9:30 - 10:40: Registration and Tea, York Hall 317

10:45 - 12:15: Morning Session, York Hall 204

Ann Colley (Buffalo State College): "Excess and Empire at the Belle Vue Zoo, Manchester"

Simon Reader (University of Toronto): "@Oscar: The Play of Information in Wilde's Notebooks"

Marlis Schweitzer (York University): "An 'Unmanly and Insidious Attack': Child Actress Jean Davenport and the Performance of Masculinity in 1840s Jamaica and Newfoundland"

12:30 - 1:45: Lunch, York Hall 317
(business meeting during last half hour)

2:00 - 3:00: Keynote Address I, York Hall 204

Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University): “'A Disembodied Voice': The Playful Spirits of Decadence"

3:00 - 4:00 Keynote Address II, York Hall 204

Carolyn Williams (Rutgers University): "Reading Melodrama"

4:00 - 5:00 Sherry Hour