Programme

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Friday, 24 March

From 13:00 Registration

Philo I

Lobby (P5)

14:00-14:30

Welcome and Introduction

Sarah Wegener & Wolfgang Funk

Philo II

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14:30-16:00

Keynote

Prof. Hilary Marland (Warwick): “‘The Protracted Funeral of Puerperal Insanity’? Diagnosis, Heredity and Reproduction in Britain c.1900”

Chair: Wolfgang Funk

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16:00-16:30 Coffee Break Lobby
16:30-17:30

Panel 1: Sexuality and Reproduction

Chair: Sarah Wegener

Lorraine Rumson (FU Berlin): “‘Would You Like to Have Your Cunt Pricked?’ Discourses of Virginity and its Loss in Victorian Pornography”

Melissa Sarikaya (Erlangen): "Sexuality and Reproduction in A. Mary F. Robinson’s Poetry“

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19:00

Workshop Dinner

Heiliggeist, Rentengasse 2, 55116 Mainz

 

Saturday, 25 March

9:00-10:30

Panel 2: Pathological Reproductions

Chair: Lorraine Rumson

Louise Benson James (Ghent): “The Menopause and Hysteria in Victorian Medical Texts and Women’s Fiction”

Martina Allen (Frankfurt): “‘The Great Unhinging Agent’: The ‘Disease’ of Drug Addiction as the Birthing of the Other in Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Stoker’s Dracula

Ashni Clayton (Washington): “(Re) Producing the Human: Monstrosity, Artificiality, and the Importance of the Maternal Body in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

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10:30-11:00 Coffee Break  Lobby
11:00-12:00

Panel 3: Reproductions of Nation and Time

Chair: Louise Benson James

Leonie Jungen (Mainz): “‘At such unworthy hands’: Transgenerational (Re-) Productions of the Nation in Scott’s Waverley (1814)”

Sarah Wegener (Mainz): “‘My little Now perpetually’: Michael Field’s Rifts in Reproductive Temporality”

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12:00-14:00 Lunch Break Baron
14:00-15:30

Panel 4: Reproductions of Text and Author

Chair: Martina Allen

Deborah Giggle (East Anglia): “A Crisis of Credibility: Class-Based Impacts of Eugenic Thinking on Socially-Marginalised Authors of the Fin de Siècle”

Mary Elizabeth Gearen (Cambridge): “Textual and Sexual Reproduction in Dracula

Franziska Stolz (Munich): “Patch Works: Rethinking Myths of Creativity in Frankenstein

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15:30-16:00 Coffee Break Lobby
16:00-16:30

Final Discussion and Farewell

Sarah Wegener & Wolfgang Funk

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