(December 1, 2023) CFP: The Dramatised Word: Theology, Philosophy and Literature in Conversation (16-20 September, 2024, La Sapienza University, Rome. ) [Description and call for papers]
(deadline extended to December 1, 2023) CFP: 'Flightless' Victorian Studies Conferences [Description and call for papers]
(November 15, 2023) CFP: Translation, Transposition, and Travel in the Global Nineteenth Century (Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress Global Studies Center, Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait, January 16-19, 2025) [Description and call for papers]
(November 15, 2023) CFP: The Curran Fellowships (The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) [Description and call for papers]
(November 15, 2023) CFP: Evolving Forms (April 19-21, 2024, University of Iowa) [Description and call for papers]
(November 3, 2023) CFP: Victorian Nature and Artifice (Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada Conference, April 26-27, 2024, Canmore Alberta) [Description and call for papers]
(November 1, 2023) CFP: Humour Across Victoriana (part of the series, Humour in Literature and Culture, Routledge, 2023-2025) [Description and call for papers]
(November 1, 2023) CFP: Leon Edel Prize (Henry James Review 2023) [Description and call for papers]
(October 25, 2024) CFP: The Third Anne Lister Society Meeting (Halifax, UK, April 5-6, 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(October 9, 2023) CFP: Recovering Lost Voices 19th Century British Literature (Call for Book Chapters) [Description and call for papers]
October 7, 2023. Emma Sandys: The Drama of Womanhood. Lecture to be given by Dr. Serena Trowbridge. Lecture starts at 11:45 am (GMT). Sponsored by the Pre- Raphaelite Society.
(October 2, 2023) CFP: Panel and Roundtable Proposals for INCS 2024 (Cincinatti, Ohio, 21-24, 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(October 1, 2023) CFP: NVSA Graduate Student Mentorship Program (Northeast Victorian Studies Association Mentorship Program 2023/24) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: Bodies and Boundaries: Victorian Anxiety through a Transimperial Lens (Panel Session, INCS Conference, March 21-24, 2024, in Cincinnati, Ohio) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: Spectrums of Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Panel Session, 55th NeMLA Annual Conference. March 7-10, 2024, Boston, Massachusetts.) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: Animals, Fashion, and Femininity in Material Culture (Insects and Material Culture) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: Workshop Proposals on Translation, Transposition, and Travel in the Global Nineteenth Century (January 16-19, 2025 at the Global Studies Center, Gulf University for Science and Technology, in Kuwait) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: ‘Matter Really Matters: Materialism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (NeMLA Annual Conference. March 7-10, 2024, Boston Massachusetts) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: Animals of the Victorian Age: Queer Ecology and the Emphasis on Animal Kinship (NeMLA Annual Conference, March 7-10, 2024, Boston Massachusetts) [Description and call for papers]
(September 30, 2023) CFP: The Promise and Precarity of Surplus Women in the 19th Century (NeMLA Annual Conference, March 7-10, 2024, Boston Massachusetts) [Description and call for papers]
(September 22-23, 2023) Conference Reminder: Paintings, Peepshows, and Porcupines: Exhibitions in London, 1775-1851 (September 22-23, 2023, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California) [Description and call for papers]
September 16, 2023. Fishy Tail: Gendering the Pre-Raphaelite Mermaids and Sirens. Lecture to be given by Cecilia Neil-Smith. Sponsored by the Pre-Raphaelite Society. Lecture starts at 11am (GMT), to be delivered via Zoom.
(September 15, 2023) CFP: Victorian Affects, Online Workshop (DACH Victorianists Network, December 8, 2023) [Description and call for papers]
(September 15, 2023) CFP: Nineteenth-Century Global Cities and Urban Worlds: An International Symposium (Aix-Marseille University, Schuman campus, 6-8 June, 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(September 15, 2023) CFP: Videogames and Victorian Studies (special issue of Victorian Review, 2023) [Description and call for papers]
(September 1, 2023) CFP: Victorian Periodicals Review (Special Issue on Pedagogy, Guest Edited by Lindsy Lawrence, to be published fall 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(September 1, 2023) CFP: The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal (online and in person; July 10-12, 2024, Durham University, UK.) [Description and call for papers]
(September 1, 2023) CFP: Victorians Transfictions and Transmedia Storytelling ( Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, Special Issue, Autumn 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(August 31) CFP: Translating Nineteenth-Century European Classics in Vernacular Languages of South Asia (Routledge series on South Asian Literature in Focus) [Description and call for papers]
(August 15, 2023) CFP: Victorian Waters, a conference of the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (University of Adelaide, Australia, November 17 and 18 2023) [Description and call for papers]
(August 15, 2023) The Brontë Studies Early Career Research Essay Prize (Brontë Studies) [Description and call for papers]
(August 1, 2023) CFP: Exploring the Nexus of Healing, Stories, and Illness in the Nineteenth Century and Today (IN-CSA Conference, Durham University, Durham, UK, July 10-July 12, 2024) [Description and call for papers]
(July 10, 2023) The 2022 INCS Richard Stein Essay Prize (winners to be announced by October or November 2023) [Description and call for papers]
(deadline extended to June 30, 2023) Special Issue on Water (Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies) [Description and call for papers]
(June 30, 2023) CFP: Notes from the Nile: Egypt in the Long Nineteenth Century (University of Birmingham, September 15, 2023) [Description and call for papers]
CFP: The Yellow Nineties (open-access scholarly resource) [Description and call for papers]
(extended to June 15, 2023) CFP: Special topics on Victorian Hospitality ( Victorians Journal, Winter Issue, 2023) [ Description and call for papers]
(June 15, 2023) CFP: Victorian Periodicals Review Essay Prizes [ Description and call for papers ]
(extended to June 1, 2023) CFP: Hard Times, the 2023 Conference of the Victorians Institute (NC State University and Methodist University, Raleigh, NC, USA. October 7-8, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 31, 2023) CFP: Dickens and Time (Senate House, London, 7 October, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 28, 2023) CFP: Summer Seminars (Midwest Victorian Studies Association, Virtual, September 9, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 24, 2023) CFP: Companion to Elizabeth Gaskell (edited by Elizabeth Ludlow and Rebecca Styler, to be published April 2024) [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 11, 2023) Nineteenth-Century Religion, Science, and Technology Roundtable (Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus and Zoom, May 11, 2023) [ Description and invitation ]
(May 2, 2023) CFP: Transnational Animal Welfare Activism and the Victorians (University of Surrey Online Conference, May 17, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 5, 2023) CFP: Women Staging and (Re-) Staging the Nineteenth Century II (Universitat de València, October 18-20, 2023 [ Description and call for papers ]
(April 16, 2023) CFP: VISAWUS 2023: Victorian Elements (October 19-21, 2023 [ Description and call for papers ]
(March 31, 2023) CFP: Dickens Fellowship Annual Conference 2023 (July 26-29, 2023), Barnard's Inn, London [ Description and call for papers ]
(March 31, 2023) CFP: "Body | Mind | Spirituality" (September 20-22, 2023), Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw [ Description and call for papers ]
(March 17, 2023) CFP: Walter Pater, The Renaissance, and Legacies of Aestheticism Conference (June 26-27, 2023), Trinity College, Oxford [ Description and call for papers ]
(March 1, 2023) CFP: Colonising and Decolonising the Irish Nineteenth Century (June 22-23, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(March 1, 2023) CFP: "Revision, Return, Reform" (Conference: November 9-11, 2023), NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association) [ Description and call for papers ]
(February 15, 2023) CFP: "Isobel Armstrong's Victorian Poetry at 30" (Roundtable) (November 9-11, 2023) [ Description and call for papers ]
(2-3 February 2023) "Hitting the Road! Travel Experiences and Narratives of the Victorian and Edwardian Era University of Tours, France" [ Description and call for papers ]
(February 1, 2023) "Cultures of Skin: Skin in Literature and Culture, Past, Present, Future" (Conferene: July 7-8, 2023) [ Description and call for papers )
(January 31, 2023) CFP: "Victorian Transformations" (May 24-25, 2023) Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies in collaboration with the Charlotte M. Yonge Fellowship [ Description and call for papers ]
The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies — announcement of its founding and call for papers in its journal. [ Description and call for papers ]
(25-28 October 2022) VII International Conference on Myth Criticism: “Myth: Theories of a Controversial Concept” at Universidad Complutense, Madrid [ Description and call for papers )
(October 7, 2022) Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference 2023: “Nineteenth Century Movement(s)” (Conference: April 13-16, 2023)[ Description and call for papers )
(25-29 July 2022) The Twenty-Fifth International Thomas Hardy Conference and Festival [ Description and call for papers )
(15-17 July October 2022) Gladstone Umbrella conference. [ Description and call for papers ]
(June 24, 2022) CFP: Power and Knowledge from the 18th Century to Today (November 24-25, 2022) [ Description and call for papers ]
(June 1, 2022) Northeast Conference on British Studies 2022 (October 21-22, 2022) [ Description and call for papers )
(2-4 June 2022) Faults and Fault Lines: Conference of SVEVE (The French Society for Victorian and Edwardian Studies)[ Description and call for papers )
(May 30, 2022) CFP: Public Statues and Sculpture Association and the Victorian Society Conference[ Description and call for papers )
(15 May 2022): Victorian Antipathies 4-5 November 2022 University of Stuttgart, Germany [ Description and call for papers )
(24th April 2022) 'Radical Thinking in the Long Nineteenth Century' [ Description and call for papers ]
(May 19-21 2022) British Women Writers Conference at Baylor University [ Description and call for papers )
(May 15, 2022) "The Rise of the Anthropocene in 19th-century Literature” [ Description and call for papers )
(6-8 May 2022) Sonorities and Sensing: Aestheticism, Sensation, and the Art of Sensing. Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference call for papers .
(30 April 2022) Victorian Discovery: Celebrating Innovation and Invention in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1789-1914 Description and call for papers ]
(8-10 April 2022) Recovery (at the Northeast Victorian Studies Association [ Description and call for papers ]
(6-8 April 2022) London Stage and the Nineteenth-Century World IV [ Description and call for papers ]
(1 April 2022) Crones, Crime, and the Gothic' - One-Day Conference (10-11 June 2022) [ Description and call for papers ]
(20 March 2022) Gender and Class Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century Literature (MLA 2023 Special Session). [ Description and invitation ]
(16-19 March 2022) Radicalism and Reform (at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference) [ Description and call for papers ]
(16-19 March 2022) Nineteenth-Century Theatre & Early Film (at the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association conference) [ Description and call for papers ]
(11-12 March) Victorian Apocalypse [Zoom conference] Clark Library, UCLA [ Description and invitation ]
(1 March 2022) 'Freethought in the Long Nineteenth Century: New Perspectives'[ Description and call for papers ]
(1 March 2022) Nineteenth-Century Visual Technologies in Contemporary Practices [ announcement and call for papers ]
(28 February) Victorian Studies Association of Ontario Spring 2022 Conference: Spaces of Confinement, Correction, and Spectacle. [ announcement and invitation ]
(28 February 2022) International Hopkins Conference: 23 and 24 September 2022; to be held online via Zoom. [ announcement and call for papers ]
(17 February 2022) The Belcher Fellowship colloquium on “Victorian Talk,” St Hugh’s College, Oxford. [ announcement and call for papers]
(2 February 2022) A new version of At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837-1901 [ announcement and invitation ]
(6-7 September 2022) The Past as Nightmare — An interdisciplinary conference at the University of Reading (UK) [ Description and call for papers ]
(24-27 March 2022) Nineteenth-Century Strata (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference), Salt Lake City, Utah. [ Description and call for papers ]
(19-20 February 2022) Call for Papers on Communities for an Online Conference organized by the Historical Fictions Research Network [ Description and call for papers ]
(27-28 January 2022) Victorian and Edwardian Interiors‚ Conference at Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès, France, [ Description and call for papers ]
(31 January 2022) Call for Papers: Comic Verse of the 19th Century: Power, Politics, Poetics' (conference: Wednesday 20th July 2022) [ Description and call for papers ]
(10 December 2021) Doyle and Storytelling — Free Online via Teams, hosted by Birkbeck College, University of London [ Description and directions for free access to online conference ]
(15 November 2021) Music and the Senses, a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts: An Interdisciplinary Journal [ Call for papers ]
(Abstracts 31 August 2021; completed essays 15 March 2022) The Palgrave Handbook of Neo-Victorian Literature and Other Media . [ Description and call for papers ]
(31 August 2021) Call for Papers for the Victorian Review : Victorian Scandals. [ Description and call for papers ]
(31 August 2021) Dickens: Heirs and Heirlooms — 13 Presentations. Sponsored by the Dickens Society [ Titles of presentations ]
(14-16 July 2021) Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) Conference [ Schedule of 34 panels and three keynotes ]
(14 July 2021) Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom. [ Description and invitation ]
(12-14 July 2021) The 26th Dickens Society Symposium (12-14 July 2021). The titles of 80 presentations ]
(23–24 June 2021) Opium Wars – Opium Cultures [ List of presentations ]
(11-17 June) Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space & Time, Competition & Transfer. [ Description and invitation ]
(21 May 2021) Middlemarch 150th Anniversary Symposium [ List of presentations ]
(29-30 January 2021) Popular forms and practices of reading and writing in the Victorian and Edwardian periods. SFEVE (Société Française d’Etudes Victoriennes et Edouardiennes). Université Paris-Est Créteil. [ Description and call for papers ]
(15-17 October 2020) Victorian Transitions — Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association for the Western United States. [ Description and call for papers ]
(25–27 June 2020) Edinburgh Conan Doyle Network Conference: Conan Doyle in Edinburgh [ Description and call for papers ]
(9 June 2020) #Dickens 150, a Virtual Transatlantic Global Gathering [ Description and call for papers ]
20 April 2020. “Africa, Diaspora, and the British Empire: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom” —A Virtual Roundtable. Sponsored by the Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at Arizona State University. [ Description of the roundtable ]
(19 October 2019) Dickens and Bodies — a One-Day Conference at the Senate House, University of London: [ Description and call for papers ]
(8-9 June 2019) Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, and the Fin de Siècle. [ Description and call for papers ]
(29-30 May 2019) Science and Spiritualism, 1750-1930. Leeds Trinity University. [ Description and call for papers ]
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