Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies International (CNSCI), Durham

Description

The Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies International Network (CNCSI) is the organic evolution of the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies (CNCS), founded at Durham University in 2013 by Prof. Bennett Zon.

CNCSI was born in the image of CNCS, in 2018, at a CNCS meeting of leaders of 35 international research centres, institutes, professional societies, and independent research organisations.

That meeting proved what many scholars had thought – that despite the existence of many nineteenth-century organisations all over the world, collectively they:

1. tended to work in isolation, seldom collaborating with other national or international organisations
2. their members came mainly from the country where the organisation was founded
3. linguistic barriers obstructed broad international accessibility and dissemination
4. their range of scholarly interests tended, perhaps inevitably, to reflect national boundaries; and
5. despite emphasizing interdisciplinarity in theory, in practice their manifest interests lay principally in history and literature.

Since then, CNCSI has grown exponentially, both in number and type of organisation, and a second revised and expanded MoU is currently being prepared to include

• Universities: Baylor University (USA), Hokkaido University (Japan), McGill University (Canada), Shiv Nadar University (India), University of Amsterdam (Netherlands), University of Birmingham (UK), Universidad de los Andes-Bogotá (Columbia), University of Bucharest (Romania), University of Copenhagen (Denmark), University of Houston (USA)
• Museums and Independent Research Organisations: The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Science Museum Group (UK), The Hirschsprung Collection (Denmark), the Petit Palais, the Musée d’Orsay (France); and
• Professional Societies: INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies; BAVS (British Association of Victorian Studies); and NCSA (Nineteenth-Century Studies Association.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2018

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Durham University
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British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

Founded in 2000, The British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) is a multidisciplinary organisation dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge about the Victorian period. It has… read more about British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

Nineteenth-Century Study Association

The Nineteenth-Century Study Association is an interdisciplinary association interested in exploring all aspects of the long nineteenth century, from science to music, from architecture to religion, f… read more about Nineteenth-Century Study Association