Event Information

C19: Reconstructions (Conference of the Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists)
Date: 30 March – April 2, 2022
Location: Coral Gables, FL (Hyatt Regency)
Website: https://c19reconstructions.com

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Panel: "W. E. B. Du Bois's Reconstruction of Language"

Date: April 1, 2022, 2:30pm (Cordoba Room)

Chair: Hannah Wakefield (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)
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My Paper: "'A Penumbra of Vagueness': Aphoristic Reconstructions in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk"

• transcript for talk available here

"Du Bois's ​John Brown: Freedom, Determinism, and the Cadences of Chance"

• James Searle (University at Albany, SUNY)

"Trembling Networks, or a Sociology of Feeling, in W. E. B. Du Bois's The Quest of the Silver Fleece"

• Claire Class (University of Tampa)

"On the Death of Sons: Reconstructing Emerson's 'Experience' Through Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk" 

• Austin Bailey (CUNY Graduate Center / Hunter College)