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CALL FOR PAPERS
The North American Victorian Studies Association and the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada will join forces for a joint conference to be held 10-13 October 2007. Featured presenters are Linda K. Hughes, Philippa Levine, and Lynda Nead.
The theme for the NAVSA/VSAWC 2007 conference is Victorian Materialities. Conference threads include all aspects of Victorian material culture. Proposals for the general call for papers will be due February 15, 2007. All proposals should be two pages (500 words) long; please include in addition a one-page curriculum vitae. Please submit electronically as an attachment in .doc or .rtf format. All participants must have paid 2007 NAVSA or VSAWC dues.
They should be sent to navsa@uvic.ca.
The conference will also include a number of interdisciplinary special Sessions organized by the following people:
1. Material Empire: Exchanging Objects and Shaping Imperial Identities
Julie F. Codell
Professor, Art History and English
Arizona State University
julie.codell@asu.edu
2. Materiality and Memory
Kate Flint
Professor of English
Rutgers University
kflint@rci.rutgers.edu
3. William Morris and Material Culture
Florence Boos
Department of English
University of Iowa
florence-boos@uiowa.edu
4. Grit in the Lens: The Instruments of Victorian Visuality
Dennis Denisoff
Ryerson Research Chair
Department of English and Graduate Programme in
Communications and Culture
Ryerson University
denisoff@arts.ryerson.ca
5. Queer Matters/Queer Materialities
John Potvin
Assistant Professor
School of Fine Art and Music
University of Guelph
j_potvin99@yahoo.ca
6. Victorian Deformities
Nadja Durbach
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of Utah
N.Durbach@m.cc.utah.edu
7. (Im)materialities: Religion and Material Culture
Joy Dixon
Associate Professor
Department of History
University of British Columbia
joydixon@interchange.ubc.ca
8. The Gendered Material Culture of Aestheticism and Decadence
Diana Maltz
Department of English
Southern Oregon University
MaltzD@sou.edu
9. Pre-Raphaelite Conflicts Between Aesthetic Production and Economic Imperatives
Sophia Andres
Professor of English
University of Texas, Permian Basin
andres_s@utpb.edu
10. Metropolitan Materialities
Lara Kriegel
Department of History
Florida International University
lara.kriegel@fiu.edu
For more detailed descriptions of each session, please see our website: http://web.uvic.ca/~navsa/.
Proposals for special sessions should be sent to session organizers by February 1, 2007. Papers that are not accepted for particular sessions will automatically be included in the general call for papers and will be considered for inclusion in the program at large.
Questions should be directed to Dr. Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria: lsurridg@uvic.ca
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