Directions

The entrance to Glendon College is located at the intersection of Bayview and Lawrence East in Toronto.

IF YOU TAKE THE TTC, you have two choices:

1. Take the Route 124 or the 162 Lawrence East bus from the Lawrence/Yonge subway station and get off at the Glendon College stop at Bayview. As you walk from the bus-stop at Lawrence and Bayview, you'll see York Hall beyond the Glendon gatehouse, straight towards the left from the gatehouse (the left wing of the long, brick building, and proceed towards it centre).

2. Take the Route 11 Bayview bus from the Davisville subway station and ask to be let off at Glendon College (this stop is on the east side of Bayview so you need not walk acrossBayview to the campus).

IF YOU ARE DRIVING to mid-town Toronto on the 401 highway, take the exit south on Bayview Avenue and then take the right exit to Lawrence East and then immediately turn left to the gatehouse as you enter the Glendon campus. Identify yourself at the gatehouse as a registered member for the VSAO conference to receive a fre parking voucher and then park behind York Hall, left from the gatehouse.

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Past Conferences

April 2008: Victorian Interiors: Material and Metaphorical

Keynote Speakers

Janice Helland (Women's Studies and Fine Art, Queen's University)
"From Mud Cabin to Private Palace: Production, Display and Marekting of Craft in Ireland and Scotland, 1880-1900"

Matthew Rowlinson (English, University of Western Ontario)
"Foreign Bodies: Symptom, Race and Representation in Darwin and Freud"

Session Panelists

Jean Rosenfeild (History/Visual Arts, York University)
"'A Noble House in the City': The Victorian Ineriors of Elite Homes in Late-Nineteenth-Century Hamilton, Ontario"

D.M.R. Bentley (English, University of Western Onatrio)
"The Interior as 'Common Property' and 'Uncontrollable Heart' in Duncan Campbell Scott's In the Village of Viger (1896)"

Mary Wilson Carpenter (Emerita, English, Queen's University)
"Cow-heels and Water Drops: John Snow's Metropolitan Interiors"

April 2007: Bodies in Motion

Keynote Speakers

Marta Braun (Imge Arts, Ryerson University)
"Photography, Darwin, and Victorian Anthropology"

Paul Deslandes (History, University of Vermont)
"The Beautiful Man in Victorian Culture"

Session Panelists

Jaclyn Reid (Communications and Art History, McGill University)
"Sex for Sale: Mass Consumption of the Prostitute's Body"

Constance Crompton (Communication and Culture, York University)
"'We Admire Physical Strength and Beauty': Eugene Sandow in the Public Eye"

Jo Devereux (English, University of Western Ontario)
"Acting Lady Audley: The Female Body 'On and Off the Stage,' 1860-1890"

April 2006: Splendour in the Grass

Keynote Speakers

Martin Danahay (English, Brock University)
"John Ruskin's Garden"

Joy Dixon (History, University of British Columbia)
"'Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling': Sexuality, Religion, and the Troubled History of 'Secularization'"

Session Panelists

Barbara Leckie (English, Carleton University)
"Splendour and Squalor: Housing for the Poor in Harriet Martineau, George Eliot and Mary Ward

D.M.R. Bentley (English, University of Western Ontario) "'A Glorious Field upon which to Work': Environmental Determinismin Post-Confederation Canadian Culture and Aesthetics"

Lisa Smith (English, University of Toronto)
"The Other Side of Physiology: Desire and Knowledge in The Lifted Veil"

Barbara K. Seeber (English, Brock University)
"Women and Nature: Jane Austen's 'Catherine, or the Bower'"

April 2005: Pater, Periodicals, and the Weather

Keynote Speakers

Michael Wolff (English, University of Massachusetts)
"A Periodically Led Life: My 40 Years in the Field"

Katharine Anderson (Science, York University)
"Cloudy Wisdom: Local and Universal Knowledge in Victorian Weather Science"

William Whitla (Arts, York University)
"Rudyard Kipling, Horace, and Imperialism"

April 2004: Poetry, Imperialism, and Homology

Keynote Speakers

Donald Hair (English, University of Western Ontario)
"Why Read Robert Browning?"

Victor Shea (Arts, York University)
"'Pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white man's axe has been before us': Science, Adventure, and Imperial Authority in the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary"

Mary Winsor (History and Philosophy of Science, U of Toronto) "The Bull, its Killer, and the Killer's Wings; or, How Two Ladies in Toronto Solved Richard Owen's Mystery"

April 2003: Railway Erotics, Gendered Ekphrasis, and Female Community

Keynote Speakers

Peter Bailey (History, University of Manitoba)
"Adventures in Space: Victoria Railway Erotics"

Sophia Andres (English, University of Texas) "The Pre-Raphaelite Gendered Ekphrasis of the Victorian Novel"

Mary Arseneau (English, University of Ottawa)
"Recovering Female Community: Frances, Maria, and Christina Rossetti"

April 2002: The "Nineteenth Century" and the Reorganisation of Knowledge

Keynote Speaker

Tilottama Rajan (English, University of Western Ontario) "Prose of the World: Romanticism, the ‘Nineteenth Century,' and the Reorganization of Knowledge"

Panel Discussants: "The Place of Periodisation in the Academy Today, or Whither Nineteenth-Century Studies in the New Millennium"

Katharine Anderson (Science and Society Program, York University)

Mary Wilson Carpenter (English, Queen's University)

Stephen Heathorn (History, McMaster University)

William Whitla (Humanities, York University)

April 2001: Disciplines and Narrative

Keynote Speaker

Leslie Howsam (History, University of Windsor)
"Discipline and Narrative: History Books for Victorian Readers"

April 2000: Cultural Importation and Reproduction:
Britain in North America in the Nineteenth Century

Keynote Speakers

Laurel Brake (Literature, Birkbeck College, Univ. of London) "'Globalization' and the Press: The Nineteenth Century/ The 'new journalism'/W.T. Stead"

David Latham (English, York University) "'Count us by clay for them to fashion': Pre-Raphaelite Refashionings in Canada"

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