@VISAWUS

Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States.

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Theme: Victorian Elements Thursday, October 19th to Saturday, October 21st, 2023 at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA Keynote Speaker:
Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) visawus.org/visawus-conferen…
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Pregnancy & Childbirth on the Victorian Web: our virtual launch is tomorrow, June 20. Mini-presentations on Victorian breastfeeding, maternity dress, embryology, medical advice manuals, anatomical models, and miscarriage. Pls RSVP for a Zoom link as indicated below.
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Don't forget, we're kicking off our June with Richard Altick's *Shows of London* and its relation to media history...*checks diary*...next week! Join us 9 June for our next #RSVPDigEv where we discuss the above with the scintillating @mattpoland: rs4vp.org/come-discuss-altic…
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Dear friends, sad news—George Landow, Founder & former Ed-in-Chief of our pioneering website, passed away on 31 May after a long illness. He left the website as a foundation with an editorial board—a wonderful & lasting legacy. Donations in his memory at victorianweb.org/
Photo of George smiling. He was such a warm-hearted person and so much fun, as well as a great scholar. We're lucky to have had his friendship and guidance over many years. We'll treasure his inspiration.

ALT Photo of George smiling. He was such a warm-hearted person and so much fun, as well as a great scholar. We're lucky to have had his friendship and guidance over many years. We'll treasure his inspiration.

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#OTD 1868, #Manchester suffrage society holds pubic meeting at which, for the first time, women were among the speakers” Here we go! victorianweb.org/gender/vote…
Cartoon showing a woman putting a big dunce's cap over a shrinking man!

ALT Cartoon showing a woman putting a big dunce's cap over a shrinking man!

Smiling women in rather elaborate nats talking to some bemused or amused working men.

ALT Smiling women in rather elaborate nats talking to some bemused or amused working men.

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Victorian Elements Thursday, October 19th to Saturday, October 21st, 2023 Abstracts by April 16 at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) visawus.org/visawus-conferen…
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Victorian Elements Thursday, October 19th to Saturday, October 21st, 2023 Abstracts by April 16 at the Seattle Public Library, Seattle, WA Keynote Speaker: Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) visawus.org/visawus-conferen…
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On 18 October, Mary Barton was published in two volumes to critical acclaim. Elizabeth received £100 (about £12000 today). 1848 was an enormously important year for Elizabeth Gaskell. But what else was happening that year? ow.ly/VXMs50NuKtm
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A view of one of the incredible eight rooms of ‘The Rossettis’ exhibition, opening at @Tate today. This gallery focusses on the artistic collaboration and personal relationship between Siddal and Rossetti. Seeing their artwork in conversation next to each other is wonderful.
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VISAWUS retweeted
INCSA@INCSA_19thC6 Apr 2023
It gives us great pleasure to circulate the CFP for the inaugural conference of the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, to be held in Durham in 10-12 July 2024. All proposals are due on 1 September 2023 CFP below: in-csa.com/call-for-papers/

Call for Papers - International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Papers The Nineteenth Century Today: Interdisciplinary, International, Intertemporal July 10-12, 2024 | Durham University, Durham, UK In-person and online Scroll down for complete CFP...

in-csa.com
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Male impersonator Hetty King was #BOTD in 1883. Her signature song was "Ship Ahoy! (All The Nice Girls Love A Sailor)" which she first introduced at the Liverpool Empire in 1908. She is immortalised in a long list of #musichall stars in the opening lines of Novello's "Vitality".
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Submit a 300-word abstract and 1-page CV to [email protected] by April 16, 2023. Graduate Students are eligible for the $600 William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award
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The Popular Culture Summer Research Institute is back! A select group of researchers will be given the opportunity to work directly with the nationally recognized @BGSU_PopCultLib archive. Find more info and apply here: bit.ly/3xMaWHW #BGSU #BGSULibraries

Summer Research Institute

BGSU Libraries and the Popular Culture Association (PCA) invite applications for the 2026 Summer Research Institute (June 22-26) at Jerome Library on the BGSU campus. Spend

bgsu.edu
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Happy Birthday to polymath, May Morris: designer of wallpaper, jewellery, textiles, stained glass and many other arts and crafts. She was also an embroiderer, author, editor, lecturer, artist, feminist, socialist and business woman. #OTD #MayMorris
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Alessandro Cabiati opens @DecadentStudies conference with their keynote, ‘Marvellous Abnormalities’. Q from @JaneDesmarais - might fairytales be a good place to find decadent children in literature, who are otherwise almost absent from decadent fiction?
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VISAWUS retweeted
VSAWC@vsawc31 Jan 2023
Registration for VSAWC 2023 is now open! We can't wait to gather in Winnipeg this May and celebrate the ongoing success of VSAWC and the Victorian Review. Register on the conference website today: vsawc2023.ca
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Original manuscript of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens, vol. 7, 1855-1857 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O…
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This week!
VISAWUS@VISAWUS6 Jan 2023
Our next zoom panel promises to be good. "The Promise of the Cosmos," from the @VISAWUS "Victorian Promises" series coming up on January 27, 2023. Speakers include @Anne_withanE, Robert Smith, and @ProfNeilH Zoom link sou.zoom.us/j/83076240948
Our next panel will be on "The Promise of the Cosmos," and it will be January 27 at 11am (Pacific Time). This panel features papers by Robert Smith, Anne Sullivan, and Neil Hultgren. The panel explores fundamental questions of what the world beyond the earth—taken broadly to mean the Sun, planets and satellites of the solar system, as well as the distant stars and nebulae beyond the solar system—enabled Victorian artists, scientists, or historians to think about, know, and imagine. What styles and rhetorics developed around how the Victorians discussed, represented, and studied the world outside of earth, including the sublime and also transcending it? The Zoom link: sou.zoom.us/j/83076240948 The poster and Zoom link are also up on our website at www.visawus.org.

ALT Our next panel will be on "The Promise of the Cosmos," and it will be January 27 at 11am (Pacific Time). This panel features papers by Robert Smith, Anne Sullivan, and Neil Hultgren. The panel explores fundamental questions of what the world beyond the earth—taken broadly to mean the Sun, planets and satellites of the solar system, as well as the distant stars and nebulae beyond the solar system—enabled Victorian artists, scientists, or historians to think about, know, and imagine. What styles and rhetorics developed around how the Victorians discussed, represented, and studied the world outside of earth, including the sublime and also transcending it? The Zoom link: sou.zoom.us/j/83076240948 The poster and Zoom link are also up on our website at www.visawus.org.

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Did you know that program officers from @NEH_Education can discuss your project ideas, or even read drafts before you submit them? Find @PatrickCFleming at #MLA23 #MLA2023 to learn more @MLAnews
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VISAWUS retweeted
NAVSA@navsa4 Jan 2023
Event: Victorian Promises: The Promise of the Cosmos (01/27/23) – Zoom Series: bit.ly/3jSM3Xq
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