The Northeast Victorian Studies Association (NVSA) is hosting its 50th anniversary conference at Boston University in Boston, Massachusetts, from April 4-6, 2025. The conference theme is 'The Twentieth Century', and a keynote panel will feature Kristin Mahoney, Nasser Mufti, and John Plotz. The proposal deadline is October 15, 2024. NVSA was founded in 1975 and has been a prominent organization in the field of Victorian studies for decades.

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The 2025 International Congress on Medieval Studies will take place at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI from May 8-10. The proposal deadline is September 15, 2024. The session will explore how the meanings of Medievalism are shaped in the context of the present, particularly for authors and their readers.

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Before virtual reality, peep practices were a widespread media format from 1800 to 1880. The cosmorama was a major format in 19th-century peep practices, with the first Cosmorama opening in Paris in 1808. Various optical toys, such as telescopic paper versions, peep eggs, and polyorama panoptiques, were used to produce and distribute views.

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The Northeast Modern Languages Association's La Salle University Conference, held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from March 6-9, 2025, hosted a panel discussion on scientific revolutions and colonization. The event featured Kate Kasten-Mutkus and Kristie A. Schlauraff as hosts. The discussion centered around the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, which marked a shift towards global exhibitions and public access to scientific and cultural knowledge.

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Victorians- A Journal of Culture and Literature has a deadline of November 1, 2024, for its Summer 2025 issue and February 1, 2025, for its Winter 2025 special issue. The journal is published in partnership with Ohio State University Press/Journals and is available in hardcopy and online, hosted by Project Muse. The journal has a new submission portal, hosted by Scholar.

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The University of Tampa Press is inviting proposals for a special issue of the biannual journal Studies in the Fantastic, guest-edited by Christiana Salah and Steven Mollmann. The issue will investigate the pairing of detective and speculative genres, with an abstract deadline of August 15, 2024, and a paper deadline of December 1, 2024.

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The SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 journal is releasing a themed issue, 'Reproduction without Bodies, Bodies without Reproduction', focusing on reproductive rights and sexual agency across four centuries of literary history. The issue will be published in Winter 2026, commemorating the 65th anniversary of SEL and Women's History Month. The proposal deadline is October 1, 2024, and the paper submission deadline is February 1, 2025.

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The Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies (SGNCS) is hosting an 'In Conversation' lecture series, starting with an event on August 30, 2024, at 8 pm EST. Dr. Waiyee Loh from Kanagawa University will be in conversation with Dr. Kristin Mahoney from Michigan State University about her latest monograph, 'Empire of Culture: Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy'. The event is free and open to all, but prior registration is required to receive the Zoom link.

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The 56th Northeast MLA (NeMLA) Annual Conference will take place from March 6-9, 2025, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with an abstract submission deadline of September 30, 2024. The conference will feature a panel session on Political Ecology in Romantic and Victorian Textual Material, chaired by Dewey W. Hall, Ph.D. The session will explore the concepts of population and production in 19th-century Great Britain, including the impact of public health and the Industrial Revolution.

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The Société Française d’Études Victoriennes et Edouardiennes is hosting the Scotland International Conference at Université Grenoble Alpes in Grenoble, France on January 30 and 31, 2025. The conference aims to explore Scotland's cultural and scientific influence, which was recognized by Voltaire in the 18th century. Walter Scott's publications had a significant impact on European literature in the 19th century.

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