Early registration is now open for the Cultures of Communication conference taking place this 10-11 September in Edinburgh, with a reduced fee available until 31 July. A preliminary schedule of session times is up on the website, as is the … Continue reading
Deadline now extended until 1st June 2015. Full details available at http://www.espr-it.eu/news/2015-esprit-conference/25-call-for-papers … Continue reading
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is delighted to announce the winner of the 2014 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize – Caroline Bressey, author of Empire, Race, and the Politics of Anti-Caste (Bloomsbury, 2014). The Colby Prize is … Continue reading
A reminder that the deadline for proposals for the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is February 1. RSVP welcomes proposals on any aspect of 19th-century magazines and newspapers, but the specific topic for the 2015 conference … Continue reading
Margaret Oliphant in Context 6 July 2015 Victorian Studies Centre University of Leicester A conference on the Victorian novelist, biographer, literary critic and historian Margaret Oliphant (1828-97) is being held at the Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester, … Continue reading
23 April 2015, University of Warwick This conference will examine the means by which imperial networks of print and media helped fashion individual and collective identities across national and proto-national boundaries in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Aiming to … Continue reading
The French-Quebecker Media 19 project, funded by the Agence nationale de la recherche (France) and the Fonds de recherche québécois – Société et culture (2011-2015) is now completing its first phase. Devised around the www.medias19.org digital platform, the project serves as a frame for developing critical thinking on journalistic practices … Continue reading
New York University (Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences), 20th of March 2015 Between 1830 and 1850, on a rapidly expanding print market, a vast amount of short literary pieces on cultural manners, social types and … Continue reading
This conference aims to suture the ‘divide’ between ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modernist’ literature, to explore the ways in which they dovetailed and overlapped, shared ideals and textual practice. We seek papers exploring novels, poetry, periodicals, little modernist magazines and other textual … Continue reading
