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THE DICKENS UNIVERSE 2008

DETAILED SCHEDULE (schedule subject to change)

SAT
JUL 26

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SATURDAY, July 26
5:00 pm Faculty and grads should arrive by 5:00 for check-in KRESGE PIAZZETTA
5:30 pm Welcome Dinner PIAZZETTA
7:30 Welcome and Orientation by John Jordan (UCSC) KRESGE 327

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SUNDAY, July 27
  Participants should arrive and check in from 2-4 pm PIAZZETTA
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Grad Student Seminar 327
  Faculty Planning mtg 159
10:00 Coffee Break OUTSIDE 327
10:30 Seminar for Faculty and Grads 327
12:30 Lunch at College Eight Dining Hall
2:00 pm Participants arrive and check in PIAZZETTA
3:00 Meeting - Board of Directors, Friends of the Dickens Project 319
4:00 Special orientation and gathering for Elderhostelers 194
4:30 Orientation for other first-timers 321
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Welcome: John Jordan KTH
  Lecture: Helena Michie (Rice Univ.) "Doing Hard Time: The Tenses of History" KTH
9:15

Film Screening: Hindle Wakes (1927, silent, B&W) 321

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MONDAY, July 28
7:30 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups 194, 323, 325, 327
  Grad-student Writing workshop 319
9:45 Lecture: James Buzard (MIT) "The Frontiers of Ethnography" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops 194, 196, 319, 323, 325, 327, and 3 grad student apts
  Faculty Seminars 159, Student Lounge
12:30 pm Lunch at College Eight
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students 323, 325
  High school teachers' workshop 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars 194, 319, 159, and Student Lounge
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars 196
2:00 Film Screening: Part One of Hard Times (1977, Granada TV) 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE 327
3:45 Talk: Catherine Robson (UC Davis)
  "Why 'It's Grim Up North': A Brief Primer on Yorkshire, Lancashire and All Things Northern" 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop 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:Richard Kaye (CUNY) "Industrial Love" KTH
9:15

Film Screening: Love On the Dole (1941, sepia) 321

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TUESDAY, July 29
7:15 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups 194, 323, 325, 327
  Grad-student Writing workshop 319
9:45 Lecture: Priti Joshi (Univ. of Puget Sound)
  "Synching Dickens With the Industrial Novel" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops 194, 196, 319, 323, 325, 327, and 3 grad student apts
  Faculty Seminars 159, Student Lounge
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students 325, 323
  High school teachers' workshop 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars194, 319, 159, and Student Lounge
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars 196
2:00 Film Screening: Part Two of Hard Times (1977, Granada TV) 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE 327
3:45 Talk: Robert Newsom (UC Irvine)
  "Utilitarianism and Unitarianism 101" 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop 159
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Lecture: James Eli Adams (Cornell Univ.)
  "Industry and Insurrection: Narrating Manhood " KTH
9:15

Film Screening: Kes (1969) 321

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WEDNESDAY, July 30
7:15 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups 194, 323, 325, 327
  Grad-student Writing workshop 319
9:45 Lecture:Natalka Freeland (Independent scholar)
  "Defining Productions: Dickens, Gaskell, and the Industrial Lexicon" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops194, 196, 319, 323, 325, 327, and 3 grad student apts
  Faculty Seminars 159, Student Lounge
12:30 pm Lunch at College Eight
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students 325, 323
 

High school teachers' workshop 327

  Faculty-led grad student Professionalization seminars
Helena Michie (Rice) "The Archive" 159
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers) "The Conference Paper" Student Lounge
James Eli Adams (Cornell) "Scholary Publishing" 194
Carolyn Dever (Vanderbilt) and Susan Zieger (UC Riverside) "Placement" 319
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars 196
2:00 Film Screening: Part Three of Hard Times (1977, Granada TV) 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE 327
3:45 Talk: Dominique Jando (Circus Center, San Francisco)
  "The Nineteenth-Century Circus" 321
  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop 159
5:30 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
8:00 Early showing of the film: Brassed Off (1996) 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, July 31
7:15 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups 194, 323, 325, 327
  Grad-student Writing workshop 319
9:45 Lecture: Matthew Kaiser (Harvard Univ.)
  "Play and Modernity in Dickens and Gaskell" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops 194, 196, 319, 323, 325, 327, and 3 grad student apts
  Plenary Faculty Seminar 159
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight
1:30 Seminar for UCSC Summer Session students 325, 323
  High school teachers' workshop 327
  Faculty-led grad student seminars 194, 319, 159, and Student Lounge
  Seminar for non-affiliated scholars 196
2:00 Film Screening: Part Three of Hard Times (1977, Granada TV) 321
3:00 Victorian Tea OUTSIDE 327
3:45 Talk: Margaret Loose (UC San Diego)
 

"The Facts About SomethingOlogy: Chartism and Its Self-Representations" 321

  Grad-student Presentation Workshop with John Glavin (Georgetown Univ.) KTH
  Grad-student Pedagogy Workshop 159
5:45 Dinner at College Eight Dining Hall
6:30 Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) OUTSIDE KTH
7:30 Lecture: Elaine Freedgood (NYU)
  "Industrial Spectatorship: Factory Tourism and the Adventure of Production" KTH
9:00

Grand Party to which everyone is invited (hosted by Friends of the Dickens Project) 327

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FRIDAY, August 1
7:15 am Breakfast at College Eight
8:30 Faculty-led Discussion groups 194, 323, 325, 327
  Grad-student Writing workshop 319
9:45 Lecture: Jill Matus (Univ. of Toronto)
  "Secrets of the Heart: Narration and the Imaginary Minds in Mary Barton and Hard Times" KTH
11:15 Grad Student-led Workshops 194, 196, 319, 323, 325, 327, and 3 grad student apts
12:45 pm Lunch at College Eight
1:30 Lecture: Jerome McGann (Univ. of Virginia) "Philology in a New Key: Humane Studies in Digital Space" 321
3:00 Refreshments OUTSIDE 327
3:30 Collaborations panel "Victorian Temporalities" 321
  Rebecca Stern (Univ. of So. Carolina) "Perpetual Present"
Helena Michie (Rice) "While"
D. Rae Greiner (Univ. of Indiana) "Temporary"
Jonathan Grossman (UCLA) "Meantime"
Molly Clark Hillard (Univ. of Southern Miss.) "Once Upon A Time"
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
8:00 John announces book for 2009
  (Baytree will have copies for sale on-site right after the announcement)
8:30 Victorian Ball with Brassworks Band and Angela Elsey
 

(dance instructor)
Refreshments and small desserts served during the dance

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SATURDAY, August 2
7:15 am Breakfast at College Eight
9:00 Collaborations panel "Victorian Emotions" 321
  Teresa Mangum (Univ. of Iowa) "Feeling Old"
Carolyn Williams (Rutgers) "Looking Readable"
Tricia Lootens (Univ. of Georgia) "Tear Jerking"
Sally Ledger (Birkbeck) "Mr. Twemlow's Feelings"
10:00 Refreshments OUTSIDE 327
10:30 Collaborations ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
  led by Regenia Gagnier (Univ. of Exeter) 321
noon 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), Casablanca Restaurant

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