Below is the conference program. For more information, visit the conference website: https://lawrence2013.commons.gc.cuny.edu
ALL PANELS TAKE PLACE IN THE SEGAL THEATER
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Welcome
Richard Kaye
“’It Doesn’t Materialize’: D.H. Lawrence in New York”
9:30-11:00 a.m.
The Origins of a Twentieth-Century Bildungsroman
Moderator: Rowena Kennedy-Epstein, Hunter College
Andrew Harrison
“‘I Tell You It Has Got Form–-Form’: Plot, Structure and Meaning in Sons and Lovers”
Robert L. Caserio
“Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, and Italy”
11:00-12:30 p.m.
Sons and Lovers: Modernist Fiction in the Wake of Modernity
Moderator: Tim Aubry, Baruch College
Keith Cushman
“‘Feeling Oceanic’: Civilization and Discontented Paul.”
Seamus O’Malley
“Gardenflowers, Wildflowers, and Machines”
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Lunch (on your own)
(Graduate Center Cafeteria, 8th Floor)
1:30-2:45 p.m.
Keynote I
Colm Tóibín
“On D.H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers”
2:45-4:30 p.m.
Lawrencian History/Lawrencian Sexual Politics
Moderator: Joost Burgers, Queensborough Community College
Peter Hitchcock
“The Collier’s Small, Mean Head: Class, Form, and Perfection”
Jane Eldridge Miller
“‘I Shall Do My Work for Women, Better than the Suffrage’:The Conflicted Feminism of Sons and Lovers”
Howard Booth
“Broken Baxter: Masculinity and Queer Melancholia in Sons and Lovers”
4:30-4:45 p.m.
Coffee Break
4:45-6:00 p.m.
Keynote II
Maria DiBattista
“Derelection”
6:00 p.m.
Reception
English Program Lounge, Room 4406 , CUNY Graduate Center
