Forthcoming Events sponsored
by the Association
Details are also now available for the 2009 Conference, an exciting collaboration between BAVS and NAVSA (the North American Victorian Studies Association) at the University of Cambridge.
See the Cambridge Victorian Studies Group website for more details and the call for papers. . .
Artistry and Industry: Representations of Creative Labour in Literature and the Visual Arts c. 1830-1900
• Centre for Victorian Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Literatures, University of Exeter
• Department of History of Art, University of Bristol
18-20 July 2008, University of Exeter
Keynote speakers include Elizabeth Prettejohn (Professor of History of Art, University of Bristol) and Talia Schaffer (Associate Professor of English, CUNY).
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. Drawing together contributors from Literature, Art History, History, Drama and beyond, Artistry and Industry will also examine the connections and the separations between those artistic milieux regarded as high-culture (painting, sculpture, literature) and those classed as ‘art-industry’ - such as pottery-painting, art needlework or engraving – or even hack-work (such as Grub-Street writing).
We seek insights not only into the production, dissemination and consumption of particular texts or objets d’art, but into the myths and images developing around such figures as The Painter, The Lady Novelist, The Man of the Theatre, The Craftswoman, The Poet, The Illustrator and The Muse.
Conference organizers: Dr Sunie Fletcher, Dr Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Sally-Anne Huxtable, Dr Patricia Zakreski. For futher details please email: artindustry@exeter.ac.uk
Scottish Regional Seminars
In partnership with BAVS. The Scottish Regional Seminars are held regularly as a regional research forum for academics working in the Victorian period.
Venue: Napier University, New Craig, Craighouse Campus, Edinburgh
Convenors: Dr Linda Dryden and Dr Anne Schwan
For futher details please contact
Dr Anne Schwan, Lecturer in English Literature, School of Creative Industries, New Craig,Craighouse Campus, Edinburgh EH10 5LG. Email: a.schwan@napier.ac.uk
The Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Seminar Series (MIVSS)
In partnership with the Birmingham and Midland Institute and BAVS
The Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminars are held regularly in Birmingham, UK, as a research forum for academics working in the Victorian period.
For further information, please contact: Marion Thain (University of Birmingham), Rosie Miles (University of Wolverhampton), Richard Pearson (University of Worcester).