{"id":7513,"date":"2019-08-09T19:29:55","date_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2019-08-09T19:29:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T19:29:55","slug":"cfp-2020-midwest-victorian-studies-association-conference-9-30-2019-4-24-25-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2019\/08\/09\/cfp-2020-midwest-victorian-studies-association-conference-9-30-2019-4-24-25-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: 2020 Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference (9\/30\/2019; 4\/24-25\/2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-7514 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2020-MVSA-pic-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2020-MVSA-pic-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/2020-MVSA-pic.jpg 313w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2020 Conference - \u201cTruth, Investigation, &amp; Mystery\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Chicago, Illinois<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">April 24-25, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">In an age when the mystery novel was invented and popularized, Charles Darwin propounded the theory of evolution, and police investigations were covered extensively in the popular press, did Victorians develop a distinctive attitude towards revealing the truth? Were nineteenth-century Britons convinced that they possessed the means to find answers to long-standing questions both practical and theoretical? Did some Victorians feel that casting a light on mysteries both religious and secular risked exposing dangerous answers to the public view? The Program Committee for the 2020 MVSA conference invites proposals for papers and panels on the subject of Victorian inquiry broadly defined. Submissions are welcome from scholars working in art history, musicology, history, science, philosophy, theater, theology, literature, and other fields of scholarly endeavor. We encourage proposals that will contribute to cross-disciplinary discussion, which is a special feature of MVSA conferences. Topics might include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Victorian methodologies of investigation, critique, and inquiry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Detection, horror, the uncanny, and the supernatural in the public imagination<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Press coverage of scandals or crimes, and subsequent attempts by police and legal authorities to bring the perpetrator(s) to justice<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Medical responses to perplexing cases, epidemics, orpathological debates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">The search for \u201ctruth\u201d in the public sphere (via journalism, parliamentary inquiries, or participation in voluntary societies) in regard to the most important issues of the day, such as imperialism, race, social justice, legal and governmental reforms, and the idea of progress<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">The cultural influence of pseudo-sciences such as physiognomy, mesmerism, and craniology upon racial relations and class prejudices<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Debates regarding religious faith (and doubt) in an age of rising secularism<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Exploration and discovery in any realm of Victorian life, including the sciences, world travel, music, psychology, sociology, archaeology, or aesthetics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Nineteenth-century attempts to identify, study, and collect literary editions, folk traditions, \u201cancient music,\u201d artifacts, or the vestiges of ancient civilizations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">Victorian literary, dramatic, or musical forms for narrating patterns of discovery and the mysterious<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: black;\">How the discovery of lost documents, the use of specific archives, or the development of new modes of research and pedagogy (example: digital mapping) allow scholars and students of Victorian Britain to offer insights into the nature of nineteenth-century British life that may have been invisible to the Victorians themselves, or that they may have wished to keep hidden from their contemporaries, from posterity, or both<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; margin-bottom: .0001pt;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">For individual papers, panels, or lecture-demonstrations, send a 300-word abstract and 1-page vita (as MWord documents) by September 30, 2019, to conferencesubmissions@midwestvictorian.org.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2020 Conference &#8211; \u201cTruth, Investigation, &amp; Mystery\u201d Chicago, Illinois April 24-25, 2020 In an age when the mystery novel was invented and popularized, Charles Darwin propounded the theory of evolution, and police investigations were covered extensively in the popular press, did Victorians develop a distinctive attitude towards revealing the truth? 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