Connecting Centre & Locality: Political Communication in England c.1550-1750 his conference explores the dynamics of local, Tnational, and trans-Atlantic political culture with particular reference to political communication. Experts in the field will survey how connections were forged between politics in London and politics in the localities.
Location: Rothenberg Hall, Steven S. Koblik Education and Visitor Center
Frontispiece of John Ogilby’s Britannia (1675). Drawn by Francis Bar- low, engraved by Wenceslaus Hollar.
FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016
8:30 Registration & Coffee 1:00 Session 2 Local Agency and National Politics 9:30 Welcome: Steve Hindle (The Huntington) Moderator: Jason Peacey
Remarks: Chris Kyle Chris Kyle (Syracuse University) “Roast Duck and Pig Entrails: Political Impotence and Jason Peacey (University College London) the Problem of Lent in Early Modern England” Ann Hughes 10:00 Session 1 “Diligent Enquiries and Perfect Accounts: Communications and the Early Modern State Central Initiatives and Local Agency in the English Civil War” Moderator: Ann Hughes (Keele University) 3:00 Break Noah Millstone (Bristol University) 3:15 Session 3 “The Communications Infrastructure of the Early State Formation, Local Networks, Stuart State” and Local Knowledge Moderator: Thomas Cogswell (University of California, Riverside) Michael Braddick (University of Sheffield) “A Manifestation of the Injustice and Disorders: John Walter (University of Essex) The Canterbury Elections, 1626” “Swearing a Nation: Parliament, Print, and the Infrastructure of Subscription in the Protestation, 12:00 Lunch 1641-1642” Jennifer Wells (Brown University) “The Parliamentarians’ Predicament: Adaption and Uneasy Alliances in Interregnum Scotland and Ireland”
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 2016
9:00 Registration & Coffee 12:30 Session 5 9:30 Session 4 Communication Networks and Information Centre and Locality in Radical Politics Exchange
Moderator: Moderator: Rachel Weil (Cornell University) Chris Kyle David Como (Stanford University) Jason Peacey “Provincial ‘Levellers’ and the Coming of the Regicide “‘Written according to my usual way’: Communicating in the Southwest” between Centre and Locality and the Rise of the Agent in Seventeenth-Century England” Michael Braddick “The Tranquility of the Commonwealth in My Little Lindsay O’Neill (University of Southern California) Sphere: John Lilburne, the Engagement, and Provincial “New Correspondents: Connecting the Centre and Politics in the Early 1650s” Locality via Letter, 1600-1700”
11:30 Lunch 2:30 Break 2:45 Session 6 Sites of Communication
A CONFERENCE AT THE HUNTINGTON Moderator: Thomas Cogswell 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108 Dan Beaver (Pennsylvania State University) Funding provided by “Sovereignty by the Book: Corporations, Plantations, The Huntington’s and Literate Order” William French Smith Endowment and Rachel Weil USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute “The News Out of Newgate after the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion”
4:45 Closing Remarks: Chris Kyle and Jason Peacey
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Affiliation: Conference registration and meals by reservation only. No confirmation will be sent. Conference registration fee...... $ 25.00 (Students free) Please mail form and check payable to “The Huntington” to: Buffet lunch (May 20)...... $ 20.00 Juan Gomez, The Huntington, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino CA 91108. Buffet lunch (May 21)...... $ 20.00 PHONE: (626) 405-3432 EMAIL: [email protected] Vegetarian (check one) ❒ Yes ❒ No TOTAL.$ Please note: Conference registration does not include entrance to the research library.