CFP: Victorian Legacies (6/1/03; 10/9/03-10/11/03)

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       Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association
              of the Western United States

The eighth annual VISAWUS conference will be hosted by Departments
of English at Southwest Texas State University and the University
of Texas-Austin in Austin, TX, October 9-11, 2003.

The focus of this year's conference is Victorian Legacies. We
invite proposals for 20 minute papers or full panels (three papers)
addressing the full range of the Victorians' legacies to their
inheritors: attitudes, music, an educational system, political
divisions in the colonized world, the class system, an urge to
travel, press standards, etc. Papers may focus on the Victorian
end or the post-Victorian end of the legacy.

The 2003 keynote speaker will be Martin Wiener, Mary Gibbs Jones
Professor of History, Rice University, Houston, TX. Professor
Wiener has written many books and articles about British history
and the history of criminal justice in Britain. He has just completed
a book titled "Men of Blood": Contesting Violence in Victorian
England, with another work in progress that deals with the handling
of inter-racial homocides in the British Empire in the late Victorian
period.

The conference hotel with special conference rates will be the
Doubletree Guest Suites, 303 W. 15th Street in Austin, (512)
478-7000. Sessions will be held at the Texas Union on the University
of Texas campus. Special programs and exhibits are being planned
on the UT campus and at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research
Center.

Paper proposals, a maximum of the equivalent of two double-sided
pages, should be emailed to Prof. George Griffith, Ggriffith_at_csc1.csc.edu.
 Deadline for proposals will be June 6, 2003.

Further information concerning fees, local hotels, and transportation
will be available soon from Conference Chair Kathryn Ledbetter,
Kledbetter_at_swt.edu.

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