All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater in the Graduate Center building unless otherwise indicated. Livestream available.

 

Moderator: Simon Reader (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

 

9:00-10:30AM    Martial Measures

 

Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College)

“War Scare”

 

Meredith Martin (Princeton University)

“Primitive Language”

 

10:30-10:45AM    Break

 

10:45-12:15PM    Aftermaths

 

Aeron Hunt (Boston College)

“The Domestic Front”

 

Lara Kriegel (Indiana University)

“Crimean Widows and the Wounds of War”

 

LUNCH (on your own)

12:15 – 2:15 P.M.

 

2:15-3:45PM    War and Peace

 

Holly Furneaux (Cardiff University)

“‘An Oasis of Peace Following and Preceding a Week’s Constant Fighting’: Truces and Feeling for/with the Enemy at Mafeking”

 

Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois at Chicago)

“Race War in the Age of Equipoise”

 

3:45-4:00PM    Break

 

4:00-5:30PM    Decentered Sovereignty

 

Anjuli Raza Kolb (Williams College)

“Mary Shelley and Viral Sovereignty”

 

Zarena Aslami (Michigan State University)

“Marginal Sovereignty: Victorian Afghanistan and the Poetics of Occupation”

 

RECEPTION

6:00 P.M.

English Department Lounge

Room 4406