Event: Railways – 200 Years that Transformed Britain (Saturday 21 November 2026), Lancaster University
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@bavs-uk.bsky.social@bavs-uk.bsky.socialANNOUNCEMENT: JVC-BAVS Early Career Mentorship Scheme (Deadline: November 1st 2026)
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: A Dark Hunger – Appetite, Desire, and Consumption in the Gothic Imagination (29 January 2027, Utrecht University, The Netherlands)
CFP Deadline: 2 November 2026
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Socialist Periodicals (VPFA and RSVP), 5-6 February 2027
Submission deadline: 31 October 2026
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialEVENT: Pre-Raphaelite Society Online Seminar Series October 2026 – June 2027, Wednesdays, 7.30 – 9 pm (UK time)
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: Volcanic Materiality in Literature and Art of the Anthropocene (Deadline: November 30, 2026)
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialVACANCIES: Victorian Literature Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and Associate or Full Professor (University of Notre Dame)
Application deadline: October 22, 2026
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialANNOUNCEMENT: New Podcast Series: Death of a Poet: a sonic unearthing of Bingley’s forgotten Victorian bard
Listen to Season 1 of Death of a Poet via the University of Leeds Cultural Collections & Galleries’ Gloves Off podcast platform: buff.ly/p3VMfc4
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialANNOUNCEMENT: BAVS/COVE Research Internship (Deadline: 9th November 2026)
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@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: Hidden Hands Conference – Underexplored Influences and Identities in the Long Nineteenth Century (Deadline: Sunday 27 September)
20th November 2026, online
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialEvent: Railways – 200 Years that Transformed Britain (Saturday 21 November 2026), Lancaster University
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@bavs-uk.bsky.socialFellowship: Belcher Visiting Fellowship in Victorian Studies – St Hugh’s College, Oxford (application deadline: 9.00am on Wednesday 30 September 2026)
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialEVENT: BAVS@Home and Abroad: Victorian Connections to Contemporary Japan
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialEVENT: Empathy and the Victorian Novel - Centre of Victorian Studies, University of Leicester (Online) buff.ly/8GlFSWv
@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: ‘Occult Science’ – BSLS 2026/27 Winter Symposium (29 January 2027 – Online)
Abstract deadline: 31 October 2026
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@bavs-uk.bsky.socialCFP: The Politics of Light in Neo-Victorian Fictions (Deadline: 15 November 2026) buff.ly/Lyvjs6R