2013 Conference
Through the Looking Glass
Keynote Speaker
Jay Clayton
Vanderbilt University
1 - 2 November 2013
The 42nd Meeting of the Victorians Institute
Middle Tennessee State University
Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. via email to Rebecca.King@mtsu.edu by 1 May 2013.
We invite papers on any aspect of the theme, which refers to Lewis Carroll's 1871 sequel to Alice in Wonderland, but invites much wider consideration. The story beings on November 4, the day before Guy Fawkes Night, and is also associated with issues of time and space, the game of chess, fairy tale and fantasy, neologism, history, curiosity, epistemology, dress and wigs, and of course, mirrors.
Possible topics include mirrors and mirroring; microscopes and telescopes; Victorian mathematics, science, and science fiction; arts and crafts; illustrations and media adaptations; language and hybridity; history; new worlds and cultures; travel; empire; Victorian pedagogy; childhood; gender and sexuality; fantasy and play; pseudonyms; biography; photography; music, and other topics related to Victorian studies.
Selected papers from the conference will be refereed for the Victorians Institute Journal annex at NINES.
Limited travel subventions will be available from the Victorians Institute for graduate students whose institutions provide limited or no support.
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Images from the 2011 Conference