VICTORIAN NOCTURNES

FRIDAY, April 27
1:00-4:00 Registration at
Faunce House (75 Waterman Street)
in the Petterutti Lounge

1:30 or 2:30 Tours of
John Hay Library Collection

3:30 Welcome (Salomon, 001)
Paul Armstrong, DOC

3:45-5:15   Night Visions
Chair: Will Lee (Yeshiva U)

• Thomas Prasch (Washburn U) “London by Gaslight: Paul Martin’s Nighttime Photographs and the Aesthetics of Pictorialism”
• Tamara Ketabgian (U of Utah) “The ‘Night Side of Nature:’ Mesmerism, Martineau, and the World of Force”
• Ivan Kreilkamp (U of Chicago) “Black Arts: Browning’s ‘Mesmerism,’ ‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ and Early Photography”

5:15-6:15 Reception and Viewing at List Art Gallery

7:00 Dinner on your own

SATURDAY, April 28
8:30-9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast at Faunce House (75 Waterman St.) Petterutti Lounge

9:30-11:30  Keynote Panel: “Periodization and the Nineteenth Century”
Moderated by Suzy Anger (U of Maryland)

• Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt U)
• George Levine (Rutgers U)
• Susan Wolfson (Princeton U)
• Ruth Yeazell (Yale U)

11:45-1:30
Business Luncheon--Petterutti Lounge

1:45-3:15 Session A Dark Silence, Darkling Song
Chair: Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia)

• Daniel S. Kline (Ohio State U) “The Music of the Margins of the Night: Tradition and Innovation in the Victorian Serenade and Aubade”
• Lara Freeburg (U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Christina Rossetti and the Silence of the Night”
• Christopher R. Miller (Yale U) “Tennyson’s Post-Romantic Evenings”

1:45-3:15 Session B    Dark Stories
Chair: Eileen Gillooly (Columbia U)

• Dominique Berthiaume (U of Saskatchewan) “Phantasmagoria: Conjuring the Ghosts of Victorian Realism”
• Anna Henchman (Harvard U) “Nocturnal Reconnoiters: Hardy’s Star-Gazers”
• Vanessa L. Ryan (Yale U) “Body Conscious at Mid-Century: ‘Unconscious Cerebration’ in the Victorian Novel”

3:30-5:00    Under Cover of Night
Chair: Talia Schaffer (Queens College)

• Jo Chimes (U of Manchester) “Darkness on the ‘City of Manchester: Regulation and Transgression in Nineteenth-Century Emigration”
• U.C. Knoepflmacher (Princeton U) “The Nocturnal Kipling”
• Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College) “Dickens, Nightwalker”

5:30-6:30 Cocktails at Faculty Club

6:30-8:30 Banquet at Faculty Club

8:30-9:30 Musical Entertainment:
Gordon Clarke Ramsey, “Transfigured Night” 

SUNDAY April 29
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast
Petterutti Lounge

9-10:30 Forum on Teaching Victorian  Studies
Moderator: Paula Krebs (Wheaton College)
Participants include:

• Alison Booth (U of Virginia)
• Maribel Molyneaux (La Salle U)
• William Sharpe (Barnard College)
• Ruth Ann Smalley (College of St. Rose)

10:45-12:15 Session A
 Trauma or Indigestion? (Dreams explained)
Chair: Robert M. DeGraaff (St. Lawrence U)

• Karen Odden (New York U)  “‘The Railway Dragon, A Nightmare’: The Victorian Train Wreck, Dreams and Trauma”
• Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, U of London) “What is the stuff that dreams are made of?”
• Jonathan C. Glance (Mercer U) “Revelation, Nonsense or Dyspepsia: Victorian Dream Theories”

10:45-12:15 Session B
 Nights Out
Chair: Dan Senes (CUNY)

• Gita Panjabi (New York U) “There was no lamp near:” Jack the Ripper and the Visual Rhetoric of Detection”
• Roberta M. Marvin (U of Iowa) “Celestial Bodies and ‘an erring sister’s shame:’ The Censorship of Verdi’s Operas in Victorian London”
• Edward Lessor (Syracuse U) “Notes on a Victorian Ratfight: The  Cultural Capital of Social Investigation”

12:30 Conference wrap-up
Anne Humpherys (CUNY)
and Rob Jacklosky (College of Mount Saint Vincent)