UPCOMING CONFERENCE

2025 NAVSA: AFTERMATHS

13-16 November 2025

Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

NAVSA 25 will examine the unfinished qualities of the Victorian period. Across panels and keynotes, seminars and gatherings, we will together focus on the unevenly enduring aspects of nineteenth-century life: the irregularized loop effects, webs, and ripples that resonate between the period of Victorian modernization and its aftermaths today. We therefore invite consideration of social and political legacies, philosophical aftereffects, and cultural inheritances, while calling for attention to formal effects of duration, delay, and persistence in Victorian thought itself. Our goal will be to emphasize a global nineteenth century in whose aftermaths we now live.

Abstracts for papers, panels, roundtables, and pre-conference digital presentations will be due March 31, 2025. Additional information can be found on the conference website.

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