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The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will host its annual conference on the theme of "Victorian Periodicals and Politics" at George Washington University, Washington DC, September 15-18, 2005. Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor, will deliver the Michael Wolff Lecture on "Narratives and Editors: History and Historians in Victorian Periodical Research." Sally Mitchell, Temple University, will deliver the Plenary Lecture on "Freedom to Write: Negotiating Editorial Politics." Panel topics include art journals and criticism; fin-de-siecle journals; poetry, periodicals, and the imperial; religion and religious periodicals; women and their magazines; periodical authorship and audience; periodicals and political reform; national identities, imperial identities; feminist politics; dance, dining, music. 2005 Conference &#38; Annual Meeting Victorian Periodicals and PoliticsSeptember 16-18, 2005The Morris &#38; Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Conference CenterGeorge Washington University800 21st Street, NWWashington, DC 20052http://cafritz.gwu.edu/(directions &#38; parking info on their web site)Printable Conference FlierHelp spread the word about RSVP! Download the printable conference flier in PDF format (89 kb), and share with your colleagues.RegistrationConference registration information is coming soon! Kindly direct questions about local arrangements to Maria Frawley at MFrawley@gwu.edu.Recommended LodgingWe have blocks of 40 rooms at two hotels: the George Washington University Inn and One Washington Circle. Both hotels are close to the Cafritz Conference Center, where most sessions will be held, and to the Foggy Bottom Metro station. The GWU Inn is closer to the Kennedy Center, while the Circle Hotel has better walking access to Dupont Circle. To ensure conference rates, bookings should be made by August 15.George Washington University Innhttp://www.gwuinn.com/Conference Rate: $139 per night824 New Hampshire Avenue, NWWashington, DC 20037(800) 426-4455 booking line(202) 337-6620(202) 298-7499 faxOne Washington Circle Hotelhttp://www.thecirclehotel.com/Conference Rate: $149 per nightOne Washington Circle, NWWashington, DC 20037(800) 424-9671 booking line(202) 872-1680(202) 785-6642 faxRooms arranged by David Thomas557 Rome HallGeorge Washington Universitydwthomas@gwu.edu(202) 994-2328 Tentative Conference Program Friday, September 16:9:00-10:30I. Domesticity Commercialized and ProfessionalizedAlexis Easley, "The Politics of Domesticity: Periodicals, Tourism, and the Reconstruction of Carlyle's House."Janet Tanke, "The Politics of Cooking: The Professionalization of the Culinary Art(s) in the Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine and the Pall Mall Gazette."Tara Stern Moore, "Punch and the Construction of the Victorian Christmas."II. Art Journals and CriticismKatherine Haskins, "The Politics of Praise: The Art Union, the Probe, and Early Victorian Art Journalism in Britain."Patricia de Montfort, "The Politics of the Art Review, 1860-1880: F. G. Stephens and Tom Taylor."Thomas J. Tobin, "The Politics of Small Victorian Art Periodicals."  10:45-12:15I. Socialism and Anarchism in Fin-de-Siècle PeriodicalsKabi Hartman. "'A Sort of Meeting Place': Women's Columns and the Making of Socialism in the Clarion and the Labour Leader."Morna O'Neill, "'Good Propaganda': Walter Crane, the Periodical Press, and the Visual Culture of English Socialism."Elizabeth C. Miller, "Steal this Pen: Anarchist Women Writers and the Fin-de-Siècle Radical Press."II. Periodical Authorship and AudienceEllen Jordan, "Using the 'Burrows Method' to Identify Authorship in Nineteenth-century Periodicals."Katherine Malone, "'The Byways of Literature': Margaret Oliphant's Periodical Reviews and the Politics of Audience."Meghan Mercier, "Uneasy in Household Words: Dickens' Child's History of England."12:30-1:45Brown Bag Lunch Discussion: New Digitization Projects (Leader: Patrick Leary)2:00-3:45I. Periodicals and Political ReformMichael Michie, "Tait's Edinburgh Magazine and Political Reform in the 1830s."David Morphet, "'Keeping our Friends in the Right Course': The Political Mission of the Quarterly Review, 1809-59."Sally Ledger, "That 'Savage Little Robespierre!': Douglas Jerrold and Popular Radical Journalism in the 1840s and 1850s."Janice Carlisle, "Punch and the Working Man."II. Fin-de-Siècle JournalsAnne Humpherys, "The Journals that Did: Writing about Sex in the 1890s."Lana Dalley, "Feminist Politics and the Radical Press: A Reading of Domesticity and Economics in The Malthusian, 1879-1885."Margaret D. Stetz, "'The Suspense Was Awful': Gothic Horror and British Imperial Politics in the Wide Wide World Magazine."Laurel Brake, "Daily Politics and Monthly Fiction: 'Journalism Fiction' in the Review of Reviews."4:00-5:30Plenary Lecture: Sally Mitchell, Temple University: "Freedom to Write: Negotiating Editorial Politics." Saturday, September 17:9:00-10:30I. National Identities, Imperial IdentitiesFrancesca Benatti, "Editor in Action: Charles Gavan Duffy and The Nation, 1842-1848."Megan Ferguson, "Anima Celtica: What is The Evergreen in Scottish Nationalism?"Michael de Nie, "Imperial Identities, the Press, and Victorian Politics."  II. New Topics in Periodical Studies: Dance, Dining, &#38; MusicCheryl Wilson, "Politicizing Dance in Victorian Periodicals."Laura Vorachek, "Music and the Politics of Space in Punch."Andrea Broomfield, "The Politics of Dining Out: Negotiating the 1890s Restaurant Scene with Nathaniel Newnham-David and the Pall Mall Gazette."10:45-12:15I. Poetry, Periodicals, and Imperial PoliticsKitty Ledbetter, "War Scares and Patriot-Soldiers: Tennyson's Political Poetry in Victorian Periodicals."Sheshalatha Reddy, "'Queen of the Seas, Enlarge Thyself!': Poetry and Politics, Empire and Expansion during the Jubilee."Chaudrika Kaul, "Victorian Periodicals and the Political Culture of Empire: A Case Study of the Indian Empire."II. Feminist PoliticsTracy Rosenberg, "The 'Wicked Westminster' versus the Daily Telegraph: What 'Marriage' Meant to Victorian Society."Fran Baker, "Shrieking Sisters: Frances Power Cobbe, Eliza Lynn Linton, and Separate Spheres in Victorian Periodicals."Molly Youngkin, "'Independent in Thought and expression, Kindly and Tolerant in Tone': Henrietta Stannard, Golden Gates, and Gender Issues in Fin-de-Siècle Periodicals."12:30-2:00Lunch and Business Meeting2:15-3:45I. Religion and Religious PeriodicalsKathleen Vejvoda, "Catholic Emancipation and The Lady's Magazine."Frank Wallis, "Anti-Catholicism in The Bulwark, or Reformation Journal."Jill Rappoport, "Salvation Army Periodicals: 'Slum Sisters' and the Colonization of 'Darkest England.'"II. Women and their MagazinesKimberly J. Stern, "The Salonnière of the Westminster Review: George Eliot and the New Woman of Letters."Alberta Gabriele, "The Re-definition of the Public Sphere in Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Belgravia, 1867-1876."Cheryl Cassidy, "Creating a Visual Record: Photographs of Women in Nineteenth-century Missionary Magazines."4:00-5:30Wolff Lecture: Leslie Howsam, University of Windsor: "Narratives and Editors: History and Historians in Victorian Periodical Research." Sunday, September 19: 9:00-10:30Teaching Roundtable(Moderators: Teresa Mangum &#38; Michelle Allen)Rechelle Christie, "An Undergraduate American Literature and Identity Course Looks East to Great Britain."Jennifer Phegley and Lyndsey Magrone, "Politics, Periodicals, and Technology: Digitizing Charles Dickens's Hard Times and Household Words for Classroom Use."Elizabeth Miller, "The Anarchic Archive: Teaching Radical Victorian Print Culture."Mark Turner, "Queering the Magazines."  