Last Call: "Victorian New Media" (9/30/2012; 3/21-24/2013)

44th Annual Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)

March 21-24, 2013

Boston, Massachusetts

Host Institution:  Tufts University

http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html

How were 19th-century innovations in communication and information technologies experienced as ‘new media’? How were 19th-century new media represented in literature and culture? What were the effects on literary and cultural production? How can methodologies from new media studies be applied to examinations of Victorian technology and culture? Examinations of Victorian new media may include any form of print, screen, sound, or telecommunications. Send 300-400 word abstracts and a brief bio to Jessica Kuskey jkuskey@oberlin.edu

Deadline:  September 30, 2012

Please include with your abstract:

Name and Affiliation

Email address

A/V requirements (if any; $10 handling fee with registration)

Interested participants may submit abstracts to more than one NeMLA session; however, panelists can only present one paper (panel or seminar). Convention participants may present a paper at a panel and also present at a creative session or participate in a roundtable. http://www.nemla.org/convention/2013/cfp.html

Reminder: Victorians Institute 2012 "Victorian Mixed Media" (5/1/2012; 10/19-21/2012)

The Victorians Institute, an interdisciplinary scholarly organization founded in 1972, invites proposals for papers for the 2012 meeting, to be held at Virginia Commonwealth University in downtown Richmond, October 19-21.

Deadline for proposals is May 1.

Please go to http://www.vcu.edu/vij/CFP--VI2012.pdf for the call for papers, and http://www.vcu.edu/vij for information about the Institute and the scholarly annual Victorians Institute Journal.

CFP: Victorians Institute 2012 Conference: Victorian Mixed Media (5/1/2012; 10/19-21/2012)

Victorian Mixed Media
The 41st Meeting of the Victorians Institute
19-21 October 2012
Virginia Commonwealth University

Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. via email to dlatane@vcu.edu by 1 May 2012. Papers are invited on any aspect of the rubric, including arts & crafts – the media of the empire – theatre – ekphrasis – the exhibition as medium – illustration and text (extra-illustrated volumes – giftbooks) – hybridity and language – map and mapping – media and genre – medium specificity in the 19th-century – new (digital) media and the Victorians – photography and its relationship to traditional media – poetry of the daily press – the print trade – show and tell (dioramas, panoramas, history, literature) – Victorian new media (typewriting – film) – sound and music – information systems – periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides – representation of media in fiction and poetry, etc.

Because 2012 marks the bicentennial of Robert Browning’s birth, papers which consider his work are especially welcome, whether or not they conform closely to the topic, as a portion of the program will commemorate the occasion.

Keynote address by W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, is editor of Critical Inquiry and his books include What Do Pictures Want?, Art and the Public Sphere, Iconology,  and Blake’s Composite Art.

Plenary talk to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Robert Browning by Herbert Tucker, John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia; his books include Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse, 1790-1910, Tennyson and the Doom of Romantcism, and Browning’s Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure.

Selected papers from the conference will be refereed for the Victorians Institute Journal annex at NINES.

Limited travel subventions will be available from the Victorians Institute for graduate students whose institutions provide limited or no support.

Please visit www.vcu.edu/vij for information about the conference, the Victorians Institute, and Victorians Institute Journal.

“Victorian Mixed Media” is sponsored at Virginia Commonwealth University by the College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of English, and the PhD program in Media, Art and Text (MATX).

David Latané, conference organizer. Advisory committee: Nicholas Frankel, Catherine Ingrassia, John Picker (English); Eric Garberson, Catherine Roach (Art History); Nicholas Wolf (History).

Symposium "Mediamorphosis: Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1880-1940" (9/9-10/2011)

Mediamorphosis:  Print Culture and Transatlantic Public Sphere(s), 1880-1940
University of Delaware, September 9-10, 2011
www.udel.edu/mediamorphosis

This two–day symposium will provide a forum for literary scholars, historians, media historians, and art historians to share works–in–progress on the transformations of print media and transatlantic public spheres at the turn of the twentieth century. The symposium will:

• advance understanding of print culture's role in this period's movements for racial, class, and gender equality and of the relationship between print culture, empire, and cross-cultural (transatlantic, transnational) writing, reading, and publishing;
• bring the theories and methods of material culture studies to bear on the analysis of print artifacts as "objects" or "things."

On view on Friday, September 9, will be "Periodicals Across the Pond," a special display drawn from the University of Delaware Library's Special Collections and from the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection, on loan to the University of Delaware Library.

Hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences’ Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, this symposium is also supported by:  the Center for Material Culture Studies, the Departments of Black American Studies, English, and Women’s Studies, the University of Delaware Library, the Institute for Global Studies, the University Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events (CAPE), and the Delaware Humanities Forum.

Registration is free.

CFP:Victorian Media (10/1/2011; 4/26-28/2012)

The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada invites proposals for a conference on Victorian Media. The conference, hosted by the University of Victoria, will be held from 26-28 April 2012 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

We seek proposals for papers that focus on the theme of media in relation to Victorian culture and knowledge: that is, the relation of Victorian media to the culture of the period and the relation of new media to the study, dissemination, and archiving of Victorian materials.  In particular, we invite proposals on topics related to three main threads:

• Victorians, print media, and cultural production (the book, the newspaper, the broadside, the illustrated press, the serial novel, the gift book, etc);
• Victorians and visual/auditory/information media (the diorama, the phonograph, the photograph, the cinema, the panorama); and
• Victorian Studies and new media (Victorian studies in a digital age, the digitization of Victorian resources, indexing of Victorian materials, the digital journal and the new scholar, teaching in a digital age, the scholar in the age of social media, etc).

The conference's keynote speaker will be Matthew Rubery (Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London). Dr. Rubery is the author of The Novelty of Newspapers: Victorian Fiction after the Invention of the News (2009), which won the European Society for the Study of English First Book Award in 2010. He is currently at work on a monograph entitled The Untold Story of the Talking Book, a history of recorded literature since the invention of the phonograph in 1877.

The conference will also feature a workshop on Victorian print materials led by Brian Maidment (University of Salford), author of Comedy, Caricature and the Social Order 1820-1850, and Reading Popular Prints 1790-1870. This workshop will provide a hands-on opportunity to analyze original Victorian materials guided by an expert on print media and production methods.

Please submit proposals of not more than 500 words plus a 75-word biography and 100-word abstract to lsurridg@uvic.ca by 1 October 2011.