FRIDAY,
April 16

1:00-4:00
Registration

English Dept: Goldwin Smith Hall, Room 250

3:30  Welcome 

English
Department Lounge: Goldwin Smith 258

3:45-5:15
Men of Faith 

 Statler Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms

Chair:
Sarah Heidt (University of Rochester)

• Karen Boiko (MIT): “Scottish Religion and
  Nineteenth-Century Politics of Reform”
• Dawn Coleman (Stanford
  University): “‘The Power of the
  Preacher’: Charismatic Clergy and the Cultural Authority of the
  Victorian Novel”
• William McKelvy
  (Washington University): “Reading the Clerical
  Revival: Daniel Deronda’s Ecclesiastical Tone”

5:30-6:30  Reception

English Dept Lounge: Goldwin Smith 258

6:30
Dinner on your own

SATURDAY,
April 17

8:30-9:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast

Statler Hotel:
Conference Foyer

9:30-11:30  Keynote Panel: “The
Sacred and the Profane: Intersections”

Statler
Hotel: Yale & Princeton Rooms

Moderator:
Jonathan Loesberg (American University)

• Suzy Anger (University of British Columbia)
• Ellis
  Hanson (Cornell University)
• Pamela
  Thurschwell (University College London)

11:45-1:30
Business Luncheon

Statler Hotel: Taylor A & B

1:45-3:15
Session A:  The Problem of Belief

Statler Hotel: Princeton Room

Chair:
Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College)

• Daniel J. Cook (UC Davis):
  “Froude’s Post-Christian Apostate and the Uneven Development of
  Unbelief”
• Daniel S. Malachuk (Daniel Webster
  College): “Victorian Studies, Matthew Arnold, and the Will of God”
• John T. Netland (Calvin College):
  “Revisiting Victorian Biblical Hermeneutics”

1:45-3:15
Session B: Science and Experimentation

Statler Hotel: Yale Room

Chair: Anna Henchman (Harvard
University)

• Alice Jenkins (University of Glasgow): “Chaotic
  cosmologies: early nineteenth-century Biblical epics and the space of
  experiment”
• Renee Fox (Princeton University): “‘Naught Could Avail’:
  Religion, the Great Experiment, and the Hopelessness of Faith in Bram
  Stoker’s The Jewel of Seven Stars”

SATURDAY,
April 17 (cont’d)

3:30-5:30
Textual Conversions

  Statler Hotel: Yale &
Princeton Rooms

Chair:
Carole Silver (Yeshiva University)

• Maura Ives (Texas A&M University):
  “Christina Rossetti’s Hymns: The Intersection of Victorian
  Religion, Poetry, and Music”
• Michael Meeuwis (Rice University):
  “Hearts of Oak, Lashed with the Best or Worst: Hopkins, The Wreck
  of the Deutschland, and the Victorian Nautical Melodrama”
• Vincent A. Lankewish (Pennsylvania
  State University): “Simeon Solomon’s Song of Songs”
• Sarah Russo (Syracuse University): “In the Flesh: Spirituality and
  Femininity in Julia Margaret Cameron’s Religious Photographs”

 6:00-7:00
Cocktails (Cash Bar)

Statler
Hotel: Rowe Room

 7:00-9:30
Banquet

 Statler
Hotel: Taylor A & B

The Cornell Savoyards
Perform Gilbert & Sullivan’s Trial by Jury

SUNDAY
April 18

8:30-9:30
Continental Breakfast

Statler
Hotel: Conference Foyer

 9:00-10:30
Forum on Teaching Victorian Religion

Statler Hotel: Yale &
Princeton Rooms

Moderator:
Don Ulin (University of Pittsburgh)

• Mary Wilson Carpenter (Queen’s University)
• Carol M. Engelhardt (Wright State University)
• Uli Knoepflmacher (Princeton University)
• Frederick S. Roden (University of Connecticut)
• Kathleen Vejvoda (Bridgewater State College)

10:45-12:15
Session A:  Religion and Empire

Statler
Hotel: Princeton Room

Chair:
Cara Murray (CUNY Graduate Center)

• Heidi Kaufman (University of Delaware):
  “Holy Christian Empire: The Sacred and Profane in Charlotte
  Tonna’s Judah’s Lion”
• Janet Larson (Rutgers University): “Nightingale in Egypt: Sacred
  and/or Profane?”
• J. Jeffrey Franklin (University of Colorado at Denver):  “The
  Life of Buddha in Late-Victorian England”

10:45-12:15
Session B: Secular Devotions

Statler
Hotel: Yale Room

Chair: Talia Schaffer (Queen’s College CUNY)

• Charles LaPorte (University of Michigan): “The Divine William and
  the Secular Bible: Victorian Bardolatry and the Higher Criticism”
• Maria LaMonaca (Columbia College): “A Home That Is Not a Home:
  Victorian Women’s Representations of the Catholic Convent”
• Tatiana M. Holway (Stonehill College): “‘With Reverence Be It
  Spoken’: Allegories of Credit that ‘Speak Otherwise’ about
  Debt”

12:30
Conference Wrap-up

Statler Hotel: Yale
& Princeton Rooms

• Anne
  Humpherys (City University of New York)
• Terri
  Hasseler (Bryant College)