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Thursday, 10 June 2010
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06.00 pm |
Keynote by Michael Slater: “House's The Dickens World Revisited” and opening dinner
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Friday, 11 June 2010
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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”
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10:30 am - 11:00 am |
coffee break |
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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” |
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12.30 pm - 02.00 pm |
lunch break |
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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
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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
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free afternoon and evening |
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Saturday, 12 June 2010
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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”
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11.00 am - 11.30 am |
coffee break |
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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” |
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12.30 am - 02.00 pm |
lunch break |
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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” |
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afternoon programme |
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evening programme |
Dickens Dinner |