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Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945
Liverpool John Moores University, 11-12 June 2020
Website: ‘Britain Afraid: Imperial Insecurities and National Fears, 1798-1945’
Keynote Speaker: Professor Kim Wagner (Queen Mary, UCL)
VISAWUS 2020: Victorian Transitions
Reno, NV October 15-17, 2020
The Victorian Era was one of transitions. Victorian Britain transitioned from a rural to urban society. It transitioned from an emergent empire to the dominant imperial power. It transitioned from a walking, water, wind, and animal-based transportation system to a steam-powered transportation system. It transitioned from a regional to national and then imperial culture.
Love Among the Poets: The Victorian Poetics of Intimacy
Proposed volume of essays, edited by
Pearl Chaozon Bauer (Notre Dame de Namur University)
Erik Gray (Columbia University)
The Comics Circle at the American Literature Association is pleased to co-sponsor the following panel at the upcoming American Literature Association Conference from May 21-24, 2020 in San Diego (https://americanliteratureassociation.org/). We hope that you will consider submitting a proposal and/or helping us to spread the word.
MVSA invites proposals for Seminars to be held at the 2020 conference, “Truth, Investigation, and Mystery,” April, 24-25, Chicago, IL.
Participants in MVSA Seminars will write 5-7 page papers that will be pre-circulated to the other participants prior to the conference. During the Seminars, the Seminar Leader and participants will identify important points of intersection and divergence among the papers and identify future areas of inquiry and collaboration. The Seminar format allows a larger number of scholars to participate in MVSA and to seek financial support from their respective institutions to attend the conference and discuss a shared area of scholarly interest. Seminars are limited to 12 participants.
Case Closed? The Affaire Dreyfus in British literature and culture
Rome (Italy), 6 February 2020
'Victorian Encounters and Environments'
Victorian Popular Fiction Association, Twelfth Annual Conference
15th – 17th July, 2020, University of Greenwich
Keynote Speakers:
Dr Jessica Cox (Brunel University)
Prof Alexis Easley (University of St Thomas)
Prof John Spiers (Institute of English Studies)
Reading Group: ‘Close Encounters of the Third Sex’, hosted by Mollie Clarke and Helena Esser
Roundtable: Teaching Victorian Sensation Fiction, hosted by Chris Louttit
Roundtable and series launch: Key Popular Women Writers
Call for Papers
Abstracts are sought for a panel at the twelfth annual Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, to be held 15-17 July 2020 at the University of Greenwich. The panel will be under the auspices of the Kipling Society and welcomes submissions related to all aspects of Kipling’s life and works. Possible topics could include but are by no means limited to:
-Poetry
-Kipling and celebrity
-Fiction and non-fiction
-Politics in Kipling’s life and work, Kipling’s involvement in politics
-Colonial contemporaries: Alice Perrin, Maud Diver, Bithia Mary Croker
-Journalism
-Kipling’s influences, Kipling’s influence on others
56th Allerton English Articulation Conference - Call for Papers
Call for Proposals and Participation
20/20: Taking the Long View
56th Allerton English Articulation Conference
April 15-16, 2020
In cooperation with Northern Illinois University Continuing and Professional Education and the statewide Allerton Planning Committee, NIU’s Department of English is pleased to announce the 56th Allerton English Articulation Conference, to be held Wednesday and Thursday, April 15-16, 2020.
Call for Topics for Three Special Issues of European Journal of English Studies (Volume 26, to be published in 2022)