The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals holds its annual conference each summer or early fall at a different location in North America or Europe, on a theme relating to Victorian culture and society as reflected in its periodicals. RSVP offers a limited number of travel awards for graduate students and independent or retired scholars to assist with the costs of presenting at the conference. All those giving a paper at the RSVP conference are required to be members of the Society.
2025 Conference Dates Announced!
As announced at the 2024 Annual General Meeting, our 2025 annual conference (#RSVP25) will convene from July 10-12 in Chicago, Illinois, USA! Many thanks to DePaul University, Jennifer Conary, and her team for hosting us. More details will be forthcoming as they are decided. Watch this space/our social media for updates, and save the dates!
About the 2024 Conference
“Place in the Victorian Periodical Press”
June 13-15, 2024
University of Stirling, Scotland
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals held its annual conference in Scotland at the University of Stirling, June 13-15, 2024. The conference was primarily in-person, although it included some hybrid sessions, including the Wolff and Colby lectures and the RSVP annual business meeting.
Much has changed in the decade since the RSVP conference last focused on “Place” (2014 in Delaware). In Stirling in 2024, we revisited the theme, a return that allowed us to consider changes in Periodical Studies as well as the academy in these years. RSVP members heard talks and panels on a variety of topics related to “place,” including:
- The representation of different types of place and locality, including the host country of Scotland
- Placemaking and the periodical press
- Place and the production and consumption of periodicals
- Content placement within the periodical press
- Changing places and changing relationships between periodicals, contributors, editors, publishers and readers
- Resisting/imposing place: knowing one’s place; pushing against one’s given place; being put in place Anchored in/dislocated from place
- Finding places for teaching Victorian periodicals