The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference 2001
The second annual conference of the Association will focus on "Victorian
Performances" and take place at Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK between
Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th September, 2001.
Keynote speakers are Professor Hilary Fraser, Professor of English,
University
of Western Australia, and Professor Jacky Bratton, Professor of Theatre and
Cultural History, Royal Holloway College, University of London.
CALL FOR PAPERS
We seek proposals and expressions of interest for twenty minute papers, as
well
as proposals and/or suggestions for longer panels, roundtables and
workshops on
aspects of the "long nineteenth century" (from 1789 to 1914), with
particular
emphasis on the idea of the performative in Victorian culture, and
Victorian
performances in all their permutations. Topics might include: the
performances
of politics of empire; of public and private life; performances and the
performative in fiction and poetry (as well as theatre); the performances
of
authorship; the performance of gender and sexuality; and the performance of
race, ethnicity and class. Selected papers may be published in a special
number of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
Special events include a reception in the Ruskin Library at Lancaster
University, including a discussion of the current exhibition, "Ruskin and
Switzerland," and an opportunity to view the specialist Ruskin Collection,
a
forum on publishing in Victorian Studies, and a postgraduate
work-in-progress
roundtable. Selected papers from the conference will be published in a
special
number of Nineteenth-Century Contexts.
BAVS is offering four bursaries (to cover registration and accommodation)
on a
competitive basis to postgraduate research students who are giving full
papers
at the conference. Please indicate if you would like to be considered for
a
bursary when forwarding your paper proposal and abstract.
For further enquiries, registration information, and offers of papers,
contact:
Dr Kate Newey
Head, Department of Theatre Studies
Lancaster University
Lancaster, LA1 4YW
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http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/theatre/kate.html
+44 (0)1524 594163
fax: +44 (0)1524 39021
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