Victorian Clichés and Orthodoxies The Northeast Victorian Studies Association Columbia University in the City of New York April 13-15, 2012 All panels will take place in the Auditorium of the Northwest Corner Building (5th Floor), 550 W. 120th St.

Friday, April 13 2:00-4:30 PM Registration (hallway outside the Northwest Corner Building Auditorium) 3:15 PM Welcome 3:30-5:00 PM Eminent Victorianist Clichés: Jonathan Loesberg (American U), Moderator

• Justin Sider (Yale U), “‘I am fragments’: Matthew Arnold and the Failure of Poetry”

• Cara Murray (U of Houston, Downtown), “Self-Help and the Helpless Subject” • Aeron Hunt (U of New Mexico), “Methodological Orthodoxies and the Business

of Victorian Character” • Aaron Matz (Scripps College), “Hardy and the Vanity of Procreation”

5:00-7:00 PM Welcome Reception (Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 6th Floor, Butler Library) 7:00-9:00 PM Optional small-group dinner off campus (Please sign up on registration form.) Saturday, April 14 Book Exhibit (hallway outside the Auditorium) 8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (hallway outside the Auditorium) 9:00-10:45 AM Keynote Panel: Seth Koven (Rutgers U), Moderator

• Nicholas Dames (Columbia U) • Yopie Prins (U of Michigan) • James A. Secord (U of Cambridge)

10:45-11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM-12:30 PM Theorizing Cliché and Orthodoxy: Anna Henchman (Boston U), Moderator

• Barbara Leckie (Carleton U), “Opinion and Doxa: The ‘Sanitary Idea’ in the 1850s”

• David Russell (Harvard U), “Two Versions of Heresy” • Jordan Bear (U of Toronto), “Standard Views: The Referential Logic of Victorian

Photographic Clichés” 12:45-2:30 PM Lunch (Heyman Center for the Humanities, Common Room) The Saturday lunch, a long-standing tradition, is a convivial event at which

topics are proposed and voted on for the following year. 2:45-4:15 PM Victorian Cultural Clichés: Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College), Moderator

• Erika Behrisch Elce (Collège militaire royale du Canada), “Dispelling the ‘terrible shadow’: Sir John Franklin, Cannibalism, and Reclaiming Arctic Heroism through Cultural Cliché”

• Richard Bonfliglio (Sogang U, Korea), “The Lady before the Lamp: Nightingale Iconography in the Geopolitical Aesthetic”

• Joseph Lavery (U of Pennsylvania), “Wealth and Life Revisited: the Biopolitics of the Tokyo Ruskin Library”

4:15-4:30 PM Coffee Break 4:30-6:00 PM Social and Ethical Orthodoxies: Eddy Kent (U of Alberta), Moderator

• Gregory Vargo (City College of New York), “Can a Social Problem Speak? Or, the Other Nation Reviews Its Condition”

• Sarah Maurer (U of Notre Dame), “Caring for Strangers: The Sketch Writer and the Parish Visitor”

• Matthew Sussman (Harvard U), “De-Moralizing Victorian Moralism”

6:30-9:00 PM Dinner Banquet (Pisticci, 125 La Salle Street, between Broadway and Claremont)

9:30 PM Postprandial Potations (meet for a drink at Le Monde, 2885 Broadway, between 112th and 113th Streets)

Sunday, April 15 8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00-10:30 AM Clichés in Language and Literature: Jason Rudy (U of Maryland), Moderator

• Danny Wright (Columbia U), “Engaged, Therefore Engaged: Bad Logic in The Egoist”

• Veronica Alfano (Indiana U), “‘Others, I am not the first’: A. E. Housman’s Self-Censoring Clichés”

• Sarah Weaver (Cambridge U), “Victorian Philology and the Problem of ‘long familiar use’ in the English Language”

10:30-10:45 AM Coffee Break 10:45 AM -12:15 PM Adventures in Orthodoxy: Sarah Balkin (Rutgers U), Moderator

• Louetta Hurst (Rutgers U), “Dismissing All That: Carlyle on the Quran” • Michelle Boswell (U of Maryland), “An Unconventional Scientific Pedagogy in

Margaret Gatty’s Parables from Nature” • Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State U), “‘The Infinite within the Finite’: Victorian

Prosody and Orthodox Theories of Mind” 12:15-1:00 PM Conference Wrap-Up

• James Eli Adams (Columbia U) • Anne Humpherys (CUNY Graduate Center)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Columbia University is most easily accessed by subway (#1 train to 116th Street). For a map of the campus, see http://www.columbia.edu/about_columbia/map/. Rooms are available at Aloft Harlem, within walking distance of campus (2296 Frederick Douglass Boulevard @ 124th Street). The conference rate is $199 and is guaranteed for reservations made by April 1; the rate will be applicable for April 12 to April 16. Call 1-866-921-2995 or 212-749-4000 and mention “NVSA” to make your reservation, or go to http://www.starwoodmeeting.com/Book/NVSA.

PLEASE BOOK EARLY.

The conference website is http://nvsa2012.wordpress.com/.

NVSA’s website is http://www.nvsa.org/.

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REGISTRATION Return completed registration by March 15 to: Eileen Gillooly, Heyman Center for the Humanities, 2960 Broadway, MC: 5700, New York, NY 10027. Please direct all questions to Eileen Gillooly (eg48@columbia.edu). __ $85 Members __ $100 Non-members __ $50 Student members __ $15 NVSA dues __ $10 NVSA student dues

__ $25 Lunch, faculty __ $15 Lunch, students __ $60 Banquet, faculty __ $45 Banquet, students

* Please note that due to space constraints banquet attendance is limited to the first fifty attendees to send payment.

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