A Joint Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States. Hosted by Emily Carr University of Art and Design and University of the Fraser Valley. Sponsored in part by University of Northern British Columbia and University of Victoria
"Come buy, come buy"—the call of Christina Rossetti’s goblins encapsulates the lure and menace of Victorian commodity culture. This international conference will bring together specialists in Victorian art history, history, gender studies, science, and literature to contemplate the many markets of Victorian England and its colonies. Papers will address literary and art markets, financial markets, Victorian capitalism, speculation, consumerism and economic transformations.

Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

- Advertising
- Victorian money, stocks, bonds, speculations, currency, and money markets
- Economic booms, bubbles, and busts
- Frauds, speculators, swindlers
- Economic language; marketplace metaphors
- Authorship and commerce; the business of
writing and publishing
- Reading for profit
- Readers as consumers
- Literature and serialization as speculation
- Speculative fictions; capitalist criticism
- Hard times; economic crises
- Book history and markets
- Economics & aesthetics
- The art market, antiques market, arts and crafts as a market
- Class and consumption
- Marketing celebrity and the interview
- Imperial goods and markets
- Visual techniques of marketing: prints, photography, chromolithography
- Exhibition catalogues as market venues
- Marketing strategies at international exhibitions
- Marketing and political economy
- Shopping & consumerism
- Women and the marketplace
- Trade unions & cooperatives
- The market for education
- The market for publication
- The market for reform
- The market for religion