The workshop ‘Working with 19th-Century Medical and Health Periodicals’ was held on 30 May 2015 and co-organized by the ERC-funded ‘Diseases of Modern Life’ Project and the AHRC-funded ‘Constructing Scientific Communities’ Project, both based at St. Anne’s College, University of Oxford. … Continue reading
Linda H. Peterson, born on October 11, 1948, died peacefully June 25, 2015, on the campus of Yale University, where she was a professor and former chair in the Department of English. Until days before her death, which ended a … Continue reading
Esprit’s annual conference, Politics and Periodicals, 10 – 11 September 2015, Nordiska Museet, Stockholm For more information about the conference and how to register – go to: http://www.espr-it.eu/ … Continue reading
CFP: POPULAR CULTURE – SERIAL CULTURE: NINETEENTH-CENTURY SERIAL FICTIONS IN TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE, 1830S-1860s. 28-30 APRIL 2016, UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN This call for papers may be of interest for scholars of 19th-century popular print culture. Daniel Stein and Lisanna Wiele (American Studies, … Continue reading
The provisional programme for the forthcoming RSVP Conference is available to download from the Conference website along with information about registration, accommodation and travel http://www.rsvp2015.ugent.be/ … Continue reading
Out Now: Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street Mary L. Shannon, University of Roehampton, UK (Ashgate: April 2015) Following a successful launch event at the Menzies Centre, King’s College London this book … Continue reading
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
