VICTORIAN ORIGINS AND EXCAVATIONS

FRIDAY, April 19

1:00-4:00 Registration

Walter Light Hall foyer, (Union St. near Barrie St.)

1:30 or 2:30 Tours of the Disraeli Project, 1st floor Watson Hall

3:30 Welcome  (Walter Light Hall, 205)

3:45-5:15 Art, Authors, and Originality  
Chair: Karen Boiko (MIT)

• Deb Gettelman (Harvard University): “’A Mouthful of Air’: Dickens, Breath, and Spontaneous Generation”
• M. Daniel Martin (University of Western Ontario): “T. P. Prest, J.M. Rymer, and the Spectral Origins of Penny Authorship”
• Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College): “Fabricating Origins: Victorian Writings on Art Forgeries”

5:30-7:00 Reception and Viewing at Agnes Etherington Art Collection

7:00 Dinner on your own

9:00 Showing of Zero Patience

SATURDAY, April 20

8:30-9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast  Walter Light Hall foyer, Union St.

 9:30-11:30 Keynote Panel: “Knowing the Past”
Moderated by Terri Hasseler (Bryant College)

• Chris Bongie (College of William and Mary)
• Richard Dellamora (Trent University)
• Kate Flint (Rutgers University)
• Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University)

11:45-1:30  Business Luncheon--University Club

1:45-3:15 Session A - Excavating Sexuality
Chair: Don Ulin (University of Pittsburgh)

• Catherine A. Wiley (Temple University): “’The Growl of a Roused Lion’: J. A. Symonds’s Excavation of Lucretius and the Impetus toward Physical Science”
• Frederick S. Roden (University of Connecticut): "Marc-André Raffalovich and Victorian Historicizations of Homosexuality"
• Vincent A. Lankewish (Penn State University) and Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University):  “To Those Who Wait: Patience, Patient Zero, and Zero Patience”

(Sat., April 20, cont'd)

1:45-3:15 Session B - Excavations of History
Chair: Carole Silver (Yeshiva University)

• Nancy Marck (Daemen College): “George Eliot’s Florentine Research: The Origins of Ethnography and the Search for an Authentic Past”
• John Ulrich (Mansfield University): “Articulating the Past: Thomas Carlyle and the ‘Fossil Megatherion’”
• Meilee D. Bridges (University of Michigan): “’Thou Thing of Years Departed’: The Sublimity of the Historical Relic in Felicia Hemans’s ‘The Image in Lava’”

3:30-5:00 - The Human Sciences
Chair: Vanessa Ryan (Yale University)

• Dan Kline (Ohio State University): “A German Language Mutilated: Arthur Hugh Clough and the Origins of English”
• Karen Odden (Independent Scholar): “’So Unspeakable an Inheritance’: Grant Allen, Birth Origins and Eugenics”
• Jill Matus (University of Toronto): “Bulwer-Lytton, Dickens and the Sciences of Memory”

5:30-6:30 Cocktails at Four Points Sheraton

6:30-8:30 Banquet at Four Points Sheraton

SUNDAY April 21

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast Walter Light Hall foyer

9:00-10:30  Forum on Teaching Victorian Studies: Darwin’s Origin of Species
Moderator: Paula Krebs (Wheaton College)

• Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario)
• Lorraine Jansen Kooistra (Nipissing University)
• Will Lee (Yeshiva University)
• George Levine (Rutgers University)

10:45-12:15 - Ruins and Relics
Chair: Tricia Lootens (University of Georgia)

• Vanessa K. Warne (University of Manitoba): “’See where in great decay yon temple stands’: Representations of India as Ruin in Fisher’s Drawing-Room Scrapbook, 1832-1839”
• Esther T. Hu (Cornell University): “Britain and Empire “Imperialist Representations of Landscape in Layard’s Nineveh”
• U.C. Knoepflmacher (Princeton University): “Unwrapping the Mummy: Embalmed Death or Retrieved Origins?”

12:30 Conference wrap-up

• Anne Humpherys (City University of New York)
• Jonah Siegel (Rutgers University)

Return completed form by April 2. Make checks payable to: Mary Wilson Carpenter. 
Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.”

Send form to:

Mary Wilson Carpenter
English Department,
Queen's University
Kingston, ON
K7L 3N6, Canada

Conference Registration:

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_____   $60 USD, $95 CAD Non-Members
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_____   $15 USD, $25 CAD NVSA Dues
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Saturday Luncheon

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Saturday Banquet

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