Dear Colleagues,
We are thrilled to announce that the third keynote speaker for our conference Neo-Victorian Cultures: The Victorians Today will be A. N. Wilson, author of The Victorians, A Jealous Ghost, and, most recently, The Potter's Hand. Next A. N. Wilson, we are delighted to have confirmed keynotes by Dr Helen Davies (Teesside University), who will speak to us about "Sex, Death, and the Neo-Victorian Freakshow: The Cultural Afterlives of Extraordinary Victorian Bodies”, and Professor Margaret Stetz, an eminent Victorianist and women's studies scholar whose talk is entitled "Neo-Victorian Laughter: A Genealogy”. We are also pleased to host a roundtable, chaired by Professor Ann Heilmann (Cardiff University) on global perspectives on neo-Victorianism and the Victorians today.
We have already received interest and abstracts from a wide range of disciplines, spanning television and film studies, architecture, and literature, and we would be delighted if you considered submitting an abstract and/or attending what promises to be an extraordinarily exciting event.
Please find attached the conference poster, including CFP, as well as a text version below. Please feel free to circulate this as widely as possible and beyond the boundaries of your disciplines. You can find out more about the event and our keynote speakers on the conference website at http://www.neovictoriancultures.org.uk.
You can also follow us on Twitter (@Neo_Vic_Cult), and/or join us on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/NeoVictorianCultures).
We look forward to welcoming you to Liverpool this summer!
Very best wishes,
The Organisers
(Dr Nadine Muller, Dr Jonathan Cranfield, and Lucinda Matthews-Jones)
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Neo-Victorian Cultures: The Victorians Today
24-26 July 2013
Liverpool John Moores University
Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Helen Davies (Teesside University)
Prof. Margaret Stetz (University of Delaware)
A. N. Wilson (Author of The Victorians and The Potter's Hand)
While aesthetic, political and artistic returns to the Victorians have been prevalent throughout the twentieth century, the last decade has seen a particular surge in scholarly work addressing the seemingly ever continuing desire to reassess and adapt Victorian texts, theories, ideas and customs. This work has focused in particular on manifestations of the neo-Victorian on page and on screen, and this conference seeks to build on but also expand these debates by bringing together writers, practitioners and researchers working on the lasting presence of the Victorians since 1901 in a wide variety of realms, ranging from art and architecture to science, politics, economics, fiction and film. In doing so, the event aims to further expand the vibrant field neo-Victorian studies both within and beyond the arts and humanities through an examination of the Victorians’ continuing influence on twentieth and twenty-first century culture. We therefore welcome and encourage abstracts from postgraduate students, academics and independent researchers from all academic realms in the hope of capturing the diverse work being done on Victorian afterlives across a wide spectrum of disciplines and across traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, the following:
* the ethics, politics and aesthetics of adaptation
* neo-Victorian politics, economies and economics
* neo-Victorianism on page, screen and canvas
* neo-Victorian subcultures
* the Victorians in contemporary architecture, art and design
* neo-Victorian journalism/ the Victorian press and contemporary journalism
* the Victorians in contemporary science and medicine
* the neo-Victorian canon
* teaching neo-Victorianism
* the neo-Victorian marketplace; marketing the (neo-)Victorians
* Steampunk
Presentations should take the form of 20-minute papers. We also welcome proposals for fully-formed panels or roundtables. For individual papers, please submit a 300-word abstract as well as a short biographical note. For panel and roundtable proposals, please provide a brief outline of the session’s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker and for the proposed panel chair or discussant. All proposals should be emailed to the organisers at [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> no later than 1 March 2013. Please do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions about the event.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and hope to welcome you to LJMU in July!
The Organisers
Nadine Muller, Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Jonathan Cranfield
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