Hard Times The Victorians Institute ConferenceNC State University and Methodist UniversityRaleigh, NCSat-Sun October 7-8, 2023 “Hard Times” was a frequent Victorian refrain, perhaps most famously in the title of Charles Dickens’s 1854 novel but also in Stephen Foster’s 1854 song “Hard Times Come…
Baylor University will be hosting the 2022 annual conference for the British Women Writers Association. For more information about the conference, you can see the attached CFP and fliers, or you can visit the website. BWWC 2022 CFP BWWC2022_flier.
The “Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies” conference successfully pioneered a new model of multi-site, flightless conferencing in keeping with its environmental focus. More than 250 people participated at five different sites—Baylor, Georgetown, Lancaster, Washington, and Emory—while 601 viewers connected through the…
Wednesday-Saturday, September 18-21 This flightless, multi-site, interdisciplinary conference explores the confluences between environmental and religious perspectives and practices in the long Anglophone nineteenth century (1780-1900). In response to the rapid acceleration of climate change since that century, this conference avoids air travel by…
Read below about several events and opportunities coming up regarding ecology and religion in nineteenth-century studies. 1. “Alternative Sources of Power: Victorian Religious Ecologies” Seminar at MVSA 2019, led by Dr. Joshua King. Putting “religion” next to “power” in scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain…
Dr. Josh King (English, Baylor) will be leading a seminar titled, “Alternative Sources of Power: Victorian Religious Ecologies” at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2019 Conference in April. See the Seminar CFP below for details about the seminars, and visit the MVSA website…
The North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) will hold its 2016 annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona November 2-5. The Conference Committee invites proposals for papers and panels on the subject of Social Victorians. Questions to consider are: What does it mean to speak of the…
Those of you who study George MacDonald might be interested in this conference at Oxford on George MacDonald and the Victorian Roots of Modern Fantasy: http://www.george-macdonald.com/macdonaldsociety/conference2014.html