Program

Thursday, Oct 21, 2021

	Conference Welcome
3pm*	HEIKE PAUL (BAA) Greetings KATRIN HORN & KARIN HOEPKER Opening Remarks

	Panel I (Chair: Sylvia Mayer) Dealing with Uncertainty: Rumor & Speculation
3:30pm – 5pm	SEBASTIAN JOBS (BERLIN) “Slave Uprisings: Rumors and Compensation” CARRIE TIRADO BRAMEN (BUFFALO) “A Star Market: Astrological Speculation on Wall Street” ATIBA PERTILLA (WASHINGTON, DC) “Immigrants, Remittances, and the Courts, 1904–1929”

BREAK

	*Keynote Address I* (Introduced by Karin Hoepker)
5:30pm – 7pm	PETER KNIGHT (MANCHESTER) “Vernacular Epistemologies of the Market”

Friday, Oct 22, 2021

	Panel II (Chair: Regina Schober) Making it Official: Disenfranchised Knowledge & Institutions
3pm – 4:30pm	TRAVIS ROSS (YALE) “History, Inc. The California Startup that Disrupted History Writing in the Gilded Age” ALEXANDER STARRE (BERLIN) “Fringe Knowledge and the Poetics of Urban Sociology in W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams” ANDREW ERLANDSON (PHILADELPHIA) “Precarious Publishing: Financial Anxieties in the Colored Press Conventions and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Communal Editorship”

Panel II (Chair: Regina Schober)
Making it Official: Disenfranchised Knowledge & Institutions

3pm –
4:30pm

TRAVIS ROSS (YALE)
“History, Inc.
The California Startup that Disrupted
History Writing in the Gilded Age”

ALEXANDER STARRE (BERLIN)
“Fringe Knowledge and the Poetics of Urban Sociology
in W.E.B. Du Bois and Jane Addams”

ANDREW ERLANDSON (PHILADELPHIA)
“Precarious Publishing:
Financial Anxieties in the Colored Press Conventions
and Pauline E. Hopkins’s Communal Editorship”

BREAK

	*Keynote Address II* (Introduced by Katrin Horn)
5pm – 6:30pm	LORI MERISH (GEORGETOWN) “Fugitive Knowledge: Poverty as Specular, Poverty as Speculation”

Saturday, Oct 23, 2021

	Panel III (Chair: Birte Christ) Trading Private Knowledges
3pm – 4pm	SELINA FOLTINEK & KATRIN HORN (BAYREUTH) “‘Interesting to the Ladies’: How Foreign Correspondents Made Gossip a Profession” KAREN ADKINS (DENVER) “Sometimes It Is Worse to be Talked About: The Role of Shame in Public Gossip About the Marginalized”

BREAK

	Panel IV (Chair: Jana Keck) Knowledge Production in the Private Sphere
4:30pm – 6pm	CAROLA BEBERMEIER (VIENNA) “A World Within A Room? Genteel Performance, Embodied Knowledge and the Quest of Status in American Parlors” JACLYN N. SCHULTZ (SANTA CRUZ) “Children’s Culture and the Market: Economic Knowledge and Belonging in the US, 1820-1900” SERENITY SUTHERLAND (OSWEGO) “Speculative Knowledge and Home Economics: How Principles of ‘Common Sense’ and ‘Right Living’ Informed Early-Twentieth Century Home Experts”

6pm – 6:45pm	Closing Remarks

* CEST, UTC +2

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