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About the upcoming conference

VISAWUS, the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, announces its 15th annual conference:

Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination
October 28-30, 2010 - Honolulu, Hawai'i

The conference will focus on the complex relationships between the Victorians and the East,
including India and China, Malay and the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand, and the South Sea
Islands. This international conference will bring together specialists in Asian and Victorian art history,
literature, gender studies, science, history, literature, politics, and biographical studies, among others, to
explore how the Victorians perceived the East and how the Victorians were perceived in the East. We
invite paper proposals on political, cultural, social, religious, artistic, scientific, economic, agrarian, and
other aspects of this rich interaction.

Click here to view the most recent conference schedule draft.

 

Looking for past conference information?

The 2005-2009 conference schedules are now archived online. Click here to view and download them, or browse the list below.

1996 - California State University, Northridge - Victorian Success - James R. Kincaid
1997 - California State University, Northridge - Victorian Sights and Sounds - Philippa Levine
1998 - Clark College (Vancouver, Washington) - Victorian Sexualities - Donald Hall
1999 - Clark College (Vancouver, Washington) - Victorianisms - Alison Winter
2000 - UCLA - Artifacts of Victorian Culture - Sally Mitchell
2001 - UCLA - The Victorian World - Chris Kent
2002 - Boise State University - Victorian Institutions - Linda K. Hughes
2003 - University of Texas (Austin) - Victorian Legacies - Martin Wiener
2004 - University of Washington (Seattle) - Victorian Innovations - Susan P. Casteras
2005 - University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) - Victorian Rituals, Celebrations, and Anniversaries - James R. Kincaid
2006 - Pepperdine University (Malibu) - The Presence of the Past in the Victorian Age - Philippa Levine
2007 - University of Colorado (Boulder) - Victorians in Motion - Lawrence Goldman
2008 - University of Washington (Seattle) - The Public and Private Politics of Victorian England - Antony Harrison
2009 - Coast Renaissance Hotel (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Victorian Markets and Marketing - Erika Rappaport - Joint Conference with the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
2010 - University of Hawaii (Honolulu) - Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination - Jane Samson