8.30-9.00

Registration

9.00-9.15

Welcome

9.15-10.45

Panel 1

Brandon Chua (HKU)
‘Distance, Urban Space and Fanny Burney’

Sally Jin (Chinese U)
‘History, Time and the Aesthetics of the Present in Keats’

Pauline Liang (Chinese U)
‘Mary Shelley’s Dialectic Sublime: Remedying the Distance between the Sublime and the Beautiful’

10.45-11.00

break

11.00-12.30

Keynote 1

Sara Thornton (Paris U Diderot)
‘Dreams of Proximity and the Drive for Interiority in the Nineteenth Century’

12.30-2.00

lunch

2.00-3.30

Show and Tell 1

Alfie Bown (HSMC)
‘Laughter, Distance and Solidarity in the 1830s’

Anneliese Ng (HKU)
‘Capitalism and Sympathy: A Close Reading of Labour Relations in Mary Barton’

Natalie Mo (HKU)
‘An Absence of Textual Body: Reading Sarah from The Law and the Lady’

Niketa Narayan (HKU)
‘Fergus Hume and the Horizon of Legitimacy’

Haewon Hwang (HKU)
‘Translating the Russians: Constance Garnett’

Liz Ho (HKU)
‘Manga, Steampunk, Neo-Victorianism and Asia’

3.30-3.45

break

3.45-5.15

Panel 2

Jay Parker (HSMC)
‘Waverley, Don Quixote and Conversations across Historical Distance’

Miles Link (Fudan U)
‘Milton, Darwin and the Disenchanted World’

Nan Zhang (Fudan U)
‘The Softness of the Distances’: Connecting Old and New Liberalism in Howards End’

9.15-10.45

Panel 3

Olivia Xu (HKU)
‘Vision and Knowledge in The Portrait of a Lady’

Annise Lam (City U)
‘Remedying Distance between Science and Spiritualism in Florence Marryat’s There Is No Death’

Jessica Valdez (HKU)
‘“Our Impending Doom”: Death, Seriality and the Late-Victorian Proto-Dystopian Novel’

10.45-11.00

Break

11.00-12.30

Keynote 2

Clare Pettitt (KCL)
‘Distant Contemporaries: Seriality and Revolution in 1848’

12.30-2.00

lunch

2.00-3.30

Show and Tell 2

Stuart Christie (Baptist U)
‘The Waterman and Lighterman’s Pipe’

Marco Wan (HKU)
‘Literary Evidence and Legal Reading in the Oscar Wilde Trials’

Julia Kuehn (HKU)
‘Realism across the Channel: Anglo-German Connections’

Emily Ridge (Education U)
‘A Kind of Open Letter: Reflections on a Postcard from Salvador Dalí to Stefan Zweig, circa 1938’

Kendall Johnson (HKU)
‘US Representations of a Global Commodity in the Treaty Port Era’

3.30-3.45

break

3.45-5.15

Panel 4

Alex Watson (Nagoya U)
‘The Garb of Fiction: Edgar Allen Poe’s Self-Undermining Paratexts for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket (1838)’

Carolyn Lau (Chinese U)
‘Thomas de Quincey, John Thomson and Hong Kong: A Relay’

Klaudia Lee (City U)
‘From Britain to Hong Kong: Architectural Space, the Everyday and the Colonial Imagination’

5.15-5.45

Summing Up