THURSDAY, APRIL 30 –
ROOM C198
5:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M.
ROUNDTABLE:
WHAT’S NEW IN DECADENCE AND AESTHETICISM
Dennis Denisoff
Ryerson University
From Animism to Animality: Pagan Decadence and the Posthuman Subject
Linda Hughes
TCU
Liminal Poetics
Richard Dellamora
Trent University
Promissory Aestheticism
Margaret Stetz
University of Delaware
The Afterlives of Aestheticism and Decadence
7:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Regenia Gagnier
University of Exeter
Individualism and Globalization at the Fin de Siècle: On the Relationship of Part to Whole
FRIDAY, MAY 1 – MARTIN E. SEGAL THEATER
MORNING SESSION
8:45 A.M. – 12:30 P.M.
9:15 A.M.
WELCOME
Steve Kruger
Executive Officer
Ph.D. Program in English
The Graduate Center, CUNY
MODERATOR
Allison Pease
John Jay College, CUNY
ART FOR SOCIALISM’S SAKE
Diana Maltz
Southern Oregon University
Living by Design: C. R. Ashbee’s Chipping Campden and Two British Tolstoyan Colonies, 1897-1907
Ruth Livesey
Royal Holloway, University of London
Allegory, Symbolism, and Socialism: The Ford Sisters and the Aestheticism of early Modernism in Leeds
DISCUSSION and BREAK
APPLAUDING DECADENCE
Matthew Potolsky
University of Utah
Decadence and the Politics of Appreciation
Sharon Marcus
Columbia University
Sarah Bernhardt, Oscar Wilde, and the Decadence of Romanticism
DISCUSSION
AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M.
MODERATOR
Deborah Lutz
C.W. Post, Long Island University
COUNTER-AESTHETICS
Stefano Evangelista
Trinity College, Oxford
Imagining Ancient Greece: Aesthetics, Aestheticism, the Aesthetic Life
Michael Hatt
University of Warwick
Against Decadence: Edward Carpenter and the Domestic Interior
DISCUSSION and BREAK
POPULAR DECADENCE
Rachel Teukolsky
Vanderbilt University
Beardsley, Decadence, and the Poster Arts
Susan Zieger
University of California, Riverside
Black Decadence: The Cosmopolitan Fictions of M P. Shiel
DISCUSSION
5:00 P.M.
Reception in the English Program Common Space, Room 4406
