CFP: BAVS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WALES ABERYSTWYTH 4-6 SEPTEMBER 2003
The Age of Experiments, 1800-1900
The Annual Conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies
The nineteenth century was not only an age of scientific experiments and
technical developments, but it was also an age of social, political and
(pace Bloomsbury) aesthetic experimentation and innovation.
We invite proposals for papers (of 15-20 minutes duration) on any aspect of
experimentation and/or innovation in the nineteenth century, including
Victorian avant gardes, experimentation and innovation in music, literature
or the visual and plastic, arts, new technologies (and the responses to
them), innovatory thinking or practice in the sciences (including
experimentation and new developments in medical disciplines, and the
emergence of ‘new’ sciences), innovatory forms of cultural production,
social and sexual experimentation, the concern with the ‘new’.
Please send your proposal (300 words) to Professor Lyn Pykett/ Heike Bauer,
Department of English, University of Wales Aberystwyth, Penglais,
Aberystwyth, Ceredgion SY23 3DY . Or email [log in to unmask];
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Postgraduate bursaries: BAVS sponsors a small number of postgraduate
bursaries (covering registration fee and accommodation) for postgraduate
students who are selectd to present a paper or to act as a conference
reporter. We are also pleased to announce that The Jane Austen Society has
kindly agreed to sponsor a postgraduate bursary for the presentation of a
paper on Austen and/or her influence. To apply please send a copy of your
CV
and (where applicable) a 300-word abstract to the conference organisers at
the address above.
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