The BAVS Ninth Annual conference, 2008

Victorian Feeling: Touch, Bodies, Emotions

The University of Leicester 1-3 September 2008

Organised by Gowan Dawson, Holly Furneaux, Julian North and Joanne Shattock on behalf of the Victorian Studies Centre at the University of Leicester

Plenary speakers

William A. Cohen ( University of Maryland)

Christopher Lane (Northwestern University)

Samantha Matthews ( University of Sheffield)

Michael Roper ( University of Essex)

Rebecca Stott ( University of East Anglia)

Paul White ( University of Cambridge)

This interdisciplinary conference seeks to address all aspects of nineteenth-century tactile, emotional and embodied experience. Drawing on three decades of rich attention to Victorian bodies inspired by thinkers as diverse as, for example, Bakhtin, Foucault, and Poovey, this event pursues and endeavours to contribute to new developments in the ways that we can conceive of physical and psychical experience in this period. Alongside attention to personal feeling and its expression in verbal, visual and aural culture, we encourage contributions that address collective and (anti)social experiences, political, philosophical, economic, scientific and religious sensibilities, cultures of feeling and interpersonal relations.

April Love by Arthur Hughes (1855-56). By kind permission of Tate

Download the call for papers. The deadline for paper proposals is 31 March 2008.

Please address enquires to Holly Furneaux, on behalf of the organising committee, at hf35@le.ac.uk. Further details, including information about bursaries for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers, are available at www.le.ac.uk/ee/vs. Booking forms are also now available.