The third annual conference of the North American Victorian Studies
Association will be held 30 September - 2 October 2005 at the University of
Virginia in Charlottesville, site of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in the
foothills of the Blue Ridge. The conference will feature plenary addresses
by George Levine and by Mary Poovey. Seminars on work in progress will be
offered by Jay Clayton, Linda Colley, Helena Michie, and Anthony Wohl. In
addition, and as a new conference development, Isobel Armstrong, Neil Hertz,
and U. C. Knoepflmacher will each conduct a master class on an assigned
Victorian text. To participate in the conference, one must be a member of
NAVSA.

NAVSA 2005 welcomes submission of paper proposals, for delivery as 20-minute
conference talks, on any topic in Victorian literature, history, and
culture, with a view to showcasing the best of current work in the
intersecting fields that make up Victorian studies. Rather than prescribe a
theme, the organizers will braid the accepted papers into panels and weave
some of these panels into strands spanning the three conference days. The
following list of set strands and likely threads is intended to stimulate
ideas, not hem them in; and the program will include sessions that are
unattached to these strands. Any topic of interest within the NAVSA compass
is eligible.

CROSSINGS
transatlantic nineteenth century
conflicts: war, dueling, insurrection
border, migration, exchange
Victorian & contemporary disciplinarity
* the Bar

GENERATIONS
epochs, strata, phases, species
utopia, dystopia, social engineering, genetics, prophecy
ancestors, offspring, lines of descent / lines of dissent
governess & pupil, master & disciple, initiate & acolyte
* families

INNOVATION / RESTORATION
science & religion
reform: parliament, education, fashion
rear guard & avant garde
Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism, Arts & Crafts
* new women & old boys

INSIDES / OUTSIDES
thresholds & limits: roads, walls, clothes, skin
house, pub, suburb, city
architecture of the psyche, the inner body, faces & skulls
empire, colony, nation

COLLECTIONS
museum, library, shop, cabinet
hoarding, sharing, display
kings¹ treasuries, queens¹ gardens, trash
anthology, syllabus, curriculum, conference

TEXTUALITIES
modes of production, modes of reception
texts, graphics, typographics, metrics
periodical press, part issue, seriality
the sociology of the text
propaganda & censorship
prestidigital: the Victorians on-line

Proposals, 2 pages in length (500 words) with a 1-page curriculum vitae,
should be submitted electronically in attachment form to
submissions@navsa2005.org by 1 FEBRUARY 2005.

Further information about NAVSA and the 2005 conference may be found at
http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/navsa/