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New! 2010 registration forms are now online!

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About the upcoming conference

VISAWUS, the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, announces its 15th annual conference:

Oceania and the East in the Victorian Imagination
October 28-30, 2010 - Honolulu, Hawai'i

The conference will focus on the complex relationships between the Victorians and the East,
including India and China, Malay and the East Indies, Australia and New Zealand, and the South Sea
Islands. This international conference will bring together specialists in Asian and Victorian art history,
literature, gender studies, science, history, literature, politics, and biographical studies, among others, to
explore how the Victorians perceived the East and how the Victorians were perceived in the East. We
invite paper proposals on political, cultural, social, religious, artistic, scientific, economic, agrarian, and
other aspects of this rich interaction.

Click here to view the most recent conference schedule draft.

Looking for past conference information?

The 2005-2009 conference schedules are now archived online. Click here to view and download them or browse the list at the bottom of the conferences/call for papers page.