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Programme

This is a provisional programme. All times and locations will be confirmed in November 2017.

Friday 17th November
 
13:00-13:30: Coffee on Arrival and Introduction
 
1:30-3:00: Panel Session 1

 
Panel 1
New Periodizations of the Nineteenth-Century:

 
“When Was the First American Novel?: Belatedness, Anachronism, and the Long Publication of William Williams’ Mr. Penrose (1776/1815/1969)” – Matthew Pethers (University of Nottingham)
 
“Marx, Emerson, and Literary Labor” – Benjamin Pickford (University of Lausanne)
 
 “What are the Comfortable Historicisms for American Women Writers?” – Stephanie Palmer (Nottingham Trent University)
 
Panel 2:
Reading and Material Circulation:

 
“‘The Sick Who Were Deemed Incurable’: Seriality, Diasporic Knowledge, Insurrection, & ‘The Story of Makandal’” – Duncan Faherty (Queen’s College & The Graduate Center, CUNY)
 
“Dissenting Reading in the Unquiet Library” – Bridget Bennett (University of Leeds)
 
“The Roots of Freedom: The Role of Private Readership in the Development of the Discourse of American and Russian Exceptionalism” – Olga Akroyd (University of Kent)
 
3:00-3:30: Coffee Break
 
3:30-5:00: Roundtable: Pedagogy (details TBC)
 
5:00-5:30: Coffee Break
 
5:30-7:00: Plenary 1: Lloyd Pratt: "Free Reading"
 
7:00-7:30: Sparkling Wine  Reception
 
7:30: Dinner

 
Saturday 18th November
 
9:00-9:30: Coffee on Arrival
 

9:30-11:00: Plenary 2: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet: "Progress, Utopia, and Apocalypse : The Overlapping Temporalities of the 19th Century"
 
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
 
11: 30 - 1:00: Panel Session 2

 
Panel 3:
Digital Humanities Roundtable (details TBC)**
**Readings to be provided in early November

 
Panel 4:
Unrealised Race:

 
“The False Singer in African American Slave Narratives” - Edward Sugden (King’s College London)
 
“Utopian Hopes and Scientific Inquiry in Pauline Hopkins’ Of One Blood” - Natalia Cecire (University of Sussex)
 
“The Counterfactual Impulse in Martin R. Delany’s Blake” – Rob Turner (University of Exeter)
 
1:00-2:00: Lunch
 
2:00-3:30: Panel Session 3
 
Panel 5:
Temporalities of Race and Freedom:

 
“From Thing to Person: Frederick Douglass Dilates Freedom’s Timeline” – Valeria Tsygankova (Columbia University)
 
“Passing Through Reconstruction, Missing Revolution: Time and Value in the Fin De Siècle Passing Novel” – Tomos Hughes (University of Nottingham)
 
 “Quitting Time: The Afterlife of Slavery and the Temporality of Indenture” – Hilary Emmett (University of East Anglia)
 
Panel 6
Utopian Visions Reconsidered:

 
“Reading Utopia in 2017: Equality – A Political Romance” – Hannah Lauren Murray (King’s College London)
 
“‘Wo Unto Sodom’: Dystopian Nightmares and Utopian Dreams in The Quaker City” – Lisanna Wiele (University of Siegen)
 
“Looking for Lady Justice: Iconoclasm and Visionary Justice in Women’s Writing of the Civil War Era” -  Melissa Lingle-Martin (American University in Bulgaria)
 
3:30-4:00: Coffee Break
 
4:00 – 5:30: Panel Session 4
 
Panel 7:
Emersonian Temporalities:

 
“Emerson’s Temporalities: The Eternal Present vs. the Not Yet Present” – Danielle Follett (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle )
 
“Emerson and the Spirit of the Time” - Thomas  Constantinesco (Université de Paris-Diderot)
 
“‘The Earth Burns’: Hegel’s Influence on Emerson’s Later Philosophy of Nature” – Michael Jonik (University of Sussex)
 
Panel 8:
Freedom’s Radical Futures: Rethinking Democracy, Race, and Sex in the C19 Imaginary

 
“The Not Yet Democratic State: Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans and the Truncated  Possibilities of History” - Cécile Roudeau (Université de Paris-Diderot)
 
“David Walker’s Living Dead: African Atlantic Ontologies of the Human” – Erin E. Forbes (University of Bristol)
 
“The Not Yet of Sex:  The Specter of  Anarchic  Love in Kate Chopin” – J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
 
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  • Events
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      • 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 >
      • 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