Panel 5A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 402

Conservation and Commemoration

Chair: Jonah Siegel (English / Rutgers University)

Dehn Gilmore (English and Comparative Literature / Columbia University)

 “‘To a Dead Colour’: Maintaining the Past in the National Gallery and the Historical Novel”

Jolanta T. Pekacz (History / Dalhousie University)

“From a Site of Conflict  to a lieux de mémoire: Old Regime in Nineteenth-Century France”

Alastair Wright (Art and Archaeology / Princeton University)

“Maximilien Luce and the Specter of the Commune: Painting Conflict and Conflicts around Painting c. 1900”

Panel 5B

Rutgers Student Center

Room 407

Ghostly Modernities

Chair: Jacob Nellickal (English / Rutgers University)

Gwen Hyman (Humanities and Social Sciences / The Cooper Union)

“Dracula Mon Amour: Thirsting to Connect”

Maria LaMonaca (English / Columbia College)

“Marian Apparitions and Theological Anarchy in Victorian England”

Clare A. Simmons (English / Ohio State University)

“Joust Jesting:  The Tournament as Metaphor in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

Sarah Willburn (English / Mount Holyoke College)

“Fact and Fantasy: Reading Victorian Spirit Photographs”

Panel 5C

Rutgers Student Center

Room 410AB

Economies of Charity, Beauty and the Sacred

Chair: Greg Kucich (English / University of Notre Dame)

Holly Furneaux (School of English and Humanities, Birbeck College, University of London)
"Make Love Not War: The Erotics of Male Nursing in the 1860s"

Supritha Rajan (English / University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

“Sacred Commerce: Rites of Reciprocity in Nineteenth-Century Political Economy and Anthropology”

Jill Rappoport (English / University of Virginia)

“‘Beyond the Reach of Any Remuneration’: The Price of Salvation in Sisters of Charity and ‘Goblin  Market’”

Panel 5D

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411ABC

Labor, Paternalism and Laissez-Faire

Chair: Christine L. Kreuger (English / Marquette University)

Christopher Frank (History / University of Manitoba)

“Truck or Trade: Working Class Consumption, Organized Labour, and the Law in Nineteenth-Century Britain”

Ella Dzelzainis (English and Humanities / Birkbeck College, University of London)

“Reason vs. Revelation: Feminism, Malthus and the New Poor Law in Narratives by Harriet Martineau and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna”

Ayse Celikkol (English / Macalester College)

'Free Trade in Everything but  Kisses':Laissez-Faire and Sexual Transgression”

Eleanor Courtemanche (English / University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

“Stoicism and Perversity in Gaskell’s North and South”