Moderated by Vanessa Warne (University of Manitoba)
- Daniel Martin (MacEwan University): Vocal Anti-Sociability in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
- Riley McGuire (University of Pennsylvania): The Mute Role in Stranger Sociality; Or, the Case of Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Dumb Detective"
- Miranda Wojciechowski (Indiana University): Heterosociality at the Crossways: Conversational Exchange Between Men and Women in the Fin de Siècle