We are excited to welcome you to "Unsettling Victorians" at our new online home in Virtual Vancouver. Our original setting in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia, on traditional, ancestral, and unceded Coast Salish territory remains extremely significant as the defining context for this event. The original location of the conference, overlooking the Pacific Ocean and historic Stanley Park, features stunning landscapes and seascapes, transpacific and transcontinental connections, and multi-layered political and cultural histories. “Unsettling Victorians,” interpreted in the broadest sense, is inspired by the myriad resonances of our settler-colonial setting in the era of decolonization.

What unsettled the Victorians and what is unsettling about the Victorians? How can we work to unsettle the Victorians? The conference fosters discussions that develop a critical perspective on settler and colonial identities, cultures, environments, structures, and assumptions; incorporate Indigenous topics, issues, methodologies, or ways of knowing; explore decolonial approaches, strategies, or techniques in Victorian literature, culture, history, pedagogy. The conference also features a broad range of papers, panels, round tables, and digital projects on many aspects of our general theme.

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For more information, please contact: navsa2021@sfu.ca
 

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