UNEXPLORED EMPIRE: CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, APRIL 18th
10:30-11:45pm
Visit to the Print Study Room of the Art Institute of Chicago to view Victorian works
on paper, including PreRaphaelite drawings. Limited to 25 people. Please sign up with
Anne Helmreich (anne.helmreich@case.edu) on a first come, first serve basis. We will meet in the lobby of the Art Institute of Chicago prior to the Study Room visit—further details will be sent to those who have signed up for the tour.
REGISTRATION, 12:00-3:15pm. Essex Inn
WELCOME, 1-1:15p.m.: MVSA President Linda K. Hughes (Texas Christian U)
SESSION ONE, 1:15-2:45 p.m.
Imperial Aesthetics
1) Phyllis Weliver (St. Louis U)
“’Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?’: Music, rhetorical style, & the ‘opium-tainted cigarette’ in DeQuincey, Pater, & Wilde”
2) Aishwarya Lakshmi (Hamilton College)
“The Worldling of the Event: the Making of the Mutiny of 1857 in Aesthetic Discourse”
3) Angela Rehbein (U of Missouri)
“Transported into the tropis in feeling: Affective Aesthetics in Isabella Bird’s Six Months in the Sandwich Islands”
BREAK 2:45-3:15pm
SESSION TWO, 3:15-4:45p.m.
Artifacts of Empire
1) Amelia Scholtz (Rice University)
“The Giant in the Curio Shop: Unpacking the Cabinet in Kipling’s Letters from Japan”
2) Allen Bauman (Northwestern SU)
“Empire, Mummies, and Liminality”
3) Shawn Malley (Bishop’s U, QC)
“Archaeological Imperialism Then and Now: Excavating the Unexplored Empire of the Foreign Office, 1845-1849”
JANE STEDMAN LECTURE & RECEPTION, 5:15-6:15pm
Julie Codell (Arizona SU), “Looking for Fragments: Decentering and Remapping an Imperial Border Geography”
Dinner—Unscheduled
SATURDAY, APRIL 19th
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, 8:30-9am
SESSION THREE, 9-10:30 a.m.
Encounters with India
1) Susan Dean (Independent Scholar)
“From Denigration to Practice: Buddhism in Victorian and Edwardian England”
2) Lexi Stuckey
“Kim: Kipling’s Imperial India that Never Was”
3) Elizabeth Woodworth (Texas Christian U)
“Visions of India: Philip Meadows Taylor, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and 20th Century Representations of Thuggee”
SESSION FOUR, 10:45-12:15 p.m.
The Arctic and Other Imperial Frontiers
1) Jen Hill (U of Nevada)
“Ends of the Earth, Ends of the Empire: R. M. Ballentyne’s Arctic Adventures”
2) Annaliese Jacobs Bateman (UIUC)
“Frozen Empires? British and Russian Narratives of Exploration, Ethnography, and Exceptionality in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Bering Sea”
3) Elizabeth Chang (U of Missouri)
“Writing the British Empire on the Imperial Frontier”
LUNCH, BUSINESS MEETING &
2ND KEYNOTE, 12:30-2 p.m.
Keynote Speaker: Russ Wyland (NEH), “NEH and the Building of Victorian Studies”
Please email him (RWyland@neh.gov) in advance with a 1-p. proposal to set up a meeting with him during the conference.
SESSION FIVE, 2:15-3:45 p.m.
Empire at Home
1) T. Rebecca Kennamer (CUNY)
“Imperial Productions: Empire and English Identity in Cranford”
2) Leslie Simon (Boston U)
“A Cocoa-nut Tree in London: Cultural Delusion in Thackeray’s The Newcomes”
3) Michelle Beissel Heath (Geo Washington U)
“Empire, Home, and the Child as Artifact: Six to Sixteen and Kim’s Game”
SESSION SIX, 4-5:30 p. m.
Empire and Oppression: Intersections with Class and Gender
1) Greg Vargo (Columbia U)
“Outworks of the Citadel of Corruption”: The British Empire in the Chartist Press”
2) Rachel Slivon (U of Florida)
“An Exploration of Colonial Critiques in a Particular Moment: Olive Schreiner’s Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland”
3) Jessica Queener (W. Virginia U)
“He and She: Adventure, Gender, and Imperialism in H. Rider Haggard’s She and Bram Stoker’s The Man”
RECEPTION following, place TBA
DINNER—Unscheduled
SUNDAY, APRIL 20th
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST, 9-9:30 a.m.
SESSION SEVEN, 9:30-10:45 a.m., General Lounge
Australia & Other Settler Colonies
1) Philip Steer (Duke U)
“Guerrillas in the Midst: Settler Colonization and the British Invasion Novel”
2) Julie M. Barst (Purdue U)
“Transporting the Condemned: Victorian Convict Literature and Australia”
3) Dorice Elliott (U of Kansas)
“Controlling Sex and Crime in Australia”
SESSION EIGHT, 11-12:30 p.m.
Other Imperialisms
1) Zarena Aslami (Michigan SU)
“Rather a Geographical Expression than a Country:” Victorian Afghanistan and the Limits of State Fantasy”
2) Diana Colbert (CUNY)
“Punch Presents … Empire! Political Cartoons with Imperial Subjects in the Era of the Spanish American War”
3) Walter Arnstein (UIUC)
“Queen Victorian Conquers the USA”
The Burgan Award, Stedman Lecture Appeal, & Concluding Remarks: Thomas Prasch (Washburn U), MVSA Vice-Pres.
ACCOMMODATIONS
Single rooms ($139 per night) and double rooms ($149 per night) are being held at
Chicago's Essex Inn, 800 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, until March 17, 2008,
at which time unused portions of the bloc will be released to the general public.
Call the Inn's toll-free number (800) 621-6909 or send a fax to the Inn at 1 (312) 939-0526,
identifying yourself as an attendee at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association to get
the conference rate. For more information about the Essex Inn, visit
the hotel’s Web site.
REGISTRATION FORM
To pre-register, please print this page and send it, with the following information & payment, by April 7, to:
Julie Melnyk, MVSA Treasurer
Honors College, University of Missouri-
Columbia
211 Lowry Hall
Columbia, MO 65211
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Registration includes all receptions, breakfasts, and lunches listed on the program.
MVSA membership dues are $25/year, with graduate students offered free membership for three years. Presenters are kindly asked to become members when registering. Contributions to the Arnstein Fund & Stedman Fund may also be sent at this time.
Registration fee (regular): $160
Registration fee (unwaged/grad) $110
MVSA Membership $25
Arnstein Fund $___
Stedman Fund $___
TOTAL FEE ENCLOSED: $___
Email questions to Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, MVSA Executive Secretary at aclappit@indiana.edu.