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

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

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)
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.

31 October 2008, Lecturing the Victorians Symposium
Location: Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
Conference Organizers: Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, Michael Ledger-Lomas, mcl27@cam.ac.uk
See PAST EVENTS for details

14th-16th November 2008, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Annual Meeting
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

17-19 April, 2009, ‘Tipping Points: Pivotal Moments in Victorian Culture’
Location: Indiana University East, Richmond, IN
Focus: 2009 marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species. In commemoration of that epochal event, the MVSA 2009 conference will showcase papers that explore events or works that signal profound shifts—“tipping points”: Darwinian tipping points, as well as those in the literary, musical, economic, and intellectual life of Britain and its empire during the long nineteenth century.
(Source: Conference website, http://www.midwestvictorian.org/conference/conference2009.html).
Call for papers: Closed
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.
Conference Convenors: For information on the conference please visit the Web site at http://www.midwestvictorian.org or email questions to Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, MVSA Executive Secretary at mailto:aclappit@indiana.edu.

FORTHCOMING CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS

June 4-5th, 2009, ‘John Ruskin’s posterity: Ruskinian legacy through literature and art writings’
Location: University of Lille III- Salle des colloques
Focus: This conference explores the nature of the Ruskian heritage within literary texts, art criticism, and aesthetics. Topics include the development of particular sensibilities in artistic reception; the creative process as informed by religious or social impulses; the possible education of the aesthetic gaze; politics of conservation vs. opposition to practices of restoration; and conceptions of the heritage of medieval architecture; as well as how laterwriters and critics continue to re-evaluate and redeploy Ruskin’s ideas and for what reasons (Source: Conference website, http://www.inha.fr/spip.php?article1985).
Call for papers: Closed
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
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.

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/).
Call for papers: Closed
Conference Organizers: CERVEC Research Center (Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Victoriennes, Edouardiennes et Contemporaines, EA 741) of the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier, France
Guest Speakers: Prof. Pamela Gerrish Nunn (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Prof. Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada), and Prof. Talia Schaffer (City University of New York, USA).

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).
Call for papers: Closed
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).

17-18 June 2010, Ruskin Library and Research Centre conference event, with the University of Liverpool.
Location: 17 June 2010: Day one will take place at the University of Liverpool; 18 June 2010: Day two will take place at Lancaster University.
Organizer: Ruskin Research Centre, Contact: Lauren Proctor at l.s.proctor@lancaster.ac.uk

The Ruskin Centre holds weekly research seminars during term time.
See CURRENT RESEARCH for the list of papers.