2024
International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (INCSA) | Plenary Panel: “Intertemporal Studies of the Environment: A Conversation with Etienne Benson and Devin Griffiths,” Etienne Benson, Devin Griffith, Ella Mershon, Lynn Voskuil
INCSA: “Evidentiary Sites and Citations: The Case for Radical Interdisciplinarity,” Kate Flint, Maura O’Connor, Erika Rappaport, Lynn Voskuil
Petrocultures Conference: “Moving Coal from the Nineteenth Century to the Great Acceleration,” George Hegarty, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Matthew Swanson, Susan Zeiger
Climate and Crisis, 1660-1820: “Ecologies Beyond the Human,” Melissa Bailes, Lucinda Cole, Tobias Menely
Climate and Crisis, 1660-1820: “Geologies, Topographies, and Mediation,” Eric Gidal, Ranjani Sudan, Gillen D’Arcy Wood
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS): “Enviroments, Landscapes, and Weather,” Michael Martin, Jiwon Min, Hannah Schultz
INCS: “Plants, Animals, and Humans,” Mary Bowden, Meg Dobbins, Nathan Elliott, Shan Chuan Hsiao
2023
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA): “Deforming the Gothic: Rethinking the Literature of Fear in the Anthropocene,” Siobhan Carroll, Jed Mayer, Olivia Stone
NAVSA: “Victorian Environments 1: New Issues, New Directions,” Sarah Bilston, Alicia Carroll, Dennis Denisoff, Suvendu Ghatak, Deanna Kreisel, Barbara Leckie, Kent Linthicum
NAVSA: “Victorian Environments 2: Restoration and Return,” Ella Mershon, Benjamin Morgan, Mario Ortiz-Robles, Michelle Radnia, Elizabeth Miller, M.A. Miller
Vcologies Working Group 2023: University of Mississippi, Organized by Deanna Kreisel
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS): “Back to the (Ecological) Future,” Mary Bowden, Richard Menke, Ashley Miller, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Extraction and Economic Crisis,” Ayşe Çelikkol, Eleanor Courtemanche, Deanna Kreisel, Claire Mayo, Sarah Margaret Pittmann
2022
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)-September (face-to-face): “‘British’ Flora: The Politics of Plants in Victorian Art and Science,” Mary Bowden, Kristan M. Hanson, Sarah Mead Leonard, Lindsay Wells
NAVSA-September | Plenary Panel: “Ecological Justice,” Ji Eun Lee, Kyle McAuley, M.A. Miller
NAVSA-September, “Darwin, Evolutions, and Earth,” Anne DeWitt, Joshua King, Jayne Hildebrand
Vcologies Working Group 2022: Wisconsin Retreat, organized by Lynn Voskuil
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS): “Environments of the Long Nineteenth Century,” Elizabeth Chang, Kate Flint, Devin Garofalo, Jeffrey McCarthy, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Parama Roy
INCS: “Geography, Systems, and Settlement,” Alexandre Dubois, Kyle McAuley, Eric Gidal
INCS: “Strategic Futures: Energy Humanities in the Nineteenth Century,” Grace Franklin, Devin Griffiths, Lynn Voskuil, David Womble
North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA)-March (online): “Unsettling Imagined Spaces,” Kathleen Frederickson, Deanna Kreisel, Kyle McAuley, Devin M. Garofalo
NAVSA-March: “Unsettling Victorian Ecocriticism I: New Formations,” Siobhan Carroll, Ella Mershon, Lynn Voskuil, Daniel Williams
NAVSA-March: “Unsettling Victorian Ecocriticism II: Unsettling the Empire,” Parama Roy, Emily Halliwell-MacDonald, Sandhya Shetty, David Womble
NAVSA-March: “Aesthetic and Decadent Ecologies,” Alicia Carroll, Lindsay Wells, Angie Blumberg, Dennis Denisoff
NAVSA-March: “The Planet: An Emergent Category for Victorian Studies,” Devin Griffiths, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Jesse Oak Taylor
NAVSA-March: “Unsettling from Below: Ecologies of the Victorian Underground,” Mary Bowden, Darin Graber, Kent Linthicum, Aaron Matz, Alex McAuley
NAVSA-March Seminars: Dennis Denisoff, “Queer Ecologies” | Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, “Empire and Environment”
Environment and Culture in Britain, 1688-1851, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Jesse Oak Taylor, Lynn Voskuil
2021
NAVSA: Zoom Roundtable, November 2021: “Victorian Ecologies in Process” | Kate Flint, Nicholas Robbins, Amy Woodson-Boulton, Heidi C.M. Scott, Jiwon Min, Stephanie O’Routke, Fredrik Albritton-Jonsson, Jamie L. Jones, John Parham.
NAVSA: Zoom Roundtable, February 2021: “Victorian Ecologies: Objects, Methods, Directions” | Deanna K. Kreisel, Kent Linthicum, Kyle McAuley, Ella Mershon, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, John MacNeill Miller, Mario Ortiz-Robles, Pandora Syperek, Jesse Oak Taylor
2020
INCS: The 2020 INCS conference–the “Green Conference”–was organized and hosted by vcologies member Devin Griffiths. The entire program focused on topics and issues of interest to the vcologies collective; vcologies members were specifically involved in the following sessions: 1A, 3A, 3C, 5D, 6A, 6F, 7C, 7F, 8A.
2019
NAVSA: “Capitalist and Anti-Capitalist Ecologies and (Post) humanisms,” Sarah Alexander, Sari Carter, Kent Linthicum
NAVSA: “Compression: Materiality and Media in the Nineteenth Century,” Clare Pettitt, Mark Turner, Kate Flint, Aaron Rosenberg
NAVSA: “Genres and/or Ecological Crisis,” Jiwon Min, Julia F. Saville, Phillip Stillman
NAVSA: “Genres of Victorian Description at the Fin de Siècle,” Elizabeth Chang, Kyle McAuley, John MacNeill Miller
NAVSA: “Media Extraction, Wreckage,” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Nathan Hensley, Michael Tondre
NAVSA: “New Perspectives on Landscape and Village,” Jayne Hildebrand, Carolyn Lesjak, Emma Eisenberg, Scott Hess
NAVSA: “Ruskin the Polymath,” Thomas Albrecht, Annael Jonas-Paneth, Michelle Radnia, Harry Daniels
NAVSA: “Scales, Environments, Mentalities,” Anna Henchman, Ella Mershon, Alicia Carroll, Irena Yamboliev, Benjamin Morgan
NAVSA: “Trees, Materiality, Ecology, Aesthetics,” Richard Menke, Lesley Higgins, Mary Bowden
Vcologies Working Group 2019: University of Chicago, organized by Benjamin Morgan
INCS: “Demonumentalizing the Human: The Victorian Eco-Gothic Imagination,” Dennis Denisoff, Deanna Kreisel, Jiwon Min, Frances Thielman, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Victorian Energy Systems and Anthropocene Monuments: Solar, Electric, Carbon,” Barbara Leckie, Kyle McAuley, Michael Tondre, Lynn Voskuil
Modern Language Association (MLA): “Ecological Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Sukanya Banerjee, Devin Griffiths, Nathan Hensley, Deanna Kreisel, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil, Daniel Williams
MLA: “Rotten Idea: New Approaches to Decay,” Erin Edwards, Jacob Jewusiak, Amanda Kotch, Margaret Linley, Ella Mershon, John MacNeill Miller
2018
NAVSA: “Industrial Pollution,” Holly Fling, Kent Linthicum, John MacNeill Miller, Kyoko Takanashi, Michael Tondre
NAVSA: “Methodology from the Outside,” Sukanya Banerjee, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, John MacNeill Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil
NAVSA: “The Transatlantic Sky I: Reading and Writing the Heavens,” Carrie Tirado Bramen, Kyle McAuley, Justine Pizzo, Daniel Wiliams
NAVSA: “The Transatlantic Sky II: Literary Ecologies,” Carrie Tirado Bramen, Siobhan Carroll, Margaret Lindley, Daniel Williams
NAVSA: “Natural History Pedagogy Workshop,” Sarah Leonard, Bryan Rasmussen
Vcologies Working Group 2018: University of Nevada, Reno, organized by Jen Hill
INCS: “Ecological Temporalities I: Carboniferous and Evolutionary Timescales,” David Agruss, Ann Garascia, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Ecological Temporalities II: Cycles, Interruptions, Delays,” Barbara Leckie, Ashley Miller, Kate Thomas, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Intimate Ecologies,” Kathleen Frederickson, Ella Mershon
2017
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): Keynote by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, “Extraction Ecologies and Victorian Literature”
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “Constructing Environmental Histories,” Bud Clark, Chris J. Thomas, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “The Genius Loci Eco-Jam,” Siobhan Carroll, Dennis Denisoff, Margaret Linley, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Lynn Voskuil
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “Saving Life,” Elisha Cohn, Kathleen Frederickson, Devin Griffiths, Jesse Oak Taylor
NAVSA-Banff (Canada) Seminars: “Victorian Sustainability,” led by Deanna Kreisel | “Victorians in the Anthropocene,” led by Jesse Oak Taylor | “The Historical Ocean,” led by Cannon Schmitt
Vcologies Working Group 2017: University of Houston, organized by Lynn Voskuil, Devin Griffiths, and Sebastian Lecourt
Victorian Environments Workshop 2017: University of Southampton, organized by Justine Pizzo
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Charles Darwin I,” David Amigoni, Miranda Butler, Devin Griffiths, George Levine
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): Charles Darwin II,” John Holmes, Isobel Armstrong, Cannon Schmitt, George Levine
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Ecology and Ecocriticism,” Kate Flint, Deanna Kreisel, Kyle McAuley, Ashley Miller
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Garden and Anti-Garden,” Barbara Leckie, Samantha Nystrom, Lindsay Wells
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “The Victorians and Natural History,” Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Anna Henchman, Sue Zemka
INCS: “Bodies Ecology,” Barbara Barrow, Miriam Rowntree, Michael Tondre, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Ecologies of the Body I: Diffuse Bodies, Precarious Subjects,” Barbara Leckie, Margaret Linley, Justine Pizzo, Lynn Voskuil, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Ecologies of the Body II: Decomposing Life, Composing Forms,” Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, John MacNeill Miller, Lynn Voskuil
2016
NAVSA: “Victorians and the Web of Life,” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Jesse Oak Taylor, Lynn Voskuil
Vcologies Working Group 2016: University of California-Davis, organized by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Deanna Kreisel
INCS: “Melancholy Ecologies,” Natalie Deam, Nora Gilbert, John MacNeill Miller, Barbara Leckie, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Eco-Histories,” Erika Behrisch Elce, Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, Lynn Voskuil
MLA: “Anthropogenic Agency in the Nineteenth Century,” Siobhan Carroll, Gordon Mitchell Sayre, Timothy Sweet, Jesse Oak Taylor
2015
Vcologies is born!
Arnold’s Tiki Bar
Honolulu, July 2015
NAVSA: “Ecology, System, Empire I: Form,” Nathan Hensley, Jen Hill, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Philip Steer
NAVSA: “Ecology, System, Empire II: Scale,” Sukanya Banerjee, Nathan Hensley, Philip Steer, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Botanies and Ecologies: The Lives of Plants,” Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, Lynn Voskuil