FORM ACROSS LITERATURE AND THE SCIENCES in Nineteenth century Britain
May 3 through May 5, 2018
Convened by Ian Duncan, Department of English, University of California, Berkeley
and Nathalie Vanfasse, Department of English, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université
Thursday, May 3 6pm Wheeler 330 |
Opening reception, introductions, and dinner
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Friday, May 4
9:30 – 11:00 am Wheeler 300
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Conference papers, Session I Kévin Cristin, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, “Science, Technology and Stevenson’s Kinetic Imagination” Imogen Forbes-Macphail, UC Berkeley, “Topology and Literary Form” Nathalie Vanfasse, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, “Victorian Visual Technologies and Literary Form: The Mechanism of the Diorama in Dickens’s Pictures from Italy” Veronica Mittnacht, UC Berkeley, moderator |
11:00 am – 11:20 am Wheeler 330 | Discussion and coffee |
11:20 am – 1:00 pm
Wheeler 300 |
Readings in Victorian Texts
Anaïs Martin, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, “Sound Modernity in Dracula” and Chapter 17 of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Myriam Ardoin, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, G.K. Chesterton’s “The Mistake of the Machine” (The Wisdom of Father Brown) and “Some Aspects of Machinery” (The Outline of Sanity) Imogen Forbes-Macphail, James Joseph Sylvester’s The Laws of Verse, “Preface” and “Inaugural Address” |
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Wheeler 330 | Lunch |
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm Wheeler 300
3:00 pm (break) |
Workshop: Precirculated Papers
Grace Lavery, UC Berkeley, “Ugly Realism: Gender Dysphoria and the Rhetoric of Technique in Eliot and Freud” Fanny Robles, LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université, “Dickens and His Urban Museum” |
4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Wheeler 300 | Discussion of Aix-Berkeley website |
6:00 pm | Dinner at Revival Bar and Kitchen, 2102 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley CA |
Saturday, May 5
9:30 – 11:00 am Wheeler 300
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Conference papers, Session II
Myriam Ardoin, “Detection vs. Criminology: Thinking Patterns in G. K. Chesterton’s Father Brown Stories” Katharine Hobbs, UC Berkeley, “Sensation and Feminine Musical Agency in Jessie Fothergill’s The First Violin” Anaïs Martin, “From Phonograph to Podcast: Transmediating Dracula into Contemporary French Radio Drama” Laura Ritland, UC Berkeley, moderator |
11:00 am – 11:20 am Wheeler 330 | Discussion and coffee |
11:20 am – 1:20 pm
Wheeler 300 |
Current Work in Victorian Studies
Character, Emma Eisenberg and Rudi Yniguez, UC Berkeley Literature and Photography, Kévin Cristin Literature and Science in France and Quebec, Fanny Robles Religion, Jessica Ling, UC Berkeley Economics and Literature, Nathalie Vanfasse Literature and Life Sciences, Ian Duncan |
1:20 pm – 3 pm
Wheeler 330 |
Lunch and discussion on the future of Aix-Berkeley |