Aesthetics/Politics
The inaugural symposium of the
British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
University of Sussex, 1-2 November 2013
The inaugural symposium of the
British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists
University of Sussex, 1-2 November 2013
Friday 1 November
1.30: Registration (Arts A Building)
2.00: Welcome and introduction (Arts A001)
2.15: Thinking Aesthetics (Arts A001)
Chair: Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
~ Elisa Tamarkin (UC Berkeley): Red Herrings and Other Irrelevancies
~ Branka Arsić (Columbia University): Walking Dead: Thoreau on Thinking
3.45: Break
4.00: Geographies (Arts A001)
Chair: Thomas Ruys Smith (University of East Anglia)
~ Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford): Locality and the Serial South
~ Susan Castillo (King's College London): "Half Mad with Joy and Drink": George Washington Cable and the St. Croix Slave Insurrection
5.30: Wine and Beer reception (Atrium, Fulton Building)
8.00: Symposium Dinner (Ristorante Donatello, Brighton)
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Saturday 2 November
9.30: Morning coffee (Atrium, Fulton Building)
10.00: Civilizations (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
~ Michèle Mendelssohn (University of Oxford): Oscar Wilde in America
~ Sarah Rivett (Princeton University): Indian Vocabularies, Natural History, and the Sovereignty of Land and Language in Jeffersonian America
11.30: Break
11.45: Political Economies (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick)
~ Eric Lott (University of Virginia): Marx in Texas: Slavery in Capital
~ Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University): Speculating on the Self: Antebellum Fictions of the Market
1.15: Lunch
2.15: Literary Affections (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: Maria Lauret (University of Sussex)
~ Christopher Looby (UC Los Angeles): The Literariness of Sexuality
~ Rodrigo Andrés (University of Barcelona): Individual Aesthetics and Failed Politics in Herman Melville's "The Piazza"
3.45: Break
4.00: Concluding Roundtable: Aesthetics/Politics
Chair: Hilary Emmett, with Lloyd Pratt, Stephen Shapiro, Bridget Bennett, Matthew Pethers and Janet Floyd.
5.00: Symposium closes
Proudly supported by:
1.30: Registration (Arts A Building)
2.00: Welcome and introduction (Arts A001)
2.15: Thinking Aesthetics (Arts A001)
Chair: Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
~ Elisa Tamarkin (UC Berkeley): Red Herrings and Other Irrelevancies
~ Branka Arsić (Columbia University): Walking Dead: Thoreau on Thinking
3.45: Break
4.00: Geographies (Arts A001)
Chair: Thomas Ruys Smith (University of East Anglia)
~ Lloyd Pratt (University of Oxford): Locality and the Serial South
~ Susan Castillo (King's College London): "Half Mad with Joy and Drink": George Washington Cable and the St. Croix Slave Insurrection
5.30: Wine and Beer reception (Atrium, Fulton Building)
8.00: Symposium Dinner (Ristorante Donatello, Brighton)
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Saturday 2 November
9.30: Morning coffee (Atrium, Fulton Building)
10.00: Civilizations (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
~ Michèle Mendelssohn (University of Oxford): Oscar Wilde in America
~ Sarah Rivett (Princeton University): Indian Vocabularies, Natural History, and the Sovereignty of Land and Language in Jeffersonian America
11.30: Break
11.45: Political Economies (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: Stephen Shapiro (University of Warwick)
~ Eric Lott (University of Virginia): Marx in Texas: Slavery in Capital
~ Andrew Lawson (Leeds Metropolitan University): Speculating on the Self: Antebellum Fictions of the Market
1.15: Lunch
2.15: Literary Affections (Fulton Building, Lecture Theatre A)
Chair: Maria Lauret (University of Sussex)
~ Christopher Looby (UC Los Angeles): The Literariness of Sexuality
~ Rodrigo Andrés (University of Barcelona): Individual Aesthetics and Failed Politics in Herman Melville's "The Piazza"
3.45: Break
4.00: Concluding Roundtable: Aesthetics/Politics
Chair: Hilary Emmett, with Lloyd Pratt, Stephen Shapiro, Bridget Bennett, Matthew Pethers and Janet Floyd.
5.00: Symposium closes
Proudly supported by:
United States Embassy in London
Centre for American Studies &
the School of English
Faculty of English
