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Aesthetics/Politics
The inaugural symposium of the
British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists


University of Sussex, 1-2 November 2013
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Friday 1 November

1.30: Registration
(Arts A Building
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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:
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United States Embassy in London
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Centre for American Studies & the School of English
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Faculty of English
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  • Info
    • About Us
    • Members' Page
    • Essay Prizes
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  • Events
    • Reading Groups >
      • Manchester, June 2014
      • Norwich, November 2014
      • London, June 2015
      • Nottingham, September 2015
      • Canterbury, June 2016
      • Oxford, October 2016
      • London, June 2017
      • Edinburgh, January 2018
      • Birmingham, June 2018
      • London, November 2018
      • Aston, June 2019
      • Zoom, July 2020
      • Zoom, November 2020
    • Symposia >
      • King's College 2022 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Nottingham 2019 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium Archive: Exeter 2017 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Warwick 2015 >
        • Programme
      • Symposium archive: Sussex 2013 >
        • Programme
    • BrANCA-sponsored panels
  • Teaching
    • Materials
  • Digital Resources