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Day 2: How Victorianists (Might) Talk about Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium sponsored by the Rutgers British Studies Center and Berkeley's Center for British Studies
Friday, February 18, 2022 - 11:15am - 04:45pm
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“The Rutgers British Studies Center and Berkeley’s Center for British Studies are proud to present a two day event on Zoom, “How Victorianists (Might) Talk about Race: An Interdisciplinary Symposium.” To see the Day 1 schedule click here.
Recent years have witnessed renewed emphasis on the study of race in Victorian studies. The aim of this event is to sustain this important conversation by querying the specific connotations that “race” subtends in and through our study of what the field designates as “Victorian." The last several decades have seen groundbreaking work on topics involved in addressing this issue—often in conjunction with feminist studies, postcolonial studies, queer studies, critical race theory, studies of empire, and Indigenous studies, among other key areas of inquiry. In order to refocus attention on the specificity of race in the nineteenth century, speakers will consider its workings along various registers: aesthetic, material, economic, and geopolitical.
DAY 2: Friday February 18, 2022
OPENING REMARKS
Sukanya Banerjee (English, U of California, Berkeley) & Lauren M.E. Goodlad (English/Comparative Literature, Rutgers-New Brunswick)
PANEL 2.1
11:30am-12:50pm EST
Moderator: Daniel Hack (English, U of Michigan)
WAYNE MODEST (Head, Research Center for Material Culture, Rotterdam) TBA
AVIVA BRIEFEL (English/Cinema Studies, Bowdoin College) “Honto’s Shawl: The Fabric Production of Indigenous Ghosts”
PANEL 2.2
1:30-3pm EST
Moderator: Ryan Fong (English, Kalamazoo College)
CAROLINE BRESSEY (Geography, University College London)- “Histories of Anti-Racism and Victorian Studies”
MARY MULLEN (English, Villanova) “Comparison, Colonial Unknowing, & Ireland”
SAREE MAKDISI (English/Comparative Literature, U of California, LA) “Mapping Race & Class in the Metropolis”
CLOSING ROUNDTABLE II
3:30-4:45pm EST
Moderator: Lara Kriegel (English/History, Indiana U, Bloomington)
Zarena Aslami (English, Michigan State)
Catherine Gallagher (Professor Emerita of English, U of California, Berkeley)
Antoinette Burton (Swanlund Chair of History, U of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Robbie Richardson (English, Princeton U)
Alisha Walters (English, Penn State, Abington)
