Draft Program

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

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