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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Our book fair discount codes are now available until the end of the year, offering up to 40% off on titles by our peers. This is a great opportunity to support scholarly publishing during the holiday season. Explore the selection at www.event2024.org/book-fair

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

This Friday, 11/8 at 12pm PST / 2pm CST / 3pm EST / 8pm GMT, join us on Zoom for a Q&A with this year’s NAVSA Book Prize winners, directly followed by NAVSA’s Annual General Meeting. Registered EVENT2024 participants and NAVSA members will find the link in their email.

A digital event flyer with the title “NAVSA Book Prize & Annual General Meeting” followed by date and schedule information: “Friday, November 8. Book Prize Session 3-4:30pm ET: featuring a Q&A with this year’s winners. NAVSA AGM 4:30-5pm ET: NAVSA’s Annual General Meeting led by NAVSA President Cannon Schmitt.” The bottom half of the flyer shows images of the winning book covers and authors next to their information: “Best First Book: Jennifer MacLure: The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction. Best Subsequent Book: Kathy Alexis Psomiades: Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity.”

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COVE Collective @coveeditions.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Continue your engagement with the EVENT 2024 conference by annotating papers on COVE through the end of 2024. As Halloween nears, check out the “Supernatural & the Occult” thread for a timely exploration. Access the papers here: www.event2024.org/conference-p...

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

This Friday, 10/25, is the final virtual roundtable of EVENT 2024. In “The Invention of British Art,” speakers will problematize and historicize the concept of British art in international and interdisciplinary contexts.

A digital flyer titled “The Invention of British Art: An EVENT 2024 Virtual Roundtable.” The body text lists the date and time as well as the speakers and their paper titles as follows: “Oct 25, 9am PDT, 12pm EDT, 5pm BST. Julie Codell, “Invented Art Histories”; Pamela Fletcher, “Salisbury, Portsmouth, Dublin: The Circulation of Art and the Definition of a ‘British Public’”; Anne Helmreich, “Imperial, Transatlantic, British, English, or Metropolitan London? The Geographic Frame of the Victorian Art Market”; Morna O’Neill, “Victorian, Edwardian, Modern? Periodization and the Demise of British Art; Amy Woodson-Boulton, “’British Art’ and ‘Primitive Art’”.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 18/10/2024

Have you had time to check out EVENT 2024’s Book Fair yet? Don’t miss out on major discounts and featured new releases on our Book Fair page at www.event2024.org/book-fair

A digital flyer with black text on a neutral background reading “Book Fair. Discounts from ten major presses. New publications from conference attendees. www.event2024.org/book-fair.” To the right of the text is a Victorian illustration of a man carrying a large stack of books.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Join us on Zoom on Friday, October 11th for “Discovering COVE: A Roundtable of Case Studies.” This roundtable will showcase scholarly and classroom uses of COVE Editions & Studio and offer ideas for accessible, inclusive teaching and open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly publishing.

A digital flyer with white text on a black background. The title reads “Discovering COVE: A Roundtable of Case Studies.” The body text reads “Friday, October 11. 10AM PDT, 1PM EDT, 6PM BST” followed by the names and institutions of the presenters: “Laura Rotunno (Panel Co-Moderator, Penn State Altoona, COVE Pedagogy Consultant); Rebecca Nesvet (Panel Co-Moderator, U of Wisconsin, Green Bay, COVE Technical Director, COVE Pedagogy Consultant); Heidi Pennington (James Madison U); Catherine Golden (Skidmore College, COVE Pedagogy Consultant); Kate Faber Oestreich (Coastal Carolina U, Pedagogy Consultant for COVE); Ashley Nadeau (Utah Valley U); Adrian Wisniski (U of Nebraska-Lincoln, Associate Director for COVE); Monica Wolfe (Purdue U, COVE Administrative Director).”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 30/09/2024

In-person hubs are wrapping up, but EVENT 2024 isn’t over yet! We have five virtual events remaining in October and November. Join us this Friday, Oct 4 for a virtual roundtable on Victorian Empire, Race, & Disability. All registered attendees will receive a Zoom link via email.

a digital flyer with the title “Victorian Empire, Race, & Disability: An EVENT 2024 Virtual Roundtable.” The body text reads, “October 4, 2024. 10AM PDT, 12PM CDT, 1PM EDT, 6PM BST. Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb: Moderator, Dartmouth. Bassam Sidiki: U Texas, Austin, ‘Opium, Parsis, and a Mental Asylum in Colonial Sindh.’ Chandrica Barua: U Michigan, ‘Race, Caste, and Energy in Colonial Assam’s Tea Plantations.’ Zarena Aslami: Michigan State U, ‘Marx, Bronte, and the Production of Intellectual Disability.” Tom Parkinson: U of Cambridge, ‘Fixing the Deaf in British Bengal.’ www.event2024.org.”

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

What a great paper, Talia! @event2024.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

‘Love this conference setting! @event2024.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Thanks, @notpodium.bsky.social! “Podium” is often used in North American vernacular to refer to a lectern. Ah, prescriptive/descriptive language debates! I do appreciate your enthusiasm for proper “lectern” usage, though.

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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Working on my paper on #ConanDoyle's "The Speckled Band" for @event2024.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social in Boston! #Sherlock #Holmes #SherlockHolmes #ModWrite #order #counterfactualism

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Mike Sanders @bronterre1.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

Struggling with the technology as usual - but here's a reminder that in a week's time I'll have the privilege of speaking about the recovery of long-C19 working-class writers (by 'Piston, Pen & Press') at the @gladlib.bsky.social hub as part of #Event2024 organised by @navsa.bsky.social and BAVS.

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Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

How do we identify moments of change? #engage This week, a Victorian Studies conference is being held at Gladstone’s Library centred around the idea of ‘moments of change’. The long 19th century is a period that saw significant moments of change in all areas of society. 🧵 1/5

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

Right now at Gladstone’s Library in Hawarden, Wales, another EVENT 2024 in-person hub is taking place as attendees consider the hub theme, "How do we identify moments of change?"

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

EVENT 2024’s month of in-person conference hubs kicked off last week in Stirling, Scotland. Don’t forget to share photos from your local hub experience on the Whova app!

A digital collage of four photographs of scholars at a conference. Center text reads, “In-Person Hubs Have Begun!” Text at the bottom reads, “Stirling, Scotland; September 4-5, 2024”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Panelists’ materials are now available for collaborative annotation on COVE ahead of the August 7th virtual Teaching Panel. Log into COVE Conferences and join the panel group to participate asynchronously, and then join us on Zoom for a live discussion on the 7th!

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Mark your calendars for the virtual panel and stay tuned for an announcement when the panelists’ materials go live on COVE Conferences for social annotation!

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/08/2024

Next Wednesday, 8/7 (8/8 in Australia and Asia), panelists from the Teaching Universities Caucus will discuss nontraditional activities, creative assignments, and strategies for getting today’s students to engage in class discussion and course material.

A graphic flyer for an event titled “Teaching Victorianism.” The top section includes the date and time: “Aug 7, 4PM ET, 9PM BST, 6AM AEST” and the note “Sponsored by the Teaching Universities Caucus.” The bottom half of the flyer provides the names, affiliations, and talk titles of the five panelists, as follows: “Kyoko Takanashi (Indiana U South Bend), Moderator; Kate Nesbit (Central College), “Object Lessons: Low-Tech Tools for the Victorian Studies Classroom”; Ashley Nadeau (Utah Valley U), “Out of Print: Multimodal Approaches to Teaching Close Reading”; Riya Das (Prairie View A&M U), “From Shakespeare to World Literature: Teaching with and beyond the Victorian”; Kim Cox (Chadron State College), “Let’s Chat: Oral Assessments in British Literature Surveys in the Age of AI”. The last line of the flyer reads “www.EVENT2024.org”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 10/07/2024

Reminder: our Activism Panel begins in a few hours on Zoom at 4:30pm PDT, 7:30pm EDT (7/10) and 9:30am AEST (7/11). Check your email for the link!

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

Our virtual ACTIVISM PANEL is next Wednesday, July 10th! Panelists will discuss their work as scholar-activists promoting accessibility and inclusion and share insights from research projects on the state of the field in Victorian studies. Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Caucus.

A graphic flyer with the title ACTIVISM PANEL and the following text: “July 10, 2024. 4:30pm-6:00pm PDT / 7:30pm-9:00pm EDT / 9:30am-11:00am AEST (7/11). An EVENT 2024 Virtual Panel; Sponsored by the Gender & Sexuality Caucus. Duc Dau (University of Western Australia), Shannon Draucker (Siena College), Ann Gagne (Brock University), Doreen Thierauf (North Carolina Wesleyan University). Register: www.EVENT2024.org.”

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 14/06/2024

Announcement: NAVSA Conference Travel Grant Applications (Deadline: 6/30/24) bit.ly/4cbXOy8

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

If you’re interested in colonialism, transnationalism, or undisciplining Victorian studies, then this panel is for you. Join us this Saturday, June 1st for our Global Religions Roundtable. Position papers available for annotation now on COVE Conferences to those registered for EVENT 2024.

a graphic flyer with black text on a gold background with two columns of text. The left side reads, “Global Religions: An EVENT 2024 Virtual Roundtable; sponsored by the Religion and Spiritualities Caucus. June 1, 2024. 8 a.m. PDT, 11 a.m. EDT, 3 p.m. GMT. Register at www.event2024.org.” The right side of the flyer lists the speakers’ names as follows: “Sebastian LeCourt, Winter Jade Werner, Peter Coviello, J. Barton Scott, Mishka Sinha, Zhange Ni, Seth Koven.”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 07/05/2024

The “Disability at the Turn of the Century” virtual panel is getting started! Read and annotate NOW on COVE Conferences & get ready for the Zoom panel Friday 5/10!

Graphic flyer with the following text: “Disability at the Turn of the Century: An EVENT 2024 Virtual Panel. 1. Read and annotate now on COVE Conferences. 2. Join us on Zoom on Friday, 5/10* for discussion. *9am PDT / 12pm EDT / 5pm BST”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 24/04/2024

Mark your calendar for our next virtual panel on Friday, May 10: “Disability at the Turn of the Century.” EVENT 2024 registrants will receive the Zoom link via email and can access the papers on COVE Conferences a week in advance of the panel. bit.ly/3W8mTVL

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Disability at the Turn of the Century: an EVENT 2024 Virtual Panel
Co-sponsored by the Aestheticism & Decadence Caucus, the Art History Caucus, & Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures; May 10, 9AM PDT, 12PM EDT, 5PM BST.
KRISTIN MAHONEY: Michigan State U, Moderator. ROBERT VOLPICELLI, Randolph-Macon College, “Disability on the Cusp: Transitions, Transformations, Intersections.” CRAIG RUSTICI, Hofstra U, “Vision, Revision, and Aesthetic Nervousness in H. G. Wells’s ‘The Country of the Blind.’” ALESSANDRA OCCHIOLINI, CUNY, “Arriving, Arriving, Arriving: The Periodicity Paradox in Disability Studies”. MAREN LINETT, Purdue U, “Disability Untheorized: Critiques of Eugenics, Then and Now”. STEPHEN KNADLER, Spelman College, “Paranormal Counterintelligence: Early Black Disability Politics beyond the Human”. RAFAEL HERNANDEZ, Oklahoma SU, “The Aesthetic Turn in Degeneration and Disability”. JESS L. WILCOX COWING, College of Wooster, “Crip Inte

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Join us TODAY 4/19 for the virtual Theater Panel: a conversation on Cecily Hamilton’s The Pageant of Great Women and the British women’s suffrage movement. EVENT 2024 registrants received a Zoom link via email. See you at 1pm PDT / 4pm EDT / 9pm BST / 6am on 4/20 AEST

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 15/04/2024

This week’s virtual Theater Panel event has begun! View crowd-sourced theatrical interpretations in COVE Conferences and add your own comments to the discussion; then join us Friday, 4/19 for the Zoom panel. Watch a preview of the theatrical interpretations here: youtu.be/h-w5OflSga0?...

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EVENT 2024's virtual Theater Panel featuring Cecily Hamilton's A Pageant of Great Women will occur on Friday, April 19, 2024 at 4pm EDT / 9pm BST / 6am AEST ...

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/03/2024

ICYMI: our Poetry panel featured a surprise performance by Chip Tucker–a blues rendition of Hardy’s “In Tenibris (I).” Tucker explained, “Hardy was, in the glint of his jaundiced eye and his gusto for a language at once earthy, studied, and outlandish, a bluesman at heart.” bit.ly/3v4RhVI

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Herbert F. Tucker's blues version of "In Tenebris (I)" by Thomas "Tom" Hardy.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 01/03/2024

Don’t miss the Material Cultures virtual roundtable today at 10:30am PST / 1:30pm EST / 6:30pm GMT! If you’ve registered for EVENT 2024, check your email for the Zoom link. See you there!

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Join us next week for a pair of virtual events. Register for EVENT 2024 to gain access to the Zoom sessions as well as COVE Conferences, where social annotation is now live for both panels. www.event2024.org/registration

A text graphic reading: “Poetry: Closely, Together. Thursday, February 29. 4pm EST, 9pm GMT, 7am AEDT (3/1). Material Cultures: Hands-on Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms and Research. Friday, March 1. 1:30pm EST, 6:30pm GMT, 5:30am AEDT (3/2).”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 20/02/2024

The EVENT 2024 Fellowship offers free conference registration to scholars in financial need. Apply by Feb 26: bit.ly/3OQw88m

White text on a dark grey background reads: “EVENT 2024 Fellowship: The EVENT 2024 Fellowship awards free conference registration to those selected on the basis of need. To be considered for the first round of fellowships, apply by February 26.”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 23/01/2024

The deadline for proposal submissions is quickly approaching! Submit a proposal for the September face-to-face hub events by February 1, 2024 at EVENT2024.org/call-for-papers.

A graphic with white text on a green background reading: “EVENT 2024 is an experiment in sustainable global conferencing, including monthly Zoom events, face-to-face hub events in September, and the asynchronous discussion of uploaded papers on COVE Conferences. All talks that explore the period 1832-1910 will be considered, though we encourage reflection on our theme, “event,” which can be interpreted broadly: catastrophic events (like climate change); history and temporality; chronologies and periodization; narrative; theater and spectacle; liturgy and ritual; performativity and identity; personal events (marriage, birth, death); autobiography and biography; unnarratable events (the sublime, the visionary, the transcendent); the bildungsroman; the relationship of form to change; historical poetics and strategic formalism; longue durée; jetztzeit; Foucauldian archaeologies; alternative events (the optative, historiographic metafiction, steampunk); notions of singularity (systems theor

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

If you’ve registered for the panel but haven’t received your login info, please allow 24 hours for us to create your COVE account.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 18/01/2024

Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

Folks in or near the AEST time zone, please note that the panel will take place 7am the next morning, on January 27th!

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/01/2024

The first virtual panel of EVENT 2024 will be open to all for free. “Vcologies” panelists will address climate change, technology, and industrialization. To register, simply email organizers@event2024.org.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

Our February virtual event takes a non-traditional form: using @coveeditions.bsky.social, attendees will engage in a collaborative annotation of five short poems in a guided close reading led by our panelists. Mark your calendars!

A digital flyer titled “Poetry: Closely, Together: an EVENT 2024 virtual panel on close reading.” The body text reads: “February 29, 2024. 4pm EST, 9pm GMT, 7am AEDT. Register online at event2024.org/registration. Registration opens January 2024. Veronica Alfano, Chair. Meredith Martin: ‘The Sea and the Skylark’ (1918). Herbert F. Tucker: ‘In Tenebris (I)’ (1901). Ewan Jones: ‘In Progress’ (1862). Kirstie Blair: ‘The Arsenal at Springfield’ (1845). A.K. Huseby: ‘Scientific Woosing’ (1880). EVENT2024.org.”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 05/12/2023

Who says a conference has to last only one weekend? Learn more about our year of virtual events at www.event2024.org/digital-events

White text on a black background reading, “A Year of EVENT 2024. January: Vcologies Panel, February: Poetry Panel, March: Material Cultures Roundtable, April: Theater Panel, May: Decadence Panel, June: Global Religions Panel, July: Activism Panel, August: Teaching Panel, September: Face-to-Face Hubs.”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 27/11/2023

The West Lafayette hub will be hosted at Purdue University in the Great Hall of the John Martinson Honors College. With one panel at a time, this hub will be an intimate gathering aimed at building an intellectual community together.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 20/11/2023

Join us 3/1/24 for the Material Cultures Virtual Roundtable. Speakers will highlight tangible examples from their classroom practices and reflect on revitalizing Humanities pedagogy through hands-on learning. More info at link in bio.

a digital flyer with a red background and white text. The title reads “Material Cultures: Hands-On Learning in Victorian Studies Classrooms & Research: an EVENT 2024 virtual roundtable.” The body text reads, “Mar. 1, 2024, 10:30am PST, 1:30pm EST, 6:30pm GMT. Denae Dyck - Chair (Texas State University), Susan Johnston (University of Regina), Andrea Korda (University of Alberta), Mary Elizabeth Leighton (University of Victoria), Vanessa Warne (University of Manitoba), Elizabeth Womack (Penn State Brandywine). Register: Event2024.org/Registration”

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

The Boston hub at Boston College will range widely across topics, but will feature a special keynote panel on Ecology and Famine, an optional walking tour of Boston’s immigration history, and a rare book display at Boston College’s Burns Library.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Extended Deadline: Proposals for EVENT 2024 now due by Feb. 1, 2024. See www.event2024.org for CFP.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

In Melbourne, hear from keynote speakers Assoc. Professor Michelle Smith (Monash) and former New Zealand Chief Historian, Professor Jock Phillips. Look forward to key exhibitions at the National Gallery of Victoria and the Melbourne Museum, and maybe even a protest or two! (3/3)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

This hub considers the theme “event” in relation to “Exhibits.” “Exhibits” considers 15-20-min papers or panel proposals on the theme of exhibits or exhibitions in the 19th century from any discipline, from formal exhibitions to events of protest or public executions. (2/3)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 09/11/2023

Join us in Australia’s most vibrant city! The Melbourne hub will be held 20th–21st September at the historic Queen’s College, University of Melbourne, and welcomes Victorian scholars of all career levels. (1/3)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

The Boulder hub invites proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers on the theme of "Event.” Given their location in the American West, they especially welcome papers on topics of indigeneity, settler colonialism, and the significance of time and place from 1789-1914.

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

Outside of the conference events, attendees can explore the restaurants, museums, shops, and attractions of Atlanta and Decatur, many of which can be reached using MARTA, the commuter rail system, or the Atlanta Streetcar. (2/2)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 02/11/2023

In partnership with the Victorians Institute, the Atlanta hub will take place at Georgia State University’s downtown campus September 20-22, 2024. We welcome proposals for papers and panels related to the conference theme of “event,” broadly interpreted. (1/2)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

The Lancaster hub looks forward to hearing from keynote speakers Professor Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway) and Professor John Bowen (York). Alongside the programme of talks there will be spaces and events to enable connection and collaboration among attendees. (3/3)

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Event 2024 @event2024.bsky.social · 30/10/2023

In addition to work relating to “event” topics, the Lancaster hub encourages proposals that investigate the Victorian period in relation to the working classes, religion, the environment, and adaptation. (2/3)

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