CFP: International Conference on Narrative (10/15/2013; 3/27-30/2014)

2014 International Conference on Narrative

March 27-30, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Plenary Speakers:

Leslie Bow, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Priscilla Wald, Duke University

Call for Papers: The International Conference on Narrative is an interdisciplinary forum addressing all dimensions of narrative theory and practice. We welcome proposals for papers and panels on all aspects of narrative in any genre, period, discipline, language, and medium.

Proposals for Individual Papers:

Please provide the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper you are proposing; your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and 2-3 keywords (e.g. cognitive studies; Victorian novels; narrator); and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about your work and your publications.

Proposals for Panels:

Please provide a 700-word (maximum) description of the topic of the panel and of each panelist’s contribution; the title of the panel, the titles of the individual papers, and 2-3 keywords (e.g. cognitive studies; Victorian novels; narrator); and for each participant the name, institutional affiliation, email address, and a brief statement (no more than 100 words) about the person’s work and publications.

Deadline for Receipt of Proposals is Tuesday October 15, 2013

Please send proposals by email in PDF or Word to: narrative2014@mit.edu

For more information about the conference please visit: web.mit.edu/narrative2014

All participants must join the International Society for the Study of Narrative. For more information on the ISSN, please visit: http://narrative.georgetown.edu/

Conference Coordinators:

James Buzard (MIT) &

Sue J. Kim (UMass Lowell)

CFP: Supernatural Studies Association Journal "Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century" (11/31/2013; 3/31/2013)

CFP: Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century (abstracts: November 31, 2013, articles: March 31, 2014)

Supernatural Studies Association Journal

supernaturalstudies@gmail.com

The Supernatural Studies Journal is now accepting proposals for a themed issue on the supernatural in the nineteenth century (due Winter 2014), guest edited by Janine Hatter and Sara Williams.

Articles may examine any aspect of the representation of the supernatural within the context of worldwide literature, arts and material culture in the nineteenth century. We welcome any approach, but request that authors minimize jargon associated with any single-discipline studies.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
folklore & mythology, monstrosity, hybridity, vampires, shapeshifters, goblins, fairies and fairy tales, ghosts and hauntings, demons and angels, possession and/or mind control, death and dying, burial rites, occult, mysticism, spiritualism and séances, spirit photography, religion, superstition, voodoo, culture, philosophy, desire, politics, gender, race, sexuality and class.

Additionally, we are seeking reviews of books that engage with elements of the nineteenth century supernatural (800-1,000 words in length).

For articles: please send a 300-500 word abstract (or complete article, if available) and C.V. by November 31, 2013. All submissions will be acknowledged. Notification of acceptance will be e-mailed by December  15,2013. If your abstract is accepted, the full article (3,000 - 6,000 words, including references using MLA style) will be March 31, 2014.

For reviews: please send a C.V. and description of the book you would like to review, or alternatively, see the journal’s website for available books.

Further information, including Submission Guidelines, are available at the journal site: supernaturalstudies.org.

Please e-mail submissions to both j.hatter@hull.ac.uk and s.williams2@hull.ac.uk. If emailing the journal directly at supernaturalstudies@gmail.com please quote ‘nineteenth century’ in the subject box.

CFP: College of English Association "Language Speaks Us" (9/30/2013;3/14-15/2014)

The College English Association

Caribbean Chapter 

The University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez,

March 14-15, 2014

The College English Association-Caribbean Chapter welcomes proposals for presentations in English (20-minute papers) for our 2014 conference, which will be held at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, on 14-15 March 2014. The title is “Language Speaks Us” and the topic is Language(s) and Identity. This event will be an opportunity to discuss the ways in which texts are conceived, nurtured and produced, and received by the public, in both historical and contemporary contexts. “Text” is to be interpreted broadly and comprises literature, nonfiction, essays, advertisements, maps, music, film, poetry, tweets, visual and performing arts, facebook posts, SMS and IMs, and many other tracts. Conference papers will be considered for publication in a volume of essays.

Possible topics, among others:
Literary Canon(s) and Community Identity
Chicano, Nuyorican, and Latino Literatures
Mono/Multilingualism, Authenticity, and Identity
Multilingual Literatures
Language-Education in Multicultural Classrooms
Institutional Hierarchies and Language Policies
Language and Community
Language and Coding in Transnational Texts
Contact Zone, Borderlands, and Languages
Code-Switching, Language Transfer
Language in Construction of Multiple Histories
Resistance and Domination through Language
Multi or Mono-Linguistic Policies in Public Spaces (signs, monuments, documents)

On a rolling basis, we welcome abstracts in Humanistic/Social Science fields and subdisciplines, as individual papers or panels of 2-4 scholars. Submit abstracts of 100-200 words in the body of an e-mail message (not an attachment) by September 30, 2013 to cea.cc.conference@gmail.com.  

See http://blogs.uprm.edu/ceacc/cfp/ for more information.

CFP: The Male Body in Victorian Literature and Culture (8/31/2013)

Call for Contributions

The Male Body in Victorian Literature and Culture

There exists a considerable amount of research focused on the female body in the Victorian period, from seminal texts such as Krugovoy Silver’s exploration of anorexic female bodies (2002), Talairach-Vielmas’ examination of the female body and femininity (Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels, 2007) through to Sondra Archimedes’ Gendered Pathologies: The Female Body and Biomedical Discourse in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel (2005).

However, the representations of and discourses surrounding the physicality of her male counterpart have begun to be examined only recently. Critics such as Andrew Dowling have questioned whether it is anachronistic to discuss masculinity in the nineteenth century because ‘the topic did not exist in the way we conceive it today’ (Manliness and the Male Novelist, 2001, p.1). He concludes that, while it was not a topic of contemporary debate, the idea of what constituted manliness was deeply embedded within Victorian culture, not least through images of male deviance in the literature of the period. Despite the work completed by Dowling and others (such as John Tosh, James E. Adams and Sander L. Gilman, for example), the breadth and depth of scholarship on Victorian men and masculinities leaves much to be explored.

Focusing approximately on the period between 1830 and 1910, this edited collection of essays aims to contribute to the bridging of this gap in existing Victorian scholarship. The collection intends to explore the male body as represented in Victorian literary and cultural texts, from visual culture to the periodical press, fiction, poetry and drama, and from art to advertisement and fashion. In doing so, the editors seek to navigate the diversity of representations of physical maleness, manliness, and masculinities in the Victorian period in order to illuminate further this little examined field.

• Topics for essays may include, but are by no means limited to:
• Extreme physicalities (starving, corpulence, physical ideals);
• Regulation of the male body (diet, exercise, science, and medicine);
• Military or ‘heroic’ bodies;
• Muscular Christianity and the cult of exercise;
• Deviant or queer male bodies;
• The foreign and/or ‘other’ male body as represented in discourses of nationhood, nationality, and empire;
• Dress, fashion, and the male body;
• Modified male bodies (body building, tattoos, etc.);
• Disability and the male body.

The editors invite 500-word proposals for chapters of up to 7,000 words, accompanied by a short biographical note, to be submitted to both Dr Nadine Muller (n.muller@ljmu.ac.uk) and Joanne Parsons (Joanne.Parsons@live.uwe.ac.uk) no later than August 31, 2013. If you have any questions about this project or about a potential proposal, please do not hesitate to get in with us via email.

CFP: British Women Writers "Reflections" (1/1/2014;6/19-21/2014)

22nd Annual Meeting of the British Women Writers Conference

June 19-21, 2014

Binghamton University, State University of New York

REFLECTIONS

For the 22nd annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference

For the 22nd annual meeting of the British Women Writers Conference, we will focus on the theme of “Reflections.” Cross-disciplinary in scope and implication, we invite papers—as well as panel and roundtable proposals—to explore “reflections” as broadly as possible, whether they are physical or metaphysical; individual or cultural; social, historical or fictional; real or imagined; seen or unseen.

Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:

Reflective Objects and Spaces

Imagery of mirrors in women’s writing

Cemeteries, memorials, monuments; museums

Ruins

Shop-windows

Fashion/clothing; consumption/consumerism; advertising

Women in business/finance

Books (and readers)

Photography/photographs

Private spheres: homes/decor, women’s rooms, closets

Public spheres: public gardens, theaters, salons

Liminal spaces

Reflections of/on the Body

“Beauty”/appearance; body image

Youth/age

Changes in the female body: internal and external; psychological or physiological; perspectives and attitudes regarding adolescence and maturation, menstruation and menopause, motherhood and childbirth

Health/disease

Disability

Gender and sexuality

Body as reflection of the unconscious

Reflective Genres

Women’s life writing; women writing about women; biographical

or autobiographical reflection

Letters and journals; epistolary novel; transnational correspondence

Reviews/reception

Ekphrasis; reflections on/of visual arts (other arts) in literature

Histories/origins; the historical novel

Detective fiction

Travel writing

Medical writing

Metafiction; fiction about reading fiction; Romantic poetry

Textual Reflections

Repetition in form/structure

Doubling, doppelgängers; the uncanny

Dreams

Textual gaps or silences

Revisions/retellings of original stories

Creative Work: poetry, fiction, non-fiction inspired by BWWs

Reflective Moments

Epiphany

Memory/remembrance; Erlebnis and Erfahrung

Sensory reflection (smell, taste, sound)

Self and identity, self-recognition/narcissism

Death and (re)birth

“The mirror stage”

Desire/eroticism

BWWs and travel

Women’s Rights/ Suffrage

Distorted Reflections

Repressed and displaced language

Translations

Cross-disciplinary reflections

Abstractions

The Gothic

The grotesque

(Re)imagining the past and future

“Aura”/mass reproduction

Madness, hysteria

Through the Looking Glass

Reflective Possibilities (Possible roundtables/special sessions)

British Women & Health/Medicine

British Women & American Women

British Women in Pop Culture/Film

British Women & Travel

British Women & the History of Women’s Rights

British Women & the Military

For paper proposals, please send a 300-word abstract and a short bio (in a single attachment) to bwwc2014@gmail.com by January 1, 2014.

For full panel or roundtable/session proposals, please attach all proposals to a single email. Papers and panels must address the theme and apply to long 18th- or 19th-century, Romantic or Victorian women’s literature.

CFP: One-Day Symposium on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger Narratives (10/14/2013; 12/9/2013)

CFP: One-Day Symposium on Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger Narratives

Challenger Unbound

Department of English, UCL

December 9, 2013

Habitually characterised as a late-appearing variant upon the Victorian Quest Romance, The Lost World in fact marked the beginning of Arthur Conan Doyle’s prolonged investigation of science, ideology, and belief under the inhibiting constraints of early twentieth-century modernity. The narratives span from 1912 to 1929 and this symposium and emerging collection will be dedicated to re-evaluating the narratives, their author, the wider culture that he inhabited, and the legacy of his work for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The organizers and editors are soliciting abstracts of 200-300 words or completed articles of 6,000-8,000 words. We are interested in covering as many divergent approaches to the narratives as possible but potential topics might include:

• The Twentieth-Century Quest Romance.
• Arthur Conan Doyle: Low Modernist.
• Arthur Conan Doyle’s Contribution to Science-Fiction and/or Speculative Fiction
• Modernity and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction.
• Science and the Popular Press, 1912-1930.
• Science as a Public Discourse, 1912-1930.
• Science as State-Craft, 1912-1930.
• Spiritual vs. Material Science.
• Grief, Trauma, Mourning and Science during and after the Great War.
• Twentieth-Century Medievalism/Primitivism.
• Spiritualism, Science and the Great War.
• The Strand Magazine in the Twentieth-Century.
• The Twentieth-Century Afterlife of “Victorian” Ideology/Thought/Literary Forms.
• Weapons of Mass Destruction, 1912-1930.
• Heroism, Chivalry and Masculinity after the Great War.
• Science, Technology and European Competition, 1912-1930.
• The Twentieth-Century Legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle in Europe.
• Machines, Weapons, Products, Commodities.
• Conan Doyle’s Non-Fiction, 1912-1930.
• The Endurance of Professor Challenger in Critical Theory (Deleuze & Guattari, Jon McKenzie etc...).
• Early Treatments of Capitalist/Communist Confrontations in Popular Fiction.

Any inquiries should be directed to both Dr Jonathan Cranfield (j.l.cranfield@ljmu.ac.uk) and Tom Ue (ue_tom@hotmail.com).

Abstracts should be submitted by October 14, 2013.

CFP: Liberty and Limits 1789-1920 (8/1/2013; 12/5-6/2013)

Liberty and Limits 1789-1920

MGSM, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

December 5-6, 2013

Keynote Speakers: Professor Nancy Armstrong (Duke University), Professor David Punter (Bristol University), Professor Deirdre Colman (University of Melbourne).

The long nineteenth century was inaugurated by the French Revolution and closed in the aftermath of  the First World War.  In Britain the intervening period was marked by a dialectic compounded of sub-revolutionary change and processes of containment. In all cultural fields new modes of knowledge, theories, and aesthetic forms emerged. The Romantics and Victorians inherited the discursive energies of the eighteenth century in terms of the ways in which literary and other forms of writing were lauded or vilified as intervention, catalyst, palliative or purge. The energy of this period was enacted as much through writing and reading as through empire building and military/mercantile expansion. We invite papers that engage with all aspects of cultural change – including evolution, excess, experimentation, nostalgia, suppression, dissent. Themes addressed can include, but are not confined to, the following:

• Material print culture and new modes of dissemination of information
• Literary revolutions
• Life writing and the private as public performance
• The modern city
• The fin de siècle and the emergence of Modernism
• Gender/sexual identity
• Class mobility/instability
• Industrialisation
• Anglophone writing and readership
• Self-help and social mobility
• Romantic and Victorian poetics
• Crime and detection
• Policing
• Juvenilia
• The rise of children’s literature
• Education and literacy
• Evolutionary theory and social Darwinism
• The marketplace and the birth of the consumer
• Science and technology
• Celebrity authorship as cultural phenomenon
• The changing nature of readership
• The politics of Empire
• Photography/ images
• Afterlife: Steampunk and neo-Victorian narratives, the long nineteenth century in 
• film adaptations

Please send 300 word abstracts and proposals for themed panels as word documents or PDF with subject heading “Liberty and Limits Conference Abstract” to: libertyandlimits@mq.edu.au The deadline for receipt of proposals is  August 1, 2013.

Organisers:

Dr Lee O’Brien

Dr Geoff Payne

Dr Ryan Twomey

For full information here is the link to our conference:

http://libertyandlimits.com/

Performance: University of Hertfordshire "Platform Performances: The Pacifist by John Brandon & Conscientious Objector or Coward?: The Story of Arthur Waterman (7/17/2013)

Victorianists and theatre historians in London next week are very welcome to join us for performances of two 1-act First World War plays:  The Pacifist by John Brandon (1918) and Conscientious Objector or Coward?: The Story of Arthur Waterman (2013).  

“From a young female doctor's suspicions that her fiancée is a spy, to the unpatriotic musings of a seemingly respectable government official amidst the Zeppelin bombings on London, to the real-life experiences of a conscientious objector in war-time Hertfordshire, these are the playing out of the fears on the Home Front that our ancestors experienced.”

The Brandon play, first seen at the Brixton Empress in 1918, has obvious antecedents in late-Victorian melodrama - though up-dated to take account of the war-time situation.

The plays, performed by a professional cast, take place in central London at the Swedenborg Institute in Bloomsbury on Wednesday 17 July at 7:15 pm (Nearest tube: Holborn/Tottenham Court Road).

Admission is free and refreshments will be served. More details can be found at the Hertfordshire University website or please do contact me if you’d like to know more.

Final Reminder: NAVSA Graduate-student Travel Grant (7/15/2013)

FINAL reminder about the upcoming deadline for the NAVSA graduate-student travel grant (deadline July 15).

GRADUATE-STUDENT TRAVEL GRANT

Applicants will find all the information they need at the following URL: http://www.navsa.org/TravelGrantPrize

Special Event: Bourne Hall Museum, "Suffragette Surrey," curated by Irene Cockroft

For those interested in the women's suffrage movement of the long nineteenth century, be sure to check out an exhibit at the Bourne Hall Museum, "Suffragette Surrey," curated by Irene Cockroft, who has produced fascinating exhibits of suffrage movement artifacts in various museums throughout the UK.  

This Surrey exhibit, in Ewell, has been extended into early August, with a one-day seminar on July 27 commemorating the centenary of the death of Emily Wilding Davison. Seminar speakers include Helen Pankhurst, Kathy Atherton, Frances Bedford, Carol Brown, and Colin Cartwright.  For further information, please contact DBrooks@epsom-ewell.gov.uk.

Registration Open: H.G. Wells Society & William Morris Society "Social Fabrics: Utopias & Dystopias in relation to the Work of William Morris and H.G. Wells" (9/14/2013)

Saturday 14 September 2013

The Coach House, Kelmscott House, 

26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, W6 9TA, London, UK

Registration from 9:15 am Conference closes at 5:45pm £27 (standard) or £22 (concessions). Price includes lunch and refreshments.

Please book early to avoid disappointment as space at Kelmscott House is limited. In order for us to prepare material and timetables, speakers should book before the end of July.

Please fill out the details below and send or email this form to Valerie Fitch:

NAME: _____________________________________________________________________________

ADDRESS: _____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

EMAIL: ______________________________________________________________________

Valerie.fitch@btinternet.com                                                                       Valerie Fitch (Treasurer)

H.G. Wells Society

20 Upper Field Close

Hereford

HR2 7SW 

Cheques are payable to the H.G. Wells Society. Oversees attendees can pay on the day or send a cheque but we require registration details before the conference day. For enquiries regarding cheques from outside the UK, please email Valerie.

We have booked space from 6pm onwards at a nearby pub, The Dove, which is located at 19 Upper Mall, W6 9TA. As the venue requires confirmation of numbers by 14 August, do let us know if you would like to join us. Menus and location information can be found on the following website: http://dovehammersmith.co.uk/

Yes, I would like book a place           (please tick circle)                 ⃝

For enquires, contact emelynegodfrey@yahoo.com . We look forward to seeing you on the day!

For original CFP see http://navsa.blogspot.com/2013/02/cfp-social-fabrics-hg-wells-and-william.html

CFP: NCSA 2014 “The City and the Country in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination" (8/15/2013; 3/20-22/2014)

Urbanism and Urbanity

Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, 

March 20-22, 2014

Chicago, IL.

For a panel tentatively titled “The City and the Country in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination,” I’m seeking proposals for 20-minute papers addressing urban/rural tensions and contradictions. Broadly interpreted, that could include art, music, and literature invoking nostalgia for the rural, rural dialects, urbanism v. the rural in Englishness, industrialization of the countryside and other land-use issues, the back to the land movement, country weekends, interest in rural folklore, the yokel “Hodge” as seen by city-dwellers, environmental concerns, etc. 

Please email 250-word abstracts (or questions, ideas, etc.) by August 15 to Dr. Deborah Maltby, Associate Teaching Professor of English, University of Missouri-St. Louis: maltbyd@umsl.edu. 

Lecture: Laura Kilbride "The Pre-Raphaelite School of Poetry" (7/11/2013)

A presentation by Laura Kilbride,
the 2013 University of Delaware Library / Delaware Art Museum Fellow in Pre-Raphaelite Studies

Thursday, July 11, 2013
12 p.m.
Class of 1941 Lecture Room
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE

At noon on Thursday, July 11, the University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum will sponsor an informal discussion by Laura Kilbride of her research. She is the 2013 holder of the Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies, which is jointly funded by the University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum

A luncheon buffet will be provided by the Library. Acceptances are requested via email at libraryrsvp@winsor.lib.udel.edu . Although acceptances are strongly encouraged, walk-ins are welcome. This program is open to the public.

Laura Kilbride is in residence from mid-June through mid-July 2013 to use the resources of the Delaware Art Museum, the University of Delaware Library, and the Mark Samuels Lasner Collection. She is studying the relationship of the poet Algernon Charles Swinburne and the painter-poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti from their first meeting in 1857 through 1868, when Swinburne commented on his friend’s art in “Notes on Some Pictures of 1868.” A Ph.D. candidate at St. John’s College, University of Cambridge, UK, she is writing a dissertation on “Swinburne’s Style."

CFP: NASSR "Romantic Connections" (11/30/2013;6/13-15/2014)

“Romantic Connections”

NASSR supernumerary conference, supported by BARS, GER, and JAER

University of Tokyo, June 13–15, 2014

www.romanticconnections2014.org

The NASSR committee invites proposals for a major international Romanticism conference, to be held at the University of Tokyo on June 13–15, 2014.

This unique event will bring together four scholarly societies from three continents: it is a supernumerary conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), also supported by the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS), the German Society for English Romanticism (GER), and the Japan Association of English Romanticism (JAER).

Over the last two decades, there has been sustained scholarly interest in the connections between European Romanticism and the peoples, cultures, and literatures of the rest of the world. In addition to discussing representations of the “East” by Romantic authors, there has been a growing trend towards viewing Romanticism itself in a global context, as a movement shaped by wider eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century forces of trade, migration, material circulation, intellectual exchange, slavery, and colonialism. 

While the conference's approach will be informed by the legacy of Saidian “Orientalism,” the committee is particularly interested in models of intercultural connection which refine or challenge totalising models of domination and subordination. Papers are welcome that shed light upon the question of “connection” from the broadest range of perspectives: imaginative, linguistic, material, social, sexual, scientific, economic, and political.

Drawing on the conference's location in Tokyo, this conference will consider the broader task of forging connections between Eastern and Western literature and scholarship. In a Japanese context, the idea of interpersonal “connection” (kizuna) takes on a different resonance, because of its close connection to the project of recovery (saisei) following the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami. This conference wishes to explore how such acts of cross-cultural translation offer the possibility of reciprocal transformations of meaning.

The conference welcomes explorations of the reception of European Romanticism in Asia and other regions of the world, as well as discussions of the future status of Romanticism studies in a geographically diverse and technologically connected scholarly world.

Topics for papers may include:

• Romantic and Romantic-period representations of Asia, Africa, or South America
• material, scholarly, scientific, and literary exchanges between European and non-European cultures
• trade and travel accounts
• connections with past civilizations or imaginary worlds
• sympathetic, imaginative, and psychological models of interpersonal or intercultural “connection”
• sociability, civility, ritual, and diplomacy
• intimacy, romance, sexuality, and gender
• bodily encounters, disease, and medicine
• race, colonialism, and slavery
• refugees, renegades, migrants, and exiles
• transatlantic, expatriate, or transcultural identities
• trade routes, technology, infrastructure, and modes of transport
• language, translation, interpretation, and linguistic barriers
• cosmopolitanism and the creation of a “global consciousness”
• pessimism, skepticism, and resistance to metropolitan or colonial narratives
• culture shock and challenges to national or personal identity
• comparative models of connection (such as Japanese ideas of kizuna, or bonds)
• Romantic reception and afterlives in different regions of the world
• the future of Romanticism studies in a global university context
• advances in technology, critical theory, and pedagogy

Send proposals for papers (200–300 words) to submissions@romanticconnections2014.org. The deadline is November 30, 2013. The committee will contact all participants by mid-December. 

For more details about the conference and our location in Tokyo, see our website: www.romanticconnections2014.org.

A limited number of travel bursaries may be available for graduate students. If you wish to apply for one, please include a CV and a brief statement of your current research (around 300 words) with your proposal.

Registration Open: NAVSA 2013 in Pasadena (10/23-27/2013)

Registration is now open for NAVSA 2013 in Pasadena (October 23-27).

If you are not already planning to attend, there are still several exciting opportunities for participation available:

Study Sessions at the Getty & the Huntington
As a very special feature of NAVSA 2013, the committee is delighted to offer access to the Getty Museum, the Getty Research Institute and the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens.  When you register for the conference, you’ll be given the option to sign up for a shuttle to tour either institution, as well as the opportunity to sign up for curator-led Study Sessions while you are there.

Works-in-Progress Seminars
The committee is currently accepting registrations for the Works-in-Progress Seminars where leading scholars discuss their research with participants.

Panel Chairing
And as always, the conference committee is still seeking chairs for panel sessions—if you are interested in serving in this way, please indicate that on the registration form.

A few important dates to keep in mind:
September 15 is the deadline for early registration (Graduate Students: $100 / Faculty: $220).  After September 15 registration fees increase (Graduate Students: $125 / Faculty: $235).

September 24 is the deadline to reserve a room at the Pasadena Westin at the discounted rate.

Travel Grant: NAVSA Graduate-Student & Unaffiliated-Scholar Travel Grant (7/15/2013)

NAVSA's Executive Council and Advisory Board are particularly concerned with helping graduate students and unaffiliated scholars who have no support for conference attendance from institutions or other sources and who incur substantial costs for travel to and from the annual convention. This year's competition supports travel to the 2012 NAVSA conference at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. If you are interested in being considered for the NAVSA travel grant, please fill out our online application by July 15, 2013. Preference will be given to individuals who have not received travel reimbursement from NAVSA in a prior year. Applicants must have paid NAVSA dues for this year. This year, NAVSA will distribute $3,000 in travel grants (minimum award: $100).

Deadline for applications is July 15, 2013.

For more information visit: http://www.navsa.org/TravelGrantPrize