{"id":3748,"date":"2016-01-24T03:38:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T03:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=3748"},"modified":"2016-01-24T03:38:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T03:38:03","slug":"cfp-victorians-institute-conference-2016-victorian-steam-4292016-1014-152016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2016\/01\/24\/cfp-victorians-institute-conference-2016-victorian-steam-4292016-1014-152016\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Victorians Institute Conference 2016: Victorian STEAM (4\/29\/2016; 10\/14-15\/2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Victorians Institute Conference<a href=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/victoriansteam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3749\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/victoriansteam-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"Victorian Steam\" width=\"245\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/victoriansteam-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/victoriansteam.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>October 14-15, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vi2016.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/\"><strong>https:\/\/vi2016.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since its widespread adoption in the 1990s, the acronym \u201cSTEM\u201d has focused political and public attention on investments in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. In response, numerous commenters as well as arts and humanities advocacy organizations have urged the necessary inclusion of the \u201carts\u201d in educational priorities with the hybrid acronym \u201cSTEAM.\u201d In this context, The Victorians Institute\u00a0devotes the theme of this conference to \u201cVictorian STEAM\u201d with two related goals. First, to explore the nineteenth century\u2019s creative intermingling of pursuits across the arts and sciences when, in so many cases, disciplines had yet to separate into their discrete domains. With a nod to the \u201csteam\u201d which so transformed historical industry, this conference investigates the interdisciplinary, extradisciplinary, or even predisciplinary alliances which powered new knowledge and critique in the Victorian era. Second, Victorian STEAM underscores the continuing relevance of such humanities-based work today, not only to stress the vital importance of arts and humanities training in education, but even to propose how Victorian studies \u2014 so attuned to the potentials for disciplinary crossings \u2014 may uniquely help reimagine such work in the present.<\/p>\n<p>To these ends, the Victorians Institute\u00a0invites proposals for participation at the Victorians Institute\u2019s conference at North Carolina State University on October 14-15, 2016, in Raleigh, NC. Individuals may submit 300-word abstracts and a one-page CV for consideration in a general conference pool. The Victorians Institute\u00a0also encourages participants to submit proposals for complete panels or roundtable discussions, particularly those offering cross-cutting perspectives from different disciplinary, methodological, or thematic viewpoints. Proposals for full panels should comprise 500 words and include one-page CVs of the panelists. The Victorians Institute\u00a0welcomes submissions from graduate students, instructors, faculty, and independent scholars regardless of rank or affiliation. The Victorians Institute additionally provides a select number of travel awards for attendees demonstrating need. If you would like to be considered, please include a brief cover letter explaining your request and what travel support you currently receive. Please format abstracts and CVs as .doc, .docx, or .pdf files and submit as attachments to <a href=\"mailto:victoriansinstitute2016@gmail.com\">victoriansinstitute2016@gmail.com<\/a> by the deadline of April 29, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Though this conference is generously sponsored by the College of Humanities &amp; Social Sciences and Department of English, participation is not restricted by discipline, in keeping with its theme. Applicants may develop their own proposals or find inspiration from topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>- science and literature<\/li>\n<li>- representations of technology<\/li>\n<li>- disciplines and professions<\/li>\n<li>- agents, actors, and networks<\/li>\n<li>- history of education<\/li>\n<li>- media history<\/li>\n<li>- art and politics<\/li>\n<li>- liberalism and culture<\/li>\n<li>- the development of arts and humanities<\/li>\n<li>- uses of Victorian contexts in the present (e.g. steampunk)<\/li>\n<li>- teaching across Victorian contexts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>North Carolina State University offers a unique institutional locus for these discussions, considering its institutional mission and facilities. The conference also features a keynote by Dr. Alison Byerly whose research in Victorian studies prefaced her current career administering liberal arts education, now as President of Lafayette College. The conference closes with a steampunk dance party, open to the curious as well as the cosplayers. As the state capital of North Carolina, Raleigh offers a vibrant downtown and ready access to air transportation as well as neighboring institutions in the Research Triangle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victorians Institute Conference October 14-15, 2016 North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC https:\/\/vi2016.wordpress.ncsu.edu\/ Since its widespread adoption in the 1990s, the acronym \u201cSTEM\u201d has focused political and public attention on investments in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. 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