FIGHTING VICTORIANS!

THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

APRIL 16th-18th, 2010

FRIDAY, APRIL 16th

1:00-4:00 pm Registration and Dinner Sign-Up 010 East Pyne Foyer
2:00 -3:00 pm Special Victorian Curiosities Library Visit and Museum Tour:
(Space is limited and prior registration is required; see below.)		 Firestone Library and
Princeton Museum of Art
4:00 pm Welcome 010 East Pyne
4:15-5:45 pm Staged Fights:  Ulrich Knoepflmacher (Princeton U), Moderator
  • Greg Vargo (Columbia U), “Revenge in the Age of Insurance: Villains and
    Institutions in Chartist Melodrama”
  • Evan Rhodes (U of Virginia), “‘Hitting Below the Intellect’: Oscar
    Wilde’s Libel Trial and the Aesthetics of Boxing”
  • Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Harvard U), “Bardolatry Battles Burlesque!!”
 010 East Pyne
6:00-7:00 pm Reception Chancellor Green Rotunda
7:00-9:00 pm Dinner 
At Friday registration, we will have a list of local restaurants (all within walking distance) with blocks of seats reserved for the NVSA conference. Please sign up for one of these restaurants at the conference registration. Groups can leave for dinner directly from the reception.		  in Town
9:00 pm
Following dinner, please join us for a special Fighting Victorians event:

Dramatic Reading: The Pickwick Papers, Trial Scene

 010 East Pyne

SATURDAY, APRIL 17th

8:00-9:00 am Registration, Breakfast, Book Tables 010 East Pyne Foyer
9:00-10:45 am Keynote Panel: Seth Koven (Rutgers U), Moderator
  • Anna Clark (U of Minnesota)
  • Elaine Hadley (U of Chicago)
  • Alex Woloch (Stanford U)
 010 East Pyne
10:45-11:00 am Coffee 010 East Pyne Foyer
11:00 am-12:30 pm At the Limits of Conflict: Sarah Gates (St. Lawrence U), Moderator
  • Rachel Ablow (SUNY Buffalo), “The Feeling of Belief: Victorian Fictions of Disagreement
  • Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall U), “Not Thrashing and Not Knowing; Or,
    ‘That banging about of another man with a stick is always disagreeable and seldom successful’”
  • Rebecca Rainof (Catholic U), “Victorians in Purgatory: The Poetics of
    Conciliation, Or Why The Dream of Gerontius was So Popular”
 010 East Pyne
12:30-2:15 pm Lunch
The Saturday lunch, a convivial event at which topics are proposed and voted on for the following year, is a long-standing tradition; everyone is warmly encouraged to attend and participate.		 Chancellor Green Hyphen
2:30-4:00 pm Solidarity, Separation, and the Nation: Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator
  • Sebastian Lecourt (Yale U), “Religion, Culture, and the Mormon Problem”
  • Richard Bonfiglio (U of Chicago), “Bringing Home the Fight: Barrett
    Browning’s Domestic Warfare”
  • Sarah Gracombe (Stonehill College), “Fighting for Englishness:
    Anglo-Jewish Bodies and the Body Politic”
 010 East Pyne
4:00-4:15 pm Coffee 010 East Pyne Foyer
4:15-5:45 pm Session A Sanctioned Violence: Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator
  • Ingrid Hanson (U of Sheffield, UK), “‘I saw the battle awake’: William
    Morris’s Late Poems and the Uses of Violence in Verse”
  • Lawrence Poston (U of Illinois, Chicago), “‘These Oxford Squabbles’:
    Zeal on Behalf of the Church”
  • Judith Plotz (George Washington), “The Moral Torturers: Kipling and the
    Uses of Comic Cruelty”
 010 East Pyne
4:15-5:45 pm Session B Genres of Disagreement: Linda Shires (Yeshiva U), Moderator
  • Meredith Conti (U of Pittsburg), “Pugilism in Print and the Ibsen
    Controversy: Reevaluating the Codes of Victorian Debate at the Fin de Siècle”
  • Kelly Mays (U of Nevada, Las Vegas), “The ‘Battle of Styles’ and the
    Emergence of the Term Victorian”
  • Anne DeWitt (Princeton U), “Genre and Victorian Argument: What Fiction Did for Antivivisection”
 036 East Pyne
6:15 pm Reception Prospect House
7:00 Dinner
Post-Dinner Entertainment: Music Hall Performance and Sing-Along		 Prospect House

SUNDAY, APRIL 18th

8:00-9:00 am Breakfast and Book Exhibit 010 East Pyne Foyer
9:00-10:30 am Histories of Violence: Stefanie Markovitz (Yale U), Moderator
  • Muireann O’Cinneide (National U of Ireland, Galway), “‘His own mind was
    the theatre of a breathless strife’: Fighting, Feelings, and Genres in Alexander
    Kinglake’s Eothen and The Invasion of the Crimea”
  • Patrick O’Malley (Georgetown U), “Fighting Irish: M. L. O’Byrne’s Battles”
  • Aaron Worth (Boston U) “Fighting Neanderthals: Prehistoric Violence in
    the Victorian Age”
 010 East Pyne
10:30-10:45 am Coffee 010 East Pyne Foyer
10:45 am-12:15 pm Figuring Struggle: Judith Wilt (Boston College), Moderator
  • Jessica Kuskey (Syracuse U), “Vampires versus Socialists: The Politics
    of Violence and Victimization in the Working-Class Press”
  • Katherine Matson (U of Virginia), “‘Is it peace or war?’: Aggression and
    the Limitation of Liability in Tennyson’s Maud”
  • Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College), “Crimes of the Hand: Detection and the
    Belgian Congo”
 010 East Pyne
12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up
  • Jeff Nunokawa (Princeton U)
  • Carolyn Williams (Rutgers U)
 010 East Pyne

Rooms are available at the Nassau Inn, located within walking distance of campus and the Princeton train. (Ten Palmer Square East, Princeton NJ 08542).

The conference rate is $132 and is guaranteed until March 15th. Call 800-862-7728 or 609-9217500 and mention “NVSC” to make your reservation. *PLEASE BOOK EARLY*. You can find directions and amenities listed at http://www.nassauinn.com.

Transportation

If you are staying at the Nassau Inn, you will be able to walk from the Princeton University train station to Palmer Square or take a taxi if needed. It is a 10 minute walk. To find information on train schedules, visit http://www.njtransit.com. (You will need to take the small train called the "dinky" from Princeton Junction to the Princeton campus, so buy your ticket to "Princeton.") There is also limited Amtrak service to Princeton Junction. (If you take Amtrak, you will need to purchase a separate “dinky” ticket from New Jersey Transit to get from Princeton Junction to Princeton campus.) http://www.amtrak.com. For shuttle service to/from the airport, contact Olympic Airporter: http://www.olympicairporter.com. Princeton University is easily accessible from Newark and Philadelphia airports.

For information about parking on campus:  http://www.princeton.edu/main/visiting/aroundcampus/parking/

Library and Art Museum Visits

The Princeton University Library and Princeton University Museum of Art have organized two special sessions on Friday for NVSA participants. The Library visit will include a small special session focusing on Princeton’s extensive collection of Victorian curiosities as well as a tour of the current exhibit of authors’ portraits. The Museum visit will feature artworks related to this year’s conference theme. Each tour is limited to 14 participants. For
more information about the collections: http://www.princeton.edu/%7Erbsc/    http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/

Please return the registration form below along with your payment by March 15th.

REGISTRATION

Please return completed registration by *March 15th*.  Make checks payable to Princeton University. Please write in the memo area "NVSA Registration."

Send checks to Meredith Martin, Department of English, 22 McCosh Hall, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08540

Please direct all registration questions to Meredith Martin (mm4@princeton.edu)

Registration for Meals

____ $60 Members
____ $80 Non-Members
____ $45 Students
____ $15 NVSA dues
____ $10 NVSA Student dues 		___$9.00 Saturday Luncheon—Faculty and Students
___$50.00 Saturday Banquet, Faculty
___$35.00 Saturday Banquet, Students
 ___Chicken
___Vegetarian

____ Total Remittance

Sign-Up for Library or Museum Visit

Friday Library Visit 2pm___ 3pm___
Friday Art Museum Visit 2pm___ 3pm___

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