UPDATE: The Nineteenth Century Studies Association will be accepting proposals (250 words) for its special panel in the NAVSA conference to be held in Toronto in October, 2004. Non-NCSA members can submit proposals, with the expectation that all selected panelists will become members. Submitters will be informed of the final selections very quickly after Feb. 9 and before the Feb. 16th deadline for general submissions to the NAVSA conference. All submissions on the topic of "Victorian Frontiers" will be seriously considered, although the selection committee is especially interested in papers that take interdisciplinary approaches and/or address nonliterary works. See details below:
Special Nineteenth Century Studies Association panel at
Victorian Frontiers
North American Victorian Studies Association
Annual Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
On October 29-31 (Friday - Sunday) 2004, the North American Victorian Studies Association, with the Victorian Studies Association of Ontario, will be holding its second annual conference at the campus of the University of Toronto in downtown Toronto. The Nineteenth Century Studies Association has been invited to host a special panel at the conference. Deadline for receipt of proposals for the special panel is February 9, 2004.
NAVSA was established in 2002 to encourage a wide variety of theoretical and disciplinary approaches to the study of the Victorian period. The theme of the 2004 conference - "Victorian Frontiers" - is intended to echo this aim. The conference will address various notions of frontiers, including the geographical, scientific, technological, aesthetic, economic, and philosophical. Possible topics for paper and panel proposals include: publishing frontiers and boundaries; frontiers of gender and sexuality; relations with settler colonies and indigenous peoples; the construction of Englishness in relation to the rest of Britain; class relations, democracy and reform; urban frontiers such as the slum and the East End; domestic frontiers and a re-evaluation of separate spheres; aestheticism and the frontier of literary or artistic form; and the impact of technology on notions of the frontier. The organizing committee also hopes to see proposals that address the ways in which Victorians understood the frontiers
of their subjectivity, and their relation to such things as the essential, the ethical, and the infinite.
Such subjects also raise the question of the possibilities and limits of Victorian Studies itself. The NCSA panel committee therefore welcomes proposals of papers analyzing the current tools being used to understand the Victorian period. What are our own theoretical frontiers and what are their limits? How have recent developments in and expansions of scholarly frontiers shaped our image of Victorian society? What risks and potential blindnesses arise as new theoretical paradigms or areas of study are welcomed? How might we, as scholars, address the possibility that, in the very act of developing new methodologies for analysis and articulation, we might lose other, often "Victorian," ways of seeing and understanding the individual and society. Approached in this way, the "Victorian Frontiers" conference will combine a discussion of new, innovative approaches to the study of the period with an awareness of the scholarly work that has led to the current lay of the land.
Proposals for talks (250 words) are due February 9, 2004, by email to:
Meri-Jane Rochelson (rochelso@fiu.edu), Dennis Denisoff (denisoff@arts.ryerson.ca) and Phylis Floyd (floyd@msu.edu).
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