BNS 2025 Schedule
1-1:15 pm Introduction/Welcome
1:15-2:40 pm Panel 1: James and the Future
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Alan Nadel, The Future in Store for Basil and Verena’s Contested Cultural Narratives of Union in Post-Bellum America
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Haley Suh, Reading Realism Otherwise: The Bostonians’s Rhetorical Game of (In)Transparency
2:40-2:50 pm Break
2:50-4:20 pm Panel 2: James and History
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Theo Davis, The Bostonians and Temporalities of 19 th Century American Women Writers
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Louis Menand, Henry James and the Compromise of 1850
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Holly Jackson, Olive Chancellor’s Lesbian Transcendentalism
4:20-4:30 pm Break
4:30-6 pm Panel 3: Jamesian Subjects
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Sierra Eckert, Singular Types and Plural Being: Demographic Style in The Bostonians
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Kevin Ohi, They
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David Kurnick, Henry James’s Type
6-6:30 pm Reception (traditionally including a lively discussion of next year’s BNS novel)