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FRIDAY, APRIL 4
1:00-4:00 Registration
Rm. 5-134 - 77 Massachusetts Ave.
1:30-2:15 Burndy Library-Dibner Institute
Bldg. E56 - 38 Memorial Dr.
Introduction to the Burndy's extensive collection of works on 19th-century
science and technology
2:30-3:15 Institute Archives and Special Collections
Rm. 14N-118 -77 Massachusetts Ave.
Learn about 19th century materials available for research. Sample19th
century books and mss. will be displayed.
3:30 Welcome
Rm. 1-190 - 77 Massachusetts Ave.
3:45-5:15 The Art of Consumption
Chair: Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College)
- Beth Harris (Fashion Institute of Technology): "'Fitted Up Like
Palaces': Show-Shops and the Victorian Seamstress"
- Katherine Haskins (Yale University): "The Art Journal Print:
Commercial Picture Engraving and the Taste for Modern Art in Britain,
1850-1880"
- Frances Robertson (University of Glasgow): "Mechanised Modern
Art: Seeing Value in Paper Currency"
5:30-6:30 Cocktail Reception, List Visual Arts Center
Bldg. E15 - 20 Ames St.
Dinner on your own
SATURDAY, APRIL 5
8:30-9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
Rm. 1-134/Rm. 1-190 - 77 Massachusetts Ave.
9:30-11:30 Keynote Panel
History, Technology, and
Culture
Rm. 1-190
Moderator: Jonathan Loesberg (American University)
- Joss Marsh (University of Indiana)
- Leo Marx (MIT)
- Leah Price (Harvard University)
- Ronald Thomas (Trinity College)
11:45-1:30 Luncheon
20 Chimneys (Student Center)
1:45-3:15 Session A - Mapping New Spaces
Rm. 1-190
Chair: Fred Roden (University of Connecticut at Torrington)
- Anna Henchman (Harvard University): "The All-Conquering
Telescope: De Quincey on Lord Rosse's Forty-Foot Reflector"
- Anne-Julia Zwierlein (Bamberg University): "Microscopes and
Man-Machines: Vegetative Past and Technological Future in T.H. Huxley
and Samuel Butler"
- Cara Murray (CUNY Graduate Center): "World-Circumventing
Technologies: Round the World Voyages of the 1870s"
1:45-3:15 Session B - Making Mass Culture
Rm. 1-135
Chair: Sarah Heidt (Cornell University)
- Susan Zieger (Stanford University): "The Media of Victorian
Masculinity: Copes' Smoking-Room Booklets"
- Lorraine Janzen-Kooistra (Nipissing University): "Technologies
of Reproduction, Commodity Culture, and the Illustrated Enoch
Arden"
- Lise Shapiro Sanders (Hampshire College): "Absorption,
Distraction, and Mass Culture in Late Victorian and Edwardian
England"
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The Trevithick Society's Replica
See http://www.zawn.freeserve.co.uk/
3:30-5:00 Technologies of Transportation
Rm. 1-190
Chair: John Plotz (Brandeis University)
- Jonathan Grossman (UCLA): "The Speeding of the Pickwick
Coach"
- Terry S. Shapiro (SUNY Stony Brook): "Taking the Te-rain in
Search of the River of the Arrow: Indian Railways in the Victorian
Imagination"
- Uli Knoepflmacher (Princeton University): "The Political
Aesthetics of Mechanism: The [Imperial] Muse Among the Motors"
5:30-6:30 Cocktails (Cash bar)
6:30-9:30: Banquet and Entertainment:
The Commonwealth Vintage
Dancers.
(Informal Dress)
University Park Hotel @MIT
SUNDAY, APRIL 6
8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast
Rm. 1-190
9:00-10:30 Forum on Teaching Victorian Studies (see the web
site for this panel here)
Rm. 1-190
Moderator: Don Ulin (University of Pittsburgh at Bradford)
- Abigail Burnham Bloom (The New School)
- Priti Joshi (San Diego State University)
- Sarah Maier (University of New Brunswick)
- Russell A. Potter (Rhode Island College)
10:45-12:15 Session A - Electrifying Language
Rm. 1-190
Chair: Lisa Keller (SUNY Purchase)
- Jason Rudy (Rutgers University): "Electric Meters"
- Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario): "'Hung Upon Wires':
Telegraphy, Murder, and the Discourse Network of Victorian Britain"
- Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow): "Baptising a New Technology:
Electrolysis, Class, and the Classics"
10:45-12:15 Session B - Machine Humans
Rm. 1-135
Chair: Gerhard Joseph
- Vanessa Ryan (Yale University): "Mental Machinery: How the Victorians
Tried to Harness the Mind"
- Nanette Fornabai (UC Irvine): "The Victorian Posthuman in French
Fin-de-Siecle Sci-Fi"
- Kainoa Harbottle (University of Delaware): "'More Complacent than
Frankenstein': Posthuman Subjectivity and Victorian Performance
Automatons"
12:30 Conference Wrap-Up
Rm. 1-190
Anne Humpherys (CUNY Graduate Center and Lehman College)
Jonah Siegel (Rutgers University)
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