Program

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Skip to program for: Thursday, April 19, Friday, April 20, Saturday, April 21

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

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12:00-5:00 Registration, MSG Foyer

2:00-5:00 Book Exhibit, Grand/Plaza/Westport Foyers

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SESSION 1: 2:30-3:45

A: Educating the Public: Textbooks, Museums, and Libraries

B: (Re)writing Medical Boundaries

C: H. G. Wells

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3:45–4:00 Coffee Break, Grand Ballroom Foyer

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SESSION 2: 4:00–5:15

A: Outlaws

B: East Meets West

C: Household Science

D: Darwin(isms)

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5:25 and 5:40 Buses Depart for Linda Hall Library

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RECEPTION & PLENARY ADDRESS #1: 5:45–8:15 at the Linda Hall Library

6:45–7:45 Sally Shuttleworth, Professor of Modern Literature and Head of the Humanities Division, Oxford University, "Progress, Pressure, and Precocity"

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

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8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast, Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00–5:00 Book Exhibit, Grand/Plaza/Westport Foyers

8:00–5:00 Registration, MSG Foyer

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SESSION 3: 9:00–10:15

A: Musical Technology

B: Transportation

C: Psychology

D: Realism and the Technologies of Novel Writing

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10:15–10:30 Mid Morning Refreshments, Grand Ballroom Foyer

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SESSION 4: 10:30–11:45

A: Television, Film, & Stage Adaptations

B: Science and Culture: Raw Data, Invisible Laws, Idealistic Methods

C: Animals

D: Technological Nationalisms

LUNCH & KEYNOTE ADDRESS #2: 12:00–2:00, Grand D & E

1:00–2:00 Linda Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University, "Transatlantic Cables: American Transmissions to the British Literary Canon"

SESSION 5: 2:15–3:30

A: Pastoral vs. Modern

B: "Modern" Art: Special Session Sponsored by Art Historians of the Nineteenth Century

C: Phrenology/Physiognomy

D: The News

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3:30–3:45 Afternoon Refreshments, Grand Ballroom Foyer

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SESSION 6: 3:45–5:00

A: Sound Systems

B: The Uses of Technology: Individual, National, Global

C: Science and Perception

D: Romantic Geologies

EVENING ARTS PROGRAM, Seville Ballroom

8:00: Mark Jarman, B.H. Fairchild, Michelle Boisseau

Poets Mark Jarman, B.H. Fairchild, and Michelle Boisseau will read from their work and discuss their allegiances with the poets of the 19th century.

Mark Jarman's collection, Question for Ecclesiastes, won the Lenore Marshall Award and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. B.H. Fairchild won the National Book Critics Circle award and was a finalist for the National Book Award. Winner of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and prizes from The Poetry Society of America, Michelle Boisseau is the author of three books of poetry and co–author of Writing Poems (Longman), going into its seventh edition.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21

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8:00–9:00 Continental Breakfast, Grand Ballroom Foyer

8:00–5:00 Book Exhibit, Grand/Plaza/Westport Foyers

8:00–5:00 Registration, MSG Foyer

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SESSION 7: 9:00–10:15

A: Theatrical Technologies

B: Reading the Victorians Today

C: Hand/Writing Technologies

D: Mesmerism/Spiritualism

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10:15–10:30 Mid Morning Refreshments, Grand Ballroom Foyer

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SESSION 8: 10:30–11:45

A: Representing the Up–To–Date Woman: Techniques and Technologies of Containment in France

B: (Un)safe Technology

C: Photography/Portraiture

D: Defining Medical Practices

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12:00–2:00

Lunch on your own

INCS Board Meeting at Grand Street Cafe at 4740 Grand Avenue

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SESSION 9: 2:00–3:15

A: Gendered Science

B: Periodicals and Publishing

D: Fictional Adaptations

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3:15–3:30 Afternoon Refreshments, Grand Ballroom Foyer

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PLENARY SESSION #3: 3:30–5:00, Seville Ballroom

Interdisciplinarity Now: In Honor of Richard Stein, INCS founding member

Roundtable Participants:

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5:15 Buses depart for Arabia Steamboat Museum

5:45 Arabia Steamboat Museum Guided Tours (1 hour and 15 minutes each)

7:00–9:00 Banquet at Winslow's Barbeque
(across the street from Steamboat Arabia)

8:30, 9:00 Buses return to the Marriott

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