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The Dickens Universe 2009
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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) back to top |
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) back to top |
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 |
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| 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) back to top |
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 |
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| 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) back to top |
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 |
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| 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 back to top |
| 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 |
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| 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) back to top |
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 back to top |
| 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) back to top |
Casablanca Restaurant |