Friday, April 5<\/u>
1:30 pm Tour of Victorian Boston with Martha Vicinus<\/p>\n2:00-3:30 pm Registration<\/p>\n
3:45 pm Welcome<\/p>\n
4:00-5:45 pm: Literary Culture, 1874<\/b>: Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator
Maia McAleavey (Boston College), \u201cAurora Floyd (1874)\u201d
Sarah Weaver (U of Cambridge), \u201cTennyson Turns Playwright\u201d
Laura Green (Northeastern U), \u201cBathsheba Everdene, Young Brown, and Zelda the Gypsy: At Home in Cornhill Magazine, January, 1874\u201d
Dennis Taylor (Boston College), \u201cCatholicism and Literary Culture in 1874\u201d<\/p>\n
5:45-7:15 pm Welcome Reception<\/p>\n
7:30-9:30 pm Optional dinner off campus<\/p>\n
Saturday, April 6<\/u>
Book Exhibit<\/p>\n
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast and Registration<\/p>\n
9:00-11:00 am Keynote panel<\/b>: James Eli Adams (Columbia U), Moderator
Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck, U of London)
Robert J. Richards (U of Chicago)
Herbert Tucker (U of Virginia)<\/p>\n
11:00-11:15 am Coffee Break<\/p>\n
11:15 am-12:45 pm Science, 1874<\/b>: Vanessa Ryan (Brown U), Moderator
Elisha Cohn (Cornell U), \u201cPlayful Atoms and Beautiful Cells: Scientific Aestheticisms, 1874-1890\u201d
Kyle Fetter (SUNY Buffalo), \u201cAnxious Scribblings: Genre, Heredity, and Periodization in Samuel Butler\u2019s First Notebook of 1874\u201d
John Mulligan (Brown U), \u201cRichard Proctor\u2019s Sense of Scientific Duty and the 1874 Transit of Venus\u201d<\/p>\n
1:00-2:30 pm Lunch
The Saturday lunch, a long-standing tradition, is a convivial event at which topics are proposed and voted on for the following year. All are welcome.<\/p>\n
2:30-4:00 pm Technology and Design, 1874<\/b>: Aaron Worth (Boston U), Moderator
Dory Agazarian (CUNY Graduate Center), \u201cPast into Present: The 1874 Design Debate over the Completion of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral\u201d
Christopher Keep (U of Western Ontario), \u201cBodies, Machines, and the QWERTY Keyboard\u201d
Ayla Lepine (Yale U), \u201cWatts and Company, Founded 1874: Religion, Decorative Arts, and Political Controversy\u201d<\/p>\n
4:00-4:15 pm Coffee Break<\/p>\n
4:15-5:45 pm Philosophy, 1874<\/b>: Vincent Lankewish (Professional Performing Arts School), Moderator
Patrick Fessenbecker (Johns Hopkins U), \u201cSidgwick, Meredith, and Parfit on Reasons and Egoism\u201d
Matthew Sussman (Harvard U), \u201cHenry Sidgwick and the Methods of Aesthetics\u201d
S. Pearl Brilmyer (NYU), \u201cSchopenhauer\u2019s Drive: Sex, Agency, and Victorian Literary Feminism\u201d<\/p>\n
6:00-7:00 pm Reception (The Castle, 225 Bay State Road)<\/p>\n
7:00-9:30 pm Dinner Banquet (The Castle)<\/p>\n
9:45 pm After-dinner Drink (Beacon Street Tavern, 1032 Beacon St., Brookline, MA)<\/p>\n
Sunday, April 7<\/u>
8:00-9:00 am Breakfast<\/p>\n
9:00-10:30 am Empire, 1874<\/b>: Sebastian Lecourt (Rutgers U), Moderator
Lucy Sheehan (Columbia U), \u201cPresent Pasts: Performances of Slavery and Abolition in George Eliot\u2019s Daniel Deronda\u201d
Mark Doyle (Middle Tennessee State U), \u201cThe Bombay Riots of 1874: Liberty and Violence in an Imperial City\u201d
Jane McGaughey (Concordia U), \u201cThe Orangeman in Winter: Ogle Gowan, Masculine Frailties, and the Rise of the Orange Order\u201d<\/p>\n
10:30-10:45 am Coffee Break<\/p>\n
10:45 am-12:15 pm Teaching 1874<\/b>: Lisa Rodensky (Wellesley College), Moderator
Anne Humphreys (Lehman College)
Timothy Alborn (Lehman College)
Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College)<\/p>\n
12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up<\/b>
John Plotz (Brandeis U)
Jonathan Loesberg (American U)<\/span><\/o:p><\/div>\n
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