“A cross is the last thing I would wear as a trinket.” -  Dorothea Brooke, in George Eliot’s Middlemarch

The Sacred and the Profane

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association 
Annual Meeting – 2004

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York   April 16-18, 2004

James Eli Adams (Cornell University), Site Committee Chair    Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College), Program Committee Chair

FRIDAY, April 16 1:00-4:00  Registration English Dept: Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 250 3:30  Welcome  English Department Lounge: Goldwin Smith 258 3:45-5:15  Men of Faith   Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms Chair: Sarah Heidt (University of Rochester) Karen Boiko (MIT): “Scottish Religion and Nineteenth-Century Politics of Reform” Dawn Coleman (Stanford University): “‘The Power of the Preacher’: Charismatic Clergy and the Cultural Authority of the Victorian Novel” William McKelvy (Washington University): “Reading the Clerical Revival: Daniel Deronda’s Ecclesiastical Tone” 5:30-6:30  Reception English Dept Lounge: Goldwin Smith 258 6:30 Dinner on your own   SATURDAY, April 17 8:30-9:30  Registration and Continental Breakfast Statler Hotel: Conference Foyer 9:30-11:30  Keynote Panel: “The Sacred and the Profane: Intersections” Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms Moderator: Jonathan Loesberg (American University) Suzy Anger (University of British Columbia) Ellis Hanson (Cornell University) Pamela Thurschwell (University College London) 11:45-1:30  Business Luncheon Statler Hotel: Taylor A & B 1:45-3:15  Session A:  The Problem of Belief Statler Hotel: Princeton Room Chair: Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College) Daniel J. Cook (UC Davis): “Froude’s Post-Christian Apostate and the Uneven Development of Unbelief” Daniel S. Malachuk (Daniel Webster College): “Victorian Studies, Matthew Arnold, and the Will of God” John T. Netland (Calvin College): “Revisiting Victorian Biblical Hermeneutics”  1:45-3:15  Session B: Science and Experimentation Statler Hotel: Yale Room Chair: Anna Henchman (Harvard University) Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow): “Chaotic cosmologies: early nineteenth-century Biblical epics and the space of experiment” Renee Fox (Princeton University): “‘Naught Could Avail’: Religion, the Great Experiment, and the Hopelessness of Faith in Bram Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars”

SATURDAY, April 17 (cont'd) 3:30-5:30  Textual Conversions   Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms Chair: Carole Silver (Yeshiva University) Maura Ives (Texas A&M University): “Christina Rossetti’s Hymns: The Intersection of Victorian Religion, Poetry, and Music” Michael Meeuwis (Rice University): “Hearts of Oak, Lashed with the Best or Worst: Hopkins, The Wreck of the Deutschland, and the Victorian Nautical Melodrama” Vincent A. Lankewish (Pennsylvania State University): “Simeon Solomon’s Song of Songs” Sarah Russo (Syracuse University): “In the Flesh: Spirituality and Femininity in Julia Margaret Cameron’s Religious Photographs”  6:00-7:00  Cocktails (Cash Bar) Statler Hotel: Rowe Room  7:00-9:30  Banquet  Statler Hotel: Taylor A & B The Cornell Savoyards Perform Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury SUNDAY April 18 8:30-9:30  Continental Breakfast Statler Hotel: Conference Foyer  9:00-10:30  Forum on Teaching Victorian Religion Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms Moderator: Don Ulin (University of Pittsburgh) Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s University) Carol M. Engelhardt (Wright State University) Uli Knoepflmacher (Princeton University) Frederick S. Roden (University of Connecticut) Kathleen Vejvoda (Bridgewater State College) 10:45-12:15  Session A:  Religion and Empire Statler Hotel: Princeton Room Chair: Cara Murray (CUNY Graduate Center) Heidi Kaufman (University of Delaware): “Holy Christian Empire: The Sacred and Profane in Charlotte Tonna’s Judah’s Lion” Janet Larson (Rutgers University): “Nightingale in Egypt: Sacred and/or Profane?” J. Jeffrey Franklin (University of Colorado at Denver):  “The Life of Buddha in Late-Victorian England” 10:45-12:15  Session B: Secular Devotions Statler Hotel: Yale Room Chair: Talia Schaffer (Queen’s College CUNY) Charles LaPorte (University of Michigan): “The Divine William and the Secular Bible: Victorian Bardolatry and the Higher Criticism” Maria LaMonaca (Columbia College): “A Home That Is Not a Home: Victorian Women’s Representations of the Catholic Convent” Tatiana M. Holway (Stonehill College): “‘With Reverence Be It Spoken’: Allegories of Credit that ‘Speak Otherwise’ about Debt” 12:30  Conference Wrap-up Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms Anne Humpherys (City University of New York) Terri Hasseler (Bryant College)

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Rooms are available at the following hotels. When registering, identify yourself as a NVSA registrant.  Rooms will be held at the conference rate until March 16th.

Both hotels offer shuttle service to the Ithaca airport.

The Ithaca airport is served by U.S. Airways.  The Syracuse airport, about sixty miles from Ithaca, is served by a number of airlines; various shuttles are available for  the approximately hour-long trip.

Visit the NVSA website for directions and to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org

The registration page is available here either as an MS Word document or as a web file.  Either should print properly.