About BAVS
The British Association for Victorian Studies (founded in 2000) is a multi-disciplinary organisation, dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the Victorian period. It has over 600 members, drawn from the academic community and the general public, in both the UK and abroad. Members have a wide range of interests in the nineteenth century, including art history, cultural studies, history, literary studies, performance studies and the history of science.
Notices
The annual BAVS conference will be held at the University of Sheffield between 30th August and 1st September 2012. The theme is 'Victorian Values: Economics, Ethics and Aesthetics'. The CFP is available to download here. Please send abstracts to bavs2012@gmail.com by 31st March 2012.
Dr. Holly Furneaux has been appointed the new BAVS secretary. She replaces Professor Mark Llewellyn, who left the post to become Director of Research at the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The autum 2011 newsletter is now online. This issue is rich in conference reports, including of the association's recent meeting at Birmingham. There is an art history focus as Stephen Roberts reports on the discovery of a long-lost oil painting and Rosemary Mitchell reflects on ‘Art for the Nation: Sir Charles Eastlake’ at the National Gallery. Members login for access . . .
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2011 Sally Ledger Memorial Travel Bursary award: Jessica Legnini, doctoral student at the University of Warwick, for a paper entitled, “American Blackface Minstrelsy and its English Audiences, 1843-1847” and Natasha Moore, doctoral student at the University of Oxford, for a paper entitled, “‘Know I my meaning?’: Self-Dramatization in George Meredith’s Modern Love”. More information . . .
The next deadline for BAVS funding will be 31st May 2012. For further details please see the funding pages . . .
The BAVS postgraduate blog for BAVS studentsThe Victorianist continues to grow. Please do get in touch if you would like us to post information related to postgraduate work in Victorian subjects: book suggestions, call for papers, events, conferences, reading groups . . .whatever you think will be fascinating.
You are also very welcome to subscribe to emails alerting you to new posts and events (found at the top right of the homepage). For any further details please contact Mary Shannon and Allison Neal.
The annual conference is at the heart of the Association's activities. The 2011 annual conference took place at the University of Birmingham from 1-3 September 2011 on the theme of Composition and Decomposition. See the conference website for further details: http://www.drama.bham.ac.uk/conferences/bavs/
Throughout the year, regular newsletters provide members with critical comment and a wealth of information about developments and upcoming events in the field. Read back issues here…
BAVS is committed to supporting scholarship at every level. Funding is available for conferences and seminar series. See here for more details and how to apply . . .
The Association is run by and for its members.
Read the BAVS constitution …
The British Association for Victorian Studies mourns the death of Sally Ledger.
Please read our tribute to Sally here . . .