Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada

Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!

Abstracts due today!

See vsawc.org/events/ for more details!

Please see vsawc.org/events/ for more details!

A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!

I am so grateful to Doreen Thierauf for the invitation to contribute to this forum! As Jill Ehnenn points to in her response, the political (and disciplinary!) landscape has changed significantly since writing my contribution, "After the Tipping Point"--

Congratulations, Katharine!

More time to perfect your abstract on space, place, and community (anywhere) for queer bib. These lively, friendly, sustaining conferences are entirely worth the time + energy. **Hybrid**, so you don't even need to leave house. Althrough the organisers are working hard to make it worth the travel.

Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies

We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue!

Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26.

@bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social

📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop

Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰

PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶

#MedHum #19Century #Victorian

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Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

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Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

We were so excited about this issue that we typed too fast and failed to highlight the cluster's focus, Victorians and Video Games! Check it out!

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Hannah Schultz's article "Cut Off from the Green Reconciling Earth": Patriarchal Preservation and Ecological Subjectivity in Aurora Leigh"

Plus reviews of recent books by Denae Dyck, Ben Parker, Adrian Desmond, Alexander Bubb, and @njdames.bsky.social

Next up in this issue, a special essay cluster edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young, featuring articles by Cameron and Young, Molly Boggs, and Hannah Mummert.

The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +

The forum on reproductive and sexual justice features essays by Livia Woods, Ashley Miller, @drrd.bsky.social, Erin Spampinato, @sdraucker.bsky.social, Dara Rossman Regaignon, @dustinfriedman.bsky.social, Riley McGuire, Simon Joyce, @alexisdoeslit.bsky.social, and Jill R. Ehnenn

Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Dear Historian: Agnes Strickland, Fan Mail, and Historical Knowledge as a Franchise There was a group of ladies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who were enthusiastic about Charles Dickens. In fact, their enthusiasm was so intense that they decided to write to their idol to request a s…

Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

To learn more about the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and past conferences, please visit our website (link in profile!). To learn more about our organization’s journal, Victorian Review, please visit: victorianreview.org

Our conference will be held at the Alt Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. Graduate students and underemployed scholars will have the opportunity to apply for funding to reduce the cost of participation. Please direct any questions to conference host Dr. Vanessa Warne (vanessa.warne@umanitoba.ca). +

Please send a proposal of no more than 200 words, accompanied by a brief biographical statement, to vsawc2026@gmail.com.

In the case of panels or workshops, please share participants’ materials in a single email. Please submit proposals no later than December 1, 2025.

We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and workshops that explore the theme of Victorian Trade. Established scholars, emerging scholars, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to apply. +

hoarding, frauds, swindles, and scams
neo-Victorian authors who ‘trade’ in Victorian tropes
the trading of ideas in the context of contemporary or Victorian-era education +

non-commercial forms of exchange, including gift culture
material culture and craft
stock exchanges and banking
stamps, monetary systems, and the gold standard
transportation and communication systems
street trade, peddling, arcades, and department stores
mutuality, trust, distrust, and betrayal +

trade unions, guilds, and apprenticeships
vocational schools, workingmen’s libraries, and reading rooms for tradespeople
trade publications
the emergence of new professions and professional identities
national and regional borders
physical and conceptual borders +

the movement of raw materials, manufactured goods, and knowledge between people and places
treaties, agreements, and contracts
the trade in enslaved people and products of their labour
bartering and bargaining
the nineteenth-century book trade
the nineteenth-century art market +