{"id":8,"date":"2013-02-13T11:21:55","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T16:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2013-03-04T10:20:28","modified_gmt":"2013-03-04T15:20:28","slug":"conference-schedule","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>1874<br \/>\nThe Northeast Victorian Studies Association<br \/>\nBoston University<br \/>\nApril 5-7, 2013<\/h2>\n<h3>Friday, April 5<\/h3>\n<p>1:30 pm <b>Tour of Victorian Boston with Martha Vicinus (see bottom of page for information on signing up)<\/b><\/p>\n<p>2:00-3:30 pm <b>Registration <\/b>(ground floor, 236 Bay State Road)<\/p>\n<p>3:45 pm<b> Welcome <\/b>(Kenmore Room, 9<sup>th<\/sup> floor, 1 Silber Way)<\/p>\n<p>4:00-5:45 pm: <b>Literary Culture, 1874<\/b>:<b> <\/b>Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator (Kenmore Room)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maia McAleavey (Boston      College), \u201cAurora Floyd (1874)\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Sarah Weaver (U of      Cambridge), \u201cTennyson Turns Playwright\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Laura Green (Northeastern      U), \u201cBathsheba Everdene, Young Brown, and Zelda the Gypsy: At Home in <i>Cornhill Magazine<\/i>, January, 1874\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Taylor (Boston      College), \u201cCatholicism and Literary Culture in 1874\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>5:45-7:15 pm <b>Welcome Reception <\/b>(Kenmore Room)<\/p>\n<p>7:30-9:30 pm Optional dinner off campus (Please see instructions below)<\/p>\n<h3>Saturday, April 6<\/h3>\n<p><b>Book Exhibit <\/b>(Slater and Barristers Hall)<\/p>\n<p>All panels will take place at BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Avenue; the building is off Commonwealth Ave, with entrance near the river\u2014please see map for location.<\/p>\n<p>8:00-9:00 am <b>Breakfast and Registration <\/b>(Slater and Barristers Hall,<\/p>\n<p>9:00-11:00 am <b>Keynote panel<\/b>: James Eli Adams (Columbia U), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck,      U of London)<\/li>\n<li>Robert J. Richards      (U of Chicago)<\/li>\n<li>Herbert Tucker (U      of Virginia)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>11:00-11:15 am <b>Coffee Break <\/b><\/p>\n<p>11:15 am-12:45 pm<b> Science, 1874<\/b>: Vanessa Ryan (Brown U), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elisha Cohn\u00a0<b>(<\/b>Cornell      U), \u201cPlayful Atoms and Beautiful Cells: Scientific Aestheticisms,      1874-1890\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Kyle Fetter (SUNY      Buffalo), \u201cAnxious Scribblings: Genre, Heredity, and Periodization in      Samuel Butler\u2019s First Notebook of 1874\u201d<\/li>\n<li>John Mulligan (Brown      U), \u201cRichard Proctor\u2019s Sense of Scientific Duty and the 1874 Transit of      Venus\u201d<b> <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1:00-2:30 pm\u00a0<b>Lunch <\/b>(14<sup>th<\/sup> Floor, BU School of Law).<\/p>\n<p>The Saturday lunch, a long-standing tradition, is a convivial event at which topics are proposed and voted on for the following year.<\/p>\n<p>2:30-4:00 pm <b>Technology and Design, 1874<\/b>: Aaron Worth (Boston U), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dory Agazarian (CUNY      Graduate Center), \u201cPast into Present: The 1874 Design Debate over the      Completion of St. Paul\u2019s Cathedral\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Christopher Keep (U      of Western Ontario), \u201cBodies, Machines, and the QWERTY Keyboard\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Ayla Lepine (Yale U), \u201cWatts and Company, Founded 1874: Religion, Decorative      Arts, and Political Controversy\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>4:00-4:15 pm<b> Coffee Break <\/b><\/p>\n<p>4:15-5:45 pm<b> Philosophy, 1874<\/b>: Vincent Lankewish (Professional Performing Arts School), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Patrick      Fessenbecker (Johns Hopkins U), \u201cSidgwick, Meredith, and Parfit on Reasons      and Egoism\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Matthew Sussman (Harvard      U), \u201cHenry Sidgwick and the Methods of Aesthetics\u201d<\/li>\n<li>S. Pearl Brilmyer (NYU),      \u201cSchopenhauer\u2019s Drive: Sex, Agency, and Victorian Literary Feminism\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>6:00-7:00 pm <b>Reception <\/b>(The Castle, 225 Bay State Road)<\/p>\n<p>7:00 \u2013 9:30 pm<b> Dinner Banquet<\/b> (The Castle)<\/p>\n<p>9:45\u00a0 pm <b>After-Dinner Drink <\/b>(Beacon Street Tavern, 1032 Beacon St., Brookline, MA)<\/p>\n<h3>Sunday, April 7<\/h3>\n<p>All events take place in Slater and Barristers Hall, BU School of Law, 765 Commonwealth Ave)<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"> <\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>8:00-9:00 am<b> Breakfast<\/b><\/p>\n<p>9:00-10:30 am\u00a0<b>Empire, 1874<\/b>: Sebastian Lecourt (Rutgers U), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lucy Sheehan (Columbia      U), \u201cPresent Pasts: Performances of Slavery and Abolition in George      Eliot\u2019s <i>Daniel Deronda<\/i>\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Mark Doyle (Middle      Tennessee State U), \u201cThe Bombay Riots of 1874: Liberty and Violence in an      Imperial City\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Jane McGaughey (Concordia      U), \u201cThe Orangeman in Winter: Ogle Gowan, Masculine Frailties, and the      Rise of the Orange Order\u201d<b> <\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>10:30-10:45 am<b> Coffee Break<\/b><\/p>\n<p>10:45 am -12:15 pm <b>Teaching 1874<\/b>:\u00a0Lisa Rodensky ( Wellesley College), Moderator<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rosemarie Bodenheimer      (Boston College)<\/li>\n<li>Anne Humphreys      (Lehman College)<\/li>\n<li>Timothy Alborn      (Lehman College)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>12:15-1:00 pm\u00a0<b>Conference Wrap-Up<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>John Plotz (Brandeis      U)<\/li>\n<li>Jonathan Loesberg (American      U)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2:00 \u00a0<strong>Second Option for Tour of Victorian Boston with Martha Vicinus <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SIGN UP FOR THE TOUR: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Please email Anna Henchman (henchman@bu.edu)<\/strong> with <strong>MARTHA VICINUS TOUR <\/strong>in the subject line. Martha\u00a0has kindly expanded her offer and will now do the first tour at 1:30 PM on Friday, and the second at 2:00 on Sunday, directly following the conference. Please indicate which ones you can make, and which is your preference. Spots are limited to 18 for each tour and it&#8217;s first come, first serve.<\/p>\n<p><b>FRIDAY DINNER:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please e-mail both Aaron Worth (worth@bu.edu) and Anna Henchman (henchman@bu.edu) by <b>March 31 <\/b>with <strong>FRIDAY NVSA DINNER<\/strong> in the subject line if you would like to join a group for dinner at a restaurant on the Friday night after the first panel and reception. The conference organizers will arrange reservations for as many as would like to join us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1874 The Northeast Victorian Studies Association Boston University April 5-7, 2013 Friday, April 5 1:30 pm Tour of Victorian Boston with Martha Vicinus (see bottom of page for information on signing up) 2:00-3:30 pm Registration (ground floor, 236 Bay State Road) 3:45 pm Welcome (Kenmore Room, 9th floor, 1 Silber Way) 4:00-5:45 pm: Literary Culture, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6999,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/nvsa2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}