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All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater unless otherwise indicated
Morning Session
9:00 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Welcome
Mario DiGangi
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Moderator: Nicholas Birns, The New School
Victorians Abroad
David Pike
American University, Washington, D.C.
“The World Street and the Victorian City”
William Cohen
University of Maryland, College Park
“Dickens’s French: Or, a Tale of Two Cities”
Discussion and Break
Dickensian Urbanity
Matthew Beaumont
University College London
“The Old Cupiosity Shape: Dickens and the Nocturnal City”
Julian Wolfreys
Loughborough University, Leicestershire UK
“Quiet: Towards a Phenomenology of Urban Perception in Dickens”
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
Afternoon Session
2:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Moderator: Annmarie Drury, Queens College, CUNY
Urban Beauty, Urban Sublime
Michelle Allen-Emerson
U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis
Urban Growth: Gardening in the Late Victorian City
Nancy Rose Marshall
University of Wisconsin-Madison
“‘This Horrid Grandeur’: Imagining Fire in the Victorian World”
Discussion and Break
Cities of Delight
Deborah Nord
Princeton University
“Night and Day: Illusion and Carnivalesque at Vauxhall”
Keynote Address:
Judith Walkowitz
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
“The Victorians and Literary Geography”
Reception
6:00 P.M.
English Common Space, Room 4406