Schedule (all panels and keynotes in 3222 Angell Hall):
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Friday, March 21:
1:30 Registration and Welcome
2:00 Scales of Inquiry
- Emily Howard (Michigan): “‘How long shall we be pestered with such trite stuff?’: The Glut of Eighteenth-Century Agricultural Writing and the Scholar’s Labors in the Digital Era”
- Ross Martin (Columbia): “Two Worlds: Game Theory, Literature, and the Interdisciplinary Problem”
3:30 The Scale of Things
- Tracey Hutchings-Goetz (IU-Bloomington): “The World in Your Pocket: Narration, Subjectivity, and the Eighteenth-Century Pocket Globe”
- Alice Tsay (Michigan): “A Marketplace for Mini Miltons: Buying into Cultural Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century England”
4:30 Coffee & Tea
5:00 Keynote Address
Noah Heringman, “Buffon and the Challenges of Scale: Geology & Species in The Epochs of Nature”
6:30 Reception in 1014 Tisch (closed to the public)
Saturday, March 22:
8:30 Registration and Breakfast
9:00 US Scales
- Logan Scherer (Michigan): “Thinking Big by Staying Small: the Triumph of the Local in U.S. Local Color Fiction”
- Evan Lee (MSU): “Measures of Blackness: W.E.B. DuBois and the Fourth Dimension”
- Gregory Ariail (Michigan): “Northern Experiences of Scale in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, ca. 1840-1870”
10:30 Coffee & Tea
11:00 Transnational Scales (Panel Sponsored by ReOrientations)
- Eric Ensley (North Carolina State Univ): “Turning Turk: Materiality, Corporiality, and Cultural Exchange in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s Turkish Embassy Letters”
- Jeffrey Swindle (Michigan): “Schema Renovation: From Social Evolutionism to Modernization Theory”
- Gregory Ariail (Michigan): “Northern Experiences of Scale in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, ca. 1840-1870”
12:15 Lunch
2:00 Global & Transatlantic Scales
- Lauren Eriks (Michigan): “Theater of Empire: Finding Middle Distance in George Eliot’s Middlemarch”
- Katie Piper Greulich (MSU): “Put a Bird on It: Spectral Presences in Olive Schriener’s Revisionary Nature Writing”
- R.C. Thorsby (WSU): “Transportation Technology and Transatlantic Travelogues: Dickens and Trollope in America”
4:00 Keynote Address
Craig Benjamin, “Big History: The History of Everything”