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| Thursday, March 30, 2006 |
| 3:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. |
Conference Registration/Check-In |
English Common Room
Murray Hall, 101A |
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| Friday, March 31, 2006 |
| 7:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. |
Conference Registration/Check-In |
| Rutgers Student Center, 4th Floor |
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| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 8:45 a.m. |
Welcome Remarks |
| Rutgers Student Center |
Richard E. Miller
Chair of the Department of English, Executive Director of the Plangere Writing Center, and Executive Member of the Center for Cultural Analysis |
| 9:00 a.m - 10:30 a.m. |
Panels 1A, 1B, 1C, 1D and 1E |
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| Panel 1A |
Debating the Poor |
| Panel 1B |
Literature, Law and Rights |
| Panel 1C |
Oriental Romantics |
| Panel 1D |
Geology and Its Discontents |
| Panel 1E |
Interdisciplinary Editing: The University of California Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle |
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| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m |
Panels 2A, 2B, 2C, and 2D |
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| Panel 2A |
Literary Form and Writing War |
| Panel 2B |
Fictions of Development |
| Panel 2C |
Transatlantic Cultural Conflicts |
| Panel 2D |
Mutinies and Masculinities: Representing Britishness |
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| 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Panels 3A, 3B, 3C, and 3D |
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| Panel 3A |
Technologies of the Subject |
| Panel 3B |
Missionaries and Tourists: Women's Movement in the Nineteenth Century |
| Panel 3C |
Women's Publics I |
| Panel 3D |
Violent Histories in Dickens and Newgate Theater |
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| 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. |
Panels 4A, 4B, 4C, and 4D |
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| Panel 4A |
Writing Religion |
| Panel 4B |
Consuming Ecologies and Appropriating Ideologies |
| Panel 4C |
Women's Publics II |
| Panel 4D |
Imperial Adventures |
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| 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
Plenary Lecture |
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
(Lower Dodge Gallery) |
Chair: Kate Flint (English / Rutgers University)
Garrett Stewart (English / University of Iowa)
"Little Dorrit and the Narratography of Closure"
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| 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. |
Reception |
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
(Upper Dodge Gallery) |
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| 6:45 p.m. |
Welcome Remarks |
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Barry V. Qualls
Dean of Humanities and Professor of English |
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| Saturday, April 1, 2006 |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Conference Registration/Check-In |
Rutgers Student Center
4th Floor Foyer
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| 8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. |
Continental Breakfast |
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| 9:00 a.m - 10:30 a.m. |
Panels 5A, 5B, 5C, and 5D |
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| Panel 5A |
Conservation and Commemoration |
| Panel 5B |
Ghostly Modernities |
| Panel 5C |
Economies of Charity, Beauty and the Sacred |
| Panel 5D |
Labor, Paternalism and Laissez-Faire |
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| 10:30 a.m. - 10:45 a.m. |
Break |
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| 10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m |
Panels 6A, 6B, 6C, and 6D |
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| Panel 6A |
Critical Traditions |
| Panel 6B |
Tradition in the Historical Imaginary |
| Panel 6C |
Romantic Agents |
| Panel 6D |
Theism versus Darwinism |
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| 12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch |
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| 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Panels 7A, 7B, 7C, and 7D |
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| Panel 7A |
Nineteenth-Century Naturalisms |
| Panel 7B |
Domestic Conflicts |
| Panel 7C |
Literary Marketplaces |
| Panel 7D |
Discourses of Violence |
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| 3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
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| 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. |
Panels 8A and 8B |
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| Panel 8A |
Aesthetic Politics |
| Panel 8B |
Epistemologies of Sympathy and Compassion |
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| 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. |
Plenary Panel Honoring George Levine |
Graduate Student Lounge
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Chair: William Galperin (English / Rutgers University)
Amanda Anderson (John Hopkins University)
"Ethics and Epistemology"
Jay Clayton (Vanderbilt University)
"Ghost Voyages"
Christopher Herbert (Northwestern University)
"Prothonotaries, Sharpies and Bliss: George Levine's Lifebirds"
Gerhard Joseph (City University of New York)
"George Levine's 'Realistic Imagination': Scientific Novelists and Novelistic Scientists"
Garrett Stewart (University of Iowa)
"Living to Know: Levine and Novelists" |
| 6:30 p.m. -9:00 p.m. |
Dinner |
Brower Commons
Faculty Dining Room |
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