Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies - SCVS

23/01/2024

Just over one week to go until the Call for Papers deadline for Victorian Events at Stirling...
Proposals due on 1st February: https://www.event2024.org/call-for-papers/

And if you're looking for something to do this Friday night, Event 2024 are hosting their first (free) online international panel:

Nathan Hensley (Georgetown U)
Chair

Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley)
“Event, Noneventality, Narrative: The Problem of the Climate Crisis”

Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (UC Davis)
“The Industrial Ocean”

John MacNeill Miller (Allegheny College)
“Hide-and-Go-‘Click’: Animal Minds and Environmental Play in the Keartons’ Bird Photography”

Jesse Oak Taylor (U of Washington)
“Novel Geologies”

Paul Young (U of Exeter)
“The Mark of the Beast: Kipling, Carnivorous Empire and Combined and Uneven Metabolic Development”

Philip Steer (Massey U)
“A ‘sweet especial rural scene’? Nature, Culture, and Agriculture in the 1870s”

More info: https://www.event2024.org/digital-events/vcologies-panel/

06/09/2023

Please note that the deadline for proposals to Victorian Events (and all Event 2024 hubs) has been extended to 1st December 2023. https://www.event2024.org/call-for-papers/

18/07/2023

We're really excited to be co-organising this event at Stirling, as part of the 'flightless' international conference Event 2024. Full CFP below and via this link: https://scvs.ac.uk/index.php/events/ Come join us!

03/05/2023

Edinburgh Napier's Centre for Arts, Media and Culture are hosting a Haunted Shores Network PGR/ECR research seminar on "Seas and Shores in Literature and Culture" on Wed 24th May 1.20-5.30pm. You can register for online/in-person attendance via the link below.

Seas and Shores in Literature and Culture: a Haunted Shores PGR/ECR seminar in conjunction with the Centre for Arts, Media, and Culture at Edinburgh Napier University Wednesday 24 May 2023, 13.30-1…

11/04/2023

In just two weeks' time, Dennis Denisoff will deliver a guest lecture, 'Provocations to Intimacy: Q***r Ecology and Entangled forms of Nature Writing', at the University of Stirling (co-hosted by SCVS). It would be great to see you at the Pathfoot Lecture Theatre if you can make it (4pm, 25th April). You can find Dennis's abstract below in the comments.

10/09/2018

Calling all postgrads in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences -- new workshop alert!

'Recovering Working-Class Voices for the Digital Age' University of Strathclyde
5 October 2018
10am - 12.30pm

This workshop, supported by the AHRC-funded ‘Piston, Pen & Press’ project, is designed to enable discussion about online resources that support the recovery of, and research into, working-class writers and readers in the long nineteenth century.

Participants -- which include: Dr Francesca Benatti (‘The Reading Experience Database’); Prof John Goodridge (‘Laboring-Class Poets Online’); Dr Helen Rogers (‘Archive of Working-Class Writing Online’); Dr Simon Rennie (‘Poetry of the Lancashire Cotton Famine’); and Dr Mike Sanders and Prof Kirstie Blair (‘Piston, Pen & Press: Literary Cultures in the Industrial Workplace’) -- will discuss the resources they have created and highlight the opportunities and challenges involved.

Full details available here: https://scvs.ac.uk/index.php/events/

To register, visit our Eventbrite page: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recovering-working-class-voices-for-the-digital-age-tickets-50064559445

Events Glasgow Exhibition (1888) – National Galleries of Scotland Commons   Upcoming Events 5 October 2018: Workshop: Recovering Working-Class Voices for the Digital Age. University of Strathclyde Participants: Dr Francesca Benatti (‘The Reading Experience Database’) Prof John Goodridge (‘L...

03/07/2018

Attention Wilkie Collins scholars!

CFA for special issue of The Wilkie Collins Journal: Materiality in Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries, edited by Kym Brindle and Laura Eastlake

Full details available here:

Materiality in Wilkie Collins and his Contemporaries: Call for Articles The Wilkie Collins Journal Guest Editors: Dr Kym Brindle, Dr Laura Eastlake *** ‘I prophesy that we shall see ghosts and fin…

06/06/2018

Final call! You only have two days left to apply for this exciting research opportunity at the University of Strathclyde.

View details for this Research Associate - 130531 job vacancy at University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Apply now on jobs.ac.uk

06/06/2018

📢Calling all PGRs and ECRs! This sounds like a fantastic (and fantastically helpful!) upcoming event at the University of Warwick. If you haven't already, register today!

      What can you do with a PhD in Victorian or nineteenth-century studies? Plenty of things, including – but by no means limited to – an academic career! Undertaking a …

17/05/2018

Deadline today!

Get your applications in for 'The People’s Friend? Recovering Scottish Popular Magazine Culture'.

This is a fully-funded AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship with the University of Strathclyde and the National Library of Scotland. Studentship will be for 36 months from 1 October 2018.

Details here: http://www.ahrc-cdp.org/%EF%BB%BFphd-studentship-the-peoples-friend-recovering-scottish-popular-magazine-culture-with-national-library-of-scotland-and-the-university-of-strathclyde/ …

The People’s Friend? Recovering Scottish Popular Magazine Culture, Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative PhD Studentship, 36 months, from 1 October 2018

14/05/2018

New job alert!

The University of Strathclyde is looking for a Research Associate to work on the AHRC-funded project ‘Piston, Pen & Press: Literary Cultures in the Industrial Workplace from the Factory Acts to the First World War’, a three-year project starting on 1 September 2018.

Led by Professor Kirstie Blair (Strathclyde), Dr Mike Sanders (University of Manchester) and Dr Oliver Betts (National Railway Museum), it involves a partnership with the Digital Humanities Institute at the University of Sheffield and with a number of industrial heritage museums, libraries, and creative partners.

Full details available here:

View details for this Research Associate - 130531 job vacancy at University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Apply now on jobs.ac.uk

14/05/2018

Today's the last day to apply!

Deadline is today for 'Industrial Workers as Readers: Libraries, Reading Rooms and the Industrial Workplace in the Long Nineteenth Century'.

Get your applications in for this fully-funded PhD studentship to research the libraries, reading rooms and broader reading practices of industrial workers in Scotland and the North of England from c.1840-1918.

Full details here:

Eligibility Applicants should have a minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree in a relevant subject area in the Humanities (e.g. English, History) and a Masters degree in a relevant field, either completed or about to be completed.