Victorian Nature and Artifice
VSAWC 2024
Canmore, AB
April 26-27
The Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada will host the 2024 Conference in Canmore, Alberta on April 26 and April 27, 2024. At this location—on the border of an area that has been set apart as "natural"—we will gather to consider and complicate the ways that Victorians understood the concepts of nature and artifice.
Our keynote speakers are Dr. Margaret Diane Stetz (Mae and Robert Carter Professor of Women's Studies and Professor of Humanities, University of Delaware) and Dr. Lianne McTavish (Professor of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, University of Alberta). Dr. Stetz will give a virtual keynote address on her recent curated exhibits by key fin-de-siècle aesthetic figures. Dr. McTavish will deliver an in-person keynote address on the history of zoos, with an emphasis on critical animal studies and on Banff Park Zoo as the key case study.
VSAWC 2024 includes a hands-on workshop presented by Crafting Communities. Participants will make a pinhole camera out of recycled beverage cans and consider how this hands-on work can enhance teaching and learning. Visit the registration page for more information.
VSAWC 2024 is co-hosted by Dr. Heather Marcovitch (Red Deer Polytechnic) and Dr. Andrea Korda (University of Alberta). Please contact us by email at vsawc2024@gmail.com.
Sponsorship for VSAWC 2024
Thank you to the following organizations for their generous support of this conference:
The School of Arts & Education at Red Deer Polytechnic
The Augustana Faculty of the University of Alberta