• Kate Newey, ‘Pantomime Utopias – Around the World and Back Again’
• Mandy Treagus, ‘“The Enemy of Romance”: Fictions of the Pacific in the Fin de Siècle’
• Sharin Schroeder, ‘She and He: Travel Fiction, Borrowing, and Literary Plagiarism’

1B: New Women and New Mobilities
(Room 315; chair: Megan Brown)

• Simon Abernethy, ‘Women on the Railways in Greater London 1870-1914’
• Elaine Pigeon, ‘The New Woman’s Chinese Sisters: From Cinderella to Anti-foot-binding Campaigners’
• Carolyn Lake, ‘Agency through Mobility: Young Women and Labour Fiction in late-Victorian London’

1C: Transporting Ideas: Education, Democracy, Domesticity and Aesthetics
(Room 316; chair: Jock Macleod)

• Sheila Cordner, ‘Transporting “Cram”’
• Lucy Hartley, ‘Importing Democracy, Exporting Liberty’
• Lesa Scholl, ‘Hungry for a New Home, Transporting Domesticity in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton (1848) and Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor (1851-52)’

• Song Gang, ‘The Victorian Remaking of the Celestial Empire: Images of Late Qing China from the Illustrated London News’
• Han-sheng Wang, ‘Importing Heathen Savagery to the Metropole: Empire, Missionary Writing, and Ethnography in George Leslie MacKay’s and William Campbell’s Memoirs about Nineteenth-Century Formosa’
• Julia Kuehn, ‘Cosmopolites, Tourists or Imperial Daughters? Constance Cumming and Isabella Bird in Hong Kong, 1878’

2B: The Public and the Private
(Room 315; chair: Barbara Pauk)

• Joanne Wilkes, ‘Intellectual or Physical Transport? The Case of Elizabeth Julia Hasell and Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine’
• Yi-Ching Teng, ‘Walking in the Dark: Flâneurs in The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’
• Leanne Page, ‘Transporting Secrets, Transgressing Boundaries: The Fraught Pockets of the Sensation Genre’

2C: Sensationalist Wilkie Collins
(Room 316; chair: Haewon Hwang)

• Jessica Valdez, ‘Transporting Lydia Gwilt: Wilkie Collins’s Armadale and Victorian Crime News’
• Wen-lin Lan, ‘Transfer of Malice: Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone’
• Christine Choi Williams, ‘“The Lady is Ugy!”: Sensational Humor and the Mobilization of the Reader’

• Ross Forman, ‘Asian Foods, Western Tastes: The Transportation of Chinese Cuisines across “Greater Britain”’
• Cecilia Leong-Salobir, ‘Cookbooks in Transit: Transporting and Translating Culinary Practices in Colonial Asia’
• Alexis Easley, ‘The Bourgeois Body at Home and Abroad: Tattooing in Illustrated British Periodicals of the 1890s’

3B: Transporting George Eliot
(Room 315; chair: Joanne Wilkes)

• Stephen Hancock, ‘Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Love and George Eliot’s Welcoming Soul’
• Oliver Lovesey, ‘Going Glocal: Transport in George Eliot’
• Margaret Harris, ‘Marian Evans Transported: Fictional Recreations of George Eliot’

3C: From Beginnings to Endings; or, Rail Tracks Above and Below
(Room 316; chair: Simon Abernethy)

• Jason Hall, ‘Networking the New Prosody: Railway Measurement and Mid-Victorian Metrics’
• Haewon Hwang, ‘Signal Failure and “Diabolical Plots”: Transporting Terror in the London Underground’
• Nicola Kirkby, ‘“For ever quiet Passengers”: Post-Mortem Travel and the Necropolitan Terminus’

• Muireann O’Cinneide, ‘Wheels Coming Off the Empire: Transport, Flight and Gender in Victorian Accounts of the 1857-8 Indian Uprising’
• Tara Puri, ‘“Our Indian Sisters”: Victorian Women’s Magazines in India’
• Gargi Gangopadhyay, ‘From the Dandy to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railways: Engineering a Hill Station in Colonial India’

4B: Moving Dickens
(Room 315; chair: Cathy Waters)

• Emily Ridge, ‘Dickens’s Luggage: Forms and Fictions of Transportability in Bleak House’
• James Mussell, ‘Whirling Wheels and Moving Lessons: Moving Things in Dickens’s Mugby Junction’
• Klaudia Lee, ‘A Tale of Two Cities, Politics and Chinese History’

4C: Issues of Empire and Writing the Settler Colonies
(Room 316; chair: Anna Johnston)

• Billy Bin Feng Huang, ‘Transported into the Bosom of the Empire? Rethinking how Arthur Conan Doyle Persuades his Readers of British Imperialism in “The Speckled Band”’
• Michelle Smith, ‘Importing and Transforming Narratives of Colonial Danger: The Natural Environments of Australia and New Zealand in Children’s Literature, 1862-1899’
• Tamara Wagner, ‘Pat Endings and Failed Emigration: Transporting the “Superfluous” in Victorian Fiction’

• Megan Brown, ‘Louisa Atkinson: Transporting Botany Physically and Metaphorically’
• Anna Johnston, ‘Travelling Readers, Reading Travellers: Globalisation and Textual Cultures’
• Meg Tasker, ‘First Impressions of “Home”’

5B: (New) Women and the Bicycle
(Room 315; chair: Duc Dau)

• Clare Mendes, ‘The Cycling New Woman in the 1890s Woman’s Press’
• Eva Chen, ‘Its Prohibitive Cost: the Bicycle, the New Woman and Commodity Display’
• Madeleine Seys, ‘The Young Lady in Grey, the Draper and The Wheels of Chance: Traversing Narratives of Gender and Social Mobility in H. G. Wells’ Cycling Adventure’

5C: Cross-Channel and Transatlantic Travels
(Room 316; chair: Margaret Harris)

• Catherine Waters and Angela Dunstan, ‘New Communication Technologies for Old? The Victorian Special Correspondent and the 1865 Atlantic Cable Expedition’
• Barbara Pauk, ‘Cross-Channel Exchanges: Mary Mohl’s History of Women’s Roles in French Society’
• Claire Thomas, ‘“Not to Embellish the Gallery of some Affluent Nation”: The Eastlakes, Acquisitiveness, and the Transportation of Italian Art to Britain’s National Gallery’

• Jenny Huangfu Day, ‘Passengers of the British Empire: Qing Diplomats and Travelers on Transoceanic Tours’
• HollyGale Milette, ‘Limehouse: A Sino-British Interchange on the Victorian Water-Highway?’
• Elizabeth Chang, ‘Transporting Chinese Landscape’

6B: The Railway
(Room 315; chair: Nicola Kirkby)

• Christopher Donaldson, ‘Transport and Tourism in Victorian Lakeland: Texts, Places and GIS’
• Hannah Scally, ‘The Concept of Transport in the Commercial Carrying Trade, 1850-1900’
• Deborah Logan, ‘Harriet Martineau on the Road: Corduroy Roads, Arrogant Camels, and Railway Smashes’

6C: On and Off the Ground
(Room 316; chair: Mandy Treagus)

• Judith Johnston, ‘Pedestrian Poetics: Transports of Delight’
• Abbie Garrington, ‘Sublimity to Bathos: Literary Mountaineering’s Rise and Fall’
• Ainslie Robinson, ‘Getting off the Ground: Aerial Stunts and Other Experimental Feats of Daring in the Nineteenth Century’

• John Shufelt, ‘Bitter Cargo: the “Coolie Trade” of Amoy, 1847-1867’
• Ailise Bulfin, ‘Colonial Authors and the Dissemination of the “Yellow Peril”: the Transport of a People and of a Racist Myth’
• Douglas Kerr, ‘Kipling in China: Empires of Noise’

7B: Rapture, Suffering and Subjectivity in Aesthetics
(Room 316; chair: Kelly Tse)

• Duc Dau, ‘Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and The Song of Songs’
• Nikolai Endres, ‘Wagnerian Transport: Richard Wagner and Oscar Wilde’
• Chi-she Li, ‘Mobility and Narrative Voice’