The next event of the Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar is to be held on Friday 23 January 2015 at the University of Northampton.

The theme is ‘Victorian Education’ and the keynote speaker is Dr Phillippa Bennett, whose theme is ’Educate and Agitate: William Morris and the Meaning of Education’.

Proposals are invited for papers of 20 minutes in length, which should be sent to Rebecca Styler rstyler@lincoln.ac.uk by/on 28 November. A more detailed CFP is pasted in below. The committee hopes to confirm the programme by 5 December.

If you are interested in leading a discussion on the day’s theme, then please also get in touch with Rebecca by the same date.

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CFP: ‘Victorian Education’

 “Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life…”

 23 January 2015, University of Northampton (time tbc – approx. 11–4)

 Keynote Speaker: Phillippa Bennett – ‘Educate and Agitate: William Morris and the Meaning of Education’

The next Midlands Interdisciplinary Victorian Studies Seminar, hosted by the University of Northampton, will explore the theme of Victorian education. We seek papers that address this theme from various disciplinary and multi-disciplinary perspectives. Topics could include, but are not limited to, the following:

 

  • Nineteenth century theories of education / Victorian and C21 pedagogies
  • Sites of learning (schools, museums, clubs)
  • Methods of teaching in etiquette books, guides and domestic manuals
  • Children’s literature, didacticism, anti-didacticism
  • Education of the poor / Purposes of education
  • The figure of the teacher / Literary representations of education
  • Nature and education / the Romantic legacy in Victorian education
  • Public schools (‘flogging and fagging’)
  • Educational Reforms
  • Women and education

Please send ideas for papers of 20 minutes length to Rebecca Styler (rstyler@lincoln.ac.uk) by Friday 28 November.

This is an informal event and we do not require full conference-type proposals – and please do not exceed 250 words. You do not have to live or work in the Midlands, but preference may be given to those who do.

As usual, travel bursaries will be available to postgraduate students on a first come first served basis – there will be 5 bursaries of £20, though if there is not much uptake we may be able to provide more help with travel costs to individuals. Please contact Kate Hill (khill@lincoln.ac.uk) if you are interested in applying for a travel bursary.

MIVSS is supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies.