Panels 3A and 3B

3A: Art on a Shrinking Island (Genre)

• “Quartet in Autumn (1977) and the Meaning of Barbara Pym” (Antoinette Burton, Professor of History, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign)

• “Sordid Sunset: Hensher’s Libretto for Powder Her Face (1995) as Anti-Spectacle of Decline” (Nicholas Stevens, Visiting Assistant Professor of Musicology, Wichita State University)

• “Late Modernism’s Epic Spectacles of Decline: Confronting the Modern Landscape in Lynette Roberts’ Gods with Stainless Ears and David Jones’ The Anathemata” (Sarah Coogan, PhD English, University of Notre Dame)

With moderator Marissa Fenley (PhD Candidate in English and Theater and Performance Studies, University of Chicago)

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3B: Archives of Decline (Visual Cultures)

• “Toothless Lions and Vicious Bears: Representations of the Second World War in Malayalam Cartoons” (Nassif Muhammed Ali, PhD History, Jawaharlal Nehru University)

• “Towards a Book History of Black Mischief” (Naomi Milthorpe, Senior Lecturer in English, University of Tasmania)

• “The Power of the Sheep-eater: Decolonizing Curatorial Practices” (Divya Saraf, Masters of Design in Critical Conservation, Harvard Graduate School of Design)

With moderator Kevin King (PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago)

Panel 4A and 4B

4A: Imperial Intimacy

• “A Colonial (Not) At Home, Abroad: Living Empire and its Ends in Stuart Hall’s Familiar Stranger” (Franklin Nelson, BA in Modern Languages, University of Oxford)

• “The Quotidian Colonial Horror of the Punkah” (Jessica Somers, PhD Student in English, University of Southern California)

• “Soil as Medium: S.T. Warner’s Historical Fictions” (Aleksandr Prigozhin, Assistant Professor of British Modernism, University of Denver)

With moderator Sarah McDaniel (PhD Candidate in English, University of Chicago)

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4B: Imperial Residues

• “Rudyard Kipling as Wreck Buoy” (Meg Dobbins, Assistant Professor of English, Eastern Michigan University)

• “Slum Clearance and the Disappearing City in Roy Fisher’s City” (Ameeth Vijay, Assistant Professor of Literature, UC San Diego)

• “Imperial Residues: Jamaica Kincaid, Marilynne Robinson, and Environmental Memory” (Anna Hill, PhD Candidate in English Literature, Yale University)

With moderator Allison Turner (Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University)

Panels 5A and 5B

5A: Structures of Nostalgia

• “Philip Larkin’s Longings” (Magdalena Kay, Professor of English, University of Victoria)

• “‘Golden Hour’: Nostalgic Reflections on the Demise of the Muslim Urban Space in Twilight in Delhi and Sunlight on a Broken Column” (Zehra Kazmi, PhD Candidate, School of English, University of St Andrews) 

• “The Country House and the Country Cottage: Anti/imperial Nostalgia 1804/2024” (Kristin Bluemel, Professor of English and Wayne D. McMurray Endowed Chair in the Humanities, Monmouth University)

With moderator Charlotte Saul (PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago)

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5B: Beyond Empire (Anti/Post Imperial Formulations)

• “’The Land Was Dying’: The Caribbean Anticolonial Critique of Elma Napier and Sylvia Wynter” (Alex Fabrizio, Assistant Professor of Modern and Postmodern British Literature, Nicholls State University)

• “Curating at the Eclipse of the Empire: The Orientation of Public Museums in Late Colonial Hong Kong” (Reynold K. W. Tsang, DPhil Student in History, University of Oxford)

• “Envisioning Colonial Internationalism in Ayube M. Edun’s London’s Heart-Probe and Britain’s Destiny” (Faria A. Nasruddin, MA Student at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University)

With moderator Rebeca Velasquez (PhD Candidate, English, University of Chicago)