BNS 2025 Schedule

 1-1:15 pm Introduction/Welcome

1:15-2:40 pm  Panel 1: James and the Future

  • Alan Nadel, The Future in Store for Basil and Verena’s Contested Cultural Narratives of Union in Post-Bellum America

  • 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

  • Theo Davis, The Bostonians and Temporalities of 19 th Century American Women Writers

  • Louis Menand, Henry James and the Compromise of 1850

  • Holly Jackson, Olive Chancellor’s Lesbian Transcendentalism

4:20-4:30 pm Break

4:30-6 pm  Panel 3: Jamesian Subjects

  • Sierra Eckert, Singular Types and Plural Being: Demographic Style in The Bostonians

  • Kevin Ohi, They

  • David Kurnick, Henry James’s Type

6-6:30 pm Reception (traditionally including a lively discussion of next year’s BNS novel)