Friday April 5 – Sunday April 7
College of the Holy Cross
Small group dinners Friday, April 5 at 7:30pm: Sign up!
Google maps link to Rehm Library (in Smith Hall)
The pre-conference visit to the American Antiquarian society will take place on Friday, April 5 at 12:15pm. Meet in the lobby at 185 Salisbury Street, Worcester, and look for Mark Taylor of NVSA. A shuttle will leave AAS for Holy Cross at 1:15pm.
All panels will take place at the Rehm Library in Smith Hall at College of the Holy Cross. There is a google maps link above (the pin is Smith Hall despite not being named as such).
Here is a link to directions to Holy Cross and Campus maps from the Holy Cross Website.
Click for a maps link to the free parking lot at Holy Cross (not the hotels!). It is located between the Hogan Campus Center and the Luth Athletic complex.
Finding the parking lot: From Southbridge St, go up College St past the first entrance (on Linden Lane) and turn left at the second entrance, following signs for the Hogan Campus Center and Luth Athletic Complex. You can park anywhere between the Hogan center and the Athletic complex at the top of the hill.
To Smith Hall from the parking lot: Walk down the exterior staircase to the right of the Hogan Campus Center and follow the path to the right toward Smith Hall. Rehm Library is on the right as you enter Smith Hall.
Registration
You can still register here. The Google form will redirect you to the NVSA PayPal site for donations to make your payment, so please calculate and remember what you owe before clicking submit!
We hope some of you take this opportunity to donate to NVSA so that we can continue to extend support to the organization and graduate student mentorship in particular.
Transportation and Shuttle
There will be a shuttle making runs between the Hilton Garden and the Hogan Campus Center at Holy Cross. The departure and arrival schedule is linked above.
Driving to Worcester is the easiest option (and there is free parking on the college campus; the hotels will charge a small fee). Those who are able to offer a ride, or who are seeking one, can add their information to this spreadsheet and contact one another to make arrangements. The form is more easily accessible through a laptop or desktop than a phone.
From Boston: From South Station in Boston the commuter train is the best option. There are also buses. Compare options and book tickets here.
From Logan Airport: From the airport you can go to South Station in Boston and then take the train. There is also a shuttle service operated by Knight’s from Logan to Worcester (including direct service to various hotels).
From New York City: Multiple bus lines run daily routes to Worcester.
Hotels
A limited number of rooms have been reserved at a discounted rate at the following hotels in downtown Worcester. The hotels are a 10-minute drive to the Rehm Library and a shuttle will be provided. Please reserve your hotel rooms as soon as possible as the rate will expire on the dates specified for each hotel, after which they will increase significantly.
Note: There are a limited number of rooms with 2 queen beds available at the hotels. If you are planning to travel alone, please book a king room so that those who need to share a room have the opportunity to do so. If you are experiencing any problems on this front, please contact Simon Reader at simon.reader@csi.cuny.edu
HILTON GARDEN INN WORCESTER (click “special rates” then use group code: NEVSA). Discount expires MARCH 15. King rooms and a few double queen rooms.
COURTYARD MARRIOTT WORCESTER Discount expires MARCH 6. King rooms and a few double queen rooms.
Program
Friday, April 5
12:15 – 1:15 Tour of the American Antiquarian Society
2:00 – 2:15 Welcome
2:15 – 4:00 Panel 1: Exchange
- Olivia Lingyi Xu, “The Labor of Translation: Lin Shu’s Reinvention of David Copperfield“
- Riley McGuire, “A Voice for Print: Vocal Disability as a Catalyst for Authorial Labor in Victorian Life Writing”
- Abigail Droge, “College Students, Industry, and Literature: Nineteenth- and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives”
4:00 – 4:15 Coffee
4:15 – 6:00 Panel 2: Special Panel on Academic Labor
- Dennis Hogan, Haverford College
- Ruth McAdams, Skidmore College
- Paula Krebs, Modern Language Association
6:00 – 7:00 Welcome Reception
7:30 Dinner on your own (stay tuned for sign-up for small group dinners)
Saturday, April 6
10:00 – 12:00 Keynote Panel in Honor of Carol Silver
- Amanpal Garcha, Ohio State University
- Anna Kornbluh, University of Illinois Chicago
- Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser University
12:00 – 1:45 Boxed Lunch
2:00 – 3:45 Panel 3: Data and Technology
- Sierra Eckert, “Marx’s Monstrous Statistics”
- Kevin King, “Carlyle, Marx, and the Nineteenth-Century Writer as Weaver”
- Milan Terlunen, “Working Our Way Through Long Novels: Scholarly Quotation as Collective Information Labor”
3:45 – 4:15 Coffee
4:15 – 6:00 Panel 4: Pleasure
- Cheryl Wilson, “Art and Effort on the Victorian Stage: The Labor of English Ballet Girls”
- Joe McLaughlin, “In the Thrall of Capital: Dracula and the Erotics of Employment”
- Corey Risinger, “‘Work[ing]’ with Victorian Maidservant Hannah Cullwick On Her Own Terms”
7:00 Banquet and Awards at Volturno Privado (72 Shrewsbury Street, Worcester)
Sunday, April 7
9:15 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Panel 5: “Dream” Jobs
- Will Glovinsky, “Victorian Degrowth Now: From Mill’s ‘Stationary State’ to The Right to be Lazy“
- Ryan Carroll, “Toiling for the Highest: Transcendental Information Work in Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus“
- Jonathan Dick, “The Ruskin Colony”
11:30 – 12:00 Wrap Up
- Jacob Romanow
Northeast Victorian Studies Association 