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19th-Century Anglo-American Conceptions of Space
March 19-22, 1998
A Conference on
19th-Century
Anglo-American
Conceptions of Space
at Rice
University
presented by the Rice Center
for the Study of Cultures and Trinity College
- Thursday,
March 19
- Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
3-5:00 PM Panel 1: TIME ZONES
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- Betty Joseph
- Rice University, Department of English
- "Colonial Chronotopes and the Breakdown of Origin"
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- Ussama Makdisi
- Rice University, Department of History
- "Reading the Ruins of Baalbek: Travel Writing and the Rise and
Fall of Empires"
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- David Lipscomb
- Columbia University, Department of English and Comparative
Literature
- "Peripheral Celts and Vanishing Americans: Mapping the Past
Away in the Historical Novel"
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- Jon Hegglund
- University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of
English
- "Maps on Film: The Politics of the Imperial Afterimage"
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5-6:00 PM Reception
6-7:30 PM Keynote Address:
"Erotic Geographies: Sex and the Managing of Colonial
Space"
- Philippa Levine
- University of Southern California, Department of History
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- Respondent: Paula Sanders
- Rice University, Department of History
Conference participants are free to make their own dinner
plans following the keynote address.
- Friday, March
20
- Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
9:30 AM Coffee
10:00 AM-12:00 PM Panel 2:
EXPLORATIONS
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- Susan Morgan
- Miami University, Department of English
- "Ada Pryer: Designing Woman, Designing British North Borneo"
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- Jeff Pardue
- DePaul University, Department of History
- "Armchair Geography and Imperialism: James MacQueen and the
Geography
- of Africa, 1820-1870"
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- Saree Makdisi
- University of Chicago, Department of English
- "Blake's Ungeographical 'America'"
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- Jules Law
- Northwestern University, Comparative Literary Studies
- "'I Was a Trade Product,' or, The Traffic in Leo: Marriage,
Translation, and Trade in She and Travels in West
Africa"
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12-1:00 PM Lunch
1:15-3:00 PM Keynote Address:
- "Jews in Space: Trollope and the Geography of
Assimilation"
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- Joseph Litvak
- Bowdoin College, Department of English
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- Respondent: Paul Morrison
- Brandeis University, Department of English
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3-3:30 PM Coffee
3:30-5:30 PM Panel 3: ORIENTATIONS
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- Robert L. Patten
- Rice University, Department of English
- "From Housed to Square to Street: Narrative Traversals"
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- Mona Domosh
- Floridia Atlantic University, Department of Geography
- "Those Gorgeous Incongruities: Polite Politics and Public
Space on the Streets of 19th-Century New York"
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- Ana I. P. Vadillo
- Birkbeck College, University of London, Department of English
- "Inner-City Line of Poetry: Transporting Aesthetics in
Fin-de-Siecle Women Poets"
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- Graham Burnett
- Columbia University, Society of Fellows in the Humanities
- "El Dorado on Paper"
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- 7:00 PM
- Dinner at Helena Michie's House for all
Conference Participants
- Saturday,
March 21
- Rayzor Hall, Third Floor
8:30 AM Coffee
9-11:00 AM Panel 4: DOMESTIC FRONTS
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- Cathleen Cahill
- University of Chicago, Department of History
- "Homes on the Range: The Contest Over Household Space in
United States Indian Policy"
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- Elizabeth Langland
- University of Floridia, College of Liberal Arts
- "Gendered Geography: The Lady and the Country House in
Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret"
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- Martin Brückner
- University of South Carolina, Department of English
- "Literary Education and the Rule of Geography in Antebellum
America"
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- Respondent: Martin Wiener
- Rice University, Department of History
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11:00 AM-12:45 PM SEMINARS:
Seminar 1-- "Scripting Egypt: 1820-1920: Orientalism and
Cultures of Travel"
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- Derek Gregory
- University of British Columbia, Department of Geography
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- Respondents: Katherine
Milun
- Rice University, Department of Anthropology
- Karl Ittman
- University of Houston, Department of History
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Seminar 2-- "Landscape of Hunger, Theatres of Shame: Mapping
the Irish Famine"
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- Joseph Roach
- Yale University, Department of English and Theater Studies
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- Respondent: Scott Derrick
- Rice University, Department of English
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Seminar 3-- "Victorian Honeymoons: Sexual Reorientations and
the 'Sights' of Europe"
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- Helena Michie
- Rice University, Department of English
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- Respondent: Vijay Prashad
- Trinity College, International Studies Program
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12:45-2:00 PM Lunch
2-4:00 PM Panel 5: COMMODITIES &
EXCHANGES
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- Diane Dillon
- Northwestern University, Department of Art History
- "Landscape into Spectacle: Framing the View at the 1893
World's Fair"
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- Julie Fromer
- University of Wisconsin&endash;Madison, Department of English
- "'A Typically English Brew': Tourism and Imperialism through
the Consumption of Tea in Victorian England"
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- Krista Lysack
- Queens University (BC), Department of English
- "Buying the Empire"
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4-4:15 PM Coffee
4:15-6:15 PM Panel 5: SPATIAL
IMAGINATIONS
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- Ian Duncan
- University of Oregon, Department of English
- "Wild England: Borrow's Nomadology"
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- Andrew Rieser
- University of Wisconsin, Department of History
- "The Commodification of Terra Spiritualis : Camp
Meetings and Chautauqua Assemblies, 1870-1920"
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- Logan Browning
- Rice University, Studies in English Literature
- "Bumps and Falls: Dickens and the Phrenological Mapping of
America"
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- Joseph W. Childers
- University of California, Department of English
- "From the East End to Maida Vale: Victorian Jews and the
Permeable Places of Assimilation"
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6:15-7:30 PM Ending Reception
Conference participants are free to make their own dinner
plans after the reception.
A NEW MAP OF INDIA FROM THE
LATEST AUTHORITY
Lodging
and Registration Information
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- Registration fee: $20
- The registration fee includes all meals and a packet of
reading materials for the seminar of your choice. Please note that
you may attend as many panels as you like without charge, but that
you must pay the full registration fee to attend a seminar or any
of the meals. Please make the cheque payable to "The Center for
the Study of Cultures."
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- Convenient Hotels
- Harvey Suites (713) 528-7744
- Holiday Inn-Medical center (713) 797-1110
- Houston Marriott-Medical Center (713) 796-0080
- Houston Plaza Hilton (713) 313-4000
- Wyndham Warwick (713) 526-1991
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- Airport Express
- A shuttle runs every half hour from both Bush Intercontinental
and Houston Hobby to area hotels. One-way trips are $17 from
Intercontinental and $12 from Hobby. Travelers should go to the
Ground Transportation areas of either airport to find the Airport
Express service counter.
- Conference Organizers:
- Helena Michie, Rice University, Department of English
- Ronald R. Thomas, Trinity College (CT), Department of English
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