NAVSA 2025

A reminder to our grad student attendees to apply for the Sally Mitchell Prize! 🏆

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NAVSA 2025 was FAB! Thks go to everyone who gave terrific papers & shared their brilliant selves in so many conversations. But the biggest thanks to NATHAN & PATRICK who put together such a strong program, were so warm, & were literally everywhere! Models of intellectual community building!

📷: Florencia Bravo, Bassam Sidiki, Jungah Kim,
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The Aftermath of Aftermaths! Thank you all for a wonderful conference experience, but especially our visitor on the last slide. See you in LA in 2026!

Standing room only for A Study in Empire:How we read now

…. There was another conference at the same hotel. (Backpack with the words: top secret defense industry jobs)

Dessert at the banquet

Nathan w Barbara Leckie after her amazing keynote!

NAVSA photo dump 1/3: thank you so much to everyone who shared their brilliance & generosity for this huge collective undertaking— it was so fun to be together with you all

What a wonderful event #NAVSA2025 Thanks to all who worked to make it happen @navsa2025.bsky.social 🙌 If you are looking for a sign to send that paper out for publication 👉 This is it! SEL welcomes the opportunity to consider your work sel.rice.edu/submission-g...

Tanya Agathocleus is showing a slide helping you understand the difference between an ice warrant and a judicial warrant— only the judicial warrant can abduct a student

News you can use from the great Tanya Agathocleous, at “Organizing the Academic Workplace I,” on the last day of @navsa2025.bsky.social. Stay safe everybody, protect your students and your friends. Thanks so much for being here.

He’s a gentleman and a scholar

If you think about it, after today it will all be the aftermath of Aftermaths 😱😵‍💫🫨

A photo of me presenting

A photo of me presenting

Pics by @ecourtem.bsky.social !! @navsa2025.bsky.social

And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social

Photo of Erin Spampinato (on Zoom), Talia Schaffer, Barbara Black, Barbara Leckie, and Pardis Dabashi— Livia Arndal Woods just beyond the frame

Photo of packed room for After the Theory Wars panel at NAVSA

Collaborative Criticism: After the Theory Wars. A completely full & very important conversation about intellectual solidarity in times of danger. Incredible. Thanks to @taliaschaffer.bsky.social for organizing & @erinspampinato.bsky.social for finding a way to be there. 💙

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NAVSA Aftermaths has everything

If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!!

We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!

Poster of books

Book stickers

Look at all the new books in Victorian studies @navsa2025.bsky.social & this isn’t even all of them!

Note @pfyfe.bsky.social pointing to @mmvty.bsky.social ’s clever book cover, and the “cut out a sticker of a book cover” craft activity 😄

Bruce is my favorite NAVSA member

Our second keynote of #NAVSA2025: Aftermaths: Yogita Goyal, “Race, Class, and Caste: On Failure and Comparison.”

Poster showing all the books published by NAVSA authors in 2024 2025

Thanks so much to @marymullen.bsky.social for spearheading last night’s amazing celebration of all the books published this past year by NAVSA authors. This was so fun

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Praxis!!!!!

Huge congratulations to our NAVSA 24/25 authors! Thank you so much for your work! [QR code for a little discount aussi ☺️)

Me attending all these amazing papers at #NAVSA2025

Great to see @uvapress.bsky.social @navsa2025.bsky.social!

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