CONFERENCES

PAST CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

18-20 July 2008, ‘Artistry and Industry: Representations of Creative Labour in Literature and the Visual Arts c. 1830-1900’, An International Conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Literatures, University of Exeter in collaboration with the Department of History of Art, University of Bristol, and supported by British Association for Victorian Studies
Location: University of Exeter
Focus: This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine the nature and representation of artistic labour within the nineteenth century's expanding print and visual culture. Its focus will be on artistic ‘industry' in a variety of forms including, but not limited to, the nature of artistic work as conceptualised by writers and artists, artistry as a profession, and art as commodity (Source: Conference website, http://www.sall.ex.ac.uk/conferences/artistry-and-industry.html). Call for papers: Closed
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
Conference organizers: Dr Sunie Fletcher, Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Sally-Anne Huxtable, Dr Patricia Zakreski Keynote speakers: Michael Hatt (Professor of Art History, University of Warwick); Talia Schaffer (Associate Professor of English, CUNY)
Plenary Panel: Pamela Gerrish Nunn (Canterbury, New Zealand); Richard Salmon (Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature, University of Leeds); Valerie Sanders (Professor of English Literature, University of Hull)

18th - 19th July 2008, ‘Persistent Ruskin – Aesthetics, Education, Social Theory, 1870-1914’, University of Lancaster. The conference is being organized by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University, in association with Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Salford as part of the John Ruskin, Cultural Travel and Popular Access project.
Location: Ruskin Centre, Lancaster University
Focus: The conference will focus on the persistence of Ruskin’s ideas and social experiments on into the period when his individual presence had been withdrawn from public scrutiny. The conference is particularly interested in the continuing social, aesthetic and intellectual influence of his thought, social and commercial practices, and aesthetic ideas in the late Victorian and Edwardian period, and the ways in which his arguments were acknowledged and enacted at this time (Source: Conference website, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/faculty/event/2116/).
Call for papers: Closed
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
See http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/ruskin/documents/Persistent%20Ruskin%20Schedule.doc for conference programme. Conference Organizers: Dr Rachel Dickinson (Lancaster University) and Prof. Brian Maidment (University of Salford) Keynote speakers: Melissa Renn (Harvard University Art Museum); Melanie Hall (Boston University); Alan Crawford (Independent Scholar)

25th - 27th September 2008, ‘Ruskin, Venice, and 19th Century Cultural Travel’, Venice. The conference is being organized by The Ruskin Centre at Lancaster University; INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies; and The Department of European and Postcolonial Studies of University of Ca' Foscari Venice.
Location: Venice International University (Island of San Servolo)
Focus: The conference is interested in a range of disciplines broadly relating to John Ruskin, Venice or Cultural Travel in relation to the long nineteenth century. Topics include: Cultural Tourism, Topographies, Empires & Commerce, Romantic Contexts, Architectures, Gendered Places, Religious Cultures, Paintings, Museums & Exhibitions, Restoration & Conservation, Photographies, Education & Access (Source: Conference website, http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/events/venice/).
Call for papers: Closed
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
Conference Organizers: Dr. Emma Sdegno (University of Ca' Foscari), Dr. Rachel Dickinson (Lancaster University) and Prof. Keith Hanley (Lancaster University).
Plenary Speakers: Anna Laura Lepschy on the reception of Tintoretto in the nineteenth-century; James Buzard on Cultural Travel; and Robert Hewison on Ruskin and Venice.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

31 October 2008, Lecturing the Victorians Symposium
Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Call for papers: Closed
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
Conference Organizers: Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, Michael Ledger-Lomas, mcl27@cam.ac.uk

14th-16th November 2008, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Meeting
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Focus: NAVSA 2008 will offer an interdisciplinary examination of the cultures of Victorian Britain: high and low, domestic and imperial, metropolitan and regional. The conference will welcome presentations on topics from the widest possible range of disciplines and interdisciplinary approaches, including those that define Victorian Britain broadly to encompass comparative perspectives on colonial and continental subjects (Source: Conference website, https://webspace.yale.edu/navsa2008/).
Call for papers: Closed
Panel on Ruskin: ‘Rethinking Ruskin’, chaired by Deanna Kreisel.
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
Conference Convenors: Janice Carlisle and Tim Barringer; Conference Administrator: Caroline Murphree.

June 4-5th, 2009, ‘John Ruskin’s posterity: Ruskinian legacy through literature and art writings’
Location: University of Lille III- Salle des colloques
Deadline for proposals: 15 December, 2008
Conference Organizers: Joëlle Prungnaud, Professor of Comparative Literature, ALITHILA, EA 1061, Joelle.prungnaud@univ-lille3.fr and Isabelle Enaud-Lechien, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art History, IRHIS, UMR 8259, isabelle.enaud@univ-lille3.fr

2-3 October 2009, ‘British Aestheticisms: Sources, Genres, Definitions, Evolutions’,
Location: Université Paul Valéry, Montpellier
Focus: The conference aims at re-examining the notion of Aestheticism from a transdisciplinary perspective and hopes to attract contributions (in French or in English)from researchers across the fields of British studies, comparative studies, art history, publishing history, aesthetics, philosophy, reception theory, women’s studies, queer theory, and gay and lesbian studies (Source: Conference website, http://www.esthetismes.org/).
Deadline for proposals: 01 December, 2008
Conference Organizers: CERVEC Research Center (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes, Edouardiennes et Contemporaines, EA 741) of the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, France

17 October 2009, ‘Tennyson and Their Readers: A Bicentenary Celebration, 1809 – 2009’
Location: Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK
Focus: Short Papers are therefore invited, exploring the links, not only between Tennyson and Darwin, but more generally between the writings of nineteenth century scientists and of nineteenth century poets or novelists - evidence that they were reading each other. Some more obvious subjects might be: George Eliot or John Ruskin's reading of Darwin (Source: Conference website, http://www.essenglish.org/cfp/conf0904.html).
Deadline for proposals: 1 October 2008.
Conference Organizers: Dr Valerie Purton, Department of English (Anglia Ruskin University), Valerie.Purton@anglia.ac.uk.
Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Dame Gillian Beer (Clare Hall College, Cambridge) and Professor George Levine, Emeritus Professor (Rutgers University, U.S.A).