Print Culture and New Media: Conference Program

Conference Program

Thursday, October 27, 2005
Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue (580 West Hastings Street), Asia Pacific Hall


4:00 – 6:00 p.m.	REGISTRATION AND RECEPTION
7:00 – 8:30 p.m.	OPENING ADDRESS W.J.T. Mitchell (University of Chicago) “Addressing Media, or Why We Shout at the Television Set”

Friday, October 28, 2005
SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street): Theatre 1700


8:45 a.m. .	WELCOME
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.	PANEL: THE IDEAL BOOK Sponsored by SFU’s 40th Anniversary Celebrations Vanessa Warne (University of Manitoba) “Embossed Scripts: Bookmaking and Blind Readers in Victorian Britain” Carmen Ellison (University of Alberta) “’Written upon a fly leaf’: Queen Victoria’s First Poet Laureate and the Politics of Poetic Privacy” Charles Pierre La Porte (Vanderbilt University) “Victorian Poets and the Reproduction Of the Bible”
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 p.m.	PANEL: MEDIA GEOGRAPHIES Cecily Devereux (University of Alberta) “The Graphics of Empire: Occidentalizing Book Art in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries” Grace Kehler (McMaster University) “The Victorian Garden Book: Re-Presenting Nature-Culture Relations” Suzanne Nunn (Cornwall College) “Picturing the Sewers: London Main Drainage and the Illustrated London News”
12:15 – 1:30 p.m.	CATERED LUNCH
1:30 – 2:45 p.m.	PLENARY: VISUAL MEDIA Juliet McMaster (University of Alberta) "Sambourne, Punch, and the Royal Academy”
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.	COFFEE BREAK
3:00 – 4:00 p.m.	PANEL: NEW MEN AND NEW MEDIA Christopher Kent (University of Saskatchewan) “Addressing the Victorian Gentleman: Body Politics in The Tailor and Cutter” Pamela Dalziel (University of British Columbia) “Images, Icons, and Celebrities: Hardy’s New Men and (Not-So-) New Women from Print to Film”
4:00 – 4:30 p.m.	COFFEE BREAK
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER Yopie Prins (University of Michigan) "Robert Browning, Transported by Meter"
6:30 – 9:30 p.m.	BANQUET SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street): Segal Centre Room 1400

Saturday, October 29, 2005
SFU Harbour Centre (515 West Hastings Street): Theatre 1700


8:45 – 9:00 a.m.	EARLY MORNING COFFEE
9:00 – 10:30 a.m.	KEYNOTE SPEAKER David Finkelstein (Queen Margaret University College) “Print Culture, New Media, and the Communication Revolution”
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK
10:45 – 12:15 p.m.	PANEL: PRINT AND PUBLIC OPINION Stephen Donovan (Blekinge Institute of Technology) "Alfred Harmsworth and the Story of Today: Fiction and the Newspaper in Britain, 188-1920” Monica Flegel (University of Alberta) “’Fact and their Meaning’: the NSPCC and the Emergence of Casework in the Late Nineteenth-Century England” Lisa Surridge (University of Victoria) “’Strange Revelations’: The Divorce Court, the Newspaper, and The Woman in White”
12:15 – 1:45 p.m.	CATERED LUNCH and VSAWC Annual General Meeting
1:45– 3:15 p.m.	PANEL: POPULAR PRESS AND POPULAR CULTURE Ellen L. O’Brien (Roosevelt University) “Broadside Ballads and the Poetics of Everyday Life” Rob Breton (University of British Columbia) “Sensation Writing and the Development of a Chartist Aesthetic” Nadja Durbach (University of Utah) “The Missing Link and the Hairy Belle: Print Culture and the Victorian Freakshow”
3:15– 3:30 p.m.	COFFEE BREAK
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.	PANEL: NOVEL PRINT AT THE FIN DE SIECLE Clarissa J. Suranyi (University of Western Ontario) “Detecting the Typewriter: Tools of Crime and Double Agents in the Fiction of Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, and Tom Gallon” Stefania Forlini (Simon Fraser University) “Arthur Machen’s Books and Other Objects: Exploring Decadent Gothic Artifice” Kirsten MacLeod (University of Alberta) “Between the Triple-Decker and the Modernist Novel: Decadence and the Transformation of the British Novel in the Age of Mass Print”