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Victorian Periodicals Review 38.4 (2005) 441-442



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Calls for Papers, Meetings, and Announcements

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals announces that Professor Vineta Colby has generously endowed a prize in honor of Robert A. Colby to be awarded annually for the work which has most significantly advanced the study of the 19th-century British periodical press.

The Robert A. Colby Prize will be awarded at the annual RSVP meeting. It will include, in addition to a monetary award, travel and lodging expenses for attendance at the RSVP conference.

The first prize will be for a work published in 2005 and will be awarded at the RSVP conference at the Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City, on September 15–16, 2006.

An award committee has been appointed and will be responsible for recommending books to be considered and securing copies from the publishers. Anyone who wishes to nominate a book or call the committee's attention to a print or electronic work published in 2005 may contact the chair of the prize committee, Professor Sally Mitchell, sm@temple.edu.

Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2006 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. The winner receives a plaque, $300, and publication of the prize essay in VPR. Send submissions before April 1, 2006 to [End Page 441] Kathryn Ledbetter, Department of English, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616.

Eileen Curran's additions and corrections to the Wellesley Index are now located at www.victorianresearch.org.

The annual conference of RSVP will be held September 15-16, 2006 at The Graduate Center, CUNY, New York City. The topic will be "Victorian Geographies," and the deadline for proposals is 1 February 2006. RSVP hopes to attract work on such wide-ranging topics as borders, spaces, hemispheres, colonies, resources, diasporas, populations, landscapes, environments, cities, regions, migrations, niches, disasters, maps, and other topics as they relate to the production, circulation, and consumption of Victorian periodicals. The program will also include a roundtable devoted to methods of teaching periodicals in the classroom. If you would like to participate in this roundtable discussion, please submit a one-page proposal to Alexis Easley at maeasley@stthomas.edu. RSVP is pleased to be able to award three grants of $100 each to graduate students presenting papers at the conference. Please consult the RSVP Web site at http://www.rs4vp.org for further information about conference registration, plenary and keynote speakers, and related activities. Please direct questions about local arrangements to Anne Humpherys at president@rs4vp.org.

The North American Society for the Study of Romanticism and the North American Victorian Studies Association will join forces for two major conferences on the nineteenth century at Purdue University in Lafayette, Indiana on 31 August to 3 September 2006 (Labor Day weekend). Proposals are due 15 February 2006. Questions about the conference should be addressed to Dino Franco Felluga at felluga@purdue.edu. For more information, please consult http://www.purdue.edu/NAVSA/Conferences/2006.

VPR is now available online as a new member of Project Muse.

Beginning with volume 39 (Spring 2006), articles published in VPR will be formatted according to Chicago Style.

RSVP Web site: www.rs4vp.org
University of Toronto Web site: www.utpjournals.com



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