CFP: Consuming (the) Victorians, Cardiff Univ., Aug-Sep 2016
Robert Judd
Cardiff University
Wednesday 31 August to Friday 2 September 2016
CFP deadline: 1 Mar 2016
Keynotes: Christina Bashford (Illinois) & Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck)
Neo-Victorian Plenary: Patricia Duncker (Manchester)
The Victorian age saw the emergence of ‘modern’ consumer culture: in urban life, commerce, literature, art, science and medicine, entertainment, the leisure and tourist industries. The expansion and proliferation of new mass markets and inessential goods opened up pleasurable and democratising forms of consumption while also raising anxieties about urban space, the collapse of social and gendered boundaries, the pollution of domestic and public life, the degeneration of the moral and social health of the nation. This conference is concerned with the complexity and diversity of Victorian consumer cultures and also seeks to consider our contemporary consumption of the Victorian/s.
We welcome proposals for individual papers, and encourage proposals for panels (3-paper sessions).
For further details consult our website: BAVS2016.co.uk
Enquiries should be directed to Professor Ann Heilmann (BAVS2016 -at- cardiff.ac.uk).
Conference organisers
Megen de Bruin-Molé (PGR, Cardiff), Rachel Cowgill (Music, Huddersfield), Daný van Dam (PGR, Cardiff), Holly Furneaux (English, Cardiff), Kate Griffiths (French, Cardiff), Catherine Han (PGR, Cardiff), Ann Heilmann (English, Cardiff), Anthony Mandal (English, Cardiff), Akira Suwa (PGR, Cardiff), Julia Thomas (English, Cardiff), Keir Waddington (History, Cardiff), Martin Willis (English, Cardiff)
Jointly organized by:
British Association for Victorian Studies; School of English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff
Sponsors:
School of History, Archaeology and Philosophy, Cardiff; School of Modern Languages, Cardiff; School of Music, Humanities and Media, Huddersfield