Programme
9:00 – 9:30
Registration
9:30 – 10:30
Keynote by Dr. John Holmes (Reading)
‘Pre-Raphaelite Other Worlds’
10:30 – 12:00
Panel A: Visions of the Future
Chair: TBA
- Julia Courtney (Independent Scholar)
‘The Island of Progress’
- Christina Lake (Exeter)
‘Amazons, Science, and Common Sense in Elizabeth Corbett’s New Amazonia’
- Dany Van Dam (Leiden)
‘The Victorian Neo-Victorian Story? Future Nostalgia for a Present Past in H.G. Wells’
Panel B: Within the Walls
Chair: TBA
- Serena Trowbridge (Birmingham City)
‘The Nursery World: Christina Rossetti’s Sing-Song’
- Alicia Carroll (Auburn)
‘“Quite Hidden in the Woods”: Secret Sisters of the Arts and Crafts World’
- Charlotte Boman (Cardiff)
‘Photography, Domesticity and the Nineteenth-Century Imagination’
12:00 – 1:30
Panel C: The Mind’s Eye
Chair: TBA
- Gillian Daw
‘New Prospects and Other Worlds: The Victorian Cosmic Journey’
- Owen Holland (Cambridge)
‘William Morris’s Utopian Optic of Alterity’
- Grazia Zaffuto (Independent Scholar)
‘“Visual Education” as the Alternative Mode of Learning at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham’
Panel D: Distant Shores
Chair: TBA
- Brian Murray (Cambridge)
‘“Dazzled by Oriental Analogies”: The Other-Worldly Past of Nineteenth-Century Ireland’
- Luz Elena Ramirez (California State)
‘The English to the Rescue in Frank Aubrey’s Devil Tree of El Dorado: A Romance of British Guiana’
- Hannah Lewis-Bill (Exeter)
‘Dickens, China and the Transnational Conversations in Dombey and Son’
1:30 – 2:30
Lunch
2:30 – 4:00
Panel E: The World Surveyed
Chair: Rosalyn Gregory (Oxford)
- Will Abberley (Exeter)
‘“Other Worlds, Other Tongues”: The Evolution of Language in Victorian Scientific Romances’
- Mark Fitzpatrick (Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle)
‘“The Ever-Undiscovered Country over the Hill”: The Temporality and Geometry of Adventure’
- Derek Ball (Leicester)
‘“A Mathematical Dreamland, where nothing is but what is not”: Alternative Geometries in Daniel Deronda’
Panel F: Beyond the Body
Chair: TBA
- Georgina O’Brien Hill (University of Chester)
‘The Spiritualist Memoirs of Florence Marryat’
- Will Tattersdill (King’s College London)
‘Intrinsic Intelligibiity: Francis Galton’s Attempt to Communicate with Other Worlds, 1896’
- Martin Danahay (Brock University)
‘Other Worlds, Other Bodies’
4:00 – 4:30
Tea Break
4:30 – 5:30
Keynote by Prof. Cora Kaplan (King’s College London)
‘Visitors From Another Planet: Imperial fantasy, Racial Thinking and the Human’
5:30 – 6:30
Wine Reception
7:00
Conference Dinner at Zizzi
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