Photo of an American being very confused seeing their first Punch and Judy puppet performance
One of the best parts of #BAVS2025 (other than the stellar, thought provoking papers) was witnessing @hosmeriana.bsky.social ‘s reaction to her first Punch & Judy show complete with sausage-stealing crocodiles 🐊
Excerpt from conference Programme for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference depicting the conference registration, welcome, and first panel.
Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social
Speaking at the British Association for Victorian Studies 25 year anniversary conference in Oxford #bavs2025 was a joy...doing so with #TeamRoehampton from @uni-roehampton.bsky.social
was even better.
Image shows a hand-made ladies tie-on pocket in cream cotton with pink binding, embroidered with flowers, leaves and squirrels.
A truly humbling reception at #BAVS2025 where I presented a practice-based paper that combined making and creative writing, using a Pattern of Perfection from @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social , on a panel with the exceptional Anouska Lester and Catherine Archer-Richardson. A wonderful, warm conference 💗
A photo showing the six past presidents of BAVS, the current and incoming president, sitting in a line at the annual conference.
Wonderful to see so many old and new faces at BAVS’ 25th anniversary conference! #BAVS2025
It was particularly inspirational to hear from so many of our past presidents at the event’s closing panel. A fitting ending to a fantastic 3 days! #19thCentury #BAVSTRAVAGANZA
#BAVS2025 you were a blast! 5 x Birkbeck papers from @drvickymills.bsky.social @nonfictioness.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social Julia Kuehn and me! Great to hang with @jeremynewton64.bsky.social too! Such fun and sociability with so many great #Victorian scholars! @19birkbeck.bsky.social
Today at #BAVS2025 I accepted the BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph and got to speak about my book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines. Thank you to @drmarylshannon.bsky.social (whose own book was highly commended) for taking these pictures ❤️
A special moment and throwback to my MSt presenting @engfac.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk on Wilde, ‘moral pestilence’ and epidemic influenza in the 1890s (at Wilde’s university) as part of @mediaandepidemics.bsky.social project for @bavs-uk.bsky.social #BAVS2025
A fascinating keynote by Lauren Goodlad on LLMs and Victorian Studies at #bavs2025 just now, making the key point that there is no such thing as a singular 'AI' - 'AI' is simply a marketing concept.
Lauren Goodlad is now giving a barn-storming final #BAVS2025 keynote on #AI - pictured below are some of her important reminders.
A key takeaway is that language in use is a *process*, not a *product* (see Herbert C Clark), which takes us back to Saussure's distinction b/w "langue" & "parole".
At #BAVS2025 I particularly enjoyed the Punch and Judy show, Pablo Mukherjee’s keynote, and this glorious cuneiform cylinder at the Ashmolean
I truly feel that @louisecreechan.bsky.social gave my favourite paper at #BAVS2025 - everyone go seek out her publications, which are contributing immensely to the study of literature, reading, and writing
Now @louisecreechan.bsky.social gives #BAVS2025 a truly fantastic paper arguing for critical neurodiversity studies to arrive in Victorian Studies.
L reads "The Lifted Veil" as neurodivergent: her voice recording of ideas echoes Latimer's self-conscious omniscient address to a future reader...
.@emilyjlm.bsky.social gives us a brilliant paper at #BAVS2025 about adapting sentiment analysis for Victorian texts. Current method is
1) confined to +/-
2) lexicons are made of 21stC tweets.
Here's a +/- map of HP7 - my students try this with David Copperfield, also episodic & peripatetic
Happy 25th birthday @bavs-uk.bsky.social! Thank you for the beautiful conference dinner and the fiendishly difficult quiz! Glorious Victorian architecture provided by Oxford Town Hall… it felt a bit like dining inside a wedding cake… #BAVS2025
Excited to see our collection on Tauchnitz & publishing here at #BAVS2025! There is a little #Ouida chapter in it, too 😉
Had a great time talking about prehistoric ghosts and haunted barrows at #BAVS2025 (ft. my own spooky barrow photo, naturally)
Amazing to hear about your research @janetteleaf.bsky.social and @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social - such a fun panel to be a part of!
More #BAVS2025: Exploring travel & Orientalism, the colonial imagery of tea & labour, transatlantic tea rooms, & the domestic masculinity of Japonisme.
The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻
Join us for #BAVS2025 @engfac.bsky.social
- proposals on any aspect of the long nineteenth century are due 17th March! #BAVS #Victorians #Victorianist #cfp #conference
Excited that #BAVS2025 will be taking place on 23-25 July at University of Oxford with a dedicated PGR/ECR afternoon on 22nd July!
We hope you can join us to celebrate our 25th anniversary conference!
CfP information can be found here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/bavs2025
