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Draft Program NACBS 2019, Nov. 14-17, Vancouver**PLEASE NOTE: THIS PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE**North American Conference on British StudiesIn conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British StudiesPan Pacific Hotel, Vancouver, British ColumbiaNovember 14-17, 2019Thursday: 2:00-4:00 International Advisory Board Pacific Rim Suite 1 meeting 4:00-7:00 RegistrationCrystal Pavilion Foyer4:00-6:30 NACBS Council meetingPacific Rim Suite 16:30-8:00 NACBS Council dinnerPacific Rim Suite 28:30-9:30 Graduate student receptionCoal HarbourGraduate students attending the conference are invited to a welcome reception, sponsored by Institute for Historical Research, LondonFriday, Breakfast, 7:45-8:45***Connect: Session One: Friday, 8:45-10:15 1. Gender, Empire, and Texts, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair and commentator: Lynn MacKay, Brandon UniversityArchival Accretions: Gender, Empire and Storytelling in the Papers of MermanjanAlexandra Lindgren-Gibson, University of MississippiWomanhood Debated: the Prize Winning Essays in the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine 1852-1855Ann Poulson, Henry Art Gallery, University of WashingtonNineteenth-Century British Women, Imperial Science Culture, and Colonial ViolenceVirginia Vandenberg, Queen’s University, Canada2. Humans, Animals, and Sustenance Across Cultures and Time, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Harriet Ritvo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology‘[O]ur plaines,’ our ‘grass,’ ‘our Coves,’ ‘our Clambanks’: Deep Time, Sustenant Landscapes, and Gendered Sovereignty in Miantonomi’s SpeechThomas Wickman, Trinity College“Repugnant to the Laws of Nature”: Feeding People but not other Animals in ConfinementAnya Zilberstein, Concordia UniversityMalthus and the Margins: Food, History, and Nature after the EnlightenmentDeborah Valenze, Columbia University3. Animals and Home in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Gazebo 1Chair: Julie-Marie Strange, University of ManchesterComfort and Chaos: Pets and the Eighteenth-Century HouseholdIngrid Tague, University of DenverRenegotiating Lapdogs in the Eighteenth-Century FamilyStephanie Howard-Smith, University of York‘That Tail of His Quite Ruined the Breakfast-Room Paper’: Pets and Middle-Class Domestic Space in Victorian EnglandJane Hamlett, Royal Holloway, University of LondonCommentator: Susan Nance, University of Guelph4. Settler Spatial Imaginaries: Race and Space in the British Empire, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair: Marilyn Lake, University of Melbourne‘”White Spaces on the Pacific: The Settler Imaginary in Queensland and British Columbia, 1860s-1910sThanasis Kinias, Northeastern UniversityCalifornia Dreaming: Space, Vigilantism, and Self-Governance in Later Victorian ThoughtAmanda Behm, University of YorkMaking the World Safe for Settler Colonialism: Dominion Elites and the Idea of the CommonwealthJohn Mitcham, Duquesne UniversityCommentator: Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia5. Disclosure, Activism, and Citizenship: Interrogating Hierarchies of Access Services in Britain, 1880-2000, Oceanview 1 (AV)Commentator and chair: Elizabeth Prevost, Grinnell College“HIV you must be jokin”: Recovering the Everyday Experiences, HIV Status Disclosure in Late-Twentieth-Century EdinburghHannah Elizabeth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineDoctor-Patient-Boss-State Confidentiality: Who Needed to Know “What was Wrong with You” in the Classic Welfare State?Gareth Millward, University of WarwickMaking the Nation Accessible? Disability Access, Holidays, and Hotels in Modern BritainEloise Moss, University of Manchester6. Thinking the Empire Whole (Roundtable), Oceanview 2The study of the British Empire has been crippled by proto-nationalist historiography that analyzes early America, South Asia, Jamaica rather than thinking the Empire Whole. Contemporaries both in Britain and the colonies, Britons and indigenous people thought in terms of the entire Empire. There was no consensus about the aims of empire. Right across the Empire there was a profound debate about whether the Empire should be an extractive one to benefit England or a developmental one. These debates had profound policy implications. While we appreciate the efforts of the interpreters of settler colonialism to think outside of national categories, we have found that the expositors of this paradigm imagine a too constricted notion of political economy to capture the range of debate, conflict and options. By thinking the Empire Whole, we maintain, we will get better and richer accounts of indigenous, domestic and colonial histories. This roundtable will consist of three comments about this global approach to empire, followed by three critical responses.Chair: Philip Stern, Duke UniversityParticipants:Steve Pincus, The University of ChicagoTiraana Bains, Yale UniversityAlyssa Zuercher Reichardt, University of MissouriKathleen Wilson, SUNY StonybrookHolly Brewer, University of MarylandCarl Wennerlind, Barnard College7. Ask the Experts: Asserting Expertise in Dynamic Institutional Contexts, Oceanview 3Chair and commentator: Jennifer McNabb, University of Northern IowaTransnational Knowledge Networks, Art Pedagogy, and Commerce during the Eighteenth CenturyJason Kelly, Indiana University – Purdue University IndianapolisThinking of his Dearest ‘Tilda (laughter): How to Write a Love Letter in the Late Nineteenth CenturySusie Steinbach, Hamline UniversityThe Battle of the Bibliographies: Claiming and Contesting Expertise in the Inter-War Development of Colonial Administration CurriculumLia Paradis, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania8. New Approaches to the History of Punishment, 1750-1870, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair and commentator: Simon Devereaux, University of VictoriaShaping the London Prison System, 1750-1850Kiran Mehta, Wolfson College, Oxford University Tracing Phantoms of the Past: Collaborative Undergraduate Research in a Transatlantic ProjectNina Reid-Maroney, Huron CollegeWhat Counts? Summary Justice and Criminal Indictments at Great Yarmouth, 1939-43Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores UniversitySparing the Noose: The Penal Outcomes of Convicts Sentenced to Death at the Old Bailey, 1763-1868Robert Shoemaker, University of SheffieldBreak, 10:15-10:30Session Two: Friday, 10:30-12:00 9. Metabolic Rift: New Histories of Environment, Empire and Capitalism (Roundtable), Pacific Rim Suite 1First articulated as a fusion of Liebig’s soil chemistry and Marxist political economy, the concept of metabolic rift shines a light on the ecological deficit of modern forms of economic growth. In temporal terms, metabolic rift describes the disjuncture between the accelerating rhythms of capitalist extraction and the slow cycles that replenish natural sinks and stocks. The process of carbon emission that began with the transition of Britain into the fossil fuel economy is now affecting the world system at the planetary scale. Earth system science adds a new element to the framework of metabolic rift by stressing how exponential growth can provoke tipping points and cascading feedback effects. Like Hemingway’s bankruptcy, the destabilization of the earth system happened gradually and then all of a sudden. We hope this topic will stimulate a broad conversation about the arc of British history from the origins of the empire to the Anthropocene. Our roundtable participants represent a range of periods and approaches but we share in common a strong interest in the challenge of climate change to our basic understanding of social theory and historical knowledge. We aim for an inclusive discussion that encourages scholars to reassess the narratives and methods of British history in light of earth system science and the new environmental humanities.Chair: Anya Zilberstein, Concordia University, MontrealThe Imperial Cold Chain Rebecca Woods, University of Toronto Early Modern PerspectivesLydia Barnett, Northwestern UniversityThe Origins of the Fossil Fuel EconomyFredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of ChicagoFood Chains and Metabolic RiftChris Otter, Ohio State UniversityCommentator: ***10. Colonial Politics in the Early Modern British Atlantic, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Mark Hanna, University of California, San Diego The New York Succession Crisis of 1736-39: The Politics of Executive Prerogative and Popular SovereigntyAmy Watson, University of Southern CaliforniaMajority Decision-Making in the Colonial Lower Assemblies, 1619-1776William Bulman, Lehigh UniversityScatological Satire and Political Economy in Early Eighteenth-Century New YorkMegan Lindsay Cherry, North Carolina State University11. Empire in Crisis: Governance, Social Engineering Schemes, and the Negotiation of Authority, 1834-1865, Gazebo 1Chair: Kate Imy, University of North TexasJudging Freedom: Stipendiary Magistrates and Emancipation in the British West Indies, 1834-1865Chris Bischof, University of RichmondReligion, Custody and Law in a Military Cantonment, c. 1859: the Case of Honora ColemanAshley Wright, Washington State UniversityAssessing the Morality of British Social Engineering during the Great FaminePatrick McDevitt, SUNY BuffaloCommentator: Christienna Fryer, University of Liverpool12. Race, Commodity Management, and Empire-Building in the Early Modern Caribbean, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Rebecca Goetz, New York UniversityParched Islands: The Fresh Water Trade and the Early Modern British CaribbeanMary S. Draper, Midwestern State UniversityWood Conversation, Atlantic Trade, and the Landscapes of Early English BarbadosKeith Pluymers, Illinois State UniversityRum, Sugar, and Slavery: the Political Economy of Alcohol in the Early Modern Leeward IslandsLila O’Leary Chambers, New York University13. Ethics, Affects, and Moral Subjects, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair: Deborah Valenze, Barnard CollegeThe Animal Conscience in Nineteenth- Century BritainThomas Laqueur, University of California BerkeleyEducating Conscience in Britain and the Empire, 1830s-1920sSeth Koven, Rutgers UniversityLove in the Time of Welfare: Ethics, Fraud and the Cohabitation RuleJordanna Bailkin, University of WashingtonCommentator: Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado Denver 14. Urban History and the Twentieth Century, Oceanview 2Chair: Judith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins UniversityUrban History and CitizenshipSarah Mass, Columbia UniversityUrban History and Social DemocracyGuy Ortolano, New York UniversityUrban History and Neoliberalism Sam Wetherell, University of YorkCommentator: David Morton, University of British Columbia15. National and International Politics Following World War I, Oceanview 3Chair and commentator: Brian McKercher, University of Victoria“The Ineffable Hughes” vs. Savonarola: Clashes within the British Empire Delegation in Paris over the Creation of the League of NationsPhillip DehneThe British Empire and the End of German ColonialismMads Bomholt Nielsen, University of Copenhagen16. The Sisterhood and the Motherhood: All-Female Ideological Communities and the Formation of Women’s National Identities in Britain, 1573-1970, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair: Susie Steinbach, Hamline UniversityImagining the Nation: English Nuns in Exile, 1550-1625Laura Roberts, University of OxfordMilitancy in the Marital Sphere: Exploration of the Politicization of Marriage as a Potential Militant Suffrage Strategy within The Freewoman periodical, 1910-1914Tania Shew, Harvard UniversityLiving Motherhood in Post-War BritainJessica White, University of ManchesterCommentator: Courteney Smith, Boston UniversityLunch and Plenary, 12:00-1:30, ***Digging the Past:? How and Why to Imagine Seventeenth-Century AgricultureFrances Dolan, University of California, Davis Session Three: Friday, 1:45-3:15 17. Understanding Confessional Diversity in Early Modern Britain, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair and commentator: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate UniversityConfessional Creativity at the Tudor Court: the Case of Sir Anthony CopeKarl Gunther, University of MiamiCovenanter Identity in Cromwellian Scotland: The Case of AyrMichelle Brock, Washington and Lee UniversityA Peaceful Church Desired: The Case of Edward ReynoldsIsaac Stephens, University of Mississippi18. Imperialism on the Ground in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair: Sarah Stockwell, King’s College London“Thirty Policemen Could Not Find Employment among Two Hundred Thousand Natives”: Natal’s Colonial Police and a Crisis of Confidence in the 1860sJacob Ivey, Florida Institute of Technology Imperial Institutes in China and Britain’s Global Expansion: Constructing the Narrative of the Cruel Chinese PunishmentQiong Yu, Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityRethinking Monarchical Sovereignty in Colonial IndiaSarath Pillai, University of ChicagoCommentator: Gregory Blue, University of Victoria19. Philanthropy and Building the British Empire, Gazebo 1Chair and commentator: Karen E. Sonnelitter, Sienna College“For the Relief of Poor Germans in Pennsylvania”: Philanthropy in the Service of EmpireKaren Aumen, Brigham Young UniversityImperial Humanitarianism: The Aborigines’ Protection Society and the Expansion of the British EmpireDean Pavlakis, Carroll CollegePhilanthropy, Proselytization and Power: German Missionaries and British Authorities during the RajSharon Arnoult, Midwestern State University20. Convivial Cultures in the Late Twentieth Century, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Phanuel Antwi, University of British ColumbiaPicturing Conviviality: Images of Diversity in the Making of Multicultural BritainRadhika Natarajan, Reed CollegeShopping for London’s Future: Markets, Commerce and MulticultureBob Waters, University of BirminghamFrom Rachmanism to Richard Curtis: Gentrification in Noting Hill between 1965-1999Stephen Bentel, Queen Mary, University of London21. Bodies and Spirits at the Century’s Turn, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair and commentator: Joy Dixon, University of British Columbia“Sometimes I can really be my mother”: Body, Spirit and intimacy in the mediumship of Rosina Thompson, 1898-1903George Morris, Cambridge UniversityBalfours Play God: Sex and Psychical Research in the Shadow of the Great WarSusan Pederson, Columbia UniversityBodies, Souls, Collectives: H.G. Wells Thinking the FutureSarah Cole, Columbia University22. Alice Clark’s Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century at 100 (Roundtable), Oceanview 22019 marks the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Alice Clark’s groundbreaking Working Life of Women in the Seventeenth Century. Clark’s compelling narrative, which focused on the decline in the economic independence of women from the medieval to the modern period, remains a starting point for many discussions of women’s work today. While our understanding of work has become far more complex, Clark’s grounding in archival sources and analytical focus mean that scholars who study work must engage with her interpretation. This roundtable is the second part of an international conversation about Working Life. From April through October, the Many Headed Monster blog is hosting a series of posts on Clark and her work. Our hope for the roundtable is to both evaluate Clark’s work and more importantly, move toward a new framework for the study of the long arc of women’s work in early modern England. Chair: Tim Stretton, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax Nova Scotia Participants: Susan Amussen, University of California, MercedJudith Bennett, University of Southern CaliforniaAmy Froide, University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyMark Hailwood, University of Bristol23. (Il)logics of Race and Recruitment: Black Soldiers and “Martial Races” from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries, Oceanview 3Chair and commentator: Matthew Dziennik, United States Naval AcademyMaroons and Metropolitan Officials: The Imperial Legacies of the 1730s Maroon Wars in JamaicaMaria Alessandra Bollettino, Framingham State University “A force which will make this Government respected”: John Hawley Glover, the Armed Hausa and British Colonialism in West AfricaKyle Prochnow, York UniversityMartial Races of the Commonwealth: Race and Militancy in the Malayan EmergencyKate Imy, University of North Texas24. The Club Dimension in Nineteenth-Century British Imperial History, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair: Amy Milne-Smith, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityClubonomics: The Rise and Fall of London ClublandSeth Alexander Thavoz, Nuffield College, University of OxfordPerforming Clubbability: Distinction, Britishness and the Legitimacy to RuleManamee Guha, University of Illinois at ChicagoColonial Clubbing in a Princely State: The Nizam Club of Hyderabad, IndiaBenjamin B. Cohen, University of UtahCommentator: Erika Rappaport, University of California, Santa BarbaraBreak, 3:00-3:30Session four: Friday, 3:30-5:15 25. Female Emigration Schemes and the British Empire, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair and commentator: Kathrin Levitan, College of William and Mary“More Sinned Against than Sinning”: The Belfast Union, Colonial Office and Irish Female EmigrantsJill Bender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro“There are enough of us at home”: Female Middle Class Emigration Society’s emigrant letters (1860s-1870s)Marie Ruiz, University of Picardie Jules VerneTerms of Service: British Domestic Migrants and the Negotiation of Identity in the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony, 1902-1914Maia Silber, Princeton University26. Using Concepts: Migration of Concepts between Discourses and Users, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair: David Liebermann, University of California, BerkeleyPractical Humanism and the Invention of ConsumptionPhilip Withington, University of SheffieldReforming Manners in an Age of Enlightenment and RevolutionJoanna Innes, University of OxfordCorporations and the Nineteenth-Century British Empire,Philip Stern, Duke UniversityCommentator: Julia Rudolph, North Carolina State University27. India and the Victorians (Roundtable), Gazebo 1Miles Taylor's recently published Empress: Queen Victoria and India (2018) offers an opportunity to reflect upon what India meant for Victorian Britain as well as how it helped to locate nineteenth century Britain and its Empire for subsequent generations. The panel will collectively consider these relationships from multiple perspectives drawing on their own programs of research, including: Victorian efforts to address race and legal identify in India, the means and measures by which a sense of an imperial mission was forged, Victoria's place in debates over women's rights and responsibilities in India and the UK, the differences and similarities between British and Indian reactions to Royal tours, the wider imperial legacy of developmental discourse and practice in late Victorian India, and how the imagery and ideology of Victorian India came to be so deeply entangled with the military. Collectively, the panelists and respondent will foster a discussion that is intended to help us to move behind and beyond the cliche of the Jewel in the Crown to appreciate better the historical and historiographical legacy of Victorian India.Chair: Philippa Levine, University of Texas at AustinParticipants:Sandra Den Otter, Queen’s UniversityRichard Price, University of Maryland, College ParkArianne Chernock, Boston UniversityCharles Reed, Elizabeth City State UniversityAaron Windel, Simon Fraser UniversityDouglas M. Peers, University of WaterlooCommentator: Miles Taylor, University of York28. Development and Colonialism at the End of Empire, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Susan Pennybacker, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillBeyond Malaria Eradication: Insecticides and Development in the British Colonial Empire after 1945Sabine Clarke, University of YorkThe ‘post-colonial colony”: British Technical Assistance to Emergent African Commonwealth StatesSarah Stockwell, King’s College LondonIn the Aftermath of Empire: Colonial Experts, Post-Colonial Careering and the Decolonization of Development, 1947-1997Joseph Hodge, West Virginia UniversityStandardizing Food Contamination: Experts, Economic Interests, and Foreign Relations, 1960-1985Lucas Mueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology29. The Problem of Non-Heroic Failure in British Exploration, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair and commentator: Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson UniversityMoorcroft’s Folly: The Failed and Forgotten Origins of British Exploration in the Trans-Himalaya, 1815-1825Stewart Weaver, University of RochesterForgotten Failures: The Curious Cases of the Congo and Niger Expedition c. 1816-1820 Dane Kennedy, George Washington UniversityFailing Bodies: Exploration, Non-Heroic Suffering, and White-Masculinity, 1856-1913Ed Armston-Sheret, Royal Holloway, University of London30. Just Profits and Legal Conflict in Early Modern England, Oceanview 2Chair and commentator: Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern CaliforniaConspiring and Co-opting: Popular (ab)uses of Law and the Court of Star ChamberKrista Kesselring, Dalhousie UniversityShipwrecks and Shoreline Conflict in Early Modern EnglandDavid Cressy, The Ohio State UniversityStar Chamber, the Bullion Trade and the Veracity of Judicial Records, 1618-1620Simon Healy, History of Parliament Trust31. Privacy, Sensation and Sexual Histories in the Twentieth Century, Oceanview 3Chair and commentator: Chris Waters, Williams College“Eccentric” Ives?: Contextualizing the Sensationalist Scrapbooks of George Cecil IvesRuby Daily, Northwestern UniversityThe Legacy of Victorian Sex Laws: “Operation Spanner” in ContextBrian Lewis, McGill UniversityRupert Brooke’s Sexual HistoriesPaul Deslandes, University of Vermont32. Managing Marginal Communities in Seventeenth-, Eighteenth-, and Nineteenth-Century England, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair: Tim Jenks, East Carolina UniversityAccounting for Illegitimacy: Parish Politics and the Poor in Eighteenth-Century SussexLouise Falcini, University of Sussex“To Be Poor in Consequence of Being Blind” in the Eighteenth CenturySusannah Ottaway, Carleton CollegeRe-forming Strategies for Criminal Girls and boys in the Philanthropic SocietyGreg T. Smith, University of ManitobaThe State and the State of England’s hospitals in the Later Seventeenth Century, 1600-1714Matthew Neufeld, University of SaskatchewanCommentator: Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex-------------------------------Friday evening:Business Meetings5:15-6:15American Friends of the Institute of Historical ResearchBusiness Meeting, Oceanview 1Saturday, Breakfast, 7:45-8:45Connect: Session Five: Saturday, 8:45-10:15 33. Butter, Sugar, Water: Economic Development Beyond the State, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair: Tehila Sasson, Emory UniversityRiverine Resistance: Irrigation Policy and Rural Adaptation in Late-Colonial KenyaJames Parker, Northeastern UniversityMaking Modern?Manna: Agricultural Science in the Service of EmpireRachel Steely, Harvard UniversityCorporate Development and the Preservation of Capitalism in the 1950s and 1960s CommonwealthErika Rappaport, University of California, Santa BarbaraCommentator: Jeff Schauer, University of Nevada, Las Vegas34. Industrial Risks and Labor in the British World 1830-1880, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Jamie L. Bronstein, New Mexico State University"Constructing Expertise: Scientific and Medical Conflicts over Occupational Diseases caused by Toxic Colours in Britain, 1830-1860"Amelie Bonney, University of Oxford“The slightest carelessness would produce fearful mutilation, and very probably loss of life itself”: Risks on a British Worksite in Canada (Victoria Bridge, 1853-1859)Anh-Dao Bui Tran, Paris Sorbonne University “The only real safeguard against accidents:” Punctuality, Safety, and Railway accidents in Nineteenth-Century Britain Ken Corbett, University of British Columbia35. Economic Experiments in Labor and Technology, Gazebo 1Chair: Jim Livesey, University of Dundee Cochineal Husbandry in Eighteenth-Century Mexico and IndiaDeirdre Moore, Harvard UniversityFrom “quarrelsome workers” to “prisoners of magistrate”: Capitalist Labor Discipline in the Making of Boatmen, English East India Company State Relations in Bengal, 1700-1806Titas Chakraborty, Duke Kunshun UniversityThe Mighty Experiment: Food Provisioning and the Wage Question in British Slave EmancipationNicholas Crawford, Washington UniversityCommentator: Neilesh Bose, University of Victoria36. Reform and Reaction in Imperial Spaces, c. 1825-1850, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair: Dana Rabin, University of IllinoisCatholic Emancipation in the Era of Crown Colony GovernanceJessica Harland-Jacobs, University of FloridaResisting Reform: Ultra-Tories, Anti-Catholicism and the Undermining of Whig Government, 1830-1841Jay Roszman, University College CorkThe Raj’s Pauperization of India’s Small Farmers and Its British CriticsPaul Fideler, Lesley UniversityBribery in Baroda: “Khutput” and the Limitations of the Residency SystemZak Leonard, University of Chicago37. Rethinking Regulatory Institutions in the History of Gender and Sexuality, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair and commentator: Sharon Marcus, Columbia UniversityConservative Homosexualities and Normative Masculinities in Early-Twentieth-Century CambridgeEmily Rutherford, Columbia UniversityMen in Tights: Ballet, “Obscene” Masculinity and National Culture at the Postwar Royal Opera HouseLaura Quinton, New York UniversityDocumenting “Doubtful Sex” in the Postwar National Insurance System, 1954-1969Adrian Kane, University of Washington38. Women and the Court of Chancery, Oceanview 2Chair and commentator: Sara Butler, The Ohio State UniversityMarried Women, “Next Friends” and Trustees in the Eighteenth-Century ChanceryEmily Ireland, The University of AdelaideA Life Revealed: A Late Seventeenth-Century Widow Moneylender in ChanceryHelen Saunders, University of CambridgePrivate Marital Separations and Chancery, 1650-1750Tim Stretton, Saint Mary’s University39. Indirect Rule Across the British Empire, Oceanview 3Chair: ?Benjamin B. Cohen, University of UtahThe Viceroy Meets the Sheikhs: Narratives of British Informal Imperialism and Lord Curzon's Tour of the Gulf in 1903Guillemette Crouzet, University of Warwick“Strangers Within Our Gates”: The Business of Indirect Rule in British Southeast Asia, 1900-1935David Baillargeon, University of NottinghamThe Militarization of the Official Mind: The Violence of Indirect Rule in the East India Company, 1798-1818Callie Wilkinson, University of Warwick40. The Politics and Ideas of British Conservatism after 1945, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair and commentator: Clarisse Berthezene, Université Paris-DiderotBritish Conservatives, Ulster Unionists and the Debate over UK Devolution in the 1970sPaul Corthorn, Queen’s University BelfastOpposition to Thatcherism from with the Conservative Party: The Tory Reform Group’s Role, Strategies and Progressive Ideas (1975-1990)Stephane Porion, University of ToursThe Conservative Right and Europe, 1961-1985Neil Fleming, University of WorcesterBreak, 10:15-10:45Session Six: Saturday, 10:30-12:00 41. Political Economy in Imperial Context, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair: Holly Brewer, University of MarylandLiberal Economic Thought and the Problem of Opium Commodification in British BengalMatthew Wormer, Stanford UniversityThe Near Abroad of Capitalist Development: Irish Political Economy from the Plantation of Ulster to the FamineJames Livesey, University of DundeeThe Development of Agrarian Capitalism in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century EnglandJoshua Rhodes, University of ExeterCommentator: ***42. The Labor of Finance, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Timothy Alborn, Lehman College, City University of New YorkPerforming Financial Power: Precarious Labor, Information and Power in the Nineteenth-Century Stock ExchangeJohn Handel, University of California, BerkeleyOutsiders as Economic Insiders: Bankers and BrokersMaura O’Connor, University of Cincinnati43. Consumerism and Identity in Twentieth-Century Britain Chair and commentator: Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Johns Hopkins UniversityPressed into the Same Package: Freedom, Conformity and the British Press in the Age of New TechnologyPatrick Wilz, University of Minnesota“How Others See us”: Shop-work as Theater in Interwar British High-Street Mutliple StoresRichard Hornsey, University of Nottingham“Certainly nothing half so revealing exists in documentary form”: The Newsagent’s Shop in Interwar BritainCatherine Feely, University of Derby44. Body, Personhood and Family Relations in Early Modern England, 1600-1820, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair: Greg Smith, University of ManitobaMarriage and Health in Early Modern EnglandLeah Astbury, University of CambridgeContesting the Body in Marriage and Divorce, 1660-1820Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna College“Your frequent Inquiry after my Health”: Family, Friends and Social Bodies in Eighteenth-Century LettersKaren Harvey, University of BirminghamCommentator: Jamie Gianoutsos, Mount Saint Mary’s University45. “Indigenizing” British Studies? (Roundtable), Oceanview 1 (AV)What might it mean to “Indigenize” British studies? In an age when decolonization is the goal of many scholars working in the field of Indigenous studies, what might it look like to bring the insights of that field to bear on historical, literary, and other practices that are at the heart of British studies? How might we move toward a model of understanding in which Britain could be seen as having always been entangled with long histories of Indigenous presence, resistance, and survivance? In this roundtable session, four scholars will share thoughts about ways to bring Indigenous studies and British studies together. David Stirrup will profile the work of Beyond the Spectacle, a collaborative AHRC-funded project aimed at unearthing Native North American presence in Britain. Cecilia Morgan will discuss the ways in which taking Indigenous peoples’ migration Britain seriously suggests that there were multiple dynamics of Britain’s relationship to settler colonies and Dominions and provides new dimensions to the history of race in nineteenth-century Britain and the meanings of home. Coll Thrush will share thoughts on imagining a place-based, Indigenous-centred history of London and other sites within the British landscape. Lastly, Tarren Andrews (Salish) will push us even further, considering the resonances between Indigenous studies and early medieval British history. Together, these presentations suggest the possibilities for critical conversations between Indigenous and British studies, even as they also raise questions about how the political commitments of Indigenous studies might (or might not) migrate into studies of the “British World.”Participants:David Stirrup, University of KentCecilia Morgan, University of TorontoColl Thrush, University of British ColumbiaTarren Andrews, University of Colorado, Boulder46. Amateur Performance in Modern Britain and its Empire, Oceanview 2Chair and commentator: Brian E.G. Cook, University of Alaska AnchorageCrafting the Drawing-Room Stage: Victorian Amateur Theatricals and Middle Class IdentityHeidi Weig, University of Regensburg“In Fact They Were Great”: Class Politics and Twentieth-Century Amateur TheatricalsRen Pepitone, University of Arkansas“If You’re Not Careful, Macbeth Can Be Quite a Funny Play”: British Drama Export to AfricaCaroline Ritter, Texas State University47. Emotional Bodies in the Body Politic, Oceanview 3Chair: Hannah J. Elizabeth, London School of Hygiene and Tropical MedicineCorporeal Conservatism: Moral Movements, Bodies and BrainsChris Moores, University of BirminghamFeeling Things in the NHSAgnes Arnold-Forster, Queen Mary, University of London/University of RoehamptonHeads, Hearts and Guts: An Emotional History of BrexitEmily Robinson, University of Sussex, and Jonathan Moss, University of SussexCommentator: Rhodri Hayward, Queen Mary, University of London48. The Past in Practice: Antiquarianism, Archaeology and Tradition, c. 1780-1940, Oceanview 4 (AV) Chair and commentator: Leslie Howsam, University of WindsorTradition in Practice: James Rendel Harris and the Mayflower in BritainMartha Vandrei, University of ExeterDisciplining the Field: British Archaeologists Practicing in the Middle East and the Popular Imagination, 1918-1939Hélène Maloigne, University College LondonWalking with Antiquaries: Pedestrianism and Historical Practice, c. 1780-1914Paul Readman, King’s College LondonLunch and Plenary, 12:00-1:45Anansi's Revolution: Black Power & British EmpireQuito Swan, University of Massachusetts BostonSession Seven: Saturday, 1:45-3:1549. “Divided We Stand”? Labor’s Left and the Left of Labor from 1918 to the Present, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair: Emmanuelle Avril, Sorbonne Nouvelle UniversityA Hundred Years of Communist-Labor Relations Jeremy Tranmer, Université de LorraineTrotskyist Strategies: A Case of Entryism in the Labor PartyInna Gazizova, Sorbonne Nouvelle UniversityThis Time it will be Different? Dilemmas and Divisions among Labor’s Lefts since 1918Nick Randall, University of Newcastle Commentator: Mark Wickham-Jones, University of Bristol50. Risk and Protection in Britain and the Empire, 1890-1990, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair: Tim Alborn, Lehman College, City University of New York“A Good Tent May Make All the Difference of Living or Dying”: Missionary Travel and the Management of RiskEllen Boucher, Amherst CollegeChild Brides and Imperial Stability: Languages of Risk in the Debate over the Age of Consent and Child Marriage, 1890-1930Penny Sinanoglou, Wake Forest UniversityThe Limits to Free Market MedicineAndrew Seaton, New York UniversityCommentator: Hilary Buxton, Institute of Historical Research51. WORKSHOP: Histories of Capitalism (Session runs until 5:00), Gazebo 1Note: Pre-circulated papers for this workshop are available from the conveners. Conveners: Tehila Sasson, Emory University and Vanessa Ogle, University of California, BerkeleySmall Change, Industrial Wages, and Imperial Capitalism in the Eighteenth?CenturyMara Caden, University of ChicagoCredit Between the British and Ottoman Empires: Forging a Global?Monetary SystemEllen M.?Nye, Yale UniversitySelf Interest in the Nineteenth Century?Penelope Ismay, Boston CollegeCredibility Brokerage and the Market for Brazilian and?Argentine Debt in London, 1852-1906Paula?Vedoveli, Funda??o Getulio VargasBanking on the Countryside: Imperial Networks, Agrarian Finance and the?Production of ValueMeghna Chaudhuri, New York University“A joint grievance:” Married Women’s Income and the 1920 Royal?Commission on Income TaxAgnes?Burt, Boston UniversityBuilding Blocs: Raw Materials and the Global Economy in the Age?of DisequilibriumRob?Konkel, Princeton UniversityLabor, Policy and Corporate Practice in the Early?20th Century South Asian Tea IndustryRebekah?McCallum, McGill University52. Non-Elite Women and Public Roles, 1760-1837, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Alannah Tomkins, Keele UniversityWomen, Business and Provincial Workhouses: Open. And Hidden Investment in the Supply Chain, 1780-1835Peter Collinge, Keele UniversityBritish Naval Nurses: Female Mobilization in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsErin Spinney, Independent ScholarOrdinary Women and Politics in Late Georgian England: Evidence from Controverted ElectionsElaine Chalus, Liverpool University53. On the Margins: Gender, Family and Forgotten Histories of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair: Jane Hamlett, Royal Holloway, University of LondonPet Cemetery: Love, Memory and the Disposal of the Animal Dead, 1900-1939Julie-Marie Strange“In Memory of my Great Grandfather and his Infant Son”: Families, Memories and the Legacies of Grief in the First World War CentenaryLucy Noakes, University of EssexHumble Pleas for Tender Children: Petitioning for Juvenile Offenders in 1830s EnglandSamantha Lack, Texas Tech UniversityCommentator: Seth Koven, Rutgers University54. Race, Ethnicity and Inequality in the British Historical Profession: Forging a Transatlantic Dialogue (Roundtable), Oceanview 2On 18 October 2018 the Royal Historical Society released the results of research undertaken by a special working group convened to study and develop recommendations to address the persistence of racial and ethnic inequality in the discipline of History with particular attention to higher education in the UK. In addition to highlighting the lack of racial and ethnic diversity in the profile of students and academic staff in History department across the country, the report identifies some of the structural barriers that sustain these dynamics and prevent the establishment of a more inclusive field of inquiry reflective of Black and minority ethnic perspectives and histories of racial formation within the study, training and practice of History. In addressing these issues, the report offers a series of timely recommendations aimed at spurring action on a range of different levels from senior leaders responsible for developing university policies and overseeing recruitment and hiring practices, to those involved responsible for curriculum development, pedagogic practice, and fostering a collegiate and inclusive environment where underrepresented voices are respected and valued. While the RHS Report on Race, Ethnicity and Equality looked specifically at the UK higher education landscape, the relevance of its terms of reference for the field of British history more generally are clear. This roundtable brings together scholars based in the UK to discuss the findings of the report, early institutional responses, and its implications for transforming and sustaining the intellectual and cultural development of the field in and beyond the UK. In bringing this discussion to the NACBS, this roundtable aims to generate a transatlantic dialogue about the future of British studies ? its content, its practitioners, its approaches, and perhaps most importantly, its impact.Chair: Kennetta Perry, Stephen Lawrence. Research Centre, De Montfort UniversityParticipants:Hannah Elias, Institute for Historical ResearchKerry Pimplott, University of ManchesterMeleisa Ono-George, University of WarwickSadiah Qureshi, University of BirminghamChristienna Fryar, University of Liverpool55. Does Biography Matter? (Roundtable) Oceanview 3Biographies have a rather ambivalent status in the academic world and among professional historians. How are they regarded by fellow academics? Are they considered by the profession an inferior genre to monographs or books and articles on particular problems or countries? How valuable are they in illuminating the history of a particular country? Why is it that most but not all best-selling biographies are written by non-academics? Should a young historian avoid writing a biography as a mistaken career move? Are there differences between biographies of more recent figures where are there are still living witnesses in contrast to those that are based exclusively on documents? From their experience as biographers who have had careers in the profession the panelists will address these issues and others.Chair: Peter Mandler, Cambridge UniversityParticipants:Laura Beers, American UniversityFred Leventhal, Boston UniversityPeter Stansky, Stanford University56. The London Waterfront in the Medieval and Tudor Period, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair and commentator: Richard W. Unger, University of British ColumbiaShipping and Shipowning on the Medieval London WaterfrontMaryanne Kowaleski, Fordham UniversityThe Occupational Evolution of London’s Riverside Parishes, c. 1400-1600Justin Colson, University of EssexThe Impact of Tudor Reforms on the London WaterfrontVanessa Ann Harding, Birkbeck, University of London____________Break, 3:00-3:30______________Saturday, Session Eight: 3:30-5:00 57. Alternative-WWI: Expanding First World War Histories after the CentenaryChair: Janet Watson, University of ConnecticutThe Social World of Multi-War Service: Ernest Craig-Brown & Neville J.G. Cameron in South Africa, WWI and BeyondTaylor Soja, University of Washington “So little can be done to bring them aid and comfort”: British and Irish Female Veterans of the First World War Bridget Keown, Northeastern UniversityThe Ghosts of the Great War: Death and Mourning in the Séance Room, 1914-1936Kyle Falcon, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityCommentator: Allison Abra, University of Southern Mississippi58. Women’s Work in 1980s and 1990s Britain, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Stephen Brooke, York UniversityThe Discourse and Practice of Sex Work in the 1980sJudith Walkowitz, Johns Hopkins UniversityBecoming a Working Parent: Self-Help Culture and “Having it All”Sarah Stoller, University of California, BerkeleyOutsourcing, Precarity and the Work of Women of Color at HeathrowJames Vernon, University of California, Berkeley59. The Politics and Practice of Instituting Black Studies in Britain (Roundtable), Gazebo 2 (AV)This roundtable explores the politics of instituting Black Studies in the UK higher education system. It draws on the experience of the four panellists who are, or have been, members of the team of scholars developing and delivering the first Black Studies undergraduate degree programme in Europe, launched in September 2017. Beginning with a discussion of (i) ‘Why Black Studies in Britain?’, Denise Noble frames the panel by arguing that formal political decolonization has neither overturned the coloniality of the modern world order, nor the forms of cultural and epistemological violence upon which it relies. This presentation asks what is different, in the challenge being posed by the call to decolonize knowledge, from the kinds of demands being made at the start of Black Studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and what the implications of these differences are, for contemporary struggles to institutionalize Black Studies not only in the UK, but also globally. Nathaniel Adam Tobias Coleman will consider the question (ii) ‘Why Black Studies now?’. This presentation connects current Black activism on campuses to a longer British educational context, exposing the historic epistemic erasure of Black Queer-Trans knowledges in UK higher education and in Black Studies more generally. Karen Wilkes will then consider the question (iii) ‘Why did UK Black Studies begin at BCU?’. This presentation explains why the current neoliberal moment proved receptive to the institutionalization of Black Studies in the city of Birmingham and at Birmingham City University. Finally, Lisa Palmer will consider (iv) ‘What are the implications of all this for the kind of Black Studies that has emerged and for the future direction of Black Studies/decolonizing knowledge in Britain?’ Focussing on the expedient, often wilful and complicit forms of gendered erasures that take place in the struggles for Black Studies and Black freedom, where questions of gender and Black Feminism are routinely marginalised, Palmer explores Frantz Fanon’s reflections on the psychosexual condition of the woman of color.Chair: Lisa Palmer, De Montfort UniversityParticipants:Denise Noble, Birmingham City UniversityNathaniel Coleman, Independent ScholarKaren Wilkes, Birmingham City UniversityLisa Palmer, De Montfort University60. Ubiquitous Slaveries: Forced Labor and the British Empire, 1685-1816 (Roundtable), Oceanview 1 (AV)Slavery and coerced labor undergirded the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British empire, before, during and after the nation’s better-known abolitionist campaigns. This panel will showcase the ubiquity of slavery in practice and legacy across British domains, from the ‘West Indies’ to the ‘East Indies’ and back again, across the eighteenth century. It poses the question, why, until very recently, have eastern slaveries gotten so much less attention in historical and critical accounts than Atlantic slavery? Why do these cross-hemispheric practices continue to be treated separately in most of the literature? This panel contends that in fact the various forms of slavery and coerced labor enabling empire are best apprehended and understood from a global perspective that emphasizes commonalties, in conjunction with, rather than instead of, differences amongst a predominantly racialized labor force. Our examples suggest that, rather than taking eighteenth century conceptualizations of the globe at their face value, we should interrogate those spatializations, and question in particular the long-established view that the slaveries of the east were not ‘real’ slaveries at all and thus had no impact on forms of servitude in the ‘New World.’Chair: John Montano, University of DelawareSlavery, Coercion and Marronage in British Sumatra, 1685-1816Kathleen Wilson, SUNY-Stony BrookBritain, China and Slavery in the Eighteenth CenturyJessica Hanser, Yale UniversitySlavery and Dispossession in British IndiaAshley Cohen, University of Southern California“To my four daughters now being slaves”: Re-Configuriong the Slaveholding SubjectChristine Walker, Yale UniversityCommentator: Indrani Chatterjee, University of Texas, Austin61. Prosecutorial Cultures in England, 1200-1800, Oceanview 2Chair and commentator: Margaret McGlynn, University of Western OntarioInfangtheif: The Prosecution and Execution of Thieves in Thirteenth-Century EnglandKenneth Duggan, University of TorontoInside the Committee of Secrecy Prosecuting the Popish Plot: The Evidence of George Treby’s Shorthand, 1679-1681Andrea McKenzie, University of VictoriaGarrow for the ProsecutionAllyson May, University of Western Ontario62. Imperial Networks of Scientific Knowledge and the State, Oceanview 3Chair: Susan Pederson, Columbia UniversityImperial Seeds and British Forests: The Imperial Origins of the British Forest PolicyIan Kumekawa, Harvard UniversityMissionary Imperialism and the Secular StateGili Kliger, Harvard UniversityReading John Stuart Mill in Colonial IndiaOsama Siddiqui, Cornell UniversityCommentator: Robert Brain, University of British Columbia63. Butts in Seats (Roundtable), Oceanview 4 (AV)With falling enrollments in the humanities in general and with the decreased focus on British studies in particular, we need to develop classes and approaches that speak to students. Only by doing so can we demonstrate the continued relevance of our areas to the modern university. This roundtable explores innovative courses and approaches that have been generating student interest. These courses show how topical and thematic orientations can reconfigure British studies. By focusing on how to craft courses, how to teach skills in these courses, and how make British history relevant as a set cultural practices, this panel shows how to fill seats with butts, rooms with students, and the university with British studies.Chair: Penelope IsmayCrafting the Pitch: From “Wilde Times” to “Fortress Europe” and BeyondCaroline Shaw, Bates CollegeCrime and Punishment: Teaching a Capstone Level Student Research ClassLisa Sigel, DePaul UniversityDeath in the Sceptred Isle: Teaching Early Modern EnglandKen MacMillan, University of CalgaryPOSTER SESSION, 4:15-5:00, Exhibit Hall Note: Posters will be on display throughout the conference; their presenters will be available for questions and discussion in this time slot.The Rust of Antiquity?: Manorial Court Guidebooks of Early Modern EnglandMelissa Glass, Dalhousie UniversityGender, Empire and Virtue: Women’s Periodicals and British Imperial Discourse, 1770-1790Jocelyn Zimmerman, State University of New York, Stony BrookMediterranean Lives: Anxiety, Fear and Sexual Abuse, 1570-1780Giada Pizzoni, University of ExeterThe New IRA: Security concerns in Northern Ireland half a century after the onset of "The Troubles"Andrew Sanders, Texas A&M UniversitySaturday, 5:00-6:30NACBS Awards Presentation and Presidential Address, Crystal Pavilion BC***Anna Clark, University of MinnesotaSaturday, 6:30-8:00ReceptionSunday, Breakfast, 7:45-8:45Connect: Session Nine: Sunday, 8:45-10:15 64. Identity in the “Plantations” during the Long Eighteenth Century: Views from Suriname, Barbados and Jamaica, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair: Susan Amussen, University of California, MercedStaying English through Shifting Sovereignties: Subjecthood in Dutch SurinameJacob Selwood, Georgia State UniversityRepublick and Revolution: Scottish Conceptions of the British Empire, 1728-1762Zach Bates, University of CalgaryThe Struggle for Jewish Suffrage in Jamaica, 1750-1820Dana Rabin, University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignCommentator: ***65. Bodies, Minds, and Medicine in Early Modern Britain, Pacific Rim 2 (AV)Sponsored by the Selden SocietyChair: Karen Harvey, University of Birmingham“Great Annyoyance to Their Mindes”: the Humors, Intoxication and Addiction in English Medical and Moral Discourses, 1550-1830David Clemis, Mount Royal UniversityBarrenness and Gender in Eighteenth-Century Medical and Midwifery TextsRobin Ganev, University of ReginaCoffee, the Body and Early Modern WellnessScott Taylor, University of KentuckyCommentator: ***66. To the Editor: Educational Debates in the Victorian Press, Gazebo 1Chair and commentator: Jocelyn Zimmerman“It is certainly not the vocation of the Midland Institute to turn out a generation of smatterers:” The Birmingham Daily Gazette and Mid-Century Debates over Adult EducationAnne Rodrick, Wofford College“My earliest writings are concealed”: H.G. Wells and the Educational PressLisa M. Lane, MiraCosta CollegeG.J. Holyoake, Education and the Double Register of Empire in Victorian SecularismPatrick Corbeil, St. Mary’s University67. Negotiating “Empire” in Contemporary Britain, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Andrew Muldoon, Metropolitan State College of DenverSelling War Stories: Souvenirs and British Commemoration of the 50th Anniversaries of the Second World WarJanet Watson, University of ConnecticutSorry Situations: The British Empire in the Politics of Official Regret, 1995 to the PresentPhilip Harling, University of KentuckyThe Downton Moment: Performance, Architecture, and Global BritainStephen Hague, Rowan University68. Object Lives: Imperial Networks, and Northern North America, c. 1800-1940, Oceanview 1 (AV)Chair: David Baillargeon, University of Nottingham Circulations, Realities and Representations: Peter Rindisbacher and the Imagined North in Print CultureJulie-Ann Mercer, University of Alberta“The Colonization of Winter: Tobogganing and Imperial Agendas in theNorthlands, c. 1800-1900”Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta“From the Sanatorium to the Museum: Indigenous Art and Craft in 20th Century Imperial Networks”Sara Komarnisky, Strategy for Patient Oriented Research, Yellowknife, North West Territories69. Clandestine Empire: Negotiating Smuggling in Early Modern Britain and its Atlantic World, Oceanview 2Chair: Carmen Faye Mathes, University of Central FloridaProsecuting Smuggling in Walpole’s Britain: New Evidence from a Wide SurveyDavid Smith, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityRacial Capitalism, the War against Pirates and the Smuggling Legend of the South Sea CompanyFarid Azfar, Swarthmore CollegeA Breakdown in Negotiation: The Failure of the 1766 British Free Port Act’s Compromise on SmugglingGrant Kleiser, Columbia UniversityCommentator: *** 70. Parallel Pathways: Careers for PhD students in British Studies (Roundtable), Oceanview 3Chair and commentator: Alison Hight, Rutgers University71. More Butts in Seats (Roundtable), Oceanview 4 (AV)With falling enrollments in the humanities in general and with the decreased focus on British studies in particular, we as a community need to consider what British studies brings to education. This roundtable explores projects, exercises, and assignments that scholars have developed to transform the way that students learn about British studies. In doing so, this panel suggests that British studies can be more than content. It can also provide skills, ethical foundations, ways of approaching economics, collaborative content, and more. By focusing on how students learn alongside what they learn, this roundtable considers what will energize a classroom.Chair: Amy Milne-Smith, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityThatcher on the Twenty, Trevelyan in the DockMark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State UniversityTeaching Transferable Skills through DickensJennifer Conary, DePaul UniversityThe Life of a Young Person on a Budget in 1860Toby Harper, Arizona State UniversityDigital Museums and Life Stories: Collaborative Research Projects that Bring British History to LifeBrittany Merritt, College of St. Benedict & St. John’s UniversityBreak, 10:15-10:30Session Ten: Sunday, 10:30-12:00 72. Leftist Internationalism and Decolonization, Pacific Rim Suite 1Chair: *** “A New Relationship of Free Peoples?”: Palestine at the Empire Communist Parties Conference of 1947Meade Klingensmith, Stanford UniversityAndrew Roth and The End of Empire: An Unfinished History of DecolonizationPhilip Murphy, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of LondonA Public Sphere for the British Communists: The Lux Hotel in the 1920sJunya Takiguchi, Ryukoko UniversityCommentator: Stephen Heathorn, McMaster University73. Carceral Archipelago: Britain’s World of Camps, Pacific Rim Suite 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Ellen Ross, Ramapo CollegeBarbed Wire Deterrence? Famine Relief in British India, 1876-1901Aidan Forth, MacEwan UniversityKeeping Kosher in the Camps: The British Government and the Feeding of Jewish Internees During the First World WarNadja Durbach, University of UtahFrom Concentration Camp to Site of Refuge: The Rise of the Refugee Camp and the Great War in the Middle EastMichelle Tusan, University of Nevada74. Governance of New and Old Subjects in the Era of Imperial Crisis, Gazebo 1Chair: Jared Hardesty, Western Washington UniversityFriend or Foe? Gaels, Indians and the Contradictions of Inclusive Empire in the Seven Years’ WarSam Fisher, Catholic UniversityColonizing under the Shadow of English Liberty: Civil Society on the Fringes of Empire Post 1763Rachel Banke, University of MissouriSettlers as Weapons? Militarizing Settler Families in Nova Scotia, 1759-1770Alexandra Montgomery, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona CollegeCommentator: Brendan Gillis, Lamar University75. Knowledge, Use and Utility in the Seventeenth Century, Gazebo 2 (AV)Chair and commentator: Eric Ash, Wayne State UniversityMaking Use of Others: Sir John Heydon, Cornelis Drebbel and Early Stuart Military InventionVera Keller, University of OregonFree Schools, Divinity Degrees and “Beneficial Manufactures” from Interregnum to RestorationSimon Brown, University of California, BerkeleyExperience Made for their Destruction: Improvement and Vermin Eradication in Early Modern EnglandWilliam Cavert, University of St. Thomas76. Embodying the Exotic and Erotic in Eighteenth-Century London, Oceanview 1Chair: Lisa Cody, Claremont McKenna CollegeCastrati and the Politics of Gender Anxiety in Early Eighteenth-Century LondonAmy Dunagin, Kennesaw State UniversityEmbodying Africa: Seeing and Being “African Princes” in Early Eighteenth-Century LondonLindsay O’Neill, University of Southern California, Dornsife Royal Erotics: Print Culture, Masculinity and Frederick, Prince of WalesStephanie Koscak, Wake Forest UniversityCommentator: Timothy Jenks, East Carolina University77. Who Belongs? Ireland, Opposition and Soldiering, Oceanview 2Chair: Paul Townend, University of North Carolina, WilmingtonSpectres of Empire: Remembrance of the Great War in the Irish Free State Mandy Link, University of Texas, TylerLoyal Opposition and Fine Gael: Blueshirts, Cults of Personality and Parliamentary Democracy in 1930s IrelandJason Knirck, Central Washington UniversityA True Irishman? The Irish Press, Imperial Service and General WolseleyMichael de Nie, University of West GeorgiaCommentator: Michael Silvestri, Clemson University78. <OPEN>79. Subjects or Citizens: Making and Remaking Diasporic Identities in the British Indian Ocean World, Oceanview 4 (AV)Chair and commentator: Sana Aiyar, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBurmexit: The Controversy. Around Burma’s Separation from India and the Rise of Anti-Indian Sentiment in Burmese Politics, 1929-1937Matthew Bowser, Northeastern UniversityNetworks of Concern for Indians across the Indian Ocean LittoralHeena Mistry, Queen’s UniversitySeparated by the Thin Blue Line: Criminal Objects and Civilized Subjects in the British EmpireNeelum Sohail, Tufts University ................
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