1:15-2:45 PM | Population Migration/Management Jonathan Schroeder, University of Chicago "Slave Nostalgia in the Americas"
Andrew Urban, Rutgers University "Trafficking in Servants: Labor Markets and Population Formation in the Late-Nineteenth Century U.S."
2:45-3:00 PM | Coffee Break
3:00-4:30 PM | Average Aesthetics Randall Knoper, University of Massachusetts "Nerve Force, the Vitality of Racial Populations, and Statistics of Artistic Creation"
Catherine Howe, Williams College "Populations in Plaster: Sargent's Sculptures of the 'Average' American Man and Woman"
Thursday Keynote October 6, 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall
Frances Ferguson, University of Chicago "Molding Populations: Deep Education"
Friday sessions October 7, 9:00 AM - 3:30 PM Murray Hall, Room 302
9:00-9:30 AM | Coffee & Pastries
9:30-11:00 AM | Population's Temporalities David Womble, University of Chicago "Planetary Populations and the Scales of Victorian Time"
Sari Altshuler, Emory University "The Gothic Origins of Global Health"
11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 | Genres of Malthusianism Laura Soderberg, University of Pennsylvania "The Crowds of Dred: Harriet Beecher Stowe, Malthusianism, and the Protest Novel"
Gregory Vargo, New York University "Books of (Social) Murder: Population and Slow Violence in the New Poor Law Debate"
12:45-2:00 PM | Lunch
2:00-3:30 PM | Experiments in Statistics Emily Hainze, Columbia University "'My Future is to be Better Now': Reading Case Files from the New York State Reformatory for Women at Bedford Hills"
Molly Farrell, Ohio State University "'Each year the numbers I recount': Cowper's Bills of Mortality Poems in the Early U.S."