NAVSA Conference 2011
Vanderbilt University (Nov. 3-6, 2011)
NAVSA 2011, "Performance and Play," will be held at Vanderbilt University, November 3-6. The program features plenaries by Tom Gunning, Catherine Robson, and Carolyn Williams. 
Nearly 150 panels focus on such topics as:
- "War Games and World Adventures"
- "Sacred Play and Secular Pleasures"
- "Children on the Victorian Stage"
- "The Music Hall"
- "Dance on the Transnational Stage"
- "The Cinematic Imagination of Victorian Literature"
- "Mystic Play and Occult Sympathies"
- "Dramatic Snapshots"
- "Reading the Digital Archive"
- "Victorian Afterlives"
- "Urban Art and Performance"
- "Victorians in Drag"
- "Victorian Performance of Taste"
- "Operatic Notes"
- "From Galton to Global Warming"
- "Ventriloquizing the Working Class"
- "Animals on Parade"
There are still a few slots open in the eight special seminars, which will be filled on a first come, first served basis. Early registration closes September 30. Join us for the opening reception in Nashville"s Parthenon, a Victorian-era replica, and for performance and play in Nashville"s many music venues.