2006 Conference Committee Our Generous Sponsors Dino Franco Felluga, Main Organizer Provost’s Office, Purdue U Emily Allen, Co-Organizer College of Liberal Arts, Purdue U Purdue University Libraries NASSR VETTING COMMITTEE English Dept., Purdue U Geraldine Friedman (Co-Chair) History Dept., Purdue U Arkady Plotnitsky (Co-Chair) Philosophy & Literature Program, Purdue U Beate Allert Art History, Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue U Dino Franco Felluga Theater, Visual & Performing Arts, Purdue U Jason Goldsmith French, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Purdue U German, Foreign Languages & Literatures, Purdue U NASSR EXECUTIVE COUNCIL LIAISONS Comparative Literature Program, Purdue U Jan Plug Tilottama Rajan and NAVSA VETTING COMMITTEE English Dept., Butler U Emily Allen (Chair) English Dept., Indiana U Tom Broden Victorian Studies Program, Indiana U Dino Franco Felluga Indiana U Press Andrew Miller English Dept., Loyola U, Chicago Chris Vanden Bossche English Dept., Michigan State U Whitney Walton English Dept., Northwestern U Theater Dept., Northwestern U PURDUE CONFERENCE SERVICES English Dept., U of Chicago Kathryn R. Walters, Conference Coordinator English Dept., U of Illinois, Chicago Lisa Peters, Assistant Coordinator English Dept., U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign History Dept., U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign GRADUATE-STUDENT ASSISTANT English Dept., U of Chicago Julie Barst College of Arts & Sciences, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign English Dept., U of Iowa GRADUATE-STUDENT VOLUNTEERS English Dept., U of Michigan Erin Chamberlain College of Arts & Letters, U of Notre Dame Oana Chivoiu Tracy Collins Kristi Embry Martin Fashbaugh Laura Kealey Laura Stef-Praun April Toadvine Special Thanks to: Provost Sally Frost Mason, Purdue Former Dean of Liberal Arts, Toby Parcel, Purdue Current Dean of Liberal Arts, John Contreni, Purdue Dean of Purdue U Libraries, James Mullins, Purdue English Department Head, Irwin Weiser, Purdue History Department Head, R. Douglas Hurt, Purdue Jason Goldsmith, English, Butler U Andrew Miller, Indiana U Steven Jones and Frank Fennel Jr., English, Loyola U, Chicago Alfred Goodson and Patrick O’Donnell, Michigan State U Tracy Davis and Christopher Lane, Northwestern U Elaine Hadley and Bill Brown, U of Chicago Mark Canuel, English, U of Chicago, Illinois Lauren Goodlad, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Teresa Mangum and Garrett Stewart, U of Iowa Adela Pinch, Yopie Prins, and Sidonie Smith, U of Michigan Chris Vanden Bossche, U of Notre Dame NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF ROMANTICISM/ NORTH AMERICAN VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 31 August - 3 September 2006 Event Schedule THURSDAY, AUGUST 31ST 8am – 4:30pm Registration East Foyer, 1st Floor, STEW Pre-conference workshops: 9:00 – 3:30pm - Electronic Scholarship STEW 218A th 9:00 – 5:00pm - 19 -Century Theater Fowler Hall, 1st Floor, STEW 2:00 – 5:00pm Book Fair STEW 302/306 2:00 – 3:30pm Session I - Romantic Historicism STEW 218C/D - Explorations STEW 202 - Erasmus Darwin and the Life Sciences I STEW 214A - Romanticism and the Ethics of Knowledge I STEW 206 - Knowing Your Place I: 19th-Century India STEW 322 - Letitia Landon and Her Circle STEW 318 - Queens and Queenliness in the 19th Century STEW 314 - Beating the Mother’s Breast STEW 320 - The Revolutionary French Connection STEW 214C/D - Professionalizing the Literary STEW 311 - Knowing Things I: Preserving and Collecting STEW 310 3:30 – 4:00pm Refreshment Break STEW 302/306 4:00 – 5:30pm Special Lecture: - Rosemary Lloyd, “‘Pour l'enfant amoureux de cartes et d'estampes': Drawing the Lay Reader into the Natural Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France” (STEW 322) 4:00 – 5:30pm Session II - Erasmus Darwin and the Life Sciences STEW 214A - Romanticism and Social Critique Beyond Britain STEW 218C/D - Gender in the Work of Percy and Mary Shelley STEW 214C/D - Knowledge and Technique in Byron STEW 202 - Romanticism and the Ethics of Knowledge II STEW 206 - Missionary Positions STEW 311 - Romantic and Victorian Anti-Sociability STEW 313 - Knowing Your Place II: The Latin 19th Century STEW 320 - Voicing STEW 314 - Disability and Representation STEW 318 - Politics and the State STEW 310 5:30pm Opening Reception & Cash Bar North Ballroom, PMU 6:30pm Buffet Dinner Memorial Mall 8:00pm Opening Plenary: - Catherine Gallagher, Fowler Hall, STEW “Slave Trade Suppression and Narratives of Undoing in the Atlantic” FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST 8:00 – 4:30pm Registration East Foyer, 1st Floor, STEW 7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast STEW 302/306 8:00 – 5:00pm Book Fair STEW 302/306 8:30 – 10:00am Session III - Keats and Knowledge STEW 214A - Erasmus Darwin Redux STEW 318 - General Ludd, Captain Swing, & Their Legacies STEW 311 - Overtures to Photography I STEW 206 - Exploration and Epistemology STEW 202 - Lyric Power STEW 214C/D - Tropicopolitics STEW 320 - Writing and Performing Slavery STEW 218C/D - Theology and Sympathy in the Brownings STEW 313 - Epistemology and Fiction STEW 314 - George Eliot and the Stage STEW 310 - Trauma, Memory, and Mimesis STEW 322 10:00 – 10:30am Refreshment Break STEW 302/306 10:30 – 12:00pm Session IV - Romanticism and Natural History STEW 218C/D - Overtures to Photography II STEW 206 - The Art and Science of Acting STEW 202 - Science and Language in Kleist and Novalis STEW 214A - Scientia of Evolution, Evolution of Scientia I STEW 214C/D - Knowing Your Place III: East of England STEW 311 - The Scale of Music STEW 318 - Fraud! STEW 314 - Psyche Analysis STEW 313 - Eliot’s Bodies STEW 322 - Rise of the Machines STEW 310 - Technical Difficulties: Reading the Paratext STEW 320 12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch – Boxed Lunches STEW 302/306 12:00 – 1:30pm NASSR EC/AB Meeting Lafayette Room, PMU 230 1:30 – 3:00pm Workshops - Booth see your name badge - Clark see your name badge - Codell see your name badge - Gilmartin see your name badge - Hadley see your name badge - Henderson see your name badge - Klancher see your name badge - Kucich see your name badge - Lane see your name badge - Langan see your name badge - Lynch see your name badge - McDayter see your name badge - Miller see your name badge - O’Quinn see your name badge 3:00 – 3:30pm Refreshment Break STEW 302/306 3:30 – 5:00pm Session V - Interdisciplinarity & the Body I STEW 310 - Scientia and the Techne of Aestheticism STEW 311 - Knowledge and Technique in Coleridge STEW 214A - Knowing Your Place IV: Ireland STEW 318 - Man and/as Machine STEW 202 - Romantic Performance STEW 206 - Scientia of Evolution, Evolution of Scientia II STEW 313 - Know Thyself! The Autobiographical Imperative STEW 320 - Feeling Colonial STEW 322 - Understanding Space: Geography and Landscape STEW 314 - The Art of Science STEW 214C/D - The Politics of Poetry STEW 218C/D 6:00 – 8:00pm Dinner at Maize Catering in Downtown Lafayette 625 Columbia Street 8:00pm Films, Frankenstein and Nosferatu Long Center, Lafayette 111 North 6th Street SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2ND 7:30 – 5:00pm Registration unclaimed badges in STEW 302/306 7:30 – 8:30am Continental Breakfast STEW 302/306 8:00 – 5:00pm Book Fair STEW 302/306 8:30 – 10:00am Session VI - Romantic Pleasures and Perversions STEW 202 - Aesthetics and Science I: Life & Earth Sciences STEW 206 - Governmentality STEW 218C/D - Melodramatic Politics STEW 214C/D - Knowing Your Place V: Scot(t)land STEW 214A - The Social Lives of Victorian Paintings I STEW 313 - Constituting Belief: Religion in the 19th Century STEW 311 - Evolutionary Temporalities I STEW 322 - The Inimitable I STEW 318 - Medicine, Professionalization, & the Social Body STEW 204 - The Evolution of the Gothic I STEW 320 - Victorian Empires & the Global Consumer STEW 310 - Down With Class STEW 314 10:00 – 10:30am Refreshment Break STEW 302/306 10:30 – 12:00pm Session VII - Malthus and Romantic Economy as Knowledge STEW 204 - Interdisciplinarity and the Body II STEW 202 - The Animal/Human Divide STEW 218C/D - Aesthetics and Science II: Sciences of Perception STEW 206 - The Evolution of the Gothic II STEW 214C/D - The Ethical Turn I: Ethics and Exchange STEW 320 - Novel Feelings STEW 318 - Evolutionary Temporalities II STEW 214A - The Inimitable II STEW 311 - The Social Lives of Victorian Paintings II STEW 313 - Victorian Internationalisms I: Cosmopolitan Genres STEW 314 - Gender and the Exchange of the Imperial Object STEW 310 - Before Trauma STEW 322 12:00 – 1:30pm Lunch: Boxed Lunch STEW 302/306 1:30 – 3:00pm Seminars - Barringer see your name badge - Bewell see your name badge - Chambers see your name badge - Davis see your name badge - Favret see your name badge - Gagnier see your name badge - Hofkosh see your name badge - Morton see your name badge - Pascoe see your name badge - Pfau see your name badge - Pinch see your name badge - Prins see your name badge - Stone see your name badge - Wiener see your name badge 3:00 – 3:30pm Refreshment Break STEW 302/306 3:00 – 5:00pm NAVSA EC/AB Meeting Lafayette Room, PMU 230 3:30 – 5:00pm Session VIII - Romanticism, Ethics, and the Law STEW 318 - The Ethical Turn II STEW 320 - Romanticism and Translation STEW 214A - Sciences of the Romantic Psyche STEW 206 - Crises and their Religious Consequences STEW 202 - Seeing Fiction STEW 313 - Interdisciplinarity and the Body III STEW 310 - Victorian Internationalisms II: Aestheticisms STEW 214C/D - Architechne: The Craft and Politics of Architecture STEW 314 - Encoding and Knowing Perversion STEW 322 - George Eliot and homo economicus STEW 218C/D - The Constitution of Disciplines and Terms STEW 204 - Picturing Poets STEW 311 5:00 – 5:30pm Cash Bar North