| Wednesday,
July 9 |
Displaying the Past, Displaying the Modern
- 9:00 – 10:30
David Skilton, Cardiff University
Inscribing the Past on the Streets of London
Karen Chase and Michael Levenson, University of Virginia
Where to Breathe in Gissing’s London
Elizabeth Outka, University of the South
No Purchase Necessary: Selfridge’s Advertising Campaign and Modernist
Victorianism |
Reading the Great Exhibition - 10:45 – 12:15
Jim Buzard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Conflicting Cartographies: the Crystal Palace Floor Plan
Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University
Rhetorical Remedies for Taxonomic Troubles: Reading the Great Exhibition
Joe Childers, University of California, Riverside
The Empire Looks Back: Colonials and Exhibitions |
Relics, Ruins, and Antiquity - 1:45 – 3:15
Thomas Prasch, Washburn University
Visions of an Unscraped City: Morris, London, and the Anti-Scrape Movement
Virginia Zimmerman, Bucknell University
Among the Ruins: Dickens, Archaeology, and Accumulation
Andy Stauffer, Boston University
Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Mistaking of Assyria |
| Thursday,
July 10 |
Spaces of Waste and Cleansing - 9:00
– 10:30
Anne Humphreys, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Waste Management: Sifting and Sorting in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual
Friend
Clare Horrocks, Liverpool John Moores University
Sewage and Slaughterhouses: Smithfield Market and the Public Health
Campaign
Malcolm Shifrin, Victorian Turkish Bath Project
“Semi-Success” in London: David Urquhart, the London &
Provincial Turkish Bath Co Ltd, and the London Hammam |
| Jews of East London - 10:45 –
12:15
Frank Lauterbach, Georg-August University
The Urban Networks of the Jewish East End in Oliver Twist and Children
of the Ghetto
Seth Koven, Villanova University
Converting East London: Jews and Salvationists in Harkness’s Slum
Narratives
Heidi Holder, Central Michigan University
Staging the Jews of East London |
| City of Danger and Delight - 2:00
– 3:00
Anna Gruetzner-Robins, University of Reading
Mapping the Ripper
Morris Kaplan, State University of New York, Purchase
Feasting with Panthers: Wilde in Wonderland |
| Reading London 2003: Archivists Discuss
their Collections - 3:15 – 4:30
Participants TBA |