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When: October 15-17, 2020
Where: The Silver Legacy Resort & Circus Circus, Reno, Nevada
Deadline for abstracts: Abstracts are due by May 15, 2020. Please send a 300-word abstract with a one page CV (including an email address) as one file by April 20, 2020 to visawus2020@visawus.org. Please include your name in the file name.
Keynote speaker
Jolene Zigarovich, University of Northern Iowa. Jolene Zigarovich’s book publications include Writing Death and Absence in the Victorian Novel: Engraved Narratives, and she is editor of Sex and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature as well as TransGothic in Literature and Culture (Routledge 2017). Her work has been published in ANQ, Dickens Quarterly, Dickens Studies Annual, Eighteenth-Century Life, Studies in the Novel, The Wilkie Collins Journal, Victorian Review, and Women’s Studies. Her current work in progress, Necropolitics: Legislating the Dead Body and the Victorian Novel, considers the posthumous life of characters uncannily bound by legislation in the Victorian novel.
The Victorian Era was one of transitions. Victorian Britain transitioned from a rural to urban society. It transitioned from an emergent empire to the dominant imperial power. It transitioned from a walking, water, wind, and animal-based transportation system to a steam-powered transportation system. It transitioned from a regional to national and then imperial culture.
Our scholarly and pedagogical engagements with the era have also undergone a number of transitions. How do we and can we understand the word transitions as it applies to the Victorian era, its people, its art, its popular culture, and the scholarship and pedagogy engaged with them? How does the emergence of TRANS studies change the way we think about the Victorian and our own scholarly and pedagogical approaches to the era? How has the wider public’s understanding of and engagement with the Victorian era undergone transitions?
We encourage papers across all disciplines, including (but not restricted to) art history, literature, gender, history of science, history, material culture, political science, performance, life writing, journalism, photography, popular culture, and economics.
We welcome panels or papers on any of the above or the following topics — transitions in and through:
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Our COVID-19 contingency plan for the conference is here.
Note: Graduate Students are eligible for the William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award ($600).
Location & Hotel Information
The conference will take place at the Silver Legacy Resort Casino and Circus Circus (they are adjacent to each other). The following room rates include the $30.00 resort fee:
Silver Legacy-Deluxe Guest Room. Wednesday $80 — Thursday $80 — Friday $130 — Saturday $140.
Circus Circus North Tower Guest Room. Wednesday $70 — Thursday $70 — Friday $120 — Saturday $130
The above rates are for rooms with one King bed, single/double occupancy. Rooms with two Queens are an additional $10 per night. Triple/Quad occupancy is an additional $10 per person, per night.
All rates include the $30.00 per room per night resort fee (subject to change). This resort fee provides guests with round-trip airport shuttle service 19 hours per day, covered valet or self parking, local/800 calls, in-room coffee, in-room and meeting space wireless internet (2 device limit per room), access to fitness center/health spa and boarding pass printing available at the Bell or Concierge Desk.
All rates are subject to a per room per night City of Reno mandated facility fee of $3.00 (all taxes and government fees are subject to change).
All rates and resort fee are subject to a Washoe County room tax, currently at thirteen and one-half percent (13.5%, all tax and government fees are subject to change). The above midweek rates (Sun-Thu) are valid three days pre and post meeting.
Last modified 17 April 2020