From: navsa-AT-purdue.edu Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 15:05:19 -0500 Subject: North American Victorian Studies Association CFP: 2/16/04 Victorian Frontiers The Second Annual Conference of the NORTH AMERICAN VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Toronto 28-31 October 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS NAVSA was established in 2002 to encourage a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches to the study of the Victorian period and to further the interests of Victorianists in the profession. Annual conferences bring together Victorianists and facilitate the networking of scholarship across regional and national boundaries. The theme of the 2004 conference is "Victorian Frontiers." The conference will be located at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto and is sponsored by the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (VSAO) in association with the University of Toronto, York University, Ryerson University, and Trent University. Plenary speakers and Seminar leaders include JAMES ELI ADAMS, PATRICK BRANTLINGER, KATE FLINT, LINDA and MICHAEL HUTCHEON, AUDREY JAFFE, DIANNE SACHKO MACLEOD, JEROME MCGANN, HARRIET RITVO, and JAMES VERNON. Special panels are organized by Annmarie Adams, Richard Dellamora, Andrew Miller, Kathy Alexis Psomiades, Dianne Sadoff, Ann B. Shteir, and Marjorie Stone, and by the Dickens Project, HBA, INCS, MVSA, NCSA, VISAWUS, VSAWC, and WMS (see website for their topics). We are accepting proposals for papers on any topic related to the conference theme, including geographical, scientific, technological, aesthetic, economic, and philosophical frontiers; publishing frontiers and boundaries; frontiers of gender and sexuality; relations with settler colonies and indigenous peoples; the construction of Englishness in relation to the rest of Britain; class relations, democracy, and reform; urban frontiers of the slum and the East End; domestic frontiers and a re-evaluation of separate spheres; aestheticism and the frontier of literary or artistic form; the impact of technology on notions of the frontier; the idea of the infinite; the frontiers of subjectivity. Papers are also welcome on the current tools being used to understand the Victorian period, the theoretical frontiers (and their limits) of Victorian Studies itself. Please send in the post THREE paper copies of your proposal (250-400 words) for a 15-minute talk to ONE of the addresses below by 16 FEBRUARY 2004. Include with your proposal a one-page CV and your institutional and e-mail addresses. David Latham 208 Stong College York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Jill Matus 7 King's College Circle University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 3K1 Please see our conference website for more information: http://www.utoronto.ca/english/navsa Submit one proposal only to either a special panel organizer, to an association panel organizer, or to our general Call for Papers. Do not send complete papers. Proposals (in triplicate) should be postmarked no later than 16 February 2004. Direct enquiries to dlatham-AT-yorku.ca (or) jmatus-AT-chass.utoronto.ca --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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