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Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations:
Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century 

SGNCS World Congress 2025

The University of Birmingham will host the 2025 World Congress of the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies. From the 17th to the 20th of July, delegates hosted by the College of Arts & Law will be able to experience the world-class facilities and research environment of the Edgbaston Campus as a backdrop to a series of stimulating events – papers, methodology and pedagogy round tables, ‘big ideas’ workshops – around the central theme of ‘Cultural Circulations, Global Mobilities, and Knowledge Translations: Turning Points in the Nineteenth Century’. As a leading UK research institution, and a member of the Russell Group Universities, the University of Birmingham and its scholars will offer a rich breeding ground for new ideas, projects and partnerships.

 

Breaks will offer delegates the opportunity to engage with each other, but also with two museums on campus – the Winterbourne House and botanic gardens, representative of the nineteenth-century British Arts and Craft movement, and the Lapworth Museum of Geology. The University also hosts the unique collections of the Cadbury Research Library, with documentary treasures ranging from the Church Mission Society archive to the personal papers of the Chamberlain family, the founder of sociology Harriet Martineau or former British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, offering many research opportunities in addition to the Congress. 

 

Birmingham itself, as the UK’s second city, displays a vibrancy and diversity inherited from the cultural circulations and global mobilities at the heart of this Congress. As the industrial powerhouse of the industrial revolution in Britain, from where the first intercity railway line ran to London in 1838, it is a perfect exemplar of the fluxes, trajectories and developments that have shaped the phenomena which SGNCS members engage with in their work. Delegates to the 2025 World Congress will have a unique opportunity to experience, document and probe the relationship between past and present when it comes to nineteenth-century global dynamics.

 

We look forward to receiving paper proposals submitted through this CfP.

 

Berny Sèbe, SGNCS 2025 Organising Committee co-chair, University of Birmingham |  Kevin A. Morrison, SGNCS 2025 Organising Committee co-chair, SGNCS President 

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17-20 July 2025

©2022 by Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies World Congress.

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