Friday, April 19
UIC Humanities Institute (basement of Stevenson Hall)

12:00-1:00:  Registration

1:00-2:30:  Border Crossings:  The Changing Nature of Art and Imperialism
"Indian Art Under the Raj:  Crossing Racial, National, and Geographic Borders"   Julie Codell, Arizona State University
"Crossing the Boundaries of Time:  The Changing Nature of Public Commemoration, Queen Victorian, Queen Elizabeth II, and Princess Diana"   Mary Ann Steggles, University of Manitoba
"Orientalism and the Victorian Nostalgic Gaze"   Christine Roth, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

2:45-4:15:  Drawing the Line:  The Boundaries of Art Aesthetics, and Health
"Crossing the Line:  John Ruskin, the 'Turner Gallery,' and the Art Journal in Mid-Victorian England"   Katherine Haskins, University of Chicago
"Dado or Dust Trap?  Aesthetic Borders and the Late-Victorian Healthy House"  Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University, TX
"The Good Samaritan"   Suzanne Nunn, University of Exeter, Devon, UK

4:15-4:30:  Announcement of 2002 Arnstein Prize winner

5:00-7:00:  Off campus dinner in Greek Town:  Costa's, 340 South Halsted

7:30-9:00:  An Evening of Music with Victoria, Albert, and Mendelssohn   Room L-060, ECSW Bldg., 1040 W. Harrison
Presented by Walter Arnstein and Nicholas Temperley, University of Illinois.  Musical illustrations by Elizabeth Antle (soprano), Timothy Welch (baritone), and Nicholas Temperley (piano).
 

Saturday, April 20
UIC Chicago Circle Center

7:30-8:15:  Continental breakfast--MVSA Executive Committee meeting

8:30-10:00:  On the Edge:  Gender and Sexuality   (Room 713)
"Transgressing Masculine Borders:  Caucasian Men/Oriental Dress"   Joseph Kestner, University of Tulsa
"The Man in the Melodrama:  The Violent Borders of the Penitent Woman Tableau"   Melissa Valiska Gregory, Indiana University
"The Queer Politics of Pleasure Seeking:  Victoria Cross's Six Chapters of a Man's Life"   Christina Parish, Syracuse University

10:15-11:45:  Political Borders:  Self and State   (Room 713)
"Politics as Self-Reconception:  Crossing the Border to Republic Citizenship"   Beth Browning Jacobs, University of Illinois-Chicago
"The Political is Personal:  Literary Elections in Historical Context, 1840-1865"   Michael Markus, Washington University
"Redefining the Bounds of Property, Re-enforcing the Borders of Empire:  Ulster Custom, Ancient Law, and the Land Act of 1870"   Sara L. Maurer, Indiana University

12:00-1:00:  Lunch and MVSA Business Meeting    (Rooms 501-502)

1:00-2:00:  Keynote Speaker:  Peter Bailey, University of Manitoba - "Victorian Railway Erotics"    (Rooms 501-502)

2:15-3:45:  Britons and Americans:  Looking Across Borders    (Room 713)
"Crossing the Border of Hell:  Jack London and Charles Masterman Represent the Abyss"  Daniel Bivona, Arizona State University
"The American Civil War Through British Eyes:  Diplomatic Dispatches from the United States"   James J. and Patience P. Barnes, Wabash College
"Border as Highway:  Martin Tupper and the Promotion of Anglo-North American Identities"   Denis Paz, University of North Texas

4:00-5:30:  Traversing Borders in Victorian Fiction    (Room 713)
"Margaret Oliphant's Pilgrims on the Borders of the Unseen"   John Reed, Wayne State University
"Indexing Criminality before Criminology:  Gender Borderlands and the Mid-Victorian Novel"   Carrie Etter, University of California-Irvine
"George Eliot's Negotiation of Cultural Borders in Daniel Deronda"   John McBratney, John Carroll University