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  4. The 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
  5. Programme
The 27th Annual Dickens Society Symposium
  • Programme
  • Location and travel

Programme

Thursday 7th July 2022

17:30: Welcome drinks reception
Drinks Reception at Charles Dickens Museum, 48-49 Doughty Street


Friday 8th July 2022

08:30 - 09:00: Registration
Main Reception at City, University of London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB

09:00 - 09:15: Welcome
Welcome address in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre

09:15 - 10:30: Panels

Panel 1A: Dickens, Literary Tourism and the Author’s House Museum
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Claire Wood

  • Anya Eastman (Royal Holloway), Two Windows into Dickens’s Posthumous Representation
  • Charlotte May (University of Nottingham), “Forget Charles Dickens”: Interrogating the impact of the Dickensian workhouse on visitor experiences at The Workhouse, Southwell
  • Francesca Orestano (University of Milan), The Empty Chair: Nostalgia, Celebrity, Heritage

Panel 1B: Dickens in the Americas
Location: B103
Chair: Chris Louttit

  • Catherine Quirk (Edge Hill University), Dickens in Montréal: A Tale of Two Cities
  • Katherine Kim (Molloy College), Mental Crossroads and Walking in Crowds: Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe

10:30 - 11:00: Break
Tea and coffee break in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre Foyer

11:00 - 12:30: Panels

Panel 2A: Roundtable discussion: Dickens, Decolonization and Global Political Emergencies
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair and respondent: Ushashi Dasgupta

  • Mithal Madlool Challab (Kufa University, Iraq), ‘Colonization and Education: Broadening Iraqi Students' Perspectives through the Dickensian Novel’
  • Ahmed Diaa Dardir (Cairo Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences), ‘'Dickens, Orientalism, and the Return of the Repressed: Towards a Decolonial Reading Strategy’
  • Nanako Konoshima (Kyoto Notre Dame, Japan), 'Exploring Decolonial Reading Possibilities: Oliver Twist, Shoplifters and the ways of depicting the Society'
  • Gillian Piggott (American University of Afghanistan), ‘Dickens in Afghanistan: shaping a Decolonial approach’

Panel 2B: Adaptations and Rewritings
Location: B103
Chair: Deborah Siddoway

  • Akiko Takei (Chukyo University), Why is the 1971 Version Still the Best? The History of A Christmas Carol in Animation Films
  • Claudia Cao (University of Cagliari), The Heritage of Great Expectations: (Re)reading Female Roles through Literary Rewritings
  • Saverio Tomaiuolo (Cassino University), Audiovisual Versions of The Pickwick Papers: from Nostalgia to Revolution
  • Michelle Chan (Hong Kong Shue Yan University), A “Bubbly” Dickens: Exploring the Image of Dickens through A Christmas Carol

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch break - delegates will be required to arrange their own lunch

14:00 - 15:15: Panels

Panel 3A: Dickens and Celebrity
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Sophia Jochem

  • Elizabeth Bridgham (Providence College), “Canceled” by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities
  • Rob Jacklosky (College of Mount Saint Vincent), “A Mere Inn Signpost, Without Any Inn”: Dickens and Empty Celebrity in Little Dorrit and Our Mutual Friend

Panel 3B: Dickens’s Global Fans
Location: B103
Chair: Magdalena Pypec

  • Anita Fernandez (University of Nottingham), Literary Fan Behavior: A Phenomenological Approach
  • Martin Griffith (Independent Scholar), Jingle in the “Ureweras”: Charles Dickens’s Influence on Katherine Mansfield
  • Trey Philpotts (University of Central Florida), What’s in a Name? Jenny Wren and her Clubs

15:15 - 15:45: Break
Tea and coffee break in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre Foyer

15:45 - 17:15: Panels

Panel 4A: Race, Slavery, Empire
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Anita Ferdandez Young

  • Sophia Jochem (Freie Universität Berlin), Of Pumpkins and Salads: Dickens’s London as Imperial Setting
  • Leon Litvack (Queen’s University Belfast), Dickens “Takes the Knee”: Changing Views on Approaches to Abolition
  • Sean Grass (Rochester Institute of Technology), Racial Hybridity and Fantastical Form in The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Panel 4B: Dickens at Play
Location: B103
Chair: David McAllister

  • Robert Sirabian (University of Wisconsin), The Legal Game in Bleak House
  • Emily Bell (University of Leeds), Impromptu Dickens
  • Meoghan Cronin (Saint Anselm College), “Beautiful Juveniles”: Good Girls in Dickens’ Little Folks Series
  • Galia Benziman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Free Speech, Cultural Censorship, and Victorian Political Correctness: Training the Dickensian Child

17:30 - 19:30: Closing talk and reception
Talk by Alex Werner, Curator of The New Museum of London in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
"A New Museum For London"
Followed by a drinks reception in the Pavilion


Saturday 9th July 2022

08:30 - 09:00: Registration
Main Reception at City, University of London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB

09:00 - 10:30: Panels

Panel 5A: Political Uses of Dickens and the Dickensian
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Emily Bell

  • Carolyn Vellenga Berman (The New School), Dickens as an Influencer: Avatar of Reform
  • Chris Louttit (Radboud University), “Food, Glorious Food”: Free School Meals, Childhood Hunger and the Political Uses of Dickens during the Pandemic
  • Ben Moore (University of Amsterdam), Public Meetings in Dickens: Politics or Farce?
  • Melissa McLeod (Georgia State University), Our Bleak House: Narrative, Space, Disease

Panel 5B: Global Dickens
Location: B103
Chair: Jennifer Heine

  • Bahar Pancaroglu (Çankaya University), Recapturing Dickens: Tobias Oates in Peter Carey's Jack Maggs
  • Claire Woods (Ulster University), Charles Dickens, Français Naturalisé: The Significance of France in Dickens’ Mid-career Novels
  • Eleanora Gallitelli (Insubria University), Dickens and the Italian Risorgimento
  • Abderrezzaq Ghafsi (Mohamed Boudiaf University of M'sila), The Influence of Charles Dickens on Algerian Writers

10:30 - 11:00: Break
Tea and coffee break in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre Foyer

11:00 - 12:15: Panels

Panel 6A: Intertextuality and Influence
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Trey Philpotts

  • Christine Colon (Wheaton College), Learning from “that incomparable vulgarisateur”: Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Dorothy L. Sayers’s Murder Must Advertise
  • Michael Hollington (Independent Scholar), Dickens and “The Wasteland”
  • Helena Kelly (Independent Scholar), How many hypotexts is too many? Dickens and other literary sources in Rose Tremain’s Lily, A Tale of Revenge

Panel 6B: Digital Dickens
Location: B103
Chair: Emily Bell

  • Susan Cook (Southern New Hampshire University), The Public, Private, Hidden Mothers of Bleak House
  • Liz Henley (Southern New Hampshire University), Analysis of Faces in Bleak House
  • Michaela Mahlberg (University of Birmingham), Digital Methods for Discovering Portability

Panel 6C: Reading Dickens, Dickens’s Readings
Location: B104
Chair: Charlotte May

  • Michelle Allen Emerson (U.S. Naval Academy), Intimate Dickens
  • Michelle Crowther (Canterbury Christ Church University), “...and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better”: Name-dropping in Obituaries: The Cult of Knowing Dickens
  • Annette Federico (James Madison University), Perfectly Reasonable: Rereading Hard Times

12:15 - 13:45: Lunch break - delegates will be required to arrange their own lunch

13:45 - 14:45: Meeting (All Welcome)
Dickens Society Business Meeting in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre

14:45 - 15:45: A Tribute to David Paroissien
A Tribute to David Paroissien in the Pavilion

15:45 - 16:15: Break
Tea and coffee break in the Pavilion

16:15 - 17:45: Panels

Panel 7A: Dickens, Publishing, and the Press
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Eleonora Gallitelli

  • Iain Crawford (University of Delaware), Household Words, the “paper-famine,” and the “Taxes on Knowledge”
  • Mark W. Cronin (Saint Anselm College), “Unsafe Ground”: Charles Dickens, Charles Reade, and the Limits of Fiction
  • Michael Eaton (Independent Scholar), Dickens and the Detectives
  • Jeremy Parrott (University of Buckingham), How Charles Dickens Became a Children’s Author

Panel 7B: Dickens and/as Social Problem Fiction
Location: B103
Chair: Michaela Mahlberg

  • Trish Bredar (Notre Dame and IES), Dickens and Houselessness: The Limits of “Sympathetic Relations”
  • James Armstrong (CUNY), Rejecting “Nature” in Martin Chuzzlewit
  • Deborah Siddoway (University of Durham), Dickens in the Pits
  • Adrian Nordgren (Southern Connecticut State University), Social Reform and the Usage of Hard Times: Past, Present and Future

Panel 7C: Subverting Dickensian Domesticity
Location: B104
Chair: David McAllister

  • Magdalena Pypeć (University of Warsaw), Oliver Twist and the Battered Woman Syndrome
  • Tamara S. Wagner (Nanyang Technological University), “Accidents will happen”: Comical Mishaps and Delightful Irregularity in Dickens’s Early Works
  • Adrianne Wojcik (Northern Virginia Community College), “Artful Woman Laying Snares for Men”: Edith Dombey’s Law-Defying Performance of Marital Infidelity
  • Anna Price (Royal Holloway), On the Water in Our Mutual Friend: What the Visual Representations of Lizzie Hexam in Dickens’s Text Reveal about Agency, Physicality and Respectability in Victorian England

Evening: Dickens Dinner at The Crypt
Dinner and Presentation of the 2022 Partlow Prize
The Crypt, The Bleeding Heart , No 7 Bleeding Heart Yard, London, EC1N 8SJ

18:30 – Drink Reception: glass of prosecco/non alcoholic drink served on arrival
19:00 – Meal to be served: 3 courses with 2 glasses of wine and limited offer to top up (8 additional bottles available)
20:30 – end of meal

Menu

Starters:

Warm salad of confit duck leg, new potatoes, broad beans & bacon dressing
Soup du jour (Vg)
Rainbow beetroot carpaccio, whipped feta cheese with walnut & sherry vinaigrette (V)

Mains:

Daurade filet “Niçoise”, new potatoes
Roasted vine tomato & basil Risotto with smoked mozzarella (V)
Slow cooked aubergine, tamarind, wild mushrooms & white bean puree (Vg)

Desserts:

Pavlova with summer berries, crème chantilly
Coffee and petit fours

The Crypt Map


Sunday 10th July 2022

08:30 - 09:00: Registration
Main Reception at City, University of London, Northampton Square, London, EC1V 0HB

09:00 - 10:15: Panels

Panel 8A: Sex and Bodies
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: David McAllister

  • Melissa Klimaszewski (Drake University), Dickens, Rappers and Sex Jokes
  • Natalie J. McKnight (Boston University), Dickens’s Public Hair
  • Lillian Nayder (Bates College), “My Illustrious Person”: Dickens’s Public Body and Private Parts

Panel 8B: Disentangling Late Dickens
Location: B103
Chair: Annette Federico

  • Celeste Callen (University of Edinburgh), Dickens and the Disequilibrium of the Self: Between Haunting Pasts and Unpredictable Futures
  • Jennifer Heine (University of Southern California), The Afterlife of Edwin Drood
  • Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky), Pip Confides in Biddy

Panel 8C: Teaching Dickens in the Twenty-first Century
Location: B104
Chair: Claire Wood

  • Joel J. Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), An Undergraduate Seminar on A Christmas Carol
  • Logan Delano Browning (Rice University), A Tale of Two Editors: Reading A Tale of Two Cities in American Schools 1899-1911

10:15 - 10:45: Break
Tea and coffee break in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre Foyer

10:45 - 12:00: Panels

Panel 9A: Dickensian Monsters and Ghosts
Location: Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre
Chair: Michaela Mahlberg

  • Christian Lehmann (Bard High School Early College), Dickens’s Classical Monsters
  • Madeline Potter (Edge Hill University), Dickensian London’s Gothic Legacies
  • Katie Bell (Dunwoody High School), The Haunting of Bleak House

Panel 9B: Dickensian Places
Location: B103
Chair: Chris Louttit

  • György Kiss (University of Debrecen), Fairy Tale and Disability in Charles Dickens’ The Cricket on the Hearth and Our Mutual Friend
  • Catherine Peck (University of Surrey), The picturesque cottage image: constructing cottage settings in Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield and Bleak House
  • Minna Vuohelainen (City, University of London), With Dickens in Clerkenwell

12:00 -  13:00: Thanks and Farewells
Closing Talk in Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre

14:00 onwards: Guided Walk
Guilded Walk Around Dickens's London
A bespoke tour
Meeting in Main Reception at 14:00
To end in West Smithfield area at 15:45

N.B. All panels and locations remain subject to alteration.

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