Victorian Conference

THE VICTORIAN EVERYDAY

THE NORTHEAST VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

WELLESLEY COLLEGE
APRIL 3rd-5th, 2009

FRIDAY, APRIL 3rd

[Pre-conference: 12:30-2:00 pm Informal Panel for Wellesley Students,
Founders Hall 106]

1:00-4:00 pm Registration: Wang Campus Center, Information Desk

1:30-3:45 pm Exhibit: Ruskin, Browning, and Others: Wellesley College
Library, Special Collections (Space is limited and prior registration is
required; see below.)

4:00 pm Welcome: Margaret Clapp Library, Library Lecture Room

4:15-5:45 pm Common Words, Commonplace Sounds: Margaret Clapp Library,
Library Lecture Room
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt U), Moderator

* Daniel Pollack-Pelzner (Harvard U), “The Exotic Demotic: Wellerisms
and Everyday Language”
* Janice Schroeder (Carleton U), “Everyday Sound as Extraordinary in
Adam Bede”
* Jonathan Farina (Vanderbilt U), “Whoever explains a ‘but’: Everyday
Words and the Epistemology of Victorian Chatter”

5:45-7:00 pm Reception: Wang Campus Center, Anderson Forum

7:15 pm Shuttle to Babson College Executive Center
Informal buffet dinner at Babson

SATURDAY, APRIL 4th

8:00-9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

9:00-10:45 am Keynote Panel: Pendleton West 212
Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia), Moderator

* Tim Barringer (Yale U)
* Laurie Langbauer (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
* Ruth Yeazell (Yale U)

10:45-11:00 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

11:00am-12:30 pm The Scientific Mundane: Pendleton West 212
Anna Henchman (Boston U), Moderator

* John Plotz (Brandeis U), “Primitive Habits: Significant Trivia and the
Birth of Victorian Anthropology”
* Mark Frost (U of Portsmouth), “Opening Our Eyes to the Everyday: John
Ruskin, Moss and Iron”
* Pascale McCullough Manning (U of Western Ontario), “Darwin’s
Autobiographies and the Post-evolutionary Everyday”

12:30-2:15 pm Lunch: Wellesley College Club, Main Dining Room

2:30-4:00 pm Everyday Poetics: Pendleton West 212
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers U), Moderator

* Andrea Gazzaniga (U of North Carolina, Charlotte), “An Everyday
Poetics: Processing Experience in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets
from the Portuguese”
* Jason Rudy (U of Maryland), “Everyday Poetry, London to Sydney”
* Marjorie Stone (Dalhousie U), “The Poetics and Practices of ‘Everyday
Life’: The Brownings’ Love Letters, the Dramatic Monologue, and the
Wellesley Manuscript of Aurora Leigh”

4:00-4:15 pm Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

4:15-5:45 pm Session A: Customary Worship: Pendleton West 212
Judith Wilt (Boston C), Moderator

* Amy King (St. John’s U), “Reverent Form: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Everyday”
* Paul Yeoh (Rutgers U), “Everyday in The Christian Year”
* Evan Horowitz (U of North Texas), “Everyday Afterlife”

4:15-5:45 pm Session B: Habitual Perception: Pendleton West 117
Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator

* Benjamin Morgan (U of California, Berkeley), “A Lot of Art is Boring:
The Psychological Aesthetics of Grant Allen and Vernon Lee”
* Jennifer Judge (York U), “‘Walking bundles of habits’ or Creatures of
Volition?: The All-Importance of Habit in Victorian Theories of Character”
* Sara Maurer, (U of Notre Dame), “Mary Russell Mitford’s Our Village:
Keeping England in Place”

6:15 pm Reception: Wellesley College Club, Council Library,

7:00-10:00 pm Dinner Banquet: Wellesley College Club, Wall Room

SUNDAY, APRIL 5th

8:00-9:00 am Continental Breakfast: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

9:00-10:30 am Interpreting the Everyday: Pendleton West 212
Sean O’Toole (Baruch College, CUNY), Moderator

* Yuri Cowan (U of Toronto), “Medieval Things: Antiquarianism and
Victorian Historiographies of the Everyday”
* Maia McAleavey (Harvard U), “Desires of Touch: Marital Crisis and the
Everyday”
* Abigail Joseph (Columbia U), “Hyacinthus Goes to Salisbury: Wilde's
Trials and Errors of Transmission”

10:30-10:45 am Coffee: Pendleton Hall, Atrium

10:45 am-12:15 pm Daily Places: Pendleton West 212
Will Lee (Yeshiva U), Moderator

* Barbara Leckie (Carleton U), “Whose Everyday? Architecture, Print
Culture, and the Domestic Interiors of the Poor, 1840-70”
* Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s U), “Inside a Victorian Hospital: The
Extraordinary Everyday”
* Robert Sulcer (Hofstra U), “Keeping School: Romancing the Everyday”

12:15-1:00 pm Conference Wrap-Up: Pendleton West 212

* David Kurnick (Rutgers U)
* Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston C)

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The Friday dinner is an informal buffet at Babson immediately following
the reception. The cost is $20.00 (soup/salad, main course, cookies,
coffee). There will be a cash bar.
The Saturday lunch, a convivial event at which topics are proposed and
voted on for the following year, is a long-standing tradition; everyone
is warmly encouraged to attend and participate.
Rooms are available at the Babson Conference Center located on the
campus of Babson College (231 Forest Street, Babson Park, MA 02457). The
conference rate is $155.00 (single or double, breakfast included). The
rate is guaranteed until February 28. Please book early. We will provide
a limited shuttle service (before the first morning panels, after the
Friday reception, after the last panel on Saturday, after the Saturday
night banquet) between Babson and Wellesley College. Here are the
directions for booking your Babson reservation on line:

1 Go to www.Babsonecc.com.
2. Click "Book a reservation" on the right hand side of the screen in
blue font.
3. A new page will open up displaying a calendar. On the top of the
screen there is a link to "Group Reservation." Click it.
4. This will bring you to the Group page. You will need to input the
group code -- NVSA09
5. From there it will walk you through making the reservation.
Or you may call Babson directly at 781-239-5816 or 781-239-4000. Mention
NVSA to get the group rate.
Please visit the NVSA website for directions, other dining options, and
to learn of other conference details: http://www.nvsa.org.

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REGISTRATION

Please return completed form by March 1. Make checks payable to
Wellesley College. Please write in memo area “NVSA Registration.” Please
direct all registration questions to Lisa Rodensky
(lrodensk@wellesley.edu) or Lisa Easley (leasley@wellesley.edu).

Send checks to: Lisa Easley, Department of English, 106 Central Street,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02481.

Transportation
If you are staying at Babson, please check here if you will need to use
the shuttle between Wellesley and Babson during the conference (we would
like to have an estimate so that we can reserve an appropriate van):
___ Yes, I will need to use the shuttle

Registration Meals
____ $85 Members ___ $20 Friday informal buffet dinner
____ $105 Non-Members (If vegetarian, please check here __)
____ $50 Students ___ $15 Saturday Luncheon – Faculty
____ $15 NVSA dues ___ $11 Saturday Luncheon – Students
____ $10 NVSA Student dues ___ $55 Saturday Banquet – Faculty
___ $35 Saturday Banquet – Students
__ Fish
__ Vegetarian

____ Total Remittance

Library Visits
The Wellesley College Library (Special Collections) will display
material from its Ruskin and Browning collections on Friday afternoon.
If you would like to view the material, please number preferred times.
Space is limited.

__ 1:30-2:15 pm Friday __ 2:15 – 3 pm Friday __ 3 – 3:45 pm Friday

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