Tuesday 16 June 6.00- Conference Icebreaker, Sutton Harbour

Wednesday 17 June

Wednesday 10.30-12.30 1. New Approaches to Seventeenth century Revolutions ​ Chair: Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, US ​ “Empire and Resistance: Prelude to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a Role Playing Game,” Courtney Herber and Geoffrey Gimse, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Independent Scholar, US ​ “Remembering the Civil Wars: Jacobite memories of the wars of the three kingdoms,” David Parrish, College of the Ozarks, US “The Irish Parliament of 1689, Legitimacy, Sovereignty and the Glorious Revolution in Ireland,” William E. Kramer, University of Texas, US ​

2. Knowledge, Communication, and the East India Company ​ Chair: Shinjini Das, University of East Anglia, UK ​ “Distance, Subjecthood, and the Shaping of British India, 1773-1786,” Ben Gilding, University of ​ Oxford, UK “Soldiers Speaking Out: The East India Company, the Military, and the Press, 1798-1834,” Callie Wilkinson, University of Warwick, UK ​ “Knowledge Practices and Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-century India,” Devyani Gupta, University of Leeds, UK “Tipu Sultan’s Library and the Making of British India,” Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau, China ​

3. Networked Intersectionality: Gender, Class, Race, and Mobility in the British World ​ Chair: John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University, US ​ “The Promise and Failure of Intersectional Change in a Trans-Imperial Network of Art,” Louise Blakeney Williams, Central Connecticut State University, US ​ “Imperial Welfare in the Empire’s Home: Indian Travelling Ayahs’ Home in Britain,” Arunima Datta, Idaho State University, US “A ‘Secret Political War’? English Women, Indian Men, and British Policy, 1900-1940,” Ginger Frost, Samford University, US “Imperial Connections and Intersectional Failures in Annie Besant's Circles of Spirituality, Indian Independence, and Gender Equality,” Catherine E. Hoyser, University of Saint Joseph, US ​

4. Cultural Diplomacy since the Second World War ​ Chair: Juliette Desplatt, National Archives, UK ​ “Transnational activities of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education in Britain and the wider world,” DK Shin, King's College London, UK ​ “The limits of culture: the British Council and cultural diplomacy in the Arab Gulf, 1955-67,” Gerald Power, Anglo-American University Prague, Czech Republic ​ “Britain’s Soft Power: From Paddington to Doctor Who,” Amit Gupta, USAF Air War College, US ​

12.45-2.00: lunch, Sherwell Lobby; including Society welcome and annual report

Wednesday 2.15-3.45 1.Transatlantic Identities and Influences, 1640-1740 ​ Chair: David Parrish, College of the Ozarks, US ​ “Credit, credibility, and the social function of news in mid-seventeenth century transatlantic correspondence networks,” Sarah Hall, University of York, UK, ​ “English Manhoods in a Changing Atlantic at the turn of the Eighteenth century,” Erika Gasser, Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati, US, ​ “The Transatlantic Influence of Isaac Watts,” Daniel Johnson, University of Leicester, UK ​

2. The Small, Local, and Remote: Rethinking Concepts of Space in Global and Imperial ​ History Chair: William Gervase Clarence-Smith, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK ​ “Better than the House of Any Stranger: Identity and Space at the English and Dutch Factories in Hirado, 1609–1640,” Callum Kelly, University of Oxford, UK ​ “Connecting the Imperial Periphery: Sojourners and Smugglers in the Port of Sandakan, North Borneo, 1878–1942,” Michael Yeo, University of Oxford, UK ​ “Medical Imperialism in the South Pacific: The Establishment of the Central Medical School, Fiji, 1920s–1930s,” Hohee Cho, University of Oxford, UK ​

3. Popular British Culture Across the Victorian Empire ​ Chair: Jonathan Shipe, University of Lynchburg, US ​ ‘“Thuggee in India, Ribandism in Ireland, compared”: Irish agrarian violence in the early Victorian imperial world,” Jay R Roszman, University College Cork, Ireland ​ “Beasts and Binaries: The Construction of Terror in the Imperial Short Stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard Kipling,” Tara Hanneffy, University College Dublin, Ireland ​ “Champagne Charlie and Tommy Dodd: Britain’s popular cultural ambassadors to the Anglo World,” Andrew Horrall, Library and Archives Canada/Carleton University, Canada ​

4. Constructions of “Otherness” at Home and Abroad ​ Chair: Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK ​ “Courtroom Culture in Late-Victorian London and British Guiana,” Sascha Auerbach, University of ​ Nottingham, US “Trans-Oceanic Erotics: Queerness in the Coolie Archive,” Amar Wahab, York University, Canada ​ “‘We are joint ministers of the same sacred mission of liberty and progress' (US Ambassador John Hay, 1898): American influences in the expansion of the British Empire, ca.1880-1960”, Donal Lowry, Regent’s Park College, UK ​ ​ ​

5. Australia and a Changing Region in the late twentieth century ​ Chair: John Griffiths, Massey University, NZ ​ “Preserving British Demographic Ascendancy: Migration to Australia in the 1950s,” Alex Lee, Australian National University, Australia “Neighbourly Relations across the Ditch?: Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s,” Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US ​ “Wanting the best of both worlds: Australia-ASEAN relations, 1967-1980,” Sue Thompson, Australian ​ National University, Australia

Wednesday 4.00-5.30 1. Early Modern Anglo-Spanish Relations ​ Chair: Lisa Diller, Southern Adventist University, US ​ “Protestant Propaganda? Imperial motivations behind translations of Bartolomé de Las Casas’ Brief ​ account of the destruction of the Indies,” Sara Bradley, Nottingham Trent University, UK ​ ​ “English imperial aspirations in the Yucatan and Central America, 1584-1780,” María Fernanda Valencia-Suárez, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico ​ “‘Pray at Whose Door Must All that Blood be Said to Lye:’ Britain’s Violent Dyewood Trade in the Eighteenth century,” Steven Pitt, St. Bonaventure University, US ​

2. Travel and Cosmopolitanism in Victorian Britain ​ Chair: Eric GE. Zuelow, University of New England, US ​ “The Sunday Train Wars: Religion and Commercial Society in 1840s Scotland,” Katherine Haldane Grenier, The Citadel, US ​ “‘A groundless charge’: The False Arrest of Reverend Hessel and Crime in London’s German Colony, 1848-1914,” Erik Wagner, Louisiana State University, US ​ "Beyond the Limits of the National": The Earls Court Exhibitions and Late-Victorian Cosmopolitanism,” Frank Christianson, Brigham Young University, US ​

3. Networks of air, sea, and land with China, 1927-49 ​ Chair: Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma, US ​ “British Air Route to China, 1927-1949,” Chih-Lung Lin, National Chung-Hsing University, Taiwan ​ “Revisiting The Pirate Wind: colonial knowledge and depictions of the Asian maritime world,” Donna Brunero, National University of Singapore, Singapore ​ “Failed Aspirations to Perpetuate the Colony: Contested Infrastructure Projects in Early Post-war Hong Kong, 1945-49,” Wing-kin Chui (Tony), National University of Singapore, Singapore ​

4. Rethinking the British Commonwealth of Nations ​ Chair: Philip Murphy, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, UK ​ ​ ​ “The British Commonwealth as a Society of States,” Benjamin J. Whitlock, University of Aberdeen, ​ UK “Ever Closer Disunion: Politics at the Imperial Conferences,” Samuel A. H. Hume, University of ​ Aberdeen, UK “A Cultural Commonwealth? Travelling Art in the Circuits of Empire,” Martin Crevier, University of ​ Cambridge, UK

5. Architects, planners, and critics, 1909-1980 ​ Chair: Sue Thompson, Australian National University, Australia ​ “Ned and McReggie: the architect and his patron, 1909-1943,” Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK ​ "Slum Envy: International Architectural Consulting and the Crisis of British Planning, 1960-1976," Jesse Meredith, Colby College, US ​ “Nairn Across Europe: England’s Relation to the Continent through Documentaries about Architecture in the Early 1970s,” Kevin M. Flanagan, George Mason University, US ​

5.45-7.00: plenary “Early Modern Maritime Heroes: Idols of the Sea” Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK ​ Chair:

7.00- Welcome reception and book launch, Sherwell Lobby

Thursday 8.45-10.15 1. Rethinking Agents and Objects of the Seventeenth-century British World ​ Chair: Sharon Arnoult, Midwestern State University, US ​ “Putting Women in the World of the English East India Company in the Early Seventeenth century,” Alison Games, Georgetown University, US ​ “‘A Craze for all Things Oriental’: Product Innovation and East Asian Trade in Restoration England,” Michelle White, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, US ​ “Traveling Tolerances: English Protestants Abroad after the Restoration,” Lisa Clark Diller, Southern ​ Adventist University, US

2. Sea Power and World Order: from the Opium Wars to the Cold War ​ Chair: John Beeler, University of Alabama, US ​ “Anglo-Qing Naval Cooperation in the Nineteenth century,” Nathan Kwan, King’s College, London ​ and University of Hong Kong, China “Democratic Ideals and Reality Revisited: Theorists of Sea Power and International Co-operation, 1890-1919,” Louis Halewood, University of Plymouth, UK ​ “Vice-Admiral Sir Louis Le Bailly, the Special Relationship, and the Global Cold War,” John Brobst, Ohio University, US

3. Ports, Steam, and Seas: The British Empire in Maritime History ​ Chair: Jesse Tumblin, Boston College, US ​ “Divide and rule: the British role in the separation of the Sultanate of Muscat and Zanzibar in the mid-nineteenth century,” Francis Owtram, University of Exeter/British Library, UK ​ “Early Transatlantic steam: The trials and legacy of the first steamships,” Helen Doe, University of ​ Exeter, UK “The Anglo-Algerine War of 1824. Reconfiguring Pax Britannica in the Nineteenth-century Mediterranean,” Erik de Lange, Utrecht University, Netherlands ​

4. British Settler Societies, 1870-1892 ​ Chair: Sue Thompson, Australian National University, Australia ​ “Connecting Lady Sandhurst to Meri Mangakahia: Debates on Women’s Parliamentary Representation and Imperial Identities in 1890s London and New Zealand,” David Thackeray, University of Exeter, UK “’Redeemers, Rejects, and Reprobates’: The Rise, and Fall, of the Highland Scottish Colonization of Canada and New Zealand, 1884-1892,” Timothy S. Forest, University of Cincinnati, US ​ “The spread of ‘genus larrikin’ from Melbourne to the English south coast, 1870-1898,” Jasper Heeks, King’s College London, UK ​

Thursday 10.30-12.30 1. The Problem of Piracy: Maritime Predation and its Meanings in Early Modern British ​ and Colonial Waters Chair: Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK ​ “The Treaty of Madrid: Piracy and State Power in the Caribbean in 1670,” John Coakley, Merrimack ​ College, US “Pirates, Scots, and Imperial Authority in the ‘British’ Atlantic, 1660-1726,” David Wilson, University ​ of Strathclyde, UK “Demons of the ‘free sea’? The image of English pirates in Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America (1684) and Sigüenza y Góngora’s Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (1690),” F. Gesine Brede, University of ​ Konstanz/Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany “‘Captain Kennedy, by taking solemn Oaths of Fidelity to his Companions, was suffered to proceed with them’: Examining depictions of fellowship and mutiny in A General History of the Pyrates,” Rebecca James, University of Southampton/Cardiff University, UK ​

2. Irish and Immigrant Networks During and After Empire ​ Chair: Donal Lowry, Regent’s Park College, UK ​ “There may be some mischief going on:” The Threat of Transnational Fenianism, 1859-1868,” Padraic Kennedy, York College of Pennsylvania, US ​ “Irish imperial identities: the case of Irish army officers,” George Evans, King’s College London, UK ​ “Putting Ulster in China: Identity and Ulstermen in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service,” Clare Morrison, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland ​ “‘Suspect’ Communities in Twentieth century Britain: Historicising Paddy Hillyard’s Concept,” Evan Smith, Flinders University, Australia ​

3. Cultural interactions in, and with, Japan, China, and New Zealand ​ Chair: Louise Blakeney Williams, Central Connecticut State University, US ​ “Charles Ricketts and His Anglo-Japanese Theatrical Design in early twentieth-century Britain,” Mariko Hirabayashi, University of York, UK ​ “Encountering William Pryor Floyd: Seeing the Familiarity of Unfamiliarity,” Bing Wang, Case ​ Western Reserve University and The Cleveland Museum of Art, US “Dancing at the Periphery. The Hybridity of Popular Culture in New Zealand in the Twentieth century,” John Griffiths, Massey University, NZ ​

4.The Afterlives of Empire and the Eclipse of Greater Britain ​ Chair: Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ​ “Entangled Citizens: The Afterlives of Empire in the Indian Citizenship Act, 1947-55,” Kalathmika Natarajan, University of Edinburgh, UK ​ “‘This Void in Our National Life’: Monarchy, White Republicanism and the Eclipse of Greater Britain in Southern Africa,” Christian D Pedersen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark ​ “‘The Mouse that Roared’: The Falklands and Gibraltar in Thatcher’s Britain,” Ezequiel Mercau, University College Dublin, Ireland “‘Mind the gap’: The Re-Emergence of the Imperial Past in British Politics,” Tóra Djurhuus, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

12.45-2.00: lunch, Sherwell Lobby

Thursday 2.15-3.45 1. The History and Memory of Early Colonial America ​ Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University, US ​ “The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Companies (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance in North East America,” Haig Z Smith, University of Oxford, UK ​ “Pilgrims in Fulham Palace: the Lost Anglican Histories Of Plymouth Plantation,” Gunnar Rice, ​ ​ Berkeley, US “1619 versus 1620: the Politics of Commemoration,” Carla Pestana, UCLA, US ​

2. Imperial Subjects, Symbolism, and Propaganda Across the Empire ​ Chair: Donal Lowry, Regent’s Park College, UK ​ “Imperial Propaganda: British Imperial Advocates across the Empire,” James Watts, University of ​ Bristol, UK “Symbolism and the Royal Navy 1895-1945: an examination of mass observation, propaganda and wartime media,” Jayne Friend, University of Portsmouth, UK ​ “The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the post-Mutiny era,” Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK ​

3. Maintaining order before, during, and after the First World War ​ Chair: Jesse Tumblin, Boston College, US ​ “Nevil Macready and the challenges of Edwardian military authority 1910-1914,” Andrew J. Whitford, United States Military Academy, US "Public, the Press, and the British Government: the Censorship of Military Information in Britain During the First World War, 1914-1918," Beth Anderson, University of Central Oklahoma, US ​ “British foreign policy and the concept of national self-determination in Central and Eastern Europe (1917–23),” Jolanta Mysiakowska, The Institute of National Remembrance, Poland ​

4. Transnationalism and women’s rights since 1919 ​ Chair: Catherine E. Hoyser, University of Saint Joseph, US ​ “Prioritizing Allies: The British Women’s International League and the League of Nations, 1919-1933,” Rebecca Shriver, Missouri Southern State University, US ​ “The Transatlantic trade in feminist ideas: the cases of marital rape and provocation,” Adrian Williamson, Cambridge University, UK ​

5. Whitehall and Cold War challenges ​ Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK ​ “Intelligence for a New Age: The British Intelligence Reforms of 1968,” James Bohland, Ohio ​ University, US “The Foreign Office and learning from the Revolutions of 1979 and 1989,” Richard Smith, Foreign and ​ Commonwealth Office, UK “‘Fresh worries Piling up fast’: Britain and the Reunification of Germany,” Juliette Desplat, The ​ National Archives, UK

Thursday 4.00-5.30 1. Britain and the Early Modern Islamic World ​ Chair: John Coakley, Merrimack College, US ​ “Beyond the ‘Barbary pirates’: the development of maritime connections between England and the Maghreb, 1581–1641,” Oliver Finnegan, Carl von Ossietzky University, Germany ​ “The role of Islam in early modern Anglophone discourses on Ottoman 'sodomy', c. 1580 - 1700,” Nailya Shamgunova, University of Oxford/University of Cambridge, UK ​ “The Freshest Advices from Barbary: Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660-1705,” Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne, Australia ​

2. Narratives of freedom and unfreedom ​ Chair: Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University, UK ​ “The colour of money: the creation of racism as a justification for Atlantic slavery,” Darren Macey, University of South Wales, UK “A Reciprocally Beneficial Transatlantic Exchange: British and American Slave Narratives Across the Atlantic,” Kathrine Griffin, Florida International University, US ​ “Trial by Jury, Europe and the Creation of English Identity, 1792-1820,” Richard Marshall, University ​ of Plymouth, UK

3. Ideas and imperialism in India and Southeast Asia ​ Chair: Arunima Datta, Idaho State University, US ​ “Using primary sources to follow religious ideas during the East India Company’s control of India Sophie Seddon,” Adam Matthew Digital, UK ​ “The Dutch Empire in the British World-System, ca. 1890-1930,” Cees Heere, Leiden University, ​ Netherlands “‘My dear Gandhi Curzon, So non-cooperation is apparently extending to the Cabinet.’: Curzon, Montagu and Cabinet Politics surrounding the passage of the 1919 Government of India Act,” Derek W. Blakeley, McNeese State University, US ​

4. The Power of Memory in war and peace ​ Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University, US ​ “Triumphal Arches and the Royal Tour of 1901: Australian Expressions of Identity, Memory, and Power in the Early Twentieth-century British Empire,” Derek N. Boetcher, University of Florida, US ​ “Great Scott: The Story of a Christchurch Memorial,” Sarah Murray, Canterbury Museum, New ​ Zealand "Commemoration in Context: Earl Haig in Memory, History, and Art," Jason Nice, California State ​ University, US

5. Britain, America, and post-imperial capitalism ​ Chair: Pippa Catterall, University of Westminster, UK ​ “Left Behind: Protecting British Capital Abroad During the Cold War,” Lauge Poulsen, University ​ College London, UK Transnational Activism and Britain’s Cold War Military-Industrial Complex,” Keith McLoughlin, University of Bristol, UK “‘Reaganism, Thatcherism, or Whatever You Call This Disease’: National, Transnational, and International Responses to the Emergence of Neoliberalism in Britain and the United States,” Joseph E. Hower, Southwestern University, US ​

5.45-7.00: plenary “A World History of the End of Britain” Stuart Ward, University of Copenhagen, Denmark ​ Chair: John M. MacKenzie

7.30- Conference dinner, Stonehouse Barracks

Friday 8.45-10.15 1. Protestants, Planters, and Portraits in the early modern Caribbean ​ Chair: Carla Pestana, UCLA, US ​ “Clergy, Conformity and the Caribbean: The Cases of John Featley and Nicholas Leverton,” Sharon Arnoult, Midwestern State University-Texas, US ​ “'What Will Become of Your Windmills?': Anxiety and Identity in Barbados during the Glorious Revolution,” Eric J. McDonald, University of Houston, US ​ “Conversation Pieces in the Caribbean: Philip Wickstead in Jamaica,” Chloe Northrop, Tarrant ​ County College, US

2. Kings, Scientists, and Schools in Southern Africa ​ Chair: Jacob Ivey, Florida Institute of Technology, US ​ “Kap der Guten Hoffnung: German Expertise and Scientific Discovery, 1795-1871,” Katherine Arnold, London School of Economics, UK “‘The tender minds of children’: Class and race in Infant Schooling in the colonial Cape, 1831-1850,” Rebecca Swartz, University of the Free State, South Africa ​ “Staging Cetshwayo: the multiple performances of the Zulu king,” Peter Yeandle, Loughborough ​ University, UK

3. Imperial Policy, Rhetoric, and Periodicals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth ​ century Near East Chair: John Brobst, Ohio University, US ​ “Not Such a ‘Secret History’: Buffers, Borderlands, and British Policy in the Modern Middle East,” Steven Casement, Pennsylvania State University, US ​ “Wilfrid S Blunt: Anti-imperialist politics in Edwardian periodicals,” Warren Dockter, Aberystwyth ​ University, UK “Language: Power: The Use of Curzon’s Imperial Rhetoric in Anglo-Persian Relations During the Late Nineteenth century,” Caralou Rosen, Cal State Fullerton, US ​

4. Transatlantic relations 1920-1947 ​ Chair: Derek W. Blakeley, McNeese State University, US ​ “Hegemonic Transfer in the 1920s? Anglo-American financial and naval relations from Washington to London 1921-30,” Pippa Catterall, University of Westminster, UK ​ “Philosophy versus Pragmatism: Anglo-American Differences over Indian Self-Government in the Decade before Partition,” David Whittington, University of the West of England, UK ​ ‘Shattered Old People': Alliance Management and Détente,” Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of ​ Central Oklahoma, US

Friday 10.30-12.30

1. Explorers and Emissaries in the Early Modern Empire ​ Chair: Jessica S. Hower, Southwestern University, US ​ “Jean Ribault: Huguenot Explorer in the Atlantic World,” Thomas J Rushford, Northern Virginia ​ Community College-Annandale, US [Title needed], Rory Rapple, University of Notre Dame, US ​ “Rituals for the Domestication of Strangers: Triumphal Entries for Foreign-Born Consorts of Tudor and Stuart England”Courtney Herber, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US ​

2. Indian Education, Modernization, and the Census in the Nineteenth and Early ​ Twentieth century Chair: Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College, US ​ “Agents of Empire: Missionary Education in Nineteenth century Calcutta,” Nilanjana Paul, University ​ of Texas Rio Grande Valley, US “The Lushai Expeditions: Liberalism and Annexation in the Nineteenth century British Raj,” Rajarshi Mitra, Indian Institute of Information Technology Guwahati, India ​ “Clash of Ideas Between India and Britain: Women’s Question in Nineteenth century Colonial India,” Subhasree Ghosh, University of Calcutta, India ​ "Exploring diversity, obscuring orthodoxy: surveying Islam through the Census of India, 1871-1911," Conor Meleady, University of Oxford, UK ​

3 Colonial Institutions and European Identity in British South Africa ​ Chair: Sascha Auerbach, University of Nottingham, US ​ “The Production of Local Knowledges in the Cape Colony,” Claudia Berger, Universität ​ Duisburg-Essen, Germany “For the Preservation of Peace”: Transnational Police Careers in Natal,” Jacob Ivey, Florida Institute ​ of Technology, US “The Afrikaner Rebellion of 1914 and the British World,” John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University, US ​ “Boer-War era depictions of British and Boer masculinity,” Nicole M. Mares, King's College, US ​ 4. Islands and Borders: Studies in Decolonisation 1940-81 ​ Chair: David Thackeray, University of Exeter, UK ​ “‘What does the Army think it is doing?’ Framing the events of the Cyprus Emergency in 1958,” John Burke, Newcastle University, UK ​ “Edges of Empire: The Anglo-Guatemalan Border Dispute, 1940-1981,” Jonathan Shipe, University of ​ Lynchburg, US “Britain and the Attempted Integration of Malta, 1953-1958,” Jody Crutchley, Liverpool Hope ​ University, UK

5. Brexit ​ Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK ​ “The bigger, the better? The historical disconnect between party policy and British public opinion regarding EU enlargement,” Stuart Smedley, King’s College London, UK ​ “T.S. Eliot among other Conservatives,” Antony Mullen, Durham University, UK ​ “The Dark Years in Great Britain? Philosophical Responses to Brexit and the Future of the EU,” Jacob Goodson, Southwestern College, US ​

12.45-2.00: lunch, Sherwell Lobby

Friday 2.15-3.45

1. Tudor Maritime Communities and their Imperial Legacies ​ Chair: Carol Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US ​ “The ‘Guinea Trade,’ Merchant Networks and the Start of London’s Transatlantic Trade, 1531-1562,” ​ ​ Lydia Towns, University of Texas-Arlington, US ​ “Tudor Empire in Praxis: The Muscovy Company, Nautical Cartography, and the origins of an Imperial English Maritime Community,” Alistair Maeer, Texas Wesleyan University, US ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ “The Lives and Afterlives of Tudor Empire: Henry VII, the Cabot Voyages, and the Memory of England’s First Trans-Atlantic Encounters, 1496-1685,” Jessica S. Hower, Southwestern University, ​ ​ ​ US

2. Charity, War, and Empire in Colonial America ​ Chair: Rachel Herrmann, Cardiff University, UK ​ “For the Relief of Poor Germans in Pennsylvania”: Philanthropy in the Service of Empire,” Karen Auman, Brigham Young University, US ​ “‘Britons, ever preëminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive’: discourse and display of mercy during the American Revolution,” James Gregory, University of Plymouth, UK “The Loyalist Navy: Imperialism and Profit in Revolutionary New York, 1777-1781,” Christopher Sparshott, Northwestern University in Qatar, Qatar ​

3. Rivalry and the Rule of Law in Nineteenth century East Asia ​ Chair: Jonathan Shipe, University of Lynchburg, US ​ “Activity of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles in Southeast Asia between 1811 and 1824,” Monika Smyth, Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow, Poland “Promoting ‘Intercourse with Japan’: Britain and America’s Economic and Ideological Rivalry in East Asia, 1800-1850,” Sabrina Rae Cervantez, Louisiana State University, US ​ “Thomas Anstey in 1850s Hong Kong: Radicalism, Libel, and the Rule of Law,” Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, China

4. War and peace in 1940s India ​ Chair: Arunima Datta, Idaho State University, US ​ “A Starving Man Helping Another Starving Man: UNRRA, India, and the Genesis of Global Relief, 1943-1947,” Julien Reiman, University of Cambridge, UK ​ “Chaos in the camps: Refugee rehabilitation and technical training in the aftermath of Partition,” Sandip Kana, King's College London, UK ​ “The Strange Case of Paul Mainprice: Britons, Kashmir, and the End of Empire,” Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College, US

5. Britain and the world since the Second World War ​ Chair: Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming University, US ​ “Keeping the Faith: British Grand Strategy from 1945 to Presen,” William Reynolds, Kings College ​ London, UK “‘Colonisation is only temporary with us’: Thatcher, Empire and Post-Colonial Britain,” Robert Saunders, Queen Mary University, UK ​ “Britain and the World: National Identity and Foreign Policy from Attlee to Blair,” Srdjan Vucetic, University of Ottawa, Canada

Friday 4.00-5.30 1. The Shadow of War in the Long Eighteenth century ​ Chair: James Gregory, University of Plymouth, UK ​ “‘Various are the conjectures of their designs’: The French Disinformation Campaign of 1743–44,” Doreen Skala, Independent Scholar, US ​ “Calamity in the West and revolutions in the East”: Sir John Macpherson, India and imperial governance in the British Empire (1770-1792),” Thomas Archambaud, University of Glasgow, UK ​ “Life in the Besieged City: British Soldiers in Cadiz 1810-1812,” Tatiana Kosykh, The State Academic ​ University for the Humanities, Russia

2. Roundtable: Study Abroad: Teaching Britain and the World, in Britain and the World ​ Chair: John Swarbrooke, University of Plymouth, UK ​ Panelists: Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, US ​ Jessica S. Hower, Southwestern University, US ​ Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US ​ Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College, US ​

3. Industry and the military in twentieth century Africa ​ Chair: Juliette Desplat, National Archives, UK ​ “The Place of Craft Industries in the Economy of Pre-Independence Ekiti Division Of Western Nigeria, 1900-1960,” Victor Akintunde Ajayi, Federal University Oye-Ekiti, Nigeria ​ “A Transitional Study in The Nigerian Military System: 1861-1960,” Magnus Oduwa Osaghae, University of Benin, Nigeria “Africa’s Last Colony: British Imperialism and the Political Ecology of Uranium in Namibia,” Chris Hill, University of South Wales, UK ​

4. Institutions of transnationalism, 1919-62 ​ Chair: Justin Quinn Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma, US ​ “The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Organization: Epidemics, Politics and Public Health, Ludwik Rajchman MD,” Paul J Weinbaum, Duquesne ​ University, US “Developing ‘Development’? Establishing the British Colonial Social Science Research Council,” Louisa Rice, University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, US [Boy Scouts in post-revolutionary Mexico and the US] Andrae Marak, Governors State University, ​ US

5. The edible, the audible, and the mortal ​ Chair: Eric G. E. Zuelow, University of New England, US ​ “West Country Folkways in the American Midwest: the Case of the Pasty,” Chet DeFonso, Northern ​ Michigan University, US “‘Just an English Boy who won a Holiday in Waikiki:’ The Culture of English Humour in the Music and Performance of the Kinks,’” Carey Fleiner, University of Winchester, UK ​ “The dum-dum bullet within and outside the British world,” Maartje Abbenhuis, University of ​ Auckland, NZ

6.00- Outings in downtown Plymouth