Final Call: AVSA 2014 "Victorian Transport" (11/30/2013; 7/10-12/2013)

Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference

Hong Kong 
July 10-12 2014
Deadline: November 30, 2013

Keynote speakers:

Stephen Davies (Hong Kong Maritime Museum)

Josephine McDonagh (King’s College, London)

Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney)

"Victorian Transport"

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:

avsa2014@hku.hk.

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2013. Notification by end-January 2014.

http://www.english.hku.hk/events/victoriantransport/

Reminder: AVSA "Victorian Transport" (11/30/2013;7/10-12/2013)

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:

avsa2014@hku.hk.

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2013. Notification by end-January 2014.

http://www.english.hku.hk/events/victoriantransport/

CFP: AVSA 2014 Conference "Victorian Transport" (7/10-12/2014)

Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference

‘Victorian Transport’

Hong Kong 10-12 July 2014

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.

Keynote speakers:

Stephen Davies (Hong Kong Maritime Museum)

Josephine McDonagh (King’s College, London)

Peter McNeil (University of Technology, Sydney)

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: avsa2014@hku.hk.

Deadline for Abstracts: 30 November 2013. Notification by end-January 2014.

http://www.english.hku.hk/events/victoriantransport/

Registration Open: NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA in Venice, Italy (6/3-6/2013)

If you are interested in joining the NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA conference in Venice, Italy (June 3-6, 2013), it's not too late to get involved. There are still a few openings for panel chairs, for example, or you could just come for the conversations.  Registration is now live.  You can find out more here:

http://glocalvictorians.wordpress.com/about-us/

Registration goes up by 50 euros starting April 15.

Over 300 Victorianists will be descending on Venice for the event.  

Plenary speakers and headliners include: Murray Baumgarten, Alison Booth, James Buzard, Nicholas Daly, Kate Flint, Regenia Gagnier, Pamela Gilbert, Eileen Gillooly, Pat Hardy, Robert Hewison, Barbara Leckie, Ruth Livesey, Jock Macleod, Franco Marucci, Rohan McWilliam, Andrew Miller, Lynda Nead, Cornelia Pearsall, Alan Rauch, Dianne Sadoff, Emma Sdegno, Sally Shuttleworth, William St. Clair, Marjorie Stone, Beverly Taylor, Paul Tucker, Lydia Wevers, Sue Zemka, and Rosella Mamoli Zorzi. 

Last Call: AVSA 2013 “'The Victorian Environment” (12/12/2012; 2/6-8/2013)

We are delighted to be able to announce that we will be joined by five distinguished keynote speakers for the ‘Victorian Environment’ conference, to be hosted at the University of Melbourne, 6-8 February, 2012:

• Professor Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art, Yale University.
• Professor Tim Dolin, Curtin University
• Associate Professor Anna Johnston, the University of Tasmania
• Associate Professor Pablo Mukherjee, the University of Warwick
• Professor John Plotz, Brandeis University

We are still accepting abstracts (deadline, December 12th) and our call for papers follows below.  We hope that you will be able to join us for what looks set to be a very exciting conference.


Call for Papers
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference, 'The Victorian Environment'
The University of Melbourne, Australia
February 6-8, 2013

With the pressures of industrialism and the clustering of workers in urban centres, the Victorians were acutely aware that their environment was changing.  Torn between nostalgia for a countryside that was in jeopardy and exhilaration at the rapidity with which their surroundings altered, Victorian literature and culture reflects a world undergoing radical change.  Colonization and assisted emigration schemes expanded the scope of the environment still further, pushing the boundaries of the home environment on an unprecedented scale.  These untamed physical environments enabled new freedoms, but also posed hostile challenges that invited attempts to control the natural world.

We seek papers of no more than twenty minutes in length, which consider any aspect of how the Victorians engaged with or sought to retreat from their environment.   Note that submission of an abstract signals an intention to attend the conference and that absentee papers will not be permitted.

Topics might include:

• Landscape/cultivation of the land
• Natural disasters and responses to them
• Pollution, industrialism and place
• The weather/climate
• The country versus the city
• The natural world
• Sanitation, health, and disease
• Fire
• Water
• The colonial environment
• Emigration
• Seascapes
• Animals
• Science and the classification of nature
• Exploration and mapping
• Visualizing the Victorian environment
• Soundscapes and noise pollution
• Smells
• Excavation and archaeology
• The environment of Victorian studies in the present
• Nostalgia/the sense of an elsewhere
• Heritage/conservation

Please email abstracts of 200 words maximum and a brief biographical note to AVSA-2013@unimelb.edu.au  by no later than 12 December 2012.

Further information about the conference will be made available at www.avsa.unimelb.edu.au/AVSA2013.htm

CFP: AVSA 2013 "The Victorian Environment" (11/30/2012; 2/6-8/2013)

Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference
'The Victorian Environment'

The University of Melbourne, Australia

February 6-8, 2013

With the pressures of industrialism and the clustering of workers in urban centres, the Victorians were acutely aware that their environment was changing.  Torn between nostalgia for a countryside that was in jeopardy and exhilaration at the rapidity with which their surroundings altered, Victorian literature and culture reflects a world undergoing radical change.  Colonization and assisted emigration schemes expanded the scope of the environment still further, pushing the boundaries of the home environment on an unprecedented scale.  These untamed physical environments enabled new freedoms, but also posed hostile challenges that invited attempts to control the natural world.

We seek papers of no more than twenty minutes in length, which consider any aspect of how the Victorians engaged with or sought to retreat from their environment.   Note that submission of an abstract signals an intention to attend the conference and that absentee papers will not be permitted.

Topics might include:

• Landscape/cultivation of the land
• Natural disasters and responses to them
• Pollution, industrialism and place
• The weather/climate
• The country versus the city
• The natural world
• Sanitation, health, and disease
• Fire
• Water
• The colonial environment
• Emigration
• Seascapes
• Animals
• Science and the classification of nature
• Exploration and mapping
• Visualizing the Victorian environment
• Soundscapes and noise pollution
• Smells
• Excavation and archaeology
• The environment of Victorian studies in the present
• Nostalgia/the sense of an elsewhere
• Heritage/conservation

Please email abstracts of 200 words maximum and a brief biographical note to AVSA-2013@unimelb.edu.au by no later than 30 November 2012.

Further information about the conference will be made available at www.avsa.unimelb.edu.au/AVSA2013.htm

Last Call: NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Supernumerary Conference “The Global and the Local” (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 conference will occur on the beautiful island of San Servolo, just a 10-minute vaporetto ride from Piazza San Marco, the tourist heart of Venice.  There will be the option to stay on the island of San Servolo, in dorm room housing (with bathroom in room) for the fee of €53.33 (US$69) per night per person (an unbeatable rate for Venice!).  The rooms are spare but clean and a number of the rooms will be doubles, triples, and quadruples, so you would likely be sharing a room in this scenario.  

Lynda Nead (Birkbeck, UK) and Lydia Wevers (Victorian U, Wellington, New Zeland) have been confirmed as plenary speakers.  An opening State of the Field panel will have position papers by Regenia Gagnier (U Exeter, UK), Jock Macleod (Griffith U, Australia), and Kate Flint (USC, USA).  The conference will include a special night time tour of Basilica San Marco and a series of material culture seminars spread around the city. 

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

CFP:“Victorian Vocabularies” Australasian Victorian Studies Association Conference (9/30/2011; 4/11-14/2012)

“Victorian Vocabularies”

Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA) Conference 

Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

11^th-14^th April 2012

Keynote speakers include: Helen Groth (University of New South Wales), Andrew H. Miller (Indiana) and Cathy Waters (Kent)

Victorians needed names for new things, novel practices, and emergent techniques. Cumulatively, these formed vocabularies, some by deliberation and design, others aggregating over time. The era abounds in private and specialised languages, modish slangs, and technical terms used in craft, industry, medicine, law, the arts, and sciences. These vocabularies circulated through small networks or made the leap to the public realm where they could be considered in new lights and put to unfamiliar uses. We invite you to think about Victorian vocabularies across British, colonial, and global contexts. Papers might address vocabulary-making, transmission, and re-purposing. They might consider the vocabulary as pedagogic tool or as potent metaphor. Possible topics include:

-Specialist and technical vocabularies

-Narratives of vocabulary-making

-Educational vocabularies

-Political vocabularies

-Vocabularies of the body

-Emotional vocabularies

-Commercial and legal vocabularies

-Vocabularies and globalisation

-Representations of vocabularies

-Colonial and military vocabularies

-Vocabularies and mass culture

-Visual culture and vocabularies

-Animal vocabularies

-Sexual vocabularies

-Neo-Victorian vocabularies

-Religious vocabularies

Please send paper proposals (of approx 150-250 words) for 20 minute papers to d.ellison@griffith.edu.au no later than September 30^th 2011. Any queries regarding the conference can be directed to the same address.

Postgraduate Travel Scholarships available

http://www.avsa.unimelb.edu.au/AVSA%20News.htm