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Dear colleagues:
I am posting this CFP at the request of James Eli Adams, president of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. The program committee is especially interested in receiving proposals from historians.
Thanks,
Carol Engelhardt
History Department
Wright State University
Dayton, OH 45435
Northeast Victorian Studies Association 2005 Conference
VICTORIAN COLLABORATION
31st Annual Meeting: April 15-17, 2005 at American University,
Washington, D.C.
NVSA welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of Victorian
Collaboration. The topic can be broadly construed to include partnerships,
organizations, corporations, companies, collectives, coalitions,
conspiracies, alliances, movements, unions, collusion, productive
friendships, brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and political collaboration (as
well as differences among these concepts). We especially encourage papers
in which analysis of particular collaborations, or representations of
collaboration, might pose larger questions about collaborative agency in
cultural production generally. How might reflection on collaboration, that
is, change our understandings of authorship, art, scientific discovery,
technological innovation, economic and social development, political
action, and other forms of creation and change?
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Literary and artistic collaboration:
Collective authorship (e.g. Michael Field)
collaborative authorship (Dickens and Collins, Marx and Engels)
collaborative narratives (Jekyll and Hyde, Woman in White)
authors and illustrators; editorial collaboration (formal or informal) in journalism or book publishing
artists, models, and patrons; theatrical and operatic companies
music and dance
artistic collectives and societies (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood,
Society of Authors, etc.)
debate over copyright and patents
Scholarly and scientific collaboration:
The DNB, the OED, scholarly (or pseudo-scholarly) organizations
and societies (BAAS, the Anthropological Society, the Browning Society,
etc.), scholarly disciplines and academic organizations (including new
universities and faculties), intellectual journals (Mind, Nature, Notes &
Queries, etc.); scientific expeditions; surveying and cartography;
standardizing measurement; the laboratory (in academia, industry, and
fiction); museums, libraries, and archives
Business, economic, and technological collaboration:
"the firm," the partnership, the corporation; debate over limited
liability; banking and finance; the factory and industrial production;
international trade; new technologies and their development (railways, the
telegraph, electric lighting.); engineering; international exhibitions
(e.g. the Crystal Palace); housing development; public architecture and
public works (e.g. the Thames Embankment); advertising; professional
societies; economic cooperatives; insurance (Lloyd's, burial societies,
etc.); trades unions
Social and Political Collaboration:
Victoria and Albert; Parliamentary ministries, major legislation
(Reform Bills, Divorce Act, Education Act, etc.), investigations and Blue
Books; political movements (the Anti-Corn Law League, Young England,
Chartism, women's suffrage, Fenianism, etc.); religious orders and
affiliations; voluntary organizations and charitable societies; public
health initiatives; "urban investigation"; the Post Office; the police
force; criminal collaboration; secret societies (including espionage);
collaborating with the enemy; international alliances, in peace and war;
colonial administration (including the East India Company)
Paper Proposals (no more than two double-spaced pages) by Oct. 15, 2004 to the address below.
Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on your
proposal: we review proposals anonymously. Please do include your name,
institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover
letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to
provide ample discussion time.
Teaching Roundtable: The program will include a roundtable discussion on
pedagogy. This years topic is Victorian Studies and Collaborative
Teaching. If you would like to make a presentation, please contact
Professor Don Ulin, Division of Humanities, University of Pittsburgh at
Bradford, 300 Campus Drive, Bradford, PA, 16701 (fax: 814-362-5094; email:
ulin@pitt.edu) describing briefly (no more than one double-spaced page) the
aspects of pedagogy that you would like to share. Keep in mind that being
a presenter means creating an atmosphere for stimulating discussion rather
than giving a paper.
The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant
($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded
annually to the graduate student, adjunct instructor, or independent
scholar who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our
conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be
considered (and mention if you have other sources of funding).
To join NVSA, or to renew your membership for the 2004-2005 membership
year, please return the attached tear-off to Prof. Joan Dagle. Dr. Hartley
Spatt (24 Center Street, Woodmere, NY 11598) urges all members to send him
a note subscribing to the Victorian Studies Bulletin ($5.00 a year).
Finally, our Vice-President for Information Services, Professor Glenn
Everett, has established a NVSA e-mail list (NVSA-L) and NVSA Home
Page (www.stonehill.edu/nvsa). The Web site offers items of interest to
NVSA members. NVSA-L is a place to summarize and share conference
activities and logistics, and to conduct NVSA business. It's used mainly
around conference time, so dont worry that it will clutter up your
mailboxes. To subscribe, send a message to ListProc@stonehill.edu. Leave
the subject line blank; on the message line write SUB-NVSA-L .
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