CALL FOR PAPERS
VICTORIAN COLLABORATION
31st Annual Meeting: April 15-17, 2005 at American University, Washington, D.C.
NVSA welcomes proposals for papers on the topic of Victorian Collaboration. The topic can be broadly construed to include partnerships, organizations, corporations, companies, collectives, coalitions, conspiracies, alliances, movements, unions, collusion, productive friendships, brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and political collaboration (as well as differences among these concepts). We especially encourage papers in which analysis of particular collaborations, or representations of collaboration, might pose larger questions about collaborative agency in cultural production generally. How might reflection on collaboration, that is, change our understandings of authorship, art, scientific discovery, technological innovation, economic and social development, political action, and other forms of creation and change?
Topics might include (but are not limited to):
Literary and artistic collaboration:
Collective authorship (e.g. Michael Field); collaborative authorship (Dickens and Collins, Marx and Engels); collaborative narratives (Jekyll and Hyde, Woman in White); authors and illustrators; editorial collaboration (formal or informal) in journalism or book publishing; artists, models, and patrons; theatrical and operatic companies; music and dance; artistic collectives and societies (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Society of Authors, etc.); debate over copyright and patents.Scholarly and scientific collaboration:
The DNB, the OED, scholarly (or pseudo-scholarly) organizations and societies (BAAS, the Anthropological Society, the Browning Society, etc.), scholarly disciplines and academic organizations (including new universities and faculties), intellectual journals (Mind, Nature, Notes & Queries, etc.); scientific expeditions; surveying and cartography; standardizing measurement; the laboratory (in academia, industry, and fiction); museums, libraries, and archivesBusiness, economic, and technological collaboration:
"the firm," the partnership, the corporation; debate over limited liability; banking and finance; the factory and industrial production; international trade; new technologies and their development (railways, the telegraph, electric lighting.); engineering; international exhibitions (e.g. the Crystal Palace); housing development; public architecture and public works (e.g. the Thames Embankment); advertising; professional societies; economic cooperatives; insurance (Lloyd's, burial societies, etc.); trades unionsSocial and Political Collaboration:
Victoria and Albert; Parliamentary ministries, major legislation (Reform Bills, Divorce Act, Education Act, etc.), investigations and Blue Books; political movements (the Anti-Corn Law League, Young England, Chartism, women's suffrage, Fenianism, etc.); religious orders and affiliations; voluntary organizations and charitable societies; public health initiatives; "urban investigation"; the Post Office; the police force; criminal collaboration; secret societies (including espionage); collaborating with the enemy; international alliances, in peace and war; colonial administration (including the East India Company)Paper Proposals (no more than two double-spaced pages) by Oct. 15, 2004 to:
Professor Vincent Lankewish
English Department
Burrowes Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802-6200
Email:VLankPSU@aol.com
Fax (attn: V Lankewish): (814) 863-7285
Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on your proposal: we review proposals anonymously. Please do include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter. Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample discussion time.
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Teaching Roundtable: The program will include a roundtable discussion on pedagogy. This years topic is Victorian Studies and Collaborative Teaching. If you would like to make a presentation, please contact Professor Don Ulin describing briefly (no more than one double-spaced page) the aspects of pedagogy that you would like to share. Keep in mind that being a presenter means creating an atmosphere for stimulating discussion rather than giving a paper. |
| The Coral Lansbury Travel Grant ($100.00) and George Ford Travel Grant ($100.00), given in memory of key founding members of NVSA, are awarded annually to the graduate students, adjunct instructors, or independent scholars who must travel the greatest distance to give a paper at our conference. Apply by indicating in your cover letter that you wish to be considered (and mention if you have other sources of funding). |
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English Department
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Cornell University
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