Call for Papers: Victorians in the World
2015 North American Victorian Studies Association Annual
Conference
July 9-12, 2015
Hilton Hawaiian Village, Honolulu, Hawaii
NAVSA was established in 2002 to provide a continental forum
for discussion of critical issues in the Victorian period, and to encourage a
wide variety of critical and disciplinary approaches to the study of the
field. NAVSA sponsors an annual
conference to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of research in
Victorian studies. Earlier conferences
have been held in Pasadena, CA, Venice, IT, and Madison, WI.
Plenary speakers include Vanessa Smith of the University of
Sydney, and Jonathan Osorio of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
The organizing committee for the 2015 NAVSA Annual
Conference invites proposals for papers, panels, and special sessions on the
subject of Victorians in the World.
Conference threads might include (but are certainly not limited to):
Victorian Travel Writing
Britain and America: the Special Relationship
South Asians in England
The Grotesque: Exquisite Bodies on Display
“Going Native”: Victorians in the Caribbean
Emigration
Victorian Worldviews
The Scottish Diaspora
Absent-Minded Imperialists
The foreign correspondents
The Victorians and the World’s Fairs
Architectural Imperialism
French maids and English nannies
Ibsen and the London theatre
The world in the Victorian school
Oceania in the Victorian Imagination
Marketing Scotland to the World
Dickens around the world
Deadline for paper and panel proposals is December 1, 2014;
proposals for individual papers consist of a one-page (250-500 word) summary of
the paper plus a one-page abbreviated cv.
For panels, a paragraph describing the panel, plus a one page summary
for each paper and a one page abbreviated cv for each participant is
required.
Proposals should be sent to Stephen Hancock, Conference
Chair, hancocks@byuh.edu
