Victorian Cosmopolitanism

 

The Northeast Victorian

Studies Association

 

Harvard University,

March 30th-April 1st

 

 

Friday, March 30th

 

12:30-4pm Registration: Barker Center, 12 Quincy St.

 

1-3:15pm Nineteenth-Century Highlights: Houghton Library mss. & Fogg Museum prints and drawings (space limited; prior registration required. See below)

 

3:45pm Welcome: Barker Center Rm. 110

 

4:00pm Contagion and the Troubles of the Cosmopolitan Body: Barker Center Rm. 110

Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator

           

Ø Christopher Keirstead (Auburn U), “Swinburne, Aestheticism, & the Fleshly School of Cosmopolitanism”

Ø Aaron Worth (Brandeis), “The Cosmopolitan Wire: Telegraphic Models of Postnationality in Late Victorian Britain”

Ø Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queens U), “Cosmopolitanizing Cholera: Inside/outside Pathologies in Middlemarch”

 

5:30-6:30 Reception: Barker Center

 

6:30 Dinner on your own

 

 

Saturday, March 31st

 

8:00-9:00am Registration & Continental Breakfast

 

9-10:45 Keynote Panel: Barker Center Rm. 110

 

Jonah Siegel (Rutgers), Moderator

 

Ø Antoinette Burton (U of Illinois)

Ø James Buzard (MIT)

Ø Bruce Robbins (Columbia)

 

11:00-12:30pm Cosmopolitan Theories I: Transnational Contexts: Barker Center Rm. 110

 

Martha Vicinus (U of Michigan), Moderator

 

Ø Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), “Contesting Contemporary Citizenship Theories: Abolitionist and Risorgimento Politics, Social Justice Networks, and 19th-Century Cosmopolitan Citizenship”

Ø Rachel Buurma (U of Pennsylvania), “Anarchism, Cosmopolitanism, Print Culture”  

Ø Carla Peterson (U of Maryland), “‘Cosmopolitan Thieves’: U.S. Black Cosmopolitanism in the Nineteenth Century”

12:30-2:00pm Lunch: Ticknor Lounge, Boylston Hall, Harvard Yard

 

2:15-3:45pm Cosmopolitan Politics and Poetics: Barker Center Rm. 110

 

Jason R. Rudy (U of Maryland), Moderator

 

Ø Julia Saville (U of Illinois), “Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the Poetics of Algernon Charles Swinburne”

Ø David Kurnick (Columbia), “Unspeakable Ethnicity in George Eliot”

Ø Beverly Taylor (U of North Carolina), “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Cosmopolitanism: ‘Universality Plus Difference’”

 

4:00-5:30pm Session A: Literary Crossings: Barker Center Rm. 110

           

Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator

 

Ø Lisa Fluet (Boston College), “Late James, Early Wells”

Ø Priti Joshi (U of Puget Sound), “John Lang, Cosmopolitanism, and the Uses of the Picturesque”

Ø Katherine Brundan (U of Oregon), “The Cosmopolitan in the Desert: Exile, Colonization, and the Vernacular in Ouida’s Under Two Flags (1867)”

 

4:00-5:30pm Session B: Portable Cosmopolitanism: Barker Center Rm. 133

 

Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin), Moderator

 

Ø Erik Gray (Columbia), “Subjective: Objective; Milton: Shakespeare; Parochial: Cosmopolitan”

Ø Emily Steinlight (Brown), “‘A Regular Polly’: Conspicuous Cosmopolitanism and the Genders of Consumption”

Ø Pamela M. Fletcher (Bowdoin), “Modern Masters and ‘Cheap French Chic’: Cosmopolitanism in the Victorian Art Market”

 

6:30pm Reception: Society of Fellows Dining Room: Eliot House, M Entryway, Dunster Street

 

7-9:00pm Dinner Banquet: Society of Fellows   Dining Room

 

 

 

Sunday, April 1st

 

8:00-9:00am Breakfast

 

9:00-10:30am Cosmopolitan Theories II: Colonial Contexts:
Barker Center Rm. 110

 

Seth Koven (Rutgers), Moderator

 

Ø Tanya Agathocleous (Yale), “From Victorian Print Culture to Postcolonial Theory: Cosmopolitanism’s Serial Transformations”

Ø Eddy Kent (U of British Columbia), “Cosmopolitanism, Inc.; or the Painful Manufacture of Imperial Civility”

Ø David Wayne Thomas (Notre Dame), “Political Legitimation in Late-Victorian British India: The Higher Journalism and the Ilbert Bill” 

10:45am-12:15pm Cosmopolitan Consumption: Barker Center Rm. 110

           

Barbara Black (Skidmore), Moderator

 

Ø Sarah Felicia Gracombe (Stonehill College), “Consuming Cosmopolitanism in George Du Maurier's Trilby”

Ø Natalie Kapetanios Meir (NYU), “Vicarious Cosmopolitanism: On Becoming a Dining Connoisseur”

Ø Ross Forman (Skidmore), “East is Eat: Asian Food and Victorian Cosmopolitanism”

 

                                                                                                                                                     

 

Rooms are available at the Harvard Square Hotel within walking distance of the conference site. When registering, identify yourself as a Northeast Victorian Studies Conference or group code 120888 registrant. Please reserve early. Conference rate ends Feb 28th. A Small number of rooms may also be available at area Bed & Breakfasts (some with shared baths), including A Friendly Inn at Harvard Square and The Irving House.

 

Update, 3/2/2007: The block of rooms at the group rate of $159 at the Harvard Square Hotel is now full.  The Harvard Square Hotel has a few rooms available at a higher rate of $229. 

We have arranged with the Inn at Harvard, a group rate of $199, assuming availability.  To take advantage of this agreement, please call the Inn at Harvard directly at (617) 491-2222, Monday - Friday, 8am - 6pm or email at reservations@theinnatharvard.com and to refer to the group name Northeastern Victorian Studies Conference or group code 129730. 

 

Harvard Square Hotel

A Friendly Inn at Harvard Square

The Irving House

110 Mount Auburn Street

1673 Cambridge Street

24 Irving Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

Cambridge, MA 02138

Cambridge, MA 02138

(617) 491-2222

(617) 547-7851

(617) 546-4600

www.harvardsquarehotel.com

www.afinow.com/afi 

www.irvinghouse.com 

$159 $229 single or double

$97-$157

$80-$205

 

Graduate students interested in being hosted by local graduate students, email: henchman@fas.harvard.edu

 

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.

 

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

 

Find information about Directions and Parking here.

 

                                                                                                                                                    

 

Registration

 

Please return completed form by March 2. Make checks payable to Harvard University. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.” Please direct all registration questions to Vanessa Ryan: vryan@fas.harvard.edu.

Send checks to: Vanessa Ryan, Harvard Society of Fellows, 78 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

 

Registration                                         Meals                                                  

 

____ $70 Members                              ____ $15 Saturday Luncheon – Faculty                     

____ $90 Non-Members                      ____ $10 Saturday Luncheon – Students                   

____ $30 Students                               ____ $50 Saturday Banquet – Faculty

____ $15 NVSA dues                          ____ $30 Saturday Banquet – Students                      

____ $10 NVSA Student dues             ____ Chicken                                                 

                                                            ____ Vegetarian                                 

                                                           

____ Total Remittance                                                                                                          

 

Library & Museum Visits*

Houghton Library: 
Fogg Museum: 		 ___ 1-2:00pm Friday
___ 1-2:00pm Friday		  ___ 2:15-3:15 Friday 
___ 2:15-3:15 Friday 		 *Please number preferred
times and events. Space is
limited, and we will try to
distribute opportunities as
widely as possible. We
recommend ranking all
slots if possible.

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