Workshop of the “Technologies, Media, and Representations in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France” group
Schedule:
Thursday 11 September 2008
Concordia University – room LB646
(1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West; Metro Guy-Concordia)
4.30pm-6pm Plenary Lecture (Chair: Jon Sachs, Concordia University)
- Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario): ‘The Difficult Education of Shelley’s Triumph of Life’
Friday 12 September 2008
Université de Montréal – room C-8111
(3150 rue Jean Brillant; Metro Université de Montréal)
9.00am-9.30am – Welcome Remarks
9.30am-11am – Session 1(Chair: Monique Morgan, McGill University)
- Laura Mandell (Miami University): ‘Allegories of Computing: Romantic Literary Theory in a New Key’
- Natalie Huffels (McGill University): ‘Between a Shock and a Hard Place: The Woman in White and the Contradictory Doctrines of Associationism’
11am-11.30am – Coffee break
11.30am-1pm – Session 2 (Chair: Jason Camlot, Concordia University)
- Richard Taws (McGill University): ‘Obscuring Obsolescence in the Revolutionary Museum: François Barreau’s Eccentric Abstractions’
- Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal): ‘Moving from Print to Online Publishing: Staging a new World (Wide Web)’
1pm-2pm – Lunch
2pm-3.30pm – Session 3 (Chair: Mary Hunter, McGill University)
- Jessica Murphy (Université de Montréal): ‘The Transatlantic Gaze in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s The Octoroon’
- Tabitha Sparks (McGill University): ‘Family Practices: Doctors and Marriage in the Victorian Novel’
3.30pm-4pm Coffee break
4pm-5.30pm Plenary Lecture (Chair: Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Université de Montréal)
- Tom Crochunis (Shippensburg University): ‘The Scholarly Subject of Performance’
Organized by Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Monique Morgan, and Jason Camlot, who gratefully acknowledge the generous support of their respective departments and faculties, and the Centre de recherche sur l’intermédialité.
