Dickens-Tagung in Saarbrücken

Internationales Seminar: “Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change”
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, 10.-12. Juni 2010

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von Hubertus Weyer: Dickens_Conference_Weyer.zip
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Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change, International Seminar, Universität des Saarlandes

Der Lehrstuhl für British Literature and Cultural Studies der Universität des Saarlandes und die Charles Dickens-Gesellschaft Deutschland e.V. veranstalteten vom 10.-12. Juni 2010 ein internationales Seminar mit dem Thema Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change.

Hauptredner war der bedeutende Dickens-Wissenschaftler Prof. Dr. Michael Slater (Birkbeck College, University of London), Autor der 2009 bei Yale erschienenen Dickens-Biographie (Charles Dickens, Yale University Press).


Programm

Thursday, 10 June 2010
06.00 pm
Keynote by Michael Slater: “House's The Dickens World Revisited”
and opening dinner
Friday, 11 June 2010
09.30 am -
10.30 am
Panel 1: Social Change I

Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky):
“Repetition and Reversal: Patterns for Social Change in Pickwick Papers

Joel J. Brattin (Worcester Polytechnic Institute):
“Three Revolutions: Alternate Routes to Social Change in Bleak House”

10:30 am -
11:00 am
coffee break
11.00 am-
12.30 pm
Panel 2: Social Change II

Robert Heaman (Wilkes University):
“Dickens, Art, and Reform: Change in Dickens’s View of Social Reform”

David Paroissien (University of Massachusetts, Amherst):
“Parrots, Birds of Prey and Snorting Cattle: Dickens's Whig Agenda”

Bert Hornback (Saarland University):
“The World Changing Dickens, Dickens Changing the World”

12.30 pm -
02.00 pm
lunch break
02.00 pm -
03.00 pm
Panel 3: Changing Popular Culture

Doris Feldmann (University of Erlangen):
The Cultural Politics of Dickens’s Hard Times

Chris Louttit (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen):
Dickens on the Victorian Stage: Two East End Adaptations of Bleak House

Christopher Pittard (University of Portsmouth):
“Conjuring Dickens: Agents of Change and Secular

02.30 pm -
04.00 pm
Panel 4: Changing Plays: Dickens and the Stage

Chris Louttit (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen):
Dickens on the Victorian Stage: Two East End Adaptations of Bleak House

Robert Tracy (University of California, Berkeley):
“The Frozen Deep: Gad's Hill, Summer 1857

free afternoon and evening
Saturday, 12 June 2010
10.00 am -
11.00 am
Panel 5: Changing Style

Malcolm Andrews (University of Kent at Canterbury):
“The Passing of the Pickwick Moment

Matthias Bauer (University of Tübingen):
“Stylistic Transformations and Dickens’s Changing World”

11.00 am -
11.30 am
coffee break
11:30 am -
12:30 am
Panel 6: Changing Literature

Norbert Lennartz (University of Würzburg):
“Radical Dickens: Dickens and the Tradition of Romantic Radicalism”

Herbert Foltinek (University of Vienna):
“Modern Characters in the Late Novels of Charles Dickens”

12.30 am -
02.00 pm
lunch break
02.00 pm -
03.00 pm
Panel 7: Changing Perspectives

Michael Hollington (University of New South Wales, Sydney,
and Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail):
“Dickens, Sala and the London Arcades”

Nancy Metz (Virginia Tech):
“‘The Tremendous Potency of the Small’: Dickens, the Individual and
Social Change in a Post-America, Post-Catastrophist Age”

afternoon programme
Trip to Völklingen steel works (World Cultural Heritage Site, www.voelklinger-huette.org/en/welcome/), including guided tour and Dickens reading by students of Saarland University
evening programme
Dickens Dinner