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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 ÌÇÐÄTV), ‘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

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Spaces are limited, so please register by 1 June 2014, if possible.