Registration Open: "Victorian Body Parts" (09/14/2013)

VICTORIAN BODY PARTS CONFERENCE


Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies

Saturday 14 September 2013
 

Barts Pathology Museum



Registration is now open for the Victorian Body Parts Conference. The conference fee is £15 (£10 for students/unwaged). Please register here: https://www2.bbk.ac.uk/english/vbp/
 



PROGRAMME




09.30-09.50  Registration and Refreshments




09.50-10.00  Opening Remarks



Carla Valentine (Technical Assistant Curator, Barts Pathology Museum)



Beatrice Bazell and Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London)




10.00-11.15  Keynote Panel



Dr Katharina Boehm (Universität Regensburg), 'Body Boundary Object'



Dr Kate Hill (University of Lincoln), 'A Head for Knowledge: Archaeology, Anthropology and Body Parts in Victorian Museums'



Chair: Dr Victoria Mills (Darwin College, University of Cambridge)




11.15-11.45  Tea Break




11.45-13.00  Panel One: Severed Parts



Ellery Foutch (University of Wisconsin-Madison), 'Sandow’s Arm'



Dr Graeme Pedlingham (University of Sussex), '"I take myne owne": The Hysteric, The Collector and Anatomical Autonomy in Richard Marsh's "Lady Wishaw's Hand" (1895)'



Catherine Oakley (University of York), 'Laughable Limbs: Comic Dismemberment in Early Cinema 1895-1910'



Chair: Diana Garrisi (University of Westminster)




13.00-13.45  Lunch




13.45-15.00  Panel Two: Prosthetic Parts



Clare Stainthorp (University of Birmingham), 'The Case of the Artificial Hand: Considering Disability, Prosthesis and the Motif of the Hand in the Nineteenth Century'



Ryan Sweet (University of Exeter), '"Down Came the Limb with a Frightful Smash": Prosthesis as Weapon in Nineteenth-Century Literature'



Emma Curry (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'Wiggery Pokery: Touching Dickens’s Hair'



Chair: Amanda Sciampacone (Birkbeck College, University of London)




15.00-15.15  Break




15.15-16.30  Panel Three: Gendered Parts



Lisa Coar (University of Leicester), 'The Surgically Sartorial: Cutting it Fine among Wasp-Waisted Men'



Ally Crockford (University of Edinburgh), 'Erect Victorians: the Anxious Masculinity of the Nineteenth-Century 'Diphallic' Terata'



Beatrice Bazell (Birkbeck College, University of London), 'Corset, Camera, Constriction: Articulating the Female Body in Mid-Victorian Culture'



Chair: Dr Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter)




16.30-16.45  Break




16.45-17.30  Keynote Address



Dr Tiffany Watt-Smith (Queen Mary, University of London), 'Organs of Imitation: Theatrical Body Parts and Scientific Psychology'



Chair: Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)




17.30-17.45  Closing Remarks



Dr Nicola Bown (Birkbeck College, University of London)




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