All talks will take place in SUNY Plattsburgh’s Warren Ballroom, Cardinal Lounge, or Alumni Conference Center.
THURSDAY, MARCH 23
8-10 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
9-10:15 Opening Remarks, Andrew Buckser, Dean of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Plattsburgh
Session 1: AUSTEN’S LETTERS AND CHARACTERS
Chair, Christyn Bork (SUNY Brockport)
- Gabrielle A. Westcott (SUNY Plattsburgh), “Exposing Character: The Art of Letter Writing in Pride and Prejudice”
- Kelsey Logan (SUNY New Paltz), “’Sincerely Yours’: The Influence of Male Letters in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice”
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:45
Session 2: PROPRIETY AND COGNITION IN AUSTEN’S WORKS
Chair, Amber Baker (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- Stephanie Boutin (SUNY Plattsburgh), “The Art of Propriety: Jane Austen’s Exploration of Moral and Societal Expectations in Pride and Prejudice”
- Erin Weinberg (Queen’s University), “Occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one’: Reading and Affect in Jane Austen’s Persuasion”
- Noelle Hedgcock (Syracuse University), “Mediation, Control, and Access to Sympathetic Feeling in Mansfield Park”
12-1 LUNCH
1-2:15
Session 3: CONSTRUCTING EMPIRE/CONSTRUCTING SELF
Chair, Catherine Morse (Buffalo State University)
- Laurena Tsudama (University of Connecticut), “Estate Improvement, British Imperialism, and Slavery in Mansfield Park”
- Claudia Martin (Binghamton University), “Art and Artifice: Lady Susan and the Authorial Process”
- Hannah Hempstead (Binghamton University), “From Strawberry Hill to Northanger Abbey: The Romance of Building and Deconstructing the Gothic”
2:15-2:30 Coffee
2:30-3:45
Session 4: AUSTEN’S ARTISTS AND THEIR INSTRUMENTS
Chair, Kym Taylor (McGill University)
- Marissa Collins (SUNY Purchase), “Music as Cultural Capital and Social Positioning in Emma”
- Megan Throne (Villanova University), “A Space of One’s Own: Relationships and their Effects on Artistry in Jane Austen’s Novels”
- Olivia Carpenter (Harvard University), “Mrs. Bates’s Knitting”: Knitting, Art, and Gender in Emma”
4-4:20
Session 5:SONG CYCLE PERFORMANCE
Presenter, Jo Ellen Miano (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- Meagan Martin and Douglas Sumi (UCLA), “Marianne Dashwood: Songs of Love and Misery” (Music by Aferdian Stephens and Text by Marella Martin Koch)
4:30
PRESIDENT’S RECEPTION (Nina Winkel Sculpture Gallery)
FRIDAY, MARCH 24
8-10 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
9-10:15
LAW & ARTLESSNESS
Chair, Genie Babb (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- Elaine Bander (Dawson College, Canada), “Austen’s ‘Artless’ Heroines: Catherine and Fanny”
- Nancy Johnson (SUNY New Paltz), “Legal Arts and Artifacts”
- Cheryl Nixon (University of Massachusetts), “Jane Austen and Family Law”
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:45
Session 2: THEATER & BALLET
Chair, Nancy Johnson (SUNY New Paltz)
- Deborah Payne (American University), “Jane Austen and the Theatre? Perhaps Not So Much”
- Marcie Frank (Concordia University), “Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, and Jane Austen’s Theatrical Imagination.”
- Cheryl Wilson (Stevenson University), “Everything is Beautiful: Jane Austen at the Ballet”
11:45-12:00 Coffee
12:00-1:15
Session3: TEXTS & READING
- Jacqueline George (SUNY New Paltz), “Motion Sickness: The Fate of Reading in ‘Modern’ Sanditon”
- Barbara Benedict (Trinity College, CT), “ ‘What Oft was Thought’: Wit, Conversation, Poetry and Pope in Jane Austen’s Works”
- Marilyn Francus (West Virginia University), “Jane Austen, Marginalia, and Book Culture”
1:15-2:15 BUFFET LUNCH, Warren Ballroom
2:30-3:30
Presenter, President John Ettling
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Peter Sabor (McGill University), “Portraiture as Misrepresentation in the Novels and Early Writings of Jane Austen”
3:30-3:45 Coffee
3:45-5:00
Session 4: JANE AUSTEN & THE SPECTACLE OF ART
Chair, Karen Blough (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- Jocelyn Harris (University of Otago), “What Jane Saw—in Henrietta Street”
- Douglas Murray (Belmont University, TN), “Jane Austen Goes to the Opera”
7:00-9:30 English Country Dance and Dance Workshop, Warren Ballroom
SATURDAY, March 25
9-10:15
Session 5: MATERIAL INTO ART
- Natasha Duquette (Tyndale University College, Canada), “ ‘A Very Pretty Amber Cross’: Material Sources of Austenian Aesthetics”
- Tonya Moutray (Russell Sage Colleges, NY), “Religious Views: Austen’s Picturesque and Sublime Abbeys”
- Hope Greenberg (The University of Vermont), “Jane Austen & the Art of Fashion”
10:15-10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:45
Session 6: AUSTEN’S EKPHRASTIC MOMENTS
- Juliette Wells (Goucher College), “‘A Likeness Pleases Everyone’: Portraiture, Ekphrasis, and the Accomplished Woman in Emma”
- Tim Erwin (UNLV), “The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse”
- Ellen Moody (George Mason University), “Ekphrastic Patterns in Jane Austen”
11:45-12 Coffee
12-1:15
Session 7: PLAYING JANE
Chair, Jon Chatlos (SUNY Plattsburgh)
- John O’Neill (Hamilton College), “Adaptation, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship”
- John Havard (SUNY Binghamton), “Feeling Bad with Austen: From William Cowper to Woody Allen.”
- John Leffel (SUNY Cortland), “Sanditon and Speculation”
1:15-2:15 Box Lunch
TOURS OF THE KENT DELORD HOUSE MUSEUM AVAILABLE AFTER 2:00 P.M. To secure a space and tour time, please call the Kent Delord House Museum directly: (518) 561-1035, M-F 9-3.
This conference is made possible by a grant from SUNY Conversations in the disciplines. Additional support has been provided by SUNY Plattsburgh.
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