programme final version (updated)

2 nd international conference
12.35 – 14.00 Lunch break
14.00 – 15.15 Parallel Sessions
Wednesday 26 November 2014
9:15 Registration and welcome to participants
9.45 – 10.15 Opening session
10.15 – 11.15 Keynote lecture Luísa Leal de Faria (ULICES/ Catholic University of Portugal) Victorian Letters and Journals. An Archaeology of the Social Network (Anf. III)
Chair: Teresa Malafaia
ANF. III
ROOM 2.13
Women and social conventions I
Homes through words and words through homes
Chair: Isabel Fernandes
Chair: Isabel Barbudo
• Kristine Swenson (Dpt of English & Technical Communication, Missouri S&T, Rolla,
MO, USA), Hothouse Victorians: Art and Agency in Freshwater
• Joana Caetano (FLUP/ CETAPS, Portugal), Of Doubles, Fingers and Pearls: Crossing
Roles in Sarah Waters’s Fingersmith
• Iolanda Ramos (FCSH– NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal), Desperate Victorian
Housewives: The Strange Case of Effie Gray Ruskin
• Marijke Boucherie (ULICES, Portugal), Homes made of words: Edward Lear and
Charles Dickens our contemporaries
• Simon Avery (University of Westminster, UK), ‘When the house is empty’: Problematising
home in the poetry of Mary Coleridge
15.15 – 15.40 Coffee break
15.40 – 17.15
ANF. III
Panel: World Cultures in English at the School of Arts and Humanities Library, University of Lisbon: The Communication Platform
Architecture and its Critical Analysis
• Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa (ULICES, Portugal), Pedro Estácio (FLUL, Portugal), Teresa Malafaia (ULICES, Portugal)
• Cristina Baptista (ULICES, Portugal), Between hard covers and the cloud. Is there a canon to be found?
• Marília Martins Gil (ULICES, Portugal), Gender (in)visibilities in two of Richard Garnett’s editions
11.15 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 13.15 Parallel Sessions
ANF. III
ROOM 2.13
Women in the private and public spheres
Victorian representations of masculinity
Chair: Luísa Flora
Chair: Nelson Pinheiro Gomes
10.00 – 11h40
• Christiane Hadamitzky (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany), 'A Homely Heroine'
– Victorian Periodicals and the Heroics of the Household
• Flore Janssen (Birkbeck, University of London, UK), ‘Troubles Which You Do Not
Understand’: The expanded domestic sphere and the working-class household as
a socio-political battleground in Annie Besant’s ‘democratisation’ of birth control
• Ilona Dobosiewicz (Opole University, Poland), 'She dwells in London town:' The Urban
Experience in the works of Amy Levy
• Louise Wingrove (University of Bristol, UK), 'That’s what a woman can do.' The
representation of Women in the Victorian Music Hall
• Carolyn Lambert (Independent Scholar), ‘Power dressing': Cross-dressing in nineteenthcentury fiction and its impact on the family
• Marlena Marciniak (Opole University, Poland), 'A man's real character will always be
more visible in his household than anywhere else.' Gentlemanliness and Domestic
Violence inthe Mid-Victorian Novel
• Jane Maria Ewerton (Minho University, Portugal), Robert Browning's (re)presentation
of a conflicted Victorian masculine mind through his poem Porphyria's Lover
(1842)
ANF. III
ROOM 2.13
Colonialism, Empire and travelling
Women and social conventions II
Chair: Michaela Henriques
Chair: Teresa Casal
• Krishna Sen (Department of English, University of Calcutta, India), Provincializing England:
The Victorian Household and the Colonial Gaze
• Ana Mendes (ULICES, Portugal), Victorian Slumming on Screen
• Maria Zulmira Castanheira (FCSH- NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal), The Victorian
Traveller as Other: stereotypes and humour in the Periodical Press of Portuguese
Romanticism
• Ivana Salinovic (Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia), The position of governesses
in the Victorian Household represented through literature
• Jennifer Krisuk (Dodge City Community College, USA), Sensation Fiction's Exposure
of the Middle-Class Home: the Middle-Class Wife as a Decorative Object in Lady
Audley’s Secret
• Alexandra Cheira (ULICES, Portugal), Angel or Imp? Gendered constructions of girlhood
in Victorian wonder tales
13.15 – 14.45 Lunch break
14.45 – 15.45 Parallel Sessions
Friday 28 November 2013
Parallel Sessions
11.40 – 12.00 Coffee-break
12.00 – 13.15 Parallel Sessions
ANF. III
ROOM 2.13
Words and Trends
Art, literature and the fallen woman
Chair: J. Carlos Viana Ferreira
Chair: Ana Mendes
ANF. III
ROOM 2.13
• Francesca Gacho (Claremont Graduate University, USA), Female Storytelling and the
Fallen Woman: A Case for Gaskell’s Ruth
• Amanda Santos (FLUL, Portugal), Pre-Raphaelites, an Object-Oriented perspective
Liberalism, democracy and imperialism
Victorian society and values
Chair: Adelaide Serras
Chair: Isabel Simões-Ferreira
• Elisabete Mendes Silva (ULICES / Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, Portugal), Approaching
Democracy: the Virtues of Representative Government in mid-Victorian England
• Carla Larouco Gomes (ULICES, Portugal), Barbarism in the Age of Progress: Emily
Hobhouse's Report on the South African 'concentration camps' and the Liberal
Divide over the Boer War
• J. Carlos Viana Ferreira (ULICES/ FLUL, Portugal), Joseph Chamberlain's Imperial
Patriotism
• Ömer Öğünç (Hacettepe University, Dpt of English Language and Literature, Ankara, Turkey),
Victorian Values as Social Restrictions in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure
• Joanne Paisana (Minho University, Portugal), ‘Under the Arch’ with Lady Henry
Somerset
• Maria José Pires (ULICES/ESHTE, Portugal), From kitchen to table: Changing patterns
with the Victorians
• Rita Queiroz de Barros (ULICES/ FLUL, Portugal), A dictionary (more) like ours? Global
English in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles
• Nelson Pinheiro Gomes and Paulo Alves (ULICES/ FLUL, Portugal), How Dreadfully
Savage: Trends in Wonderland
15.45 – 16.00 Coffee break
16.00 – 17.30 Roundtable New Trends in Victorian Studies
Chair: Teresa Pinto Coelho
• Kathryn Ferry (Independent writer, lecturer and media commentator), Luísa Leal de Faria (ULICES/Catholic University of Portugal), Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK),
17.30 Visiting the exhibition This paradox may have something, FLUL, By Francisco Venâncio and Flávio Delgado
Thursday 27 November 2014
Art, homes and identity
Chair: Elisabete Mendes Silva
10.00 – 11.15 Parallel Sessions
ANF. III
Fiction and mystery
ROOM 2.13
Portraying social ills
Chair: Maria José Pires
Chair: Carla Larouco Gomes
• Simon Magus (EXESESO, University of Exeter, UK), Rider Haggard and the Imperial
Occult: Esoteric Influences on his Fictional Work
• Ana Daniela Coelho and José Duarte (ULICES, Portugal), Dracula´s love and Lust:
Victorian recreations on screen
• Virginia Fusco (Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain), The Lesbian Monster. For a
biopolitical understanding of female vampirism
• Márcia Marques (ULICES, Portugal), Reforming Zeal: William Hogarth’s Gin Lane and
George Cruikshank’s The Worship of Bacchus
• Adelaide Meira Serras (ULICES/FLUL, Portugal), Scientific Progress and its Seamy
Side in the Victorian Era. Reading Walter Besant’s Inner House
• Jeffrey Bibbee (University of North Alabama, USA), Victorian Xenophobia: the Russian
Influenza, 1889-1894
11.15 – 11.35 Coffee break
11.35 – 12.35 Keynote Lecture Kathryn Ferry (Independent writer, lecturer and media commentator) Clutter and the clash of middle class tastes in the domestic interior (Anf. III)
Chair: Iolanda Ramos
13.15 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.15 (Anf. III)
• Miguel Alarcão (FCSH– NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal), Medievalizing Victorian Heart(h)s: A. W. N. Pugin's Medieval Court" (1851)
• Caroline Dakers (Central Saint Martins – University of Arts London, UK), Fit for purpose: the Victorian artist’s studio-house as public and private space
• Lucinda Matthew-Jones (Liverpool John Moores University, UK), Peering through the Vicarage Window: The Rev. Samuel Barnett and Henrietta Barnett’s life in their St. Jude’s
Vicarage, 1873-1892
• James Connelly (University of Hull, UK), A late Victorian family life: the typically untypical world of the Collingwoods of Lanehead, Coniston
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee-break
16.30 – 17.30 Keynote Lecture
Rohan McWilliam (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK) The Making of the West End of London in the Nineteenth Century (Anf. III)
Chair: Luísa Leal de Faria
18.45 Guided visit to São Carlos National Theatre followed by CONFERENCE DINNER
Saturday 29 November
09.30 GUIDED TOUR TO SINTRA. Meeting-point: FLUL

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