02 April 2012: The deadline for the 2012 VanArsdel Prize is 1 May 2012. Full details on the Awards page.
26 March 2012:The program for the 2012 Annual Conference has been published.
12 March 2012: Registration is now open for the 2012 Annual Conference. See the conference website for details.
12 March 2012: RSVP are delighted to announce that the winner of this year's Colby Prize is Joel Wiener, for his The Americanization of the British Press, 1830s-1914 (Palgrave, 2011).
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.
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. Registration for the conference is now open! Follow the links on the conference website for registration, program, hotel reservations, and information about planned activities, including a Friday night Texas BBQ & Bluegrass party.
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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02 April 2012: Registration remains open for 'W.T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary', 16-17 April 2012. Details about registration, program etc available from the conference website.
02 April 2012: Laurel Brake, Chandrika Kaul and Mark Turner invite proposals for a forthcoming essay collection, News of the World: ‘Journalism for the Rich, Journalism for the Poor’ 1843-2011. You can view the CFP here.
28 March 2012: The 2012 Conference of the Victorians Institute is dedicated to the theme of 'Victorian Mixed Media'. CFP here, deadline 1 May 2012.
28 March 2012: David Latané alerts members to the PhD theses supervised by Alan Lang Strout, containing transcripts from the Blackwood's archives, that have been digitized by the Texas Tech library and are available from here.
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