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All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater unless otherwise indicated
Morning Session
8:45 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Welcome
Mario DiGangi
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Morning Moderator: Carolyn Vellenga Berman, The New School
Boyhood Spectacles
Jenny Holt
Meiji University, Tokyo
“Stolen Boyhoods: Reappraising Charles Kingsley’s Role in the Chimney Sweeper Campaign”
Oliver Buckton
Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
“The White Boy’s Burden: Kipling’s Kim and the Recruitment of the Imperial Spy”
Discussion and Break
Boy Friends
Jongwoo Jeremy Kim
University of Louisville
“Boys and Pictorial Longing: Henry Scott Tuke”
Karen Bourrier
Boston University
“Tom Tulliver’s Schooldays”
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
Afternoon Session
2:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Afternoon Moderator: Natalka Freeland, The New School
Boys Forever
Pamela Thurschwell
University of Sussex
“Fighting Father Time: Jude the Obscure and Modern Adolescence”
Claudia Nelson
Texas A&M University
“Victorian Boyhood Continued: The Victorian ‘Child-Man'”
Discussion and Break
Finding Fathers
Kelly Hager
Simmons College
“Consider Yourself My Dad: Victorian Boys and the Construction of Family”
Keynote Address:
U.C. Knoepflmacher
Princeton University
“From Boyhood to Adolescence: Robert Browning and Mark Twain as Rudyard Kipling’s Literary Models”
Reception
6:00 P.M.
English Common Space, Room 4406