again this year in Wisconsin: http://english.wisc.edu/navsa/?page_id=137

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.

The deadline to apply for the professionalization workshop that will occur the week before the conference is Oct. 31. If you are interested in this workshop, please contact Dino Franco Felluga at: felluga@purdue.edu

NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference (10/4/2012; 6/3-6/2013)

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:

http://english.wisc.edu/navsa/?page_id=137

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.

If you are interested in this workshop, please contact Dino Franco Felluga at:  felluga@purdue.edu

Workshop on Teaching English Studies Through Blended Learning (with Victorian Plenary) (5/8/2012)

Teaching English Studies Through Blended Learning
School of English, University of Leeds, 
Tuesday 8 May 2012, 10am-4.30pm

This HEA-funded workshop aims to enhance the use of blended learning in English Studies by enabling good practice to be shared and by providing a forum to discuss how it can improve the student experience. Although virtual learning environments and new teaching technologies are ubiquitous in UK universities, they are often underused by academics and students. Sometimes technology is seen as a distraction from the real business of learning and teaching. The workshop will address how the learning opportunities created by technology can be successfully blended with more traditional forms of interaction in the context of English Studies as a discipline.

The event will feature a plenary talk from Dr Rosie Miles (National Teaching Fellow and former E-Learning Consultant for the English Subject Centre), presentations from academics using blended learning, and discussions of the variety and value of blended learning. An important aspect of the day will be the afternoon workshop in which attendees will be encouraged to share and discuss their ideas about how they might incorporate blended learning into their own teaching, and to get guidance from others about how to put those ideas into practice.

Registration is free (including lunch and refreshments). Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis. To register, please email the workshop administrator, Alberto Gomez (eng6ag@leeds.ac.uk), with your full name, institution, details of where you heard about the event, and information about any dietary or other requirements. A small number of slots are available for ten-minute presentations on particular examples of blended learning. If you are interested in giving a presentation, please email the workshop organiser, Dr David Higgins (d.higgins@leeds.ac.uk).

Programme
9.45-10.25   Registration.

10.30-11.15   Plenary: Dr Rosie Miles (Wolverhampton), “@likeabatoutofhell @ClosetCase @MsDisillusion @TheBlooferLady: Tweeting the Victorians -- New Adventures in #OnlineEnglishTeaching”.

11.15-11.45   Discussion: What is the value of blended learning? (20 mins groups;10 mins plenary).

11.45-12.00   Coffee.

12.00-13.00   Presentations #1.
Dr Fiona Douglas (Leeds), “Developing Engaging Study Skills Resources for English Studies: An Impossible Task?”
Dr Alison Johnson, Alberto Gomez, and David Wright (all Leeds), “Learning to Research Forensic Linguistics: Student and Tutor Perspectives”.

13.00-14.00   Lunch.

14.00-15.00   Workshop: Putting Ideas into Practice (40 mins groups; 20 mins plenary).

15.00-15.15   Coffee.

15.15-16.15   Presentations #2.

Dr Paul Maddern (Leeds), “The Seamus Heaney Centre Digital Archive: Metadata, Context, and Application”.
Dr Greg Garrard (Bath Spa), Title tbc.

16.15-16.30   Closing Remarks.