English & Comparative Literary Studies - Events Calendar
Print Culture and Gender in the British Empire
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/grf/puri/print_culture_and_gender/
PROGRAMME
9.30 – 10.00
Coffee and welcome
10.00 – 11.00
Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound), ‘Out of Place: At Home in the Provinces’
11.00 – 11.15
Break
11.15 – 12.45
Gender, Print Culture and Fiction (Chair: Madhumita Lahiri)
Ashok Malhotra (University of Warwick), ‘Illustrating the Patriarchal Rescue Mission in Kegan Paul & Co.’s Reprints of Philip Meadows Taylor’s novels’
Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (University of Oxford), ‘Print-Objects and the Making of Colonial Intimacy in Tagore’s Nashtanir‘
Melissa Free (Arizona State University), ‘”The Odds Have Been Against Her”: British Women, Rhodesian Immigration, and the Empire Review Articles of Gertrude Page’
12.45 – 2.00
Lunch
2.00 – 3.30
Maculinities and Femininities across Imperial Networks (Chair: Kirsty Hooper)
Caroline Bressey (University College London), ‘”To speak with rather than to”: Catherine Impey, networks of newsprint and the political geographies of Anti-Caste, 1888-1895′
Paul Rooney (National University of Ireland), ‘Pillars of the Empire in Home News: Forging Models of Imperial Masculinity in the 1870s Steamship Press in British India’
Melissa Riebe (University of Missouri-Kansas City), ‘A Women’s Empire: Public Discourse on Sailors’ Wives across the Anglophone Atlantic World’
3.30 – 3.45
Break
3.45 – 5.15
Womanhood, Correspondence, and the Periodical Press (Chair: tbc)
Sarah Gundry (King’s College, London), ‘The Cape Monthly Magazine and the South African Ladies’ Companion: Tracing the Representation of Gender in the Cape Colony’
Teja Varma Pusapati (University of Oxford), ‘Colonizing through Correspondence: Harriet Martineau’s Letters from Ireland’
Shuhita Bhattacharjee (University of Iowa & Presidency University, India), ‘The Gender of Doubt and Womanly Faith: Victorian Religion, Occult, and Unbelief in the Colonial Press’
5.15 – 6.15
Tanya Agathocleous (Hunter College), ‘The Aesthete and the Babu: Affect on Trial in Late-Imperial Britain’
6.15 – 6.30
Closing remarks
6.30
Wine reception
Conference fees - £10 waged and £5 students and unwaged
To register, please fill out the form at:
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/ias/current/grf/puri/print_culture_and_gender/registration/
Spaces are limited, so please register by 1 June 2014, if possible.