NAVSA

Upcoming Conferences

2025 NAVSA: AFTERMATHS • will occur in Washington, DC on 13-16 Nov 2025

NAVSA '25: Aftermaths will be held November 13-16, 2025 at the Omni Shoreham Hotel, in Washington DC. 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: https://navsa.georgetown.edu.

We welcome contributions that seek to understand any aspect of Victorian aftermaths, such as:
● The historical novel
● Victorian neo-medievalisms
● Pre-Raphaelite art
● Gothic histories & haunting
● Marx’s temporalities/Marxist temporalities
● Progress as narrative/historical mode
● Photographic & proto-cinematic time
● Narrative suspense & resolution
● “Foreshadowing” or “backshadowing”?
● 1848 & revolutionary time
● Reform, as political, historiographical &
aesthetic principle
● The Great Famine & its remembrances
● Enslavement, abolition, & their legacies
● Imperialism & uneven development
● History writing & the forms of the historical ● Serialization & temporalities of print
● Victorianism, Romanticism, belatedness
● Decadence & the forms of crisis
● Poetic time & effects like enjambment, meter, caesura, stanzaic interval
● Evolutionary time
● Victorian historical exhibits
● Victorian ruins
● Rubbish, waste, recycling
● Victorian institutions & institutionalization ● Obsolescence, technological & otherwise
● Periodization & duration
● Histories of Victorian studies
● What’s left of the Victorian

Questions can be addressed to: navsa@georgetown.edu.

FUTURE CONFERENCES:

2026 Los Angeles

All conference attendees must be current members of NAVSA.