Graduate Student Conference: February 24, 2007

Weigley Room, Gladfelter 914

Registration – 9 to 9:30

Vision – 9:30 to 11

• Michelle Foa (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) – “Reproducing Sight/Site: Monet, Seurat, and the Landscape Series”
• Vanessa Meikle (Visual Studies, University of California at Irvine) – “Envisioning a Future Nation: Thomas Moran and Portrayals of American Industry in Late Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture”
• Dorothy Moss (Art History, University of Delaware) – “The Copy on Campus: Reading Photographs of Art at Harvard and Smith, ca. 1900”

Labor – 11 to 12:30

• John Cords (English, University of Michigan) – “Labor, Liberation, and William Blake’s The Four Zoas”
• Natalie Ford (English, University of York) – “Birthing Ideas: The Generative Stage of Reverie in Bulwer Lytton’s Caxtoniana”
• Katharine Wrobel (English, York University) – “The Whore, the Nun and the Sexual Politics of Non-Reproduction”

Lunch – 12:30 to 1:30

Keynote Address – 1:30 to 3

• Nancy Cott (History, Harvard University) – “The Moderns’ Victorians: How the 1920s Reproduced the Nineteenth Century” (Introduction by Carolyn Adams, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts)

Place – 3 to 4:30

• Ryan Edgington (History, Temple University) – “Wild Western Scenes: Reproducing the American West in Philadelphia, 1870-1910”
• Richard Gienope (English, Temple University) – “George Lippard and The Quaker City: Reproducing Fact as Fiction”

Reception – 4:30 to 5