Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Annual Conference

  • Date: Friday 12 July 2013 9.00am - Saturday 13 July 2013 5.00pm
  • Venue/Location: University of Salford
  • Event type: Conferences
  • Description:

    TRADITION AND THE NEW

    This year the annual conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will be hosted by the University of Salford in collaboration with Liverpool John Moores University.

    Papers will address aspects of 19th Century British magazines or newspapers will be considered. This year, the organisers have particularly encouraged proposals on ‘tradition and the new’ in 19th Century periodicals.

    Topics include:

    • Tradition, custom, or convention in journalism;

    • Histories, representations of antiquity, nostalgia;

    • Innovation, novelty and fashion;

    • Modernity, Victorian futures;

    • Evolution, chronology, or temporality;

    • Continuity or disruption in periodical publishing and editing;

    • Old and new printing technologies and readerships;

    • News; new modes of communication; innovation in finance and business models

    • New methods in research and teaching periodicals; the role of the archive.

    To register please visit the University of Salford Online Shop.

    Contact

    If you have any practical questions about the conference, please contact Brian Maidment on b.e.maidment@ljmu.ac.uk. For any questions about submitting a paper or the conference programme, please email Margaret Beetham on m.beetham@salford.ac.uk.

    You can follow the conference on Twitter @RSVP_2013 or by using #RSVP2013

    Activities

    The conference will offer optional small-group trips to some of Manchester’s many libraries of scholarly and historic interest on the afternoon of Thursday 11 July. That evening there will be a reception in the recently built People’s History Museum on the newly developed banks of the infamous Irwell so horrifyingly described by Engels.

    A guided walk through the commercial and industrial centre of Manchester will be offered on the morning of Sunday 14 July. In addition, a reception and Lancashire hot-pot supper will be held in the Victorian buildings of the Salford Museum and Art Gallery on the University campus on the evening of Friday 12 July.