FRIDAY, April  7

1:00-3:15 pm Registration (Mead Hall)

3:15 Welcome

3:30-5:00 Melancholia, Neurasthenia, and Entropy (Founders Room, Mead Hall)
Moderator:  Jonathan Loesberg, American University

Judith Misbach and Henderikus J. Stam, U of Calgary: "Medicalizing Fatigue in the Course of Psychiatric Professionalization:   The Case of Melancholia"

Sondeep Kandola, U of Leeds: "The Neurasthenic as Critic: Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson's Theory of Psychological Aesthetics"

Anne DeWitt, Yale:  "Fatigue as Cosmic Process: Counteracting the Second Law in Far from the Madding Crowd and Two on a Tower

5:00-6:30 Cocktail Reception
Dinner on your own

SATURDAY, April 8 (continued)

2:15-3:45  Inertness, World-Weariness, and Frayed Attention: Poetry on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Moderator:  Amanda Claubaugh, Columbia

Ulrich Knoepflmacher, Princeton, "The Deadly Yawn: Male Figures and the Power of Inertness"

Susan Davis, Indiana U, "Amy Levy's Communion of Fatigue"

Herbert Tucker, U of Virginia, "Overworked, Worked Over: A Poetics of Fatigue"

4:00-5:45  Enervating Performances and Tiring Spectacles
Moderator: Adrienne Munich, SUNY Stony Brook

Randall Craig, U of Albany, "World Weary: Caroline Norton and
the Literature of Exhaustion"

Sybil Oldfield, Independent Scholar (UK)  "Nassau John Senior: A Case-Study of Indolence"

Deirdre David, Temple, "Acting Fatigue: Fanny Kemble and William Macready"

Dehn Gilmore, Columbia, "'Oh How Tired I Was!'": The Exhibition, the Sensation Novel, and the Culture of the Spectacular"

6:00--7:00  Cash Bar
7:00-9:30  Banquet and Entertainment

Presentation of the Sonia Rudikoff Prize

SATURDAY, April 8

8:00-9:00 Registration and Continental Breakfast (Mead Hall)

9:00-10:30  Dickens and Gaskell: Repetition, Strain, and Mental Exhaustion
Moderator: Barbara Black, Skidmore College

Renee Fox, Princeton: "I Couldn't Help It!": Habit, Repetition, and the Railway in Dombey and Son"

Deb Gettelman, Harvard: "Dickens and the Strain of Imagining"

Jill Matus, Toronto: "The Language of Languor: Overwhelming Affect and Mental Exhaustion in North and South"

10:45-12:30 Keynote Panel
Moderator: James Eli Adams, Cornell U

Marina Van Zuylen, Bard College
Jeff Nunokawa, Princeton 
George Levine, Rutgers 

12:30-2:00 Business Lunch

SUNDAY MORNING, April 9

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast

9-10:30 Forum, Teaching the Unteachable
Moderator: Sarah Gates, St. Lawrence U

Herbert Tucker, Virginia
Seth Koven, Villanova 
Carolyn Williams, Rutgers 

10:45-12:15  Social Ennui and Cultural Fatigue at the Fin de Siecle
Moderator:  Carol Engelhardt, Wright State U

Gage McWeeny, Williams College: "The Soul of Man Under Sociability:
Oscar Wilde's Ephemeral Relations"

Judith Wilt, Boston College: "Rescuing Aristocracy in Orczy's The Scarlet Pimpernel and Ward's The Marriage of William Ashe"

Cheryl Wilson, Indiana U of Pennsylvania: "Getting Tired of the Victorians in Conrad's The Secret Agent