Thursday Sessions
October 6,  1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Murray Hall, Room 302

1:00-1:15  |  Welcome

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."