'Talking History' Interview on Victorian Time conference 18th April Part 2

Victorian Time Conference, Trinity College Dublin,

23rd-24th April, 2010

Victorian literature and art reflects new ways of thinking about time. The increase of commercial enterprise, travel and the arrival of the railway brought about the need for standardised time. A resurgence of interest in history, mythology, folklore and anthropology allowed the Victorians to view themselves as being at the very apex of time. At the fin de siècle, while Victorians were still grappling with concepts of deep evolutionary time, new anxieties emerged over the increased velocity of progress and its implications for the future. Victorian Time is a two-day interdisciplinary conference hosted by Trinity College Dublin. Over the two days, there will be 21 papers and three keynote presentations on Victorian philosophies of time, time-travel, memory, imagined pasts and futures, neo-Victorianism, the fin de siècle, and all aspects of the past, present and future.

Registration fee (including light refreshments): €10

For further details or to register please contact

Dr. Trish Ferguson or Jane Suzanne Carroll at:

victoriantime@gmail.com

Or check out the School of English events page

Keynote Speakers:

Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English University of Kent

Dr Amanda Piesse, Senior Lecturer, Trinity College Dublin

Professor Nicholas Daly, Head of School of English, Drama and Film, Chair of Modern English and American Literature, University College Dublin,

Panel Sessions

Panel 1: Past, Present, Future. Room 2037, Robert Emmet Theatre
Chair: Mr. Justice Adrian Hardiman
Professor Ciaran Brady (Trinity College Dublin), "The Experience of Time in the Historical and Fictional Writings of James Anthony Froude"
Bethany Layne (University of Leeds), "Henry James, and a 'palpable, imaginable, visitable past'
Dr Jenny McDonnell (Trinity College Dublin), "Brave New Worlds: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon and New Zealand Time"

Panel 2a: The Past and Pending. Room 2041B, Teatar Mhairtin Ui Chadhain
Chair: Dr Trish Ferguson

Wendy Sijnesael (University of Bristol), "Constructing Time: Alma Tadema in the Villa Borghese"
Dr Caroline Sumpter (Queen's University Belfast), "Time's Cycle and Time's Spiral: Social Prediction in Richard Jefferies and William Morris"
Dr Jim Shanahan (Trinity College Dublin), "Fenian Time: John Hill’s Ninety-Eight (1897) and the Eternal Present"
Catriona Kirby (Trinity College Dublin,) "'The World is Getting Old'; How Marie Corelli imagined the past and invented the future during the Victorian Fin de Siecle"

Panel 2b: Philosophies of Time. Room 2037, Robert Emmet Theatre
Chair: Dr Jarlath Killeen
Dr Aintzaine Legarreta Mentxata (Independent) "The Art of Wasting time: Oscar Wilde and Radical Victorian Lounging"
Danny Gabelman (University of St. Andrews), "'If you knew time as I do': Fantasy Time in Carroll's Wonderland and MacDonald's Fairy Tales"
Stefan Fisher-Høyrem (Oxford Brookes University), "Secularization and the Multiple Times of Victorian Modernity"
Miles Link (Trinity College Dublin), "H.G. Wells's Vision of Science's Role in the Future"

Panel 3a: Time and Narrative Crisis. Room 2041B, Teatar Mhairtin Ui Chadhain
Chair: Dr Deirdre McFeely
Dr Dara Downey (Trinity College Dublin), "Where I'm Writing From: The Impossible Space/Time of the Nineteenth-Century American First-Person Narrator"
Dr Edwina Keown (Trinity College Dublin), "The End of Mr Y, Neo-Victorianism and literary time-travel"
David Shackleton (Oxford University), "Deep Time in H.G. Wells' The Time Machine"

Panel 3b: Neo-Victorianism. Room 2037, Robert Emmet Theatre
Chair: Jane Carroll
Antoinette Curtin (Trinity College Dublin), "The Neo-Victorian Artefact: Reading Alan Moore's Time Machines"
Dr Sorcha Ní Fhlainn (Trinity College Dublin), "'Back in time': DeLoreans, Locomotives and Time Machines - H.G. Wells' The Time Machine and the Back to the Future Trilogy"
Dr Harvey O'Brien (University College Dublin), "'The Future isn't what you thought': Nicholas Meyer's Time After Time (1979)"

Panel 4: Victorians and the End of Time. Room 2041B, Teatar Mhairtin Ui Chadhain
Chair: Dr Fionnuala Dillane

Dr Daragh Downes (Trinity College Dublin), "Egregious Time in 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood'"
Ailise Bulfin, (Trinity College Dublin), "'A thousand weird forefingers pointing ... to the moment of doom': The 'Apocalyptic Imaginary' in the works of M.P Shiel"
Dr Darryl Jones (Trinity College Dublin), "The Death of the Sun"

Victorian Time Conference Schedule 23rd-24th April

Friday April 23rd
15.00: Walking Tour of Victorian Dublin. Meet at campanile. Dress for Dublin weather!

18.00: Keynote Lecture - Michael Irwin, Emeritus Professor of English, University of Kent, "Hanging on in Extra Time: The Tactics of Thomas Hardy". Venue: Room 2041B Teatar Mhairtin Ui Chadhain

19.00: Wine reception hosted by the M.Phil in Popular Literature. Venue TBC

Saturday April 24th
9.00: Registration - Arts Block Foyer.
9.30: Keynote Lecture - Dr Amanda Piesse, "Victorian Time in Two Novels for Children"
10.30: Morning Tea & Coffee
11.00: Panel Session 1
12.15: Panel Session 2a & 2b
13.45: Lunch, to be arranged separately
14.45: Keynote Lecture - Professor Nicholas Daly, "The Presence of the Present in Art and Literature"
13.45: Afternoon Tea & Coffee
16.00: Panel Session 3a & 3b
17.15: Panel Session 4

18.30: Conference Dinner at The Bank, College Green.