Monday, 13 May
Tuesday, 14 May
Wednesday, 15 May
Thursday, 16 May

Monday, 13 May 2019

 

8:45-9:30 Registration, Packet Pick-up, and Coffee (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Beit Maiersdorf)
9:30-10:00 Greetings and Welcome Remarks
Michael Segal, Dean, Faculty of Humanities, The Hebrew University
Ilana Pardes, Director, Center for Literary Studies, The Hebrew University
Galia Benziman (The Hebrew University) and Zoe Beenstock (University of Haifa)
10:00-11:30

Session 1

Panel 1A: PLACING DICKENS
Moderator: David Paroissien (University of Massachusetts-Amherst and University of Buckingham)
John O. Jordan (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Perfect Storm: Mapping the Weather in David Copperfield
Efraim Sicher (Ben-Gurion University), “London as the Capital of Modernity: Mapping Discourses of Urban Realism in Dickens”
Leon Litvack (Queen’s University Belfast), “Mapping Celebrity Culture and the Para-Social Relationship: New Dickens Letters to Benjamin Hotine”

PANEL 1B: RELIGION AND SECULARISM
Moderator: Sanford Budick (The Hebrew University)
Sara Maurer (University of Notre Dame), “Empire of Address: The Global Imagination and the Rhetorical Situation of the Religious Tract”
Ilana Blumberg (Bar-Ilan University), “What about the Tullivers? Remapping Secularization to Include a ‘Saving Ignorance’”
Channah Damatov (The Hebrew University), “George Eliot’s Rereading of the Book of Esther: Daniel Deronda and Modern Jewish Geographies”

 11:30-12:00 Coffee Break
 12:00-13:30

Session 2

PANEL 2A: LONDON UNDERWORLDS
Moderator: Naomi Mandel (The Hebrew University)
Michael Hollington (Cambridge University), “Mapping the Thames in the Fiction of Charles Dickens”
Noa Kaufman (Tel Aviv University), “The Mapping of the London Irish”
Magdalena Pypeć (University of Warsaw), “London and Cloisterham as an Imperial ‘Heart of Darkness’ in Dickens’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood

PANEL 2B: BRITISH TRAVELLERS
Moderator: Ruben Borg (The Hebrew University)
Goldie Morgentaler (University of Lethbridge), “‘A Run Through Canada’: Dickens and Colonialism in American Notes
Serena Vianello (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), “Visions of Otherness: Gertrude Bell’s and Ella Sykes’s Translations of Persian Spaces, Places and Landscapes”
Richa Dwor (Douglas College), “Mapping Jewish Tastes in the Travel and Cookery Writing of Judith Montefiore”

 13:30-15:00 Lunch
 15:00-16:45

Session 3

PANEL 3A: ENVISIONING THE HOLY LAND
Moderator: Meri-Jane Rochelson (Florida International University)
Gal Manor (Levinsky College), “Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and the ‘Kingdom of Israel’”
Jude V. Nixon (Salem State University), “Mapping the Holy Land and the Clwyd Valley: Hopkins’s St. Beuno’s Sermon”
Maria Granic (Benedictine University Mesa), “Duty Bound to Zion: Individual and National Future in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan (The Open University), “Empire and Nationalism in Vladimir Jabotinsky’s Samson

PANEL 3B: VICTORIAN MUSICALS
Moderator: Galia Benziman (The Hebrew University)
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman (Louisiana State University), “Musical Mapping: The Pickwick Papers from Burletta to Broadway”
Oded Heilbronner (Shenkar College for Art & Design and The Hebrew University), “The Beatles as the Last Stage of Victorian Popular Culture: The Case of the Music Hall”
Jeffrey Spear (New York University) and Avanthi Meduri (Roehampton University), “Transnational Translations of the Subaltern Dancer in Nineteenth-Century British India”

 16:45-17:15 Coffee Break
 17:15-18:45  KEYNOTE LECTURE: Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
“Global Circulation and the Long Nineteenth Century”
Moderator: Leona Toker (The Hebrew University)
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Tuesday, 14 May 2019

 

8:45-9:15 Morning Coffee, Beit Maiersdorf
9:15-10:45

Session 4

PANEL 4A: FICTIONAL DOUBLINGS
Moderator: Jennifer Lewin (University of Haifa)
Andrew Elfenbein (University of Minnesota), “Re-Mapping the Romantic Legacy”
Sarah Comyn (University College Dublin), “Southern Doubles: Life as a Comparative Exercise”
Carra Glatt (Bar-Ilan University), “From —Shire to Wessex: Mapping Imaginary Nineteenth-Century Locations”

PANEL 4B: TIME IS PLACE
Moderator: Reut Barzilai (The Hebrew University)
Kristine Swenson (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “Mapping Imperial Skulls: Phrenological Fictions and Race”
Lee Michael-Berger (The Open University and Beit Berl College), “A Small Spitalfields Tragedy: Mapping Narratives, Identities, and Literary Conventions”
Madeline Boden (University of York), “Take a left at Egypt to get to the Renaissance: The Crystal Palace, Sydenham and the Construction of Aesthetic Histories”

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-13:00

Session 5

PANEL 5A: NEO/ POST-VICTORIANS
Moderator: Alex Feldman (University of Haifa)
Gary Rees (Bemidji State University), “Remapping the Past: Alternative History in Neo- Victorian Graphic Fiction”
Hannah Landes (The Hebrew University), “Joseph Conrad’s First-Command Tales”
Kees de Vries (Groningen University), “Lines in the (Neo)Victorian London Fog: Mapping Moral Decay in Wilde and Waters”

PANEL 5B: IMPERIAL LEGACIES
Moderator: Yael Levin (The Hebrew University)
Oded Steinberg (Ben-Gurion University), “Victorian Perceptions of Historical Migrations”
Porscha Fermanis (University College Dublin), “Mapping Imperial Subjects: Malay and Chinese Diasporas in the Straits Chinese Magazine
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (University of Haifa) and Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben-Gurion University), “Only Connect? Postcolonial Fantasies of Pre-Partition Harmony in British India and Palestine”

13:00-14:30 Lunch
14:30-17:00 “Uni/vided Jerusalem”: A Political and Historical Study Tour of Jerusalem
Guided by Ir-Amim. *Tour is free – requires advanced registration
17:00-18:45 Bus Trip to Haifa
Hotel check-in at the Haifa Bay View
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Wednesday, 15 May 2019

 

9:00-9:20 Registration and Coffee, University of Haifa, Eshkol Tower
9:20-9:45 Welcome Remarks and Announcements
9:45-11:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE: Robert L. Patten (Rice University)
“Mapping Dickens”
Moderator: John O. Jordan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
11:15-11:45 Coffee Break
11:45-13:15

Session 6

PANEL 6A: HOLY QUESTS
Panel sponsored by the Haifa Center for Mediterranean History
Moderator: Zur Shalev (University of Haifa)
Zoe Beenstock (University of Haifa), “Anglicizing the Holy Land: Richard Brothers and William Blake Plan Jerusalem”
Milette Shamir (Tel Aviv University), “Imperial ‘Emptiness’ and Mapping the Land of the Bible”
Michael Ledger-Lomas (King’s College), “HMS Bacchante: Monarchy and the Mapping of the Late Victorian World”

PANEL 6B: BEYOND ENGLAND
Moderator: Ayelet Langer (University of Haifa)
Nelli Kholtobina (Ukrainian Catholic University), “The Image of Russia in British Travel Narratives (Edward Daniel Clarke 1769-1822)”
Amy Garnai (Tel Aviv University), “Thomas Holcroft and Joseph Haydn: Mapping an Unlikely Friendship”
Zachary Garber (University of Oxford), “Nostalgia, Exile, and Scott’s Chronicles of the Canongate

13:15-15:30 Lunch, the German Colony Haifa
15:30-18:30 Tour, Haifa’s Golden Age: Jews and Arabs during the British Mandate
Guide: Walid Karkabi, Director of Building Conservation Department, Haifa Municipality
*Tour is free – requires advanced registration
18:30-20:00 Dinner, Haifa Port
*Bus service is provided to all destinations and back to the hotel
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Thursday, 16 May 2019

 

8:45-9:15 Morning Coffee, Eshkol Tower
9:15-10:45

Session 7

PANEL 7A: LOOKING BACK AT THE VICTORIANS
Moderator: Noam Flinker (University of Haifa)
Leona Toker (The Hebrew University), “Literary Stereography: Nabokov Drawing and Reading Maps (England, Dublin, Ethiopia)”
Thaïs Miller (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Text and Territory: Reinterpreting History and Western Expansion in E. L. Doctorow’s Welcome to Hard Times
Murray Baumgarten (University of California, Santa Cruz), “Mapping Heshel’s Kingdom: Jacobson’s Split/Screen Family Album”

PANEL 7B: BETWEEN STASIS AND MOBILITY
Moderator: Miryam Sivan (University of Haifa)
Jessica Durgan (Bemidji State University), “Mapping the World: Domesticity and The Travel Serial in Household Words and All the Year Round
Sarah Gilead (University of Haifa), “Gender and Journeys: Trollope’s He Knew He Was Right
Akiko Takei (Chukyo University, Nagoya), “Dangerous Men and Attractive Women: USA and Americans in Sherlock Holmes

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45

Session 8

PANEL 8A: FINDING THE EMPIRE WITHIN
Moderator: Daphna Erdinast-Vulcan (University of Haifa)
Francesca Orestano (University of Milan), “East is East: Mapping China in Dickensian London”
Meyrav Koren-Kuik (Tel Aviv University), “Mapping Moreau: Charting the Psyche of Empire”
Lucy Hartley (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “A Colony in the Metropole: Whitechapel and the Poverty Problem from a Cartographic Perspective”

PANEL 8B: RACIAL GENEALOGIES
Moderator: Yosefa Raz (University of Haifa)
Ruth Wenske (The Hebrew University), “Constructing Commonality in Mary Seacole’s The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Daniel Novak (University of Alabama), “Mapping Victoria’s ‘Accursed Race’: Elizabeth Gaskell, the Cagots, and Racial Geography”
Yael Maurer (Tel Aviv University), “Mapping Color: Wilkie Collins’ Poor Miss Finch and Racial Blindness”

12:45-13:30 Buffet Lunch
13:30-14:45 Concluding Round-Table with Ayelet Ben-Yishai (University of Haifa), Andrew Elfenbein (University of Minnesota), Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter), Robert L. Patten (Rice University), and the audience.
Moderator: Zoe Beenstock (University of Haifa)
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Generous support for this conference has been provided by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, The University of Haifa, The Dickens Project of the University of California, The Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Haifa, The Department of English at the Hebrew University, The Center for Literary Studies at the Hebrew University, The Institute for Literatures at the Hebrew University, The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Haifa, and The Haifa Center for Mediterranean History.