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.
>
>
Sally M. Horrocks
Department of Economic and Social History
University of Leicester
Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
tel. 0116 252 5070/ 2588
fax. 0116 252 5081
email [log in to unmask]
http://www.le.ac.uk/esh/staff/smh4.html
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