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The Dickens Universe 2009

Schedule of events (subject to change)

SAT
AUG 1
SUN
AUG 2
MON
AUG 3
TUE
AUG 4
WED
AUG 5
THU
AUG 6
FRI
AUG 7
SAT
AUG 8

SATURDAY, August 1  
4:00 pm Special meeting of Dickens Project Executive Committee Kresge 319
5:00 Faculty and grads should arrive by 5:00 for check-in KRESGE PIAZZETTA
5:30 Welcome Dinner KRESGE PIAZZETTA
7:30 Welcome and Orientation by John Jordan (UCSC)
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KRESGE 327

SUNDAY, August 2  
  Participants should arrive and check in from 2-4 pm KRESGE PIAZZETTA
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Grad Student Seminar Kresge 327
  Faculty Planning mtg Kresge 159
10:00 Coffee Break OUTSIDE KRESGE 327
10:30 Seminar for Faculty and Grads KRESGE 327
12:30 Lunch at College Eight Dining Hall  
2:00 pm Participants arrive and check in KRESGE PIAZZETTA
3:00 Meeting - Board of Directors, Friends of the Dickens Project Kresge 319
4:30 Special orientation and gathering for Elderhostelers Kresge 194
4:30 Orientation for other first-timers Kresge 321
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KRESGE TOWN HALL (KTH)
7:30 Welcome: John Jordan KTH
  Lecture: Robert Patten (Rice Univ.)  
  "Visualizing Memory and Memorizing the Visual" KTH
9:30
Screening: The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger Part One (1935,George Cukor directing, B&W)
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Kresge 321

MONDAY, August 3  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups Kresge Classrooms
  Grad-student Writing workshop Kresge
9:45 Lecture: Robert Polhemus (Stanford Univ.)  
  "Dickens's Master Stroke: David Copperfield, The Tower of Babley, and the 'Fairy Feller'" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops Kresge and Porter Classrooms
  Faculty Seminars College Eight 250, 252
12:30 pm Lunch at College Eight  
  Rehearsal and lunch for Every Man Must Have a Kite KTH
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students Kresge 323, 325
  High school teachers' workshop Kresge 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars Porter 246, 250,
Kresge 319 and 159
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars Kresge 194
  Film Screening: Repeat of Sunday night film Kresge 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE Kresge 327
3:45 Talk: Galia Benziman (UCSC)  
  "The Other Side of the Dickensian Child: The Split Child Figures of the Late Forties" Kresge 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop Kresge 159
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
  Sales of t-shirts and other surprise items OUTSIDE KTH
  UCSC's Bay Tree Bookstore on-site book sale OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Lecture:Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College)  
  "Copperfield's Geographies" KTH
9:30
Film Screening:The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger Part Two (1935,George Cukor directing, B&W)
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Kresge 321

TUESDAY, August 4  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups Kresge Classrooms
  Grad-student Writing workshop Kresge
9:45 Lecture: Andrew Miller (Indiana Univ.)  
  "Not Forthcoming" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops Kresge and Porter Classrooms
  Faculty Seminars College Eight 250, 252
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight  
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students Kresge 325, 323
  High school teachers' workshop Kresge 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars Porter 246, 250,
Kresge 319 and 159
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars Kresge 194
  Film Screening: Repeat of Monday night film Kresge 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE Kresge 327
3:45 Talk: Murray Baumgarten (UCSC)  
  "Neither Exile nor Homeland: Inventing English Jewish Writing and Culture" Kresge 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop Kresge 159
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Lecture: Leah Price (Harvard Univ.)  
  "Speed " KTH
9:30
Film Screening: David Copperfield Part One (1999, BBC)
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Kresge 321

WEDNESDAY, August 5  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups Kresge Classrooms
  Grad-student Writing workshop Kresge
9:45 Lecture: Rebecca Stern (Univ. of South Carolina)  
  'David Copperfield's Times" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops Kresge and Porter Classrooms
  Faculty Seminars College Eight 250, 252
12:30 pm Lunch at College Eight  
  Rehearsal and lunch for Every Man Must Have a Kite KTH
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students Kresge 325, 323
  High school teachers' workshop Kresge 327
  Faculty-led grad student Professionalization seminars
Eileen Gillooly (Columbia Univ.) "Creating Critical Editions: David Copperfield as Case Study"
Hilary Schor (USC) "Everything You Wanted to Know About Writing a Dissertation (but were afraid to ask)"
James Eli Adams (Cornell) "Scholary Publishing"
Teresa Mangum (Univ. of Iowa) "Placement"

Kresge 159


Porter 250

Porter 246
Kresge 319

  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars Kresge 194
  Film Screening: Repeat of Tuesday night film Kresge 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE Kresge 327
3:45 Talk: Maria Cristina Paganoni (Univ. of Milan)  
  "Fiction as Cyberspace, Cyberspace as Fiction: Dickens and New Media" Kresge 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop Kresge 159
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE Kresge 327
7:30 Early film screening:David Copperfield Part Two (1999, BBC) Kresge 321
evening Free Evening!  
  Relax, read, meet your neighbors, go into town, or take in a performance by Shakespeare Santa Cruz
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THURSDAY, August 6  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups Kresge Classrooms
  Grad-student Writing workshop Kresge
9:45 Lecture: Marty Gould (Univ. of South Florida)  
  "Copperfield, the Stage Sensation" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops Kresge and Porter Classrooms
  Faculty Seminars College Eight 250, 252
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight  
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students Kresge 325, 323
  High school teachers' workshop Kresge 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars Porter 246, 250,
Kresge 319 and 159
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars Kresge 194
  Film Screening: Repeat of Wednesday night film Kresge 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE Kresge 327
3:45 Every Man Must Have a Kite – A Staged Reading KTH
  Presented by the Peggoty Players, and Directed by John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
5:45 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Lecture: John Bowen (Univ. of York)  
  "A Mort of Talk" KTH
9:00 Grand Party to which everyone is invited (hosted by Friends of the Dickens Project)
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Kresge 327

FRIDAY, August 7  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups Kresge and Porter Classrooms
  Grad-student Writing workshop Kresge
9:45 Lecture: John Jordan (UCSC) KTH
  "Tempest"  
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops Kresge Classrooms
  Plenary Faculty Seminar College Eight 250
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight  
  The Dickens Project Collaboratory: Faculty Research-in-Progress  
1:30 The Dickens Project Collaboratory: A Roundtable with "Real Dickensians" Kresge 321
  Jonathan Grossman (UCLA), John Jordan (UCSC), John Bowen (Univ. of York), Robert Patten (Rice Univ.), and Hilary Schor (USC)  
3:00 Refreshments OUTSIDE Kresge 327
3:30 Partings Welded Together: A Celebration of our Friend Sally Ledger Kresge 321
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall  
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
  Sales of t-shirts and other surprise items, UCSC's Bay Tree Bookstore on-site book sale  
7:30 Friends Fundraising Auction KTH
8:00 John announces book for 2010 KTH
  (Baytree will have copies for sale on-site right after the announcement) KTH
8:30 Victorian Ball with Brassworks Band and Angela Elsey KTH
  (dance instructor)
Refreshments and small desserts served during the dance
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SATURDAY, August 8  
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight  
9:00 The Dickens Project Collaboratory: A Roundtable on "19th-Century Poetry" Kresge 321
  Janice Caldwell (UC Santa Barbara), Margaret Loose (UC San Diego), Catherine Robson (UC Davis)  
10:30 Refreshments OUTSIDE Kresge 327
10:45 The Dickens Project Collaboratory: A Roundtable on "Visual Cultures" Kresge 321
  Luisa Cale (Birbeck, Univ. of London), Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt Univ.), Sharon Weltman (LSU)  
12:30 pm Lunch at College Eight  
afternoon Departures or free afternoon  
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall or  
5:30 Banquet by invitation (additional charge)
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Casablanca Restaurant