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The schedule for the Conference is as follows:
July 12-13, 2007
Villanova University
PANEL 1 SARTOR RESARTUS
9:00-10:30
Session Chair: Erlis Wickersham, Villanova University
“The Ethics of Historical Knowledge: The Kantian Sublime and Carlyle’s
Grey Void of History,” Tamara Gosta, Georgia State University
“Perpetual Remnant: Sartor Resartus in Theory,” Tom Toremans, University
of Brussels
“Didactic Destiny: Sartor Resartus, Cultural Critique, and Pedagogical
History,” Hans Mattingly, University of Pittsburgh
PANEL 2 CARLYLE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
9:00-10:30
Session Chair: Evan Radcliffe, Villanova University
“Hume-Reid-Kant-Hamilton-Carlyle-Foucault-Habermas: The Relevance of
Carlyle’s Relation to the Enlightenment,” Ralph Jessop, The University
of Glasgow
“Of Bricklayers and Kings: Thomas Carlyle’s Response To Burkean
Conservatism in The French Revolution,” Marylu Hill, Villanova
University
“Ghost of the Flower in the Apothecary: Rousseau’s Amour-propre in the
Linguistic Performance of Carlyle’s The French Revolution,” Michael
Jones, University of Connecticut
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (10:45-12:15)
PANEL 3 CARLYLE AND THE OTHER
10:45-12:15
Session Chair: Deborah Thomas, Villanova University
“’Racist Rantings, Travellers’ Tales, and a Creole Counterblast: Thomas
Carlyle, John Stuart Mill, Anthony Trollope, Charles Kingsley, and J.J.
Thomas on British Rule in the West Indies,” F.S.J. Ledgister, Clark
Atlanta University
“Carlyle and the Islam Question: a Hall of Mirrors?” Carol Collins,
University of Glasgow
“Carlyle and Islam,” Albert Pionke, University of Alabama
PANEL 4 PAST AND PRESENT (I)
10:45-12:15
Session Chair: Jill Rappoport, Villanova University
“Thomas Carlyle and Romantic Anti-Capitalism: a ‘politically uncertain
attitude,’” Tara McGann, American University
“Carlyle and Marx, Feudalism and Progress,” Michael Lewis, University of
Virginia
“Liberalism Resartus,” Daniel Malachuk, American University
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:30-2:00
Session Chair: Paul Kerry, Brigham Young University/University
of Cambridge
“Carlyle and Education,” Ian Campbell, University of Edinburgh
2:00-2:15 “Optimism and Education in Carlyle’s Inaugural Address of
1866,”
A Student Introduction to the Carlyle in the Classroom Roundtable
Ryan Crennan, University of Colorado
2:15-4:00 ROUNDTABLE ON CARLYLE IN THE CLASSROOM
5:00-5:30 RECEPTION IN FALVEY LIBRARY (ALONG WITH SPECIAL COLLECTIONS
EXHIBIT)
5:30-6:30 PLENARY LECTURE – CHRIS VANDEN BOSSCHE, University of Notre
Dame
7:00-9:00 RECEPTION – Picotte Hall at Dundale Mansion
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9:00-10:00 ROUNDTABLE – EDITING THE THOMAS AND JANE WELSH CARLYLE
LETTERS
10:00-10:30 “The Digital Signs of the Times: The Carlyle Letters
On-line: A Victorian Cultural Reference,” Brent Kinser, Western Carolina
University
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (10:45-12:15)
PANEL 5 JANE WELSH CARLYLE, THOMAS CARLYLE, AND BIOGRAPHY
10:45-12:15
Session Chair: Catherine Skeen, Villanova University
“Finding Fault: Jane Welsh Carlyle, Biography, and Biographers,” Aileen
Christianson, University of Edinburgh
“Finding Tales for Our Time: Writing a Biographical Study of Jane Welsh
Carlyle,” Kathy Chamberlain, Women Writing Women’s Lives Seminar, CUNY
Graduate Center
“History as Biography, Biography as History,” Lowell Frye,
Hampden-Sydney College
PANEL 6 PAST AND PRESENT (II)
10:45-12:15
Session Chair: Michael Tomko, Villanova University
“Editorial Difficulties: Inspiration and Authoritarianism in the
Mid-Career Works of Carlyle,” Mark Allison, University of California
“Strategies for Historical Writing in Past and Present,” Paul Kerry,
Brigham Young University and University of Cambridge
“The Conversion of England in Past and Present,” Victoria Webb,
Rasmussen College
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
CONCURRENT SESSIONS (1:30-2:30)
PANEL 7 HEROES AND HERO-WORSHIP
1:30-3:00
Session Chair: Peter Busch, Villanova University
“’Know What Thou Canst Work At’: Heroes, Historicism, and Identity in
Thomas Carlyle,” Daniel Harris, University of Ottawa
“The Tragedy of Texts: Text and Voice in Carlyle’s On Heroes,” Alan
Baily, Texas A&M University
“Myth and the Organic: Carlyle’s Igdrasil and Western Consciousness,”
Jude Nixon, Oakland University
PANEL 8 FREDERICK THE GREAT
1:30-2:30
Session Chair: Mary Beth Simmons, Villanova University
“Dare I try it, Dare I Not?’: Carlyle’s Trips to Germany and His Early
Work on Frederick the Great,” Linda Stewart, University of Edinburgh
“The Nazi Appropriation of Thomas Carlyle: or how Frederick wound up in
the Hands of Hitler,” Jonathan McCollum, Brigham Young University
PANEL 9 CARLYLE AS CULTURAL ICON
3:15-4:45
Session Chair: Marylu Hill, Villanova University
“Reappraising Carlyle in and through France,” Catherine Heyrendt,
University of Paris XII
“Thomas Carlyle in Dialogue,” Michael DiSanto, Appleby College
“’The Modern World Has Revolted Against the Carlyle Gospel: Thomas
Carlyle, John O’London’s Weekly, and the New Reading Public,” Jonathan
Wild, University of Edinburgh
PANEL 10 TWENTIETH CENTURY SIGHTINGS
5:00-6:30
Session Chair: John Paul Spiro, Villanova University
“Carlyle and the Idea of the Postmodern,” Mark Cumming, Memorial
University
“Carlyle and Lockridge’s Raintree County,” Judith Wilt, Boston College
“Confessions of Two Dangerous Minds: Thomas Carlyle and Chuck Barris,”
John Ulrich, Mansfield University
6:30 CLOSING WINE AND CHEESE RECEPTION
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