Programme
This is a provisional programme. All times and locations will be confirmed in Autumn 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 (title TBC)
7:00-7:30: Sparkling Drinks Reception
7:30: Dinner
Saturday 18th November
9:00-9:30: Coffee on Arrival
9:30-11:00: Plenary 2: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (title TBC)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11: 30 - 1:00: Panel Session 2
Panel 3:
Digital Humanities Roundtable (details TBC)
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” – Lisanne 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 Wyoming)
“The Not Yet of Sex: The Specter of Anarchic Love in Kate Chopin” – J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
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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 (title TBC)
7:00-7:30: Sparkling Drinks Reception
7:30: Dinner
Saturday 18th November
9:00-9:30: Coffee on Arrival
9:30-11:00: Plenary 2: Agnieszka Soltysik Monnet (title TBC)
11:00-11:30: Coffee Break
11: 30 - 1:00: Panel Session 2
Panel 3:
Digital Humanities Roundtable (details TBC)
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” – Lisanne 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 Wyoming)
“The Not Yet of Sex: The Specter of Anarchic Love in Kate Chopin” – J. Michelle Coghlan (University of Manchester)
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