Tuesday 16 July
Registration 9:30-10:00
Session 1. 10:00-11:15 The Dickens Crowd
Karen Chase & Michael Levenson (University of Virginia), “The Country Mouse and the City of Cats: Dickensian Age in ‘The Heart of Mid-London’”
Frank Lauterbach (Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen), “‘Alone in the coarse vulgar crowd’? Dickens’s Prisons and the Social Topography of Victorian London”
Coffee 11:15-11:30
Session 2. 11:30-1:00 Oriental Cities
Steve Dodd (School of Oriental and African Studies), “From Edo to Tokyo: Capital of Modern Japan”
Ross Forman (School of Oriental and African Studies), “Possession Point: Representing Hong Kong at the End of the Victorian Era”
Joe McLaughlin (Ohio University), “Old Japan and the Tower of London: A. B. Mitford’s Medievalism”
Lunch 1:00-2:00
Session 3. 2:00-3:30 Digging the City
Gerhard Joseph (City University of New York), “Bleak House and the Compound Interest of London Mud”
Peter Hounsell, “‘Broken-backed under a heap of rubbish’: Perspectives on the Chiffonniers of Paris”
Virginia Zimmerman (Bucknell University), “No Place Like Rome: Urban Improvement and Archaeological Discovery in London and Barcelona”
Tea 3:30-3:45
Session 4. 3:45-5:00 London for Insiders
Michelle Allen (University of Virginia), “Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Interior London”
David Trotter (University College London), “Nineteenth-Century London and the Invention of Agoraphobia”
Wednesday 17 July
Session 1. 9:30-10:45 Monumental Visions
Martin Zerlang (University of Copenhagen), “New York Crystal Palace 1853: Form, Function, Reception, and a Few Words on its ‘Danish Connection’”
M.P.A. Sheaffer (Millersville University of Pennsylvania), “Otto Wagner’s Shaping Vision for a New City”
Coffee 10:45-11:00
Session 2. 11:00-12:30 Urban Technologies
John Picker (Harvard University), “‘Send Me Mr. Gladstone's Voice’: The Phonograph in Late Victorian London”
Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck College), “Passengers in London”
Lynda Nead (Birkbeck College), “Living London: The Metropolis on Film c.1900”
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Session 3. 1:30-3:00 Literary Transnationalism
Anne Humpherys (City University of New York), “Pickwick Abroad: G.W.M. Reynolds Writes Dickens and France”
Sara Hackenberg (Stanford University), “Painful Excitement: Exposé and the City in the Transatlantic Urban Mysteries Serial”
Mary Ellis Gibson (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), “The London/Calcutta Connection: Making Literary Annuals in Britain and Bengal”
Tea 3:00-3:15
Session 4. 3:15-4:30 Other Londons
Gregory Dart (University College London), “The Cockney Moment”
Morris Kaplan (Purchase College SUNY), “London as Pornotopia”