12 January 2012 The deadline for proposals for this year's annual conference is approaching (proposals due 1 February 2012).
9 January 2012 RSVP are delighted to announce that the winners of this year's Curran Fellowships are Michelle Elleray (University of Guelph) and Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire)
8 October 2011: Ashgate offer members of RSVP 20% off purchases made via their website. Login to the Members page for the promotion code and link.
9 September 2011: RSVP are pleased to announce that Katie Lanning (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the winner of the 2011 VanArsdel Prize for her essay 'Victorian Product Placement: Robinson Crusoe in The Moonstone'.
21 March 2011: RSVP are delighted to announce that the winner of this year's Colby Prize is Patrick Leary, for his The Punch Brotherhood: Table Talk and Print Culture in Mid-Victorian London (British Library, 2010).
7 March 2009: RSVP now has a Facebook Group (Facebook login required) where RSVP members can share news, thoughts, and photos. Here's how to become an RSVP member.
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University of Texas, Austin Texas, USA, 14-15 September 2012
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference at the University of Texas at Austin, USA, 14-15 September 2012. Click here for the conference website and details of the call for papers.
The conference theme is 'Sentiment and Sensation.' While papers addressing any aspect of Victorian periodicals will be considered, RSVP particularly welcomes proposals for papers on the discourse of sentiment and sensation in the newspaper and periodical press that variously promoted or targeted readerships, established journalistic networks or brands, and shaped, responded to, and/or addressed cultural and ideological concerns. See the website for details of possible topics. Deadline for proposals is 1 February 2012
Fall 2011: This issue has the first Book Review Forum. In this new feature, contemporary or classic pieces of scholarship will be discussed by scholars from a variety of disciplinary or theoretical perspectives. In this first Book Review Forum, Leslie Howsam and Linda K. Hughes review Dallas Liddle's The Dynamics of Genre (Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2009) and Dallas Liddle provides a short piece in response.
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12 January 2012 Early registration for 'W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary' closes on the 31 January 2012. Full details are here.
11 October 2011: There will be a day conference dedicated to the late News of the World at King's College London on the 24 February 2012. See the page for further details.
25 February 2011:The editors of the DNCJ are keen to expand its coverage of the local and regional press, for the online edition and any revised print edition. For an updated list of entries requiring contributors, click here.
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