English & Comparative Literary Studies - Events Calendar
Thursday, June 05, 2014
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Print Culture and Gender in the British EmpireRamphal Building - rooms R0.03/4 and R0.14.PROGRAMME 9.30 – 10.00 Coffee and welcome 10.00 – 11.00 Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound), ‘Out of Place: At Home in the Provinces’ 11.00 – 11.15 Break 11.15 – 12.45 Gender, Print Culture and Fiction (Chair: Madhumita Lahiri) Ashok Malhotra (University of 糖心TV), ‘Illustrating the Patriarchal Rescue Mission in Kegan Paul & Co.’s Reprints of Philip Meadows Taylor’s novels’ Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (University of Oxford), ‘Print-Objects and the Making of Colonial Intimacy in Tagore’s Nashtanir‘ Melissa Free (Arizona State University), ‘”The Odds Have Been Against Her”: British Women, Rhodesian Immigration, and the Empire Review Articles of Gertrude Page’ 12.45 – 2.00 Lunch 2.00 – 3.30 Maculinities and Femininities across Imperial Networks (Chair: Kirsty Hooper) Caroline Bressey (University College London), ‘”To speak with rather than to”: Catherine Impey, networks of newsprint and the political geographies of Anti-Caste, 1888-1895′ Paul Rooney (National University of Ireland), ‘Pillars of the Empire in Home News: Forging Models of Imperial Masculinity in the 1870s Steamship Press in British India’ Melissa Riebe (University of Missouri-Kansas City), ‘A Women’s Empire: Public Discourse on Sailors’ Wives across the Anglophone Atlantic World’ 3.30 – 3.45 Break 3.45 – 5.15 Womanhood, Correspondence, and the Periodical Press (Chair: tbc) Sarah Gundry (King’s College, London), ‘The Cape Monthly Magazine and the South African Ladies’ Companion: Tracing the Representation of Gender in the Cape Colony’ Teja Varma Pusapati (University of Oxford), ‘Colonizing through Correspondence: Harriet Martineau’s Letters from Ireland’ Shuhita Bhattacharjee (University of Iowa & Presidency University, India), ‘The Gender of Doubt and Womanly Faith: Victorian Religion, Occult, and Unbelief in the Colonial Press’ 5.15 – 6.15 Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College), ‘The Aesthete and the Babu: Affect on Trial in Late-Imperial Britain’ 6.15 – 6.30 Closing remarks 6.30 Wine reception Conference fees - £10 waged and £5 students and unwaged To register, please fill out the form at: Spaces are limited, so please register by 1 June 2014, if possible. |
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This is a free and open-to-all event! We have a full schedule ahead of us for Term 3. Check out the webpage for further details! Come along to the Writer's Room in Millburn House from 1:30-2:30 (unless specified on the webpage)! |