Full fee: £25
Student/Concessionary fee: £15
The conference fee included lunch and refreshments across two days, and a wine reception on 29th May. We are happy to acknowledge the support of BAVS (British Association for Victorian Studies) in enabling us to offer a reduced conference fee.
Programme can be downloaded here.
Monday 28th May
10.30-11.15 Registration
& Refreshments
11.15-11.30 Welcome (Great Hall)
11.30-1.00 Panel 1
1a. Naming and
Placing Nineteenth-Century Technology (Boardroom 2)
Chair: Beatrice Turner
(Newcastle)
David
Wheeler (Armstrong Atlantic State)
‘Iron Bridge, Coalbrookdale, and Early Industrial Tourism’
Kate Katigbak
(Durham)
‘Machine as Monster, Machine
as God: Building the Character of Industry’
Courtney Salvey
(Kent)
‘Meaning Machines: the
Linguistic Transformation of Machines in Nineteenth-Century Britain’
Jack Rundell (York)
‘Roller Skating into Mass Culture’
1b. Tracing Narrative
and Representation (Great Hall)
Chair: Sarah Gilligan
(Hartlepool)
Alex Price (York)
‘‘This old
lady’s ruffled bed’: Beds and Bedtime Behaviours in Little Red Riding Hood’
Stephen Kenyon (Glyndwr)
‘What to do with a severed
head? The quest for a voice within The Orpheus Project’
Philip
Holden (Singapore)
‘Portraits
of the Artist: Maugham, Sexuality, Representation’
1c. Transforming
Gaskell (Room 205)
Chair: Ashleigh
Blackwood (Northumbria)
Alison
Lundie (Roehampton)
‘A Woman’s Touch: Domestic Arts of Clothing and Needlework
Materialising Transformations in Identity’
Wassila
Mouro (Tlemcen)
‘Intertextuality in Wives
and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell’
Tara Puri (Kent)
‘Unstable objects: reading shawls, tea and calico in North and South’
1.00-2.00 Lunch (204)
2.00-3.30 Panel 2
2a. Adapting Material
Cultures, Making Memory (Room 205)
Chair: Danielle
McDonnell (Northumbria)
Ashleigh Blackwood (Northumbria)
‘A
‘Shandean Hypothesis’: Laurence Sterne and Transformations of Eighteenth-
Century Professional Practice and Paternity in Obstetric Medicine'
Sally
Holloway (Royal Holloway)
‘Textile Transformations: Women’s
Creation of Courtship and Birth Tokens, 1680-1850’
Sarah Gilligan
(Hartlepool College)
‘‘You can be who you want to be, even if it is only for a day’: Sherlock Holmes cosplay and gender
performativity’
2b. Altering States
in the Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century (Great Hall)
Chair: John Holmes
(Reading)
Greg Lynall (Liverpool)
‘‘The Sun it self’s here in a
piece of glasse’: the between-ness of the burning mirror’
James Mussell
(Birmingham)
‘Chlorodyne: Telling Transformative Tales about a Drug Whose
‘Composition Cannot be Discovered’’
Mark Blacklock
(Birkbeck)
‘Higher-dimensional thinking things: recreating
Hinton’s cubes’
2c. Replacing Objects
(Boardroom 2)
Chair: David Stewart
(Northumbria)
Polly
Atkin (Lancaster)
‘‘A scuttle for Dorothy
Wordsworth’: re-writing the haunted object’
Jane Insley
(Science Museum)
‘Discriminating Fossils - crystal models
belonging to the Watt family, c 1800’
Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores)
‘Material Culture and
Religion: Samuel and Henrietta Barnett’s attempts to recover the Spiritual
Lives of the Londoner, 1883-1960’
3.30-4.00 Tea
& Coffee (Great Hall)
4.00-5.15 Keynote
Speaker (Great Hall)
John Holmes (Reading), ‘Transforming Art: The
Pre-Raphaelites and Science’
Chair: Nicole Bush
5.30 onwards Conference
dinner at The Living Room, Newcastle upon Tyne
Tuesday 29th May
9.30-11.00 Panel
3
3a. Curating Memory and Identity through Objects (Room 205)
Chair: Naomi Carle (Durham)
Jessica
Allsop (Exeter)
‘Issues of Inheritance: Curious Objects of the
Country House Collection in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century
Literature’
Graeme Pedlingham (Sussex)
‘Something was going from me - the capacity, as it were, to be myself’:
Richard Marsh’s The Beetle and the
‘Transformational Object’’
Camilla
Cassidy (Oxford)
3b. Opposing Visions
in the Twentieth Century (Room 207)
Chair: Thom Addinall-Biddulph (Durham)
Martin Paul Eve (Sussex)
‘Thomas Pynchon, Materialism
and Negative Dialectics’
Agata Wozniak (Durham)
‘The Politics of Misreading -- Re-vision as
Misprision in the Work of Twentieth-Century Women Writers’
Jerome de Groot (Manchester)
‘‘You tell me at least you’ve been smoking your own cigarettes!’: smoking,
pastness and memory in historical film and television’
3c. Travelling
Objects and the Creation of Nation (Great Hall)
Chair: Charlotte
Mathieson (Warwick)
Ruth Scobie
(York)
‘‘[O]ver the whole featherd Race’: Patronage, the Pacific, and
William Cowper’s ‘On Mrs Montagu's Feather Hangings’’
Maria Grazia Messore (Cassino)
‘Travel in Transformation: a New and Unusual
Grand Tour in Daniel Defoe’s Literary Production’
Emalee Beddoes
(Birmingham)
‘‘Pure, Strong and delicious’:
Advertising and Tea as an Emblem of Britishness in the Late Nineteenth-Century’
Fariha
Shaikh (Kings College London)
‘Spatial Transformation in Emigration Literature’
11.00-11.30 Tea
& Coffee (Great Hall)
11.30-1.00 Panel
4
4a. Transforming
Texts (Room 207)
Chair: Sarah Lill (Northumbria)
Mildrid
Bjerke (York)
‘Interested Disinterest: The Development of the Literature
Study Guide’
Danielle
McDonnell (Northumbria)
‘Law, Libel and The London
Gazette: Literature’s Role in Law Enforcement, 1670-1690’
Simon Cooper (Newcastle)
‘Erskine Caldwell’s fine art
of standing still: The Bastard as art
object bastardized’
4b. Paper in Process (Great Hall)
Chair: Kate Katigbak
(Durham)
Claire Friend (Edinburgh)
‘Rag-Grubbers to Rich Men,
Making Paper in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh’
Eugenia Gonzalez
(Ohio State)
‘The Work of Fairies: Deconstruction and Imagination in Victorian
Narratives of Doll Production’
Katie McGettigan (Keele)
‘Transforming the Book:
Material Metaphors and the Literary Marketplace in Moby-Dick’
4c. Influence,
Objects, and the Significance of Choice (Room 205)
Chair: Helen Williams
(Northumbria)
Jenny Doussan (Goldsmiths)
‘Intentionality
and Objecthood: Agamben meets Brentano’
Mark Nixon
(Edinburgh)
‘Material and ideal adaptation, and the material culture of
19th-century reform politics’
Penny Grennan (Northumbria)
‘A Journey Around My Life. What is the Narrative of Origins?’
1.00-2.00 Lunch (204)
2.00-3.30 Roundtable
(Great Hall)
Chair: Lucinda Matthews-Jones (Liverpool John Moores)
Single- and
Multi-Author Blogging Models
Participants: Martin Paul Eve (Sussex), Kieran Fenby-Hulse
(Bradford), Charlotte Mathieson (Warwick), and James Mussell (Birmingham).
3.30-4.00 Tea
& Coffee (Great Hall)
4.00-5.15 Keynote (Great
Hall)
Sarah Haggarty (Newcastle), 'Transforming Time: Cowper, Correspondence, and Chronometry'
Chair: Anna Hope
5.15 Thanks &
Wine Reception
