Print Modernities: Materiality of Images and Text, 1845–1945
Preliminary Program
Print Modernities Graduate Conference
Green College, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 May 2011
Monday 2 May 2011
8.30 – 10 am: Early Registration
10 – 10.30 am: Registration + Coffee (provided)
10.30 – 12 noon: Panel 1 – “American Modernities”
Pavlina Cerna (Simon Fraser University) - Edith Wharton: The Embodiment of the
Predicament of the Literary Field
Sara Dunton (University of New Brunswick) – Mina Loy’s Modernist Icon
Talia Regan (University of Toronto) – Periodicals, Portables, and Dorothy Parker: The
‘Portability’ of “Arrangement in Black and White”
12 – 2pm: Lunch
2 – 3.30pm: Panel 2 – “Across Countries, Across Disciplines”
Zoë Tousignant (Concordia University) – New Modernist Studies and Art History:
Engaging the Visual in Print
Hua Huang (University of Western Ontario) – Nianhua and Print Culture in Suzhou:
Findings from the Laufer Collection, 1902-03
Ian Sampson (Simon Fraser University) – Illegible Signage in the American Metropolis
3.30 – 4pm: Coffee break
4 – 5.30 pm: Professor Mark Morrisson (Penn State University) – Keynote Address
5.30 – 6.30 pm: Reception (The bar will close at 6.15pm)
6.30 pm: Dinner at Green College
Tuesday 3 May 2011
8.30 – 10 am: Panel 3 – “Government and Rulers”
Mike Borkent (University of British Columbia) – The Aesthetics of Liberty: Anarchism
and Dada-Surrealism
Andrew J. McLaughlin (University of Waterloo) - The Creation of the Great Admiral
Myth in U.S. Wartime Publications: A Case Study of Admiral William ‘Bull’ Halsey
Kathryn Rose (Memorial University of Newfoundland) – The War, in Print: Records
Management, the Second World War and the Canadian Government
Print Modernities: Materiality of Images and Text, 1845–1945
10 – 10.30 am: Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.30 pm: Panel 4 – “Nineteenth-Century Periodicals”
David Meola (University of British Columbia) – Local, Jewish, and Public: Jewish
Confrontations in Badenese Newspapers, 1844-46
Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) – Dangerous Footnotes: Modernist Techniques
in Victorian Literature
Jayme Yahr (University of Washington) – Illustrating Modernism: Richard Watson
Gilder and The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Sean Morton (University of Windsor) – Digital Resources and Print Culture Research:
Reconsidering Methodology in Victorian Newspaper Research
12.30 – 2pm: Lunch
2 – 3.30 pm: Panel 5 – “Travellers and Colonizers”
Erica German (University of British Columbia) – Following the Guidebook Path:
Standardizing the Tourist Experience at Royal Deeside
Elizabeth Lhost (University of Chicago) – “Punchoba the Cosmopolitan”: Punch’s
journey from London to Bombay and back (1890–1915)
Adrienne Fast (University of British Columbia) – Performing “Artist” and the Unique
Copy: Artists’ Books in Late-Colonial Bengal
3.30 – 4pm: Coffee Break
4 – 6pm: Panel 6 – “Visual Modernities”
Amanda Lastoria (Simon Fraser University) – Avant-Garde Graphic Design as a
Symptom and Catalyst of Change: Radical Print Media of Futurism, Dada and the
Bauhaus
Sara Angel (University of Toronto) – Lessons from the Press: Picasso and Mass Print
Media 1911 to 1937
Karen Westphal Eriksen (University of Copenhagen) – Carnivalesque Commentary On
Visual Strategy in Plan and Helhesten
Graham Lyons (Simon Fraser University) – Title TBA
6:15 – Post-Conference Informal Gathering at Koerner’s Pub