The Victorian Everyday

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association

Wellesley College

April 3-5, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 3^rd

Directions to Wellesley College: http://www.wellesley.edu/Admin/travel.html

[Pre-conference: 12:30-2:00 pm Informal Panel for Wellesley Students, Founders Hall 106]

1:00-4:00 pm Registration: Wang Campus Center, Information Desk

1:30-3:45 pm Exhibit: Ruskin, Browning, and Others: Wellesley College Library, Special Collections (Space is limited and prior registration is required; see below.)

4:00 pm Welcome: Margaret Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room

4:15-5:45 pm Common Words, Commonplace Sounds: Margaret Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room

Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt U), Moderator

Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Harvard U), “The Exotic Demotic: Wellerisms and Everyday Language”
Janice Schroeder (Carleton U), “Everyday Sound as Extraordinary in Adam Bede”
Jonathan Farina (Vanderbilt U), “Whoever explains a ‘but’: Everyday Words and the Epistemology of Victorian Chatter”

5:45-7:00 pm Reception: Wang Campus Center, Anderson Forum

7:15 pm Shuttle to Babson College Executive Center

( Directions to the Babson Conference Center: http://execed.babson.edu/info/directions.aspx)

Informal buffet dinner at Babson

SATURDAY, APRIL 4^th

8:00-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

9:00-10:45 am Keynote Panel: Pendleton West 212

Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator

Tim Barringer (Yale U)
Laurie Langbauer (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Ruth Yeazell (Yale U)

10:45-11:00 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

11:00am-12:30 pm The Scientific Mundane: Pendleton West 212

Anna Henchman (Boston U), Moderator

John Plotz (Brandeis U), “Primitive Habits: Significant Trivia and the Birth of Victorian Anthropology”
Mark Frost (U of Portsmouth), “Opening Our Eyes to the Everyday: John Ruskin, Moss and Iron”
Pascale McCullough Manning (U of Western Ontario), “Darwin’s Autobiographies and the Post-evolutionary Everyday”

12:30-2:15 pm Lunch: Wellesley College Club, Main Dining Room

2:30-4:00 pm Everyday Poetics: Pendleton West 212

Carolyn Williams (Rutgers U), Moderator

Andrea Gazzaniga (U of North Carolina, Charlotte), “An Everyday Poetics: Processing Experience in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese”
Jason Rudy (U of Maryland), “Everyday Poetry, London to Sydney”
Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), “The Poetics and Practices of ‘Everyday Life’: The Brownings’ Love Letters, the Dramatic Monologue, and the Wellesley Manuscript of Aurora Leigh”

4:00-4:15 pm Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

4:15-5:45 pm Session A: Customary Worship: Pendleton West 212

Judith Wilt (Boston C), Moderator

Amy King (St. John’s U), “Reverent Form: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Everyday”
Paul Yeoh (Rutgers U), “Everyday in The Christian Year”
Evan Horowitz (U of North Texas), “Everyday Afterlife”

4:15-5:45 pm Session B: Habitual Perception: Pendleton West 117

Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator

Benjamin Morgan (U of California, Berkeley), “A Lot of Art is Boring: The Psychological Aesthetics of Grant Allen and Vernon Lee”
Jennifer Judge (York U), “‘Walking bundles of habits’ or Creatures of Volition?: The All-Importance of Habit in Victorian Theories of Character”
Sara Maurer, (U of Notre Dame), “Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village: Keeping England in Place”

6:15 pm Reception: Wellesley College Club, Council Library,

7:00-10:00 pm Dinner Banquet: Wellesley College Club, Wall Room

SUNDAY, APRIL 5^th

8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

9:00-10:30 am Interpreting the Everyday: Pendleton West 212

Sean O’Toole (Baruch College, CUNY), Moderator

Yuri Cowan (U of Toronto), “Medieval Things: Antiquarianism and Victorian Historiographies of the Everyday”
Maia McAleavey (Harvard U), “Desires of Touch: Marital Crisis and the Everyday”
Abigail Joseph (Columbia U), “Hyacinthus Goes to Salisbury: Wilde's Trials and Errors of Transmission”

10:30-10:45 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

10:45 am-12:15 pm Daily Places: Pendleton West 212

Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator

Barbara Leckie (Carleton U), “Whose Everyday? Architecture, Print Culture, and the Domestic Interiors of the Poor, 1840-70”
Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s U), “Inside a Victorian Hospital: The Extraordinary Everyday”
Robert Sulcer (Hofstra U), “Keeping School: Romancing the Everyday”

12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up: Pendleton West 212

David Kurnick (Rutgers U)

Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston C)

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The Friday dinner is an informal buffet at Babson immediately following the reception. The cost is $20.00 (soup/salad, main course, cookies, coffee). There will be a cash bar.

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.

Rooms are available at the Babson Conference Center located on the campus of Babson College (231 Forest Street, Babson Park, MA 02457). The conference rate is $155.00 (single or double, breakfast included). The rate is guaranteed until February 28. Please book early. We will provide a limited shuttle service (before the first morning panels, after the Friday reception, after the last panel on Saturday, after the Saturday night banquet) between Babson and Wellesley College. Here are the directions for booking your Babson reservation on line:

(Directions to Babson College: http://www3.babson.edu/visiting/)
(Directions to the Babson Conference Center: http://execed.babson.edu/info/directions.aspx)

Go to www.Babsonecc.com.
Click "Book a reservation" on the right hand side of the screen in blue font.
A new page will open up displaying a calendar. On the top of the screen there is a link to "Group Reservation." Click it.
This will bring you to the Group page. You will need to input the group code -- NVSA09
From there it will walk you through making the reservation.

Or you may call Babson directly at 781-239-5816 or 781-239-4000. Mention NVSA to get the group rate.

Please visit the NVSA website for directions, other dining options, and to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org.

REGISTRATION

Please return completed form by March 1. Make checks payable to Wellesley College. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.” Please direct all registration questions to Lisa Rodensky (lrodensk@wellesley.edu) or Lisa Easley (leasley@wellesley.edu).

Send checks to: Lisa Easley, Department of English, 106 Central Street, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481.

Transportation

If you are staying at Babson, please check here if you will need to use the shuttle between Wellesley and Babson during the conference (we would like to have an estimate so that we can reserve an appropriate van):

___ Yes, I will need to use the shuttle

Registration Meals

____ $85 Members ___ $20 Friday informal buffet dinner

____ $105 Non-Members (If vegetarian, please check here __)

____ $50 Students ___ $15 Saturday Luncheon – Faculty

____ $15 NVSA dues ___ $11 Saturday Luncheon – Students

____ $10 NVSA Student dues ___ $55 Saturday Banquet – Faculty

___ $35 Saturday Banquet – Students

__ Fish

__ Vegetarian

____ Total Remittance

Library Visits

The Wellesley College Library (Special Collections) will display material from its Ruskin and Browning collections on Friday afternoon. If you would like to view the material, please number preferred times. Space is limited.

__ 1:30-2:15 pm Friday __ 2:15 – 3 pm Friday __ 3 – 3:45 pm Friday

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