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The Nineteenth Century Reproductions Symposium is a year-long interdisciplinary examination of early ideas about forms of reproduction. All events are free and open to the public. For more information, contact reproductions@temple.edu.
All events take place in the Weigley Room, Gladfelter 914, and begin at 4:00 p.m.
LIGHT: October 5, 2006
This panel considers reproductions of light from two distinct perspectives: a literary critic discusses early photographic attempts to capture light by illumination, and a historian of science looks at the physics of light in scientific theory.
- Kate Flint (English, Rutgers University) - “‘Apparatus of the Dark’: Shock, Surprise, and Illumination in the Nineteenth Century”
- Chris Otter (History, New York University) - “Patterns of Perception: Light, Vision, and Power in the Nineteenth Century”
- Respondent: Alan Trachtenberg (English and American Studies, Yale University)
- Moderator: Miles Orvell (English, Temple University)
EVOLUTION: November 16, 2006
In this panel, two literary critics consider the reproduction of generations in writing on evolution, and a historian of anthropology responds to their claims about Darwin, Spencer, and Dickens.
- Nancy Armstrong (Comparative Literature, English, and Modern Culture & Media, Brown University) - "The Gothic Darwin"
- Jay Clayton (English, Vanderbilt University) - "Victorian Chimeras and Contemporary Genetics; or, What Thomas Huxley and H. G. Wells Have to Do with Public Policy Today"
- Respondent: John Tresch (History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania)
- Moderator: Kathy Biddick (History, Temple University)
BIRTH: February 15, 2007
- Rachel Fuchs (History, Arizona State University) - "'If you make the child, you feed it:' Paternal Responsibility in Nineteenth-Century France"
- Kathy Psomiades (English, Duke University) -
"The Victorian Separation of Sex and Reproduction"
- Respondent: Sally Mitchell (English, Temple University)
- Moderator:
Julia A. Ericksen (Sociology, Temple University)
Graduate Student Conference: February 24, 2007
PERFORMANCE: March 29, 2007
- Jonathan Rose (History, Drew University) - “On the Stage of History: The Performative Politics of Winston Churchill"
- Alison Winter (History, University of Chicago) - "
Sciences of influence, bodily circuits, and the nineteenth-century orchestral conductor"
- Respondent: Deirdre David (English, Temple University)
- Moderator:
Priya Joshi (English, Temple University)
The 19th Century Reproductions Symposium is sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple and the Nineteenth Century Forum. Conference organizers are Peter Logan and Elizabeth Varon. For more information, please contact reproductions@temple.edu. A conference flyer is also available.
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