UPCOMING CONFERENCE

2026 NAVSA: TRAFFIC

11-15 November 2026

Hilton Pasadena

Pasadena, California

The joint NAVSA-NASSR 2026 conference to take place in Pasadena, California November 11-16 is now open for submissions! This is a fully in-person conference; for those who wish to participate online, there will be a Zoom pre-conference on November 6. We welcome papers on any aspect of nineteenth-century studies related to the conference theme "Traffic." You can find the call for papers here; submissions for individual papers and panels are due by February 15, 2026 through the Oxford Abstracts portal. 

Our fantastic keynote speakers are Arun Sood, Lecturer in Global Literatures at the University of Exeter, and Eleanor Jones Harvey, senior curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

For those interested in the blue-green humanities, we're planning an overnight excursion to Catalina Island for November 10-11, which will feature a tour of the Wrigley Marine Science Center, workshop, hike, and other programming. We'll also have cross-registration with the North American Conference on British Studies, taking place down the street at the Westin. 

Located in northeast Los Angeles county, Pasadena is near the Huntington Library and the hiking trails of the San Gabriel Mountains hiking trails; you will also be close to the amazing restaurants, bookstores, and hipster cafes of Silver Lake and Echo Park.