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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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December 2, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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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.”
November 5, 2024 at 4:38 PM
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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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October 30, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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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’”.
October 22, 2024 at 5:04 PM
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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.
October 18, 2024 at 3:35 PM
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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).”
October 10, 2024 at 7:48 PM
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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.”
September 30, 2024 at 5:43 PM
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What a great paper, Talia! @event2024.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
September 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
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‘Love this conference setting! @event2024.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social
September 14, 2024 at 2:53 PM
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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
September 2, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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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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September 4, 2024 at 10:41 AM
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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.

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September 9, 2024 at 7:00 AM
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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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September 11, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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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!
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September 9, 2024 at 6:36 PM
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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!
August 5, 2024 at 6:30 PM
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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”
August 2, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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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!
July 10, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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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.”
July 3, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Announcement: NAVSA Conference Travel Grant Applications (Deadline: 6/30/24) bit.ly/4cbXOy8
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June 13, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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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.”
May 28, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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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!
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May 7, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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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
Graphic event flyer with the following text: 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
April 24, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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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
April 19, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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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?...
EVENT 2024 Theater Panel Teaser
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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April 15, 2024 at 4:22 PM
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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
Wintertime Blues by Tom Hardy
Herbert F. Tucker's blues version of "In Tenebris (I)" by Thomas "Tom" Hardy.
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March 2, 2024 at 7:33 PM