Thursday, 23 June 2011

9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Registration and Coffee: (Hawthorne-Longfellow Library)

10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m., Stowe and Maine
Chair:  Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England/Maine Women Writers Collection

• Rita Bode, Trent University, “A Meeting of Two Harriets”
• Denise Kohn, Baldwin-Wallace College, “Tyranny and Trials: Portrayals of the Unhappy Marriage in Stowe and Curtis Bullard”
• Marianne Noble, American University, “Candor Plus Tact Equals Sympathy:  The Regional Influences on Sympathy in The Minister’s Wooing and The Pearl of Orr’s Island“

12:00-1:00 p.m., Lunch

1:00-2:30 p.m., Stowe and Home
Chair:

• Charles Nero, Bates College, “Screening ‘Justice in the Home’ in Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
• Maura D’Amore, St. Michael’s College, “‘[T]o Build, as Trees Grow, Season by Season’: Henry Ward Beecher’s Domestic Inoculation”
• Jennifer Harris, Mount Allison University, “‘No work of art can compare with a perfect home’: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Katharine Seymour Day, and the Historic House Museum Movement”
• Gail Smith, independent scholar, “Pink and White Pyrenees; or, Alpine Sunsets and the Sensuality of Color in The Minister’s Wooing”

2:45-4:15 p.m., Stowe’s Politics
Chair:

• Catherine Saunders, George Mason University, “Innocence and Responsibility: Nina Gordon and the Difficulty of Creating Sympathetic Female Slaveholders”
• Amanda Benigni, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, “She’ll Make a Beautiful Corpse: Naturalism and Feminine Death in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Pearl of Orr’s Island“
• Andrea Holliger-Soles, University of Kentucky, “War and Riot in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s ‘The Lady Who Does Her Own Work’”

4:30-5:30 p.m., Reception

5:30-6:45 p.m., Dinner

Friday, 24 June 2011

9:15-10:30 a.m., Stowe’s International Influences
Chair:

• Theresa Lindsey, Wayne State, ““The Treatment of the Mulatto/a as a Threat to Establishing a National Identity in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Cirilo Villaverde’s Cecilia Valdés”
• Hisayo Ogushi, Keio University, “”Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Japanese Modernization: Michiyo Nagayo and ‘Good Old Moral Value’”
• Sayaka Moue, Boston University, “Harriet Beecher Stowe in Japan:  How Changing Cultural Values Shaped Translations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

10:45 -12:00 p.m., All in the Family: Stowe and Family Matters
Chair:

• Melissa Kowalski, Lehigh University, “Family Values, Community Influence:  Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Depiction of the Elderly in Poganuc People”
• Kimberly VanEsveld Adams, Elizabethtown College. “‘This Brother Who Was not a Brother’:  Sibling Relationships in Stowe’s Fiction.”
• Chris Diller, Berry College, “A Twentieth-Century Beecher: John Beecher”

12:00-1:00 p.m., Lunch

1:00-2:30 p.m., Faith, Fiction, and the Nation
Chair:

• Magnus Ullén, Karlstad University, “The Fiction of Faith: Reading in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Antebellum Novels”
• Marilyn Squier, Clark University, “President Edwards’s New England: Edwardsean Calvinism in Oldtown Folks”
• Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem State University, “Stowe’s ‘principal of toleration’: Home, Nation, and the Place of Catholicisms in the Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe”
• David Weimer, Harvard University, “What is Stowe Doing Here? Rhetorical Questions and Character Typology in Stowe and her Predecessors”

2:45-4:15 p.m., Intertextualities and Friendships
Chair:

• Mary Wearn, Macon State College, “Stowe, Douglass, and Jacobs:  Abolitionist Politics and the Valences of Race and Gender”
• Mary Louise Kete, University of Vermont, “Between Longfellow and Stowe: The Dismal Swamp of Liberal Desire”
• Beth L. Lueck, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, “The Duchess and the Democrat:  The Transatlantic Friendship Between the Duchess of Sutherland and Harriet Beecher Stowe.”
• Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State University, [Sedgwick & Stowe]

4:30-5:45 p.m., Plenary:  Stowe and Her Readers: Appropriation, Adaptation, and Resistance
Chair: Tess Chakkalakal, Bowdoin College

 
• Sarah Robbins, Texas Christian University, “Tracking Contemporary Responses: Students Reading Stowe in Diverse Contexts”
• Barbara Hochman, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, “Reading for Reality: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and African American Readers of the 1890s”
• Robin Bernstein, Harvard University, “‘A Wonderful Defense of Slavery’?: Joel Chandler Harris’s Reading of Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
• Laura Korobkin, Boston University, “‘Overstrained Conclusions and Violent Extremes’: Charles Dickens Reads Stowe”

6:30-8:00 p.m., Banquet

8:15 p.m., Keynote Speaker:  Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, “Stowe in Her Time and Ours”

Saturday, 25 June 2011

9:15-10:30 p.m., Millennial Stowe
Chair:

• Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, “Home Improvements:  Millennialism and Narrative Form”
• James Heitson, University of Tennessee, “Harriet Beecher Stowe, America, and the Millennium”
• Kevin Pelletier, University of Richmond, “‘Salvation Through Motherly Vengeance’: Sentimental Terror and the Moral Nation in Stowe’s Antislavery Fiction”

10:45-12:00 p.m., Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Culture: A Bicentennial Appraisal
Chair: Katherine Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center

 
• Joan Hedrick, Trinity College “The Spiritual Imaginaries of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Ellen G. White, Prophet of Seventh-day Adventism”
• David Reynolds, CUNY Graduate Center, “Mightier than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America”
• Alex Rowe, Artistic Director, Metropolitan Playhouse, “Loving Topsy: Embracing Uncle Tom’s Cabin on the 21^st-Century Stage”

12:00 p.m., Lunch (for those staying at Bowdoin)

12:15 p.m., Bus departs for Maine Women Writers Collection; lunch at MWWC;

1:15-3:30 p.m., Stowe in the Classroom

• Lesley Ginsberg
• Sarah Robbins
• Patrick Rael
• Lucinda Damon-Bach
• Kara McGovern

1:30-2:45 p.m., Assessing the Stowe Archives:  A Roundtable Discussion (in Portland)
Chair:  Cathleen Miller, Curator, Maine Women Writers Collection

• Susan Belasco, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Margaret Gaertner, Barba + Wheelock Architecture, Preservation + Design
• Joan Hedrick, Trinity College
• Katherine Kane, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center
• Judith Ann Schiff, Yale University Library
• Adena Spingarn, Harvard University

4:30-5:45 p.m., Uncle Tom’s Cabin in U.S. Theater
Chair:  Robin Bernstein, Harvard University

• Robin Bernstein, Harvard University, “How George Aiken Quoted Artist Hammatt Billings—and Why It Matters”
• John Frick, University of Virginia, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Moral Reform Melodrama”
• Adena Spingarn, Harvard University, “Staging Slavery”
• Respondent:  Elizabeth Young, Mount Holyoke College

5:45-6:45 p.m., Dinner
7:00 p.m., Performances

• Elizabeth Davidson, “Harriet Beecher Stowe:  Literary Soldier”
• Carolyn Gage, “Lady Byron Vindicated”:  Dramatic Adaptation

Sunday, 26 June 2011

9:15-10:30 a.m., Walking Tour: “Stowe’s Brunswick” (Leslie Shaw, Pejepscot Historical Society)

12:00 p.m., Encore:  Elizabeth Davidson, “Harriet Beecher Stowe:  Literary Soldier” at the Theater Project, Brunswick
Notes:  Sunday events are free and open to the public

Schedule allows for 15-20 minute papers for every session and 10-15 minutes of discussion for each session.