Railways: 200 Years that Transformed Britain will take place at Lancaster University on Saturday 21 November 2026, with the option to attend either in person or online. The conference is jointly or…

We are pleased to invite expressions of interest for a new JVC–BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme, a collaboration between the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) and the British Association for Vi…

Date: 29 January 2027, 10:00-17:00 Venue: Utrecht University (room TBC)Organiser: Bart Mulderij (University of Groningen)Credits: 1–2 ECs (assignment details will be shared closer to the date)…

RSVP/VPFA Online Study Day5-6 February 2027Keynote Speaker: Florence Boos (University of Iowa)Co-Organizers: Betty Hagglund and Lisa Robertson This online study day, the first co-organized by the R…

Online Seminar Series October 2026 – June 2027 Wednesdays, 7.30 – 9 pm (UK time) To receive more information and Zoom links, please join our mailing list here 21 OctoberLOVE BEYOND DEATH Ana Orbego…

Volcanic Materiality in Literature and Art of the Anthropocene  Editor: Dewey W. Hall  Call for Contributions  Volcanic Materiality: Phenomena in the Age of the Anthropocene asserts …

Victorian Literature (Associate or Full Professor) The Department of English at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for a full-time appointment at the rank of Associate Professor or P…

Documentaries, panel discussions, interviews with artists and writers, and more from Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds.

As part of its ongoing collaboration with COVE (the Collaborative Organization for Virtual Education, covecollective.org), BAVS is launching a COVE research internship (which will bring with it a £…

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

The Hidden Hands Conference: Underexplored Influences and Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century will take place on Friday 20th November 2026 online. This conference aims to bring together membe…

Railways: 200 Years that Transformed Britain will take place at Lancaster University on Saturday 21 November 2026, with the option to attend either in person or online. The conference is jointly or…

Thursday 17 September, 12pm ET / 5pm BST COVE is planning to build on the platform created for EVENT 2024 by starting a works-in-progress series. Papers will be made available for annotation follow…

Belcher Visiting Fellowship in Victorian Studies Applications are invited for the Belcher Visiting Fellowship at St Hugh’s College, Oxford. The Principal and Fellows of St Hugh’s College are please…

Organised by British Association for Victorian Studies, BAVS@Home offers occasional online events that explore different aspects of nineteenth-century culture and its relevance to the contemporary …

Empathy and the Victorian Novel Online Event – Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Leicester Thursday 22 October 2026, 5:00pm – 6:45pm (UK time) Elaine Auyoung (University of Minn…

Occult Science: Disenchantment, Re-Enchantment, and the Persistence of Wonder 29 January 2027 – Online Despite enduring narratives that cast modern science as the agent of rationalisation, the rela…

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

We would like to propose an edited volume that would explore the literal and metaphorical uses of light in the fictionalizations of the Victorian period in various media and genres. The remit The V…

The PRS Review invites contributions for a special issue on Pre‑Raphaelite Networks –the artistic, social, transnational, and digital connections that shaped the movement and co…

2026-08-17 VICTORIAN SOUNDINGS Following from the Association’s recent conference in Auckland on the topic of ‘Victorian Soundings’, we seek contributions for a Special Issue on this theme. W…

Dates – 28 to 30 June 2027Theme – Politics, Place and Print CultureKeynote speakers – Philip Connell (University of Cambridge) and Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin)  We…

Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, the day will focus on how the concept of family informed Dickens’s life and works. The day begi…

The Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network aims to bring together an international community of postgraduate students and early career researchers (including academics, curators, independent resea…

Pleasing Terrors: The 2026 M R James Symposium ; Drayton Arms Theatre, 8 November 2026 Pleasing Terrors: The M R James Festival, is a Festival celebrating the life and work of Montague Rhodes …

Romance, Revolution and Reform journal is currently accepting 15-20 minute papers and creative workshops for their January 2027 Conference, Ecosystems in the Long Nineteenth Century. We especially …

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

Lauren Alex O’Hagan is Research Fellow in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the Open University and Affiliate Researcher in the Department of Media and Communication Studies at Öre…

CONAN DOYLE’S ORIENT 2nd October 2026 at Senate House, London Arthur Conan Doyle never visited Asia, but he had many and various dealings with the Orient in fact and in imagination, as an author of…

The Cinema Museum, London, SE11 4TH  Saturday 21st November 2026 The third British Music Hall Society Conference will take place on Saturday 21 November 2026 at London’s Cinema Mus…

Queering the Pre-Raphaelites In advance of the first US exhibition on Anglo-Jewish artist Simeon Solomon (1840–1905), opening March 2027 at the Delaware Art Museum, we invite papers that “queer” th…

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

Long 19th-Century British and Interdisciplinary Humanities Panel Session 58th Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Annual Conference March 6-9, 2027 Newport, Rhode Island Weather in 19th-Century Literature and Ar…

Diane Long Hoeveler and Tamar Heller’s Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: British and American Traditions (MLA Options for Teaching) was published in 2003; Anna Powell and Andrew Smith’s Teachi…

The following post has been copied from The Pre-Raphaelite Society Graduate Network. Please click here to see their original post. Our 2025/26 seminar series came to a triumphant conclusion on 17th…

Victorian Poetry invites submissions for its 2026 Early Career Essay Prize, which recognizes exemplary essays by untenured scholars of all ranks and affiliations (including NTT and graduate st…

Call for Abstracts ‘Neo-Victorianism and Gaming’ Special Issue of Victoriographies: A Journal of the Long Nineteenth Century Guest Edited by Paolo D’Indinosante and Federica Perazzini Games play a …

Call for Papers: Pre-Raphaelite! Workshop Tate Britain, 30 October 2026 Deadline for abstracts: 15 September 2026 Region: East of England Type: Conference Cost: Free We welcome students, early care…

Call for Contributions Dynamics of Old English Scholarship in the Long Nineteenth Century: Discoveries, Disputes and the Development of a Discipline  ed. Rachel A. Fletcher, Ellen Gallimore & T…

British Association for Victorian Studies Pages, hosted by Marijke Valk (University of Birmingham) and Lilyemma Whalley (Queen Mary University)

The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming summer BAVS newsletter. These may include CFPs, not…

BAVS 2026 PGR Pre-Conference Online Workshop Monday 13 July, 10am-4.30pm (drop-ins welcome!)Online via Microsoft Teams This pre-conference workshop is designed for postgraduate researchers attendin…

Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at post…

Conference: Visualising the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape (University of St Andrews, Scotland, 10-11 June 2027) During the long nineteenth century, the landscapes of the eastern Mediterranean wer…

Would you like to join the BAVS Committee? Upcoming vacancies are advertised each summer, with roles starting in September of the same year. Please note that all roles are unpaid and that applicant…