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VICTORIAN THRESHOLDS:
BETWEEN CULTURE AND ANTHROPOLOGY

Victorian Studies Association of Ontario
45th Annual Spring Conference,
28 April 2012
Glendon Campus,
York University

Program Registration Form Directions Past Conferences
image of a painting Conference Schedule

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

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

Martin Danahay (Brock University) and Deborah Reed-Danahay (University at Buffalo)
"The Boundaries of Social Space in Jekyll and Hyde: Between Literature and Anthropology"

Sherrin Berezowsky (University of Windsor)
"Narrative of an Explorer in Tropical South Africa and the Imperial Roots of Galton’s Narrative of British Progress"

Alisha Walters (University of Toronto)
“Affective Hybridities: Dinah Craik’s Olive and British Heterogeneity”

12:30 - 1:45: Lunch, York Hall 317
(Business Meeting will take place during the last half hour of lunch)

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

Kathy Psomiades (Duke University)
“Darwin and the Anthropologists revisited: Sexual Selection, Primitive Marriage, and Victorian Race Theory”

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

Audrey Jaffe (University of Toronto)
Walk this Way: Adam Bede and the Production of Realist Space."

4:00 - 5:00 Sherry Hour

York University