LMC Was Well Represented at INCS Conference in Houston

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Atlanta, GA | Posted: March 31, 2014

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narin.hassan@lmc.gatech.edu

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The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference was held March 27 - 30

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The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference included current faculty members Narin Hassan, who moderated a panel (Dynamic Journeys) and read a paper, “Botanical Energies: Marianne North’s ‘Strange Science’ and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany,” and Carol Senf, who moderated a panel (Two Hundred Years of Vampire Energy) to commemorate the birth, in 1814, of James Malcolm Rymer, author of Varney the Vampire; Sheridan Le Fanu, author of “Carmilla”; and George W.M. Reynolds, author of The Mysteries of London.

 

Also at INCS were the following former Brittain Fellows:

 

  • Scott Banville (Nicholls State University): “Harnessing the Energy of the Hive Mind: Dracula and Competing Modes of Collective Thought and Action”
  • Leeann Hunter (Washington State University): “Building Digital Bridges Between Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Public Humanities”
  • Roger Whitson (Washington State University): “Steampunk, Or, A History of Nineteenth-Century Physical Computing”
  • Olan Bjork (University of Houston, Downtown): “A Tale of Tw Media: Gustave Dore, Blanchard Jerrold, and the Power of Social Journalism in London: A Pilgrimage”

 

Georgia Tech will host INCS in April 2015.

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Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

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