
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