[ecrea] CFP Victorian Periodicals Through Glass

*Victorian Periodicals Through Glass: Reflections on the Theory and
Practice of Digitising Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Magazines*

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*THE ATHENAEUM CLUB, PALL MALL, LONDON. FRIDAY 15**TH **JULY. 2016*

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*KEYNOTE SPEAKER:*

*Regenia Gagnier*

*CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:*

*Jim Mussell*

*Laurel Brake*

*Clare Horrocks*

*John Drew*

When the flagship /Journal of Victorian Culture /announced its intention
in 2008 to “act as a forum for digital research on the nineteenth
century and for discussion of its relationship with traditional
scholarship,” it was an acknowledgement that a wide range of
nineteenth-century research communities had become actively engaged with
the imaginative and critical possibilities opened up by the digital
world. Since then, its ‘Digital Forum’ section has included challenging
work from a wide range of perspectives and chronicled the growth of this
discipline over the past eight years.

Similarly, since /Dickens Journals Online /was launched publicly in
2012, the digital reception and exploration of Victorian periodicals and
Dickens’s work has enjoyed an exponential growth; last year’s /Being
Human /festival offered a showcase for some of the most interesting and
innovative digital Dickens projects happening today, including /The
Drood Inquiry /and the /Our Mutual Friend /reading project and Twitter
group.

Most recently, Birkbeck’s online academic journal ‘19’ (itself an
innovation in digital studies of the long nineteenth century) devoted
its entire 10th anniversary edition for Winter 2015 to lengthier
meditations on an array of exciting endeavours within the burgeoning
nineteenth-century digital archive, including the digitization of
Blake’s work and the cultivation of new research networks and discourses
through digital projects.

Join us then for *‘Victorian Periodicals Through Glass’*, a one-day
conference running in conjunction with the *Sally Ledger Memorial
Lecture *on Friday 15th July 2016 at The Athenaeum Club, Pall Mall. At
this stunning and evocative venue, we are gathering together the leading
thinkers and practitioners on the use of digital resources as research
tools in 19th-century literary scholarship. We warmly encourage
19th-century scholars of all kinds to join us for a stimulating
programme of theoretical discussions and practical expositions. We also
encourage and call for proposals for both 20-minute spoken papers and
10- to 15-minute A2 poster presentations from

C *current or recent postgraduate students who use of digital resources
in their research on Victorian periodicals or any other aspect of
19**th**-century literary studies *

C *teams or solo practitioners working on digital editions or digital
representations of nineteenth-century periodicals, whether Open Access
or subscription-based *

Topics may include, but are not confined to:

C Research projects that are explicitly predicated on the use of digital
material

C The boons and methodological challenges of using such material

C Comparisons between digital and older forms of resource

C Creative uses of digital material in your work

C How digital resources have shaped or will shape your research

*Deadline for proposals: 29 February 2016. 500 words max; 1 page
attachment; mail to (djo /at/ buckingham.ac.uk)*

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