Saturday, July 8th

 

8:30 - 9:00         Registration/Information Table

Location: Aula Magna

 

9:00 - 10:30        Session 4

4A. The English Channel: Anglo-French Crosscurrents

Myriam Boussahba, Le Havre Normandy University, “International Currents vs. British and French Wide Currencies: The Case Study of The International. A Review of the World’s Progress (1907-1909)”

Diana Cooper-Richet, University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, “Galignani's Anglo-Parisian Periodical Press and its Transnational Flow of Information (1807-1850)”

Chieko Ichikawa, Nara Women's University, “Elizabeth Gaskell's Portraits of French Women: Female Networks and the Current of Gossip”

Melissa Sarikaya, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, “Periodical Crosscurrents: A. Mary F. Robinson as the Anglo-French Mediator”

Location: MRSH - Salle des Actes (SH 027)

Chair : Alison Chapman - Also accessible online (Zoom)

 

4B. Current Approaches to Periodical Pedagogies

 Laura Vorachek, University of Dayton, “Mapping Investigative Journalism: An Undergraduate Assignment”

Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Brigham Young University, “Victorian Short Fiction and the Periodical Market: A Research and Scholarly Editing Assignment”

Iain Crawford, University of Delaware, “Finding a CURE: Using Periodicals for Course-embedded Undergraduate Research in a 300-Level Literature Course”

Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall

Chair : Laura Vorachek

 

4C. Hard Currency in a Changing Market: The Pounds, Shillings and Pence of Trading in News and Publishing Periodicals

Andrew Hobbs, University of Central Lancashire, “From Writing with Scissors to Editing with a Saw: William Saunders and the Industrial Supply of News”

Annemarie McAllister, University of Central Lancashire, “Commercialized Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat”

Stephen Tate, Independent Scholar, “Counterfeit Currency: Fake News, Fraud and the Curious Death of the London Newspaper Penny-a-liner”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206b

Chair : Isabel Seidel

 

4D. Time, Event, and Paratext: Currency in Periodical Poetry

Natalie Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell, “Paratextual Dates in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Poetry”

Lindsy Lawrence, University of Arkansas Fort Smith, “Songs of the Month, Christmas Carols, and Autumnal Sketches: The Currents of Seasonal Periodical Poetry”

April Patrick, Fairleigh Dickinson University, “Stanzas on the Deaths of the Famous and the Familiar”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206c

Chair : Clare Stainthorp

 

10:30 - 11:00       Break

Location: Aula Magna

 

11:00 - 12:30       Session 5

5A. Periodical Genres

Maria Damkjær, University of Copenhagen, “Units of Narrative”

Joanne Shattock, University of Leicester, “Newspaper Genres: Sketches, Essays, Leaders, Correspondence Columns”

Elizabeth Tilley, University of Galway, “When is a periodical not. . .? Elements of

design in The Lady of the House (1890-1900)”

Location: MRSH - Salle des Actes (SH 027)

Chair : Iain Crawford

 

5B. Tides of Change - Women Writers

Elisa Jane Boyton, CUNY Graduate Center, “Divergences of Detail: What to do When

the ‘Small Change’ Goes Missing in the Serialized Novel”

Antonella Braida, University of Lorraine, “Mary Margaret Busk’s Reviewing about Italy for Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine”

Helena Goodwyn, Northumbria University, “Catching the Mainstream Current: Launching a Periodicals Career in the 1840s – Dinah Craik, a Case Study”

Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall - Also accessible online (Zoom)

Chair : Alison Chapman

 

          5C. Imperial Currencies

Anne-Marie Millim, University of Luxembourg, “Colliding Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism as (Cross)Currents in Language Standardization Debates of the Mid-Century Victorian Periodical Press”

Olivia Mitchell, Loughborough University, “Understanding Gender and Race in the British Imperial Press: A Case Study of the Depiction of Height using Digital Methodologies”

Matt Poland, University of Washington, “Print Networks as Empire Circuits: Currents between Blackwood’s in Edinburgh and the Australasian in Melbourne”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206a

Chair : Tarini Bhamburkar

 

          5D. (Inter)generational Change

Lois Burke, Tilburg University, “Intergenerational Literary Pursuits in the Glasgow Manuscript Magazine ‘The Punch Bowl’ (1902–1906)”

Charlotte Lauder, University of Strathclyde, “‘The Scots Thistle’ (1885–2013): From

Girls’ Manuscript Magazine to Virtual Literary Society Magazine”

Kristine Moruzi, Deakin University, and Michelle J. Smith, Monash University, “Crosscurrents of Childhood in the Periodical Press”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206b

Chair : Rachel Bryant-Davis

 

5E. Modernity, Consumption, and Celebrity

Marysa Demoor, Ghent University, “Drifting on Royal Currents: Revisiting V&A’s Public Relations' Imprints”

Veronica Johnson, Maynooth University, “Crosscurrents in Early Cinema Magazines”

Crystal Payne, Washington University in St Louis, “Imperial Consumption and the Paper as ‘Contact Zone’ in Late-Victorian England”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206c

Chair : Emma Liggins

 

12:30 - 1:30        Lunch

Location: Aula Magna

 

1:30 - 3:00         RSVP Annual General Meeting

Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall - Also accessible online (Zoom)

 

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3:00 - 4:30         Colby Lecture

Jennie Batchelor, The Lady’s Magazine (1770-1832) and the making of literary history (Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall - Also accessible online (Zoom)

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4:30 - 5:00         Break

Location: Aula Magna

 

5:00 - 6:30         Session 6

6A. Local to Global

Shu-Fang Lai, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan, “Over the Religious and Cultural Currents: The First Taiwanese Translation and Adaptation of Dickens’s A Christmas Carol”

Honor Rieley, University of Edinburgh, “‘A local habitation and a name’: Newspaper Literature and Provincial Identity in the North East of England”

Karen Wade, University College Dublin, "‘Little things that do little people a little good’: The Circulation of Reprint Copy in the Early 19th-century British Newspaper Industry”

Location: MRSH - Salle des Actes (SH 027)

Chair : Jessica Valdez

 

6B.  Crosscurrents in Representation (Online)

Preeshita Biswas, Texas Christian University (10am CDT), “Transimperial Crosscurrents: Caricaturing Competitive Imperial Desires in The Japan Punch in 1862–1887”

Marissa Bolin, Hollins University (11am EDT), “The Crim. Con Gazette and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Adultery”

Julie Codell, Arizona State University (8am MST), “Local, National, International: Ekphrasis and Geohistorical Crosscurrents of Victorian Art Collections”

Jennifer Phegley, University of Missouri-Kansas City (10am CDT), “Crosscurrents in the Periodical Press: Viral Reprinting and Intertextual Marketing in the Welcome Guest and the Halfpenny Journal”

Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall - Location: MRSH - Lecture Hall - This is a fully online panel (Zoom)

Chair : Candace Ward

 

6C. Irish Women’s Writing Network: Creating Alternative Routes: Irish Women Writers, Connections and the Late Nineteenth-century Periodical Industry

Geraldine Brassil, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland

Kathryn Laing, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Ireland

Whitney Standlee, University of Worcester, UK

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206a

Chair : Kathryn Laing

 

6D. Missions, Scientific and Cultural

Morgan Coleman, University of St. Thomas, “Cholera, Fiction, and the Judgment of God: Moral Attitudes Towards Disease in Victorian Family Magazines”

Beth Mills, University of Exeter, “The ‘promise of greatness’: Grant Allen and the Victorian ‘Man of Science’”

Isabel Seidel, University of Aberdeen, “Two Female Journalists on a Mission around the World – From Local to Global in Victorian Britain”

Location: Building B - Room B1 - 206b

Chair : Annemarie McAllister

 

7:00 -              Cocktail Buffet

Location: Le Mancel. Château de Caen, 14000 Caen.