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North American Conference on British Studies November 8-10, 2013

The Benson, Portland, Oregon
Friday, 8:45-10:30 1. Oxford Room Trade, Travel, and (Limited) Toleration in Britain and Beyond, c. 1550-1700 Chair: Norm Jones, Utah State University Thinges necessary for warre: The Case for Illegal Arms Trading between Queen Elizabeth I and Tsar Ivan IV Rayne Allinson, University of Michigan Dearborn Diplomatic Intelligence, Intellectual Networks, and British Cosmopolitanism: The Cases of Robert Beale and John Skene David Scott Gehring, Durham University A Race of Renegados: Quakers and Islam in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain and Europe Paul Jenkins, University of Manitoba Comment: Warren Johnston, Algoma University 2. Cambridge Room The Country House in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chair: Lisa Ford, Yale Center for British Art and American Friends of Attingham Recusancy, Resistance, and the English Country House Katherine Clark, University of Kansas Francis Barlow's Paintings for Sir William Drake at Shardeloes, ca. 1690 Nathan Flis, Carleton University King Alfred and Contested Political Narratives in the Eighteenth-Century Country House and Landscape Garden Oliver Cox, Thames Valley Country House Partnership, University of Oxford Comment: Kathy Callahan, Murray State University 3. Brighton Room Looking Backward: British Conservatism and the Imperial Imagination, 1763-1880 Chair and Comment: Douglas Peers, University of Waterloo Dynastic Subjects of a Racial Raj: Queen Victorias Attitude toward her Indian Empire Alfred Martin Wainwright, University of Akron Building Castles in the Sand: A Reactionary Proposal for the post-1763 Empire and Its Metropolitan Context Robert A. Olwell, University of Texas at Austin Benjamin Disraeli, British conservatism and the Indian Revolt, 1857-1879 Matthew Stubbings, University of Waterloo 4. Windsor Room Negotiating Modernity: Monarchs and Aristocrats in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century

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Britain Chair: Peter Stansky, Stanford University The Right to Reign and the Rights of Women: Debating the Meaning of Queenship on the Eve of Victorias Coronation Arianne Chernock, Boston University The Politics of Aristocratic Adultery in the Fin-de-Sicle Nancy Ellenberger, United States Naval Academy Aristocracy Must Advertise: Refashioning the Nobility in Interwar Britain Laura E. Nym Mayhall, The Catholic University of America Comment: Fred Leventhal, Boston University 5. Dangerous Addictions: Opium and Empire, 1830-1930 Chair and Comment: Nadja Durbach, University of Utah Opium, Civilization, and the Anglo-Chinese Wars, 1839-60 Philip Harling, University of Kentucky Making Dangerous Drugs in the British Empire, c. 1880-1925 William Meier, Texas Christian University Parliament 1-2-3

New Delhi, Opium, and the Financing of Colonial Reform in India David Johnson, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
6. Parliament 4 Britain and the World of Antislavery: Networks and Ideas within and among Empires 17761870 Chair: Kerry Ward, Rice University Abolition, India, and Imperial Reform: The Spatial Paradigm in Critiques of Empire, c.1783-1793 Matthew Wyman-McCarthy, McGill University Beyond Uncle Toms Cabin: Anti-slavery women and the reading public in the Anglo-Atlantic Stephanie Richmond, Norfolk State University Protecting an Empire: the Amelioration of Labor in the Post-Slavery British Empire, 1834-1870 Caroline Spence, Harvard University Comment: Franoise Le Jeune, Universit de Nantes 7. Regency Boardroom The Privy Council and Its Discontents: Conciliar Government in England, 1600-1660 Chair and Comment: David Como, Stanford University Before their Lordships: Conciliar government and English overseas trading companies in the early 17th century Rupali Mishra, Auburn University An Arraignment of the Council Noah Millstone, Harvard University Councils, Committees and Executive Government, 1640-1660 Jason Peacey, University College London Session 2 Friday 10:45-12:30 8. Oxford Room Building and Breaking Bonds: Family dynamics in early modern Scottish and English

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Households Chair and Comment: Cynthia Neville, Dalhousie University Henry VIII says 'No Divorce"": Marriage, divorce and Family politics in 1520s Scotland Kristen Post Walton, Salisbury University Disorderly Households: petty crimes in early modern Scottish burghs Rob Falconer, Grant MacEwan University I write the needles prayse: Early Modern Womens Embroidery as Art, Tool and Expression Ashley J. Sims, University of Alberta 9. Georgian Prison Worlds Chair: Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield Londons Minor Prisons Greg T. Smith, University of Manitoba Investigating Westminster Prison Deaths during the Jail Fever Panic, c.1762-1799 Kevin Siena, Trent University Relieving the Prisons: The Home Office and the Hulks, 1782-1802 Simon Devereaux, University of Victoria Comment: Donna T. Andrew, University of Guelph Cambridge Room

10. Brighton Room Constructing Colonial Lands and Landscapes: Australia and New Zealand, 1836-1972 Chair and Comment: Kathleen D. Nicholson, University of Oregon The Australian Landscape 1972: A Creature of its Time, a Symbol of Changing Australia Joanna Mendelssohn, University of New South Wales 'Colonial Lands' and 'Aboriginal Tribes:' Constructing the Place of the Indigenous in New Zealand (1836-1850) Matthew Woodbury, University of Michigan Darwin on Display: Exhibiting Australia's Evolutionary Landscape at Kew Katie Zimmerman, University of Cambridge 11. Windsor Room Theater and Neighborhood in Early Modern London Chair and Comment: Ian Archer, Keble College, Oxford Lombard Street as a Theatrical Neighborhood, 1540-1600 David Kathman By the People, For the People: The Hector of Germany at the Red Bull and the Curtain Mark Bayer, University of Texas, San Antonio Courting Controversy in Early Modern Blackfriars Christopher Highley, The Ohio State University 12. The Matter of Community in British Imperial Politics Chair: Mo Moulton, Harvard University Feeling in touch: affect, materiality, and hapticity in imperial family correspondence Laura Ishiguro, University of British Columbia Envisioning the Future of Imperial Community in the Electric Age Aaron Windel, Simon Fraser University Parliament 1-2-3

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Race Relations and Coloniality without Colonies Marc Matera, University of California - Santa Cruz Comment: Susan Kingsley Kent, University of Colorado 13. Parliament 4 Roundtable: How Did We Get Ourselves Into This? Writing a New Modern British History Textbook Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University Stephen Heathorn, McMaster University MichaelSilvestri, Clemson University Michelle Tusan, University of Nevada - Las Vegas 14. Regency Boardroom Negotiating European, National, and Religious Identities in Early Modern England Chair: J. Sears McGee, University of California, Santa Barbara Henrician Evangelicals, the Venerable Bede, and the Primitive Church Lauren Horn Griffin, University of California, Santa Barbara English Catholic Cosmopolitanism and the Rehabilitation of the Romish Continent in the Writings of Richard Verstegan Patrick Ignacio O'Neill, University of California, Riverside Politics and Public Prayer in Seventeenth-Century England Catherine Tuell, Claremont Graduate University Comment: Caroline Litzenberger, Portland State University Lunch 12:45-2:15 Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge Faust Comes to Town: The 'Creative Destruction' of the Victorian City (talk will begin c. 1:15) Session 3: Friday, 2:45-4:30 15. Oxford Room Political Rumors in the Long Seventeenth Century Chair and Comment: Paul Halliday, University of Virginia Character Assassination and Smear tactics in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Religious Polemic Glyn Parry, University of Roehampton Rumor, riot and sedition in Maryland, 1660-1690 Antoinette Sutto, University of Mississippi Rumor Has It: Rumor as a Political Tool in New York in the 1690s Megan Lindsay Cherry, North Carolina State University 16. Cambridge Room Writing China: Botany, Medicine and Commerce in the British Empire, 1750-1920 Chair and Comment: Iona D. Man-Cheong, Stony Brook University The British Empires Unofficial China Advisors: Country Traders Jessica Hanser, Yale-NUS College The Medical Reports of the Chinese Customs Service: Imperial medicine and British knowledge about

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China, 1871-1911 Catherine Ladds, Hong Kong Baptist University Chinas Returning Blooms Elizabeth Chang, University of Missouri 17. Brighton Room British Cultural Memory of the Second World War Chair: Lucy Noakes, University of Brighton Remembering War, Forgetting Empire? Representations of the North African Campaign (1940-1943) in 1950s British Cinema Martin Francis, University of Cincinnati A story that will thrill you and make you proud': The cultural memory of Britain's secret war in occupied France Juliette Pattinson, University of Kent Whose Good War? The Channel Islands and British Commemoration of the Second World War Janet Watson, University of Connecticut Comment: Geoffrey G. Field, Purchase College, S.U.N.Y. 18. Windsor Room Prejudice and Difference: Jews, Turks and Gypsies in Early Modern England Chair and Comment: Tim Harris, Brown University, Early Modern Jews and the History of English Toleration: New Directions Jacob Selwood, Georgia State University 'The Greatest Imposter': Anti-Turkism in the Later Stuart Succession Crisis Laura Perille, Brown University A Vile People: Dealings with Gypsies in Early Modern England David Cressy, Ohio State University 19. Eric Hobsbawm in retrospect Chair and Comment: Richard Price, University of Maryland Global History in the Age of Hobsbawm James Cronin, Boston College Latin American Peasants and Revolutions in the Writings of Eric Hobsbawm Carlos Aguirre, University of Oregon Eric Hobsbawm and the British Age of Industry Deborah Valenze, Barnard College Eric Hobsbawm and South Asian History Prasannan Parthasarathi, Boston College Parliament 1-2-3

20. Parliament 4 Working-Class Autobiography and the Culture of Nineteenth-Century Britain Chair: Joseph Stubenrauch, Baylor University Victorian Mothers: The Perspective from Working-Class Autobiographies Emma Griffin, University of East Anglia Reading Happiness in Nineteenth-Century British Working-Class Autobiography Jamie Bronstein, New Mexico State University

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Autobiography as a Micrometer of Empire; or, How a Nineteenth-Century Tailor was and was not an Absent-Minded Imperialist Christopher Ferguson, Auburn University Comment: James A. Epstein, Vanderbilt University 21. Regency Boardroom Teaching Britishness: British Imperial and National Identity and the Problem of Religious Education Chair: Elizabeth Prevost, Grinnell College Religious Education in Postwar Britain: Did it Matter? Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa To Make Britain a More Christian Country: The BBC and British Schools in the 1940s and 50s Meredith Veldman, Louisiana State University The Place of Religious Education in the schools of Ontario and Victoria in the late 1960s Stephen Jackson, University of Sioux Falls Comment: D. L. LeMahieu, Lake Forest College 4:45-5:30 Business Meeting, NACBS Business Meeting, Canadian Friends of the IHR 6:15-8:00 Reception

Brighton Room Windsor Room

University of Oregon, White Stag Building

Session 4: Saturday, 8:45-10:30 22. Oxford Room Masculinity, the Market, and Bad Child-Minders: A Reappraisal of Commercial Networks and Urban Space in Scotland, c. 1700-1950 Chair: Greg Smith, University of Manitoba Public Space and the Negotiation of Masculine Credit in Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh Tawny Paul, University of Edinburgh Demons in Human Shape? Urban Spectatorship and the Creation of the Glasgow Baby-Farmer Jim Hinks, University of Liverpool Documenting, Regulating, and Memorializing Commercial Space in Interwar Glasgow: The Case of the Barras Market Sarah Mass, University of Michigan Comment: Daniel Vickers, University of British Columbia 23. Cambridge Room Publicizing Magistracy in Early Modern Britain: Image, Performance, Text Chair: Rebecca Lemon, University of Southern California Self Image and Public Image in the Career of a Jacobean Magistrate: Sir John Newdigate in the Court of Star Chamber Steve Hindle, The Huntington Library Governing in the Public Eye: Print, Professionalism, and the Discourse of Magisterial Competence in the

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Long Eighteenth Century Brendan Gillis, Indiana University-Bloomington Feeling Justice: Affective Tonality in Popular Legal Literature Penelope Geng, University of Southern California Comment: Cynthia Herrup, University of Southern California 24. Contested Spaces: Workers and the Wealthy in Urban Britain, 1700-1900 Chair: George Behlmer, University of Washington Ill Language: Social Conflict at British Health Spas, 1650-1750 Amanda E. Herbert, Christopher Newport University Plebeians in Grosvenor Square, 1725-1820 Laurel Flinn, The Johns Hopkins University Backmewsy Beauty: elite bodies, urban space, and beauty enterprise, 1845-1870 Jessica P. Clark, McGill University Comment: Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex Brighton Room

25. Windsor Room The Politics of Petitioning in Later Stuart Britain Chair and Comment: Scott Sowerby, Northwestern University From Supplications to Addresses: Petitioning Practices and Public Opinion in Late Stuart Scotland Karin Bowie, University of Glasgow Addressing Doctor Sacheverells State Trial Brian Cowan, McGill University The sense of the nation? Temporality and publicness in collections and histories of addressing 1659-1727 Ted Vallance, University of Roehampton 26. Parliament 1-2-3 Counterfeiters, whores, and lady bidders: Disorderly Women in 17th-19th Century England Chair and Comment: Brent Sirota, North Carolina State University The Coiners Nest: Gender, Labor, and the Criminal Household in Late-Stuart London Abigail Fisher, Cornell University The Root of Evil": Lust, Greed, and Prostitution in Eighteenth-Century London Jessica Steinberg, University of Ottawa A time and a place for everything: Disorderly women and sales of real property in late nineteenthcentury London Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Mount Holyoke College 27. Parliament 4 Ecclesiastical Borderlands: Religion and Imperial Power in British North America, the Pacific, and the British Isles Chair: Jeffrey Cox, University of Iowa Imperial Spaces and Ecclesiastical Borderlands: Methodism in British North America, 1776 1815 Christopher C. Jones, College of William and Mary Medievalism and Mission: Race, Gender and Anglican missionary reformism in Hawaii, 1861 1879 Steven S. Maughan, College of Idaho A White Mission to a White People: Mormon Missionary Work in Britain, 1830 1860

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Amanda L. Hendrix-Komoto, University of Michigan Comment: Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University 28. Regency Boardroom The Application of British Science, 1780-1880 Chair: Zirwat Chowdhury, Reed College Industrial Airs Larry Stewart, University of Saskatshewan Getting Past the Greenhouse: John Tyndall and the 19th Century History of Climate Change Joshua Howe, Reed College Finding Coals in Newcastle: Coal Engineers and Mechanical Science Margaret Jacob, University of California, Los Angeles Comment: Barbara Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley Session 5: Saturday, 10:45-12:30 29. Oxford Room Stabilizing Mobility in the Long Eighteenth Century: Politeness and the Navigation of Social Difference Chair and Comment: Penelope Ismay, Boston College Politeness, Piety, and Self-promotion: Advice for Clerical Comportment in Early Eighteenth-century Visitation Sermons Rachel Reeves, University of California, Davis The Politics of Hospitality among the Royal Philosophers India Aurora Mandelkern, University of California, Berkeley French Connections: British Expatriates in late Eighteenth-century Paris Simon Macdonald, McGill University 30. Cambridge Room Roundtable: The Country House in the Nineteenth Century Chair and Comment: Craig Ashley Hanson, Calvin College and American Friends of Attingham Narratives of Empire in the British Country House Kate Smith, University College London Nature on Display in the Museum at Stowe Laurel O. Peterson, Yale University From Country House to Town House: Looking at Art in the Early Nineteenth Century Anne Nellis Richter, American University The Utter Failure of Overstone: Gender and Architecture in the Nineteenth-Century Country House Megan Leyland, University of Leicester 31. Brighton Room History, Memory and Identity in Early Modern London Chair and Comment: Joseph Ward, University of Mississippi Religion, memory and record keeping in the parish of St Botolph Aldgate, 1564-1594 John Craig, Simon Fraser University 'Monumentes of Antiquities worthy memory': Thomas Bentley's history of the parish of St Andrew Holborn Simone Hanebaum, Simon Fraser University

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"What are we that you should care for us?" Merchants' and courtiers' monuments in Elizabethan and Jacobean London Jim Harris, Ashmolean Museum 32. Windsor Room The Politics of the Stewart Succession Chair: Cyndia Susan Clegg, Pepperdine University "Treason doth never prosper": plotting the succession in Queen Elizabeth's final years Paul E.J. Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder Cecils Commonwealth in Nashes Lenten Stuffe Jenny Lotte Andersen, California State University, San Bernardino Radical Menace, Reforming Hope: Scotland and the Politics of the Post-Elizabethan Succession Arthur Williamson, California State University, Sacramento Comment: David Harris Sacks, Reed College 33. Murder Investigations in England, 1829-1953 Parliament 1-2-3

Chair and Comment: Randall McGowen, University of Oregon Coroners, Police and the Investigation of Murder in Nineteenth-century London Rachael Griffin, University of Western Ontario Bodies Out of Place: Forensic Pathology and Crime Scene Investigation in Interwar England Ian Burney, University of Manchester Crime Scene Photography in London 1933-1953 Amy Bell, Huron University College
34. Gendering Institutions in Early Modern England Chair and Comment: Lori Anne Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University Designing Woman? Margaret Beaufort and the Early Tudor Court Rebecca Olson, Oregon State University Supper Strife and the Sixteenth-Century Imagination Linda Tredennick, Gonzaga University Reading Esther to Read Sovereignty: John Donne and the Casuistry of Conscience Todd Butler, Washington State University Parliament 4

35. Regency Boardroom Settling and Unsettling the Mid-Victorian Empire: Australia and South Africa Chair: Thomas Metcalf, University of California, Berkeley Settling for South Africa: The 1820 Cape Colony Settlement Scheme in Imperial Context Poppy Fry, University of Puget Sound Antipodean Identities: Pugilism, Normative Behavior and the Regulation of Irish Immigrant Culture in New South Wales, 1830-1861 Matthew Schownir, Purdue University Australian Gold and British Authors: The 1850s Gold Rushes, the Anglo-World, and the Reordering of the Victorian Novel and Political Economy Philip Steer, Massey University Comment: Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University

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LUNCH 12:45-2:15 Alexandra Shepard, University of Glasgow

Crediting women in the early modern English economy (talk will begin c. 1:15)

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Session 6: Saturday, 2:45-4:30 36. Oxford & Cambridge Open Access and the Future of Publishing Chair: Jason M. Kelly, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Brian Cowan, McGill University Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University Tim Hitchcock, University of Sussex Peter Mandler, University of Cambridge Caren Milloy, JISC and Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Miles Taylor, Institute for Historical Research 37. Brighton Room Semantics and Social Change in Early Modern England Chair and Comment: Keith Wrightson, Yale University The Semantics of Happiness in Early Modern England Phil Withington, University of Sheffield The semantics of belonging Naomi Tadmor, Lancaster University The Commonwealth, Common Goods, and Common Prayer in the Sixteenth Century Ethan Shagan, University of California, Berkeley 38. Windsor Room Roundtable: E.P. Thompson and The Making of the English Working Class, Reconsidered. Fifty Years After, Critique and Reinvention Chair: Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta Politics of the Making: The New Reasoner and Old New Left and the Political Battles of E. P. Thompson Nick Rogers, York University What E. P. Thompson Missed: Service and the Working Class Anna Clark, University of Minnesota Thompson's impact on Canadian and American Historical Writing from the 1960s to the 1980s Greg Kealey, University of New Brunswick E.P. Thompson and History as Literature Margaret Hunt, Uppsala University 39. Roundtable: Queering the History of Technology in British Studies Chair: Brian Lewis, McGill University Parliament 1-2-3-4

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Queer Information Networks and Technologies of Power: Intersections of work, pleasure, and rule in British state telecommunication Katie Hindmarch-Watson, Johns Hopkins University Men Do Not Compute: Complicating compulsory heterosexuality in the feminized machine grades of the civil service, 1920-1970 Marie Hicks, Illinois Institute of Technology "A Knife and a Syringe Can Build a New Woman!": How Bio-Technology Changed Sex in 1930s Britain Clare Tebbutt, University of Manchester Queer Time and Technology Kate Thomas, Bryn Mawr College 4:30-5:45 Presidential Address Ballroom Chair: Keith Wrightson, Yale University The Imperial History Wars Dane Kennedy, George Washington University 6 7:30: Reception Crystal

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Session 7: Sunday, 8:45-10:30 40. Oxford Room Rechanneling Control?: Experiments with Education and Imperial Leadership, 1860s 1920s Chair and Comment: Heather Streets-Salter, Northeastern University The Last Imperator Scottorum: John Redmond and Irish Empire Nicholas K. Harrington, Washington State University, Vancouver Indian East Africa: An Attempted Empire Maryanne Rhett, Monmouth University Payment by Results: Controlling Education Through Standardized Testing in the 19th Century Aaron D. Whelchel, Washington State University, Vancouver 41. Cambridge Room The British Anthropocene: Technology, Energy and Food in a Global Context Chair and Comment: Daniel Ussishkin, University of Wisconsin, Madison How the British East India Company learned modern irrigation engineering from pre-modern Indians John Broich, Case Western Reserve University Sir Robert Peel, Peak Coal and the Intergenerational Ethics of the Anthropocene Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, University of Chicago Dietary Transformation and its Discontents: Overproduction, Obesity, and Artificiality Chris Otter, Ohio State University 42. Brighton Room Irregular Performance in the Eighteenth Century Chair and Comment: Anne Wohlcke, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Somebodies, Nobodies, Wood Bodies David A. Brewer, The Ohio State University

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Presenting the Past: Pageantry, Aesthetics and the Image of Queen Elizabeth at the Westminster Schools Jubilee, 1760 Lee Slinger, York University Blackface Empire: Love, Theft and Subversion in British Domains Kathleen Wilson, State University of New York at Stony Brook 43. Windsor Room 'The National Question' Down Under: 19th- and 20th Century Australian Exhibitions and Nationalism Chair and Comment: Susan Wladaver-Morgan, Pacific Historical Review Expressions of Australian National Identity at International Exhibitions, 1851-1939: Presenting Australia in the United States Louise Douglas, Australian National University and National Museum of Australia Nineteenth-Century Australian Exhibitions and 'The National Question:' A Few Regional and 'SubImperial' Answers Peter H. Hoffenberg, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Empire and Nation in Australian First World War Exhibitions, 1917-1922 Jennifer Wellington, Yale University 44. Parliament 1-2-3 Boys to Men? Home, Community, and Nation in the Lives of Single Men Chair: Christopher Frank, University of Manitoba Domesticity and the Eighteenth-Century Single Man: The Case of Edmund Herbert James Rosenheim, Texas A&M University The terrible melstrom of debt: Credit, Consumption, and the Making of Oxbridge Men Brent Shannon, Eastern Kentucky University Fetching Up the Single Men: Military Service, Citizenship, and Marital Status in World War One Britain Marjorie Levine-Clark, University of Colorado, Denver Comment: Paul Deslandes, University of Vermont 45. Parliament 4 Intimate Sufferings: Domestic Economies of Violence in Early Modern England and Ireland Chair: Vincent Carey, SUNY Plattsburgh Violence against women in the Tudor conquest of Ireland Valerie McGowan-Doyle, Lorain County Community College Military Violence and the Family in Early Modern England and Ireland Sarah Covington, Queens College, City University of New York Child Abuse in the Seventeenth Century Schoolroom Derek Hirst, Washington University in St Louis Comment: Marjorie McIntosh, University of Colorado at Boulder 46. Regency Boardroom The End of Empire at the BBC: The Meaning of Decolonization in British Broadcasting Chair: Chris Waters, Williams College Partitioning the BBC: The Challenges of Decolonization in South Asia Sharika Thiranagama, Stanford University African Theatre: Radio Drama on the BBC African Service

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Caroline Ritter, University of California, Berkeley No Policy: Race and BBC Practice, 1945-1965 Amanda Bidnall, Simon Fraser University Comment: Laura Beers, American University Session 8: Sunday, 10:45-12:30 47. Oxford Room Ecology, Social Conflict, and Economic Change in Early Modern Ireland Chair and Comment: Lindsay O'Neill, University of Southern California Full liberty to cut? Woodland management in early-modern Munster Keith Pluymers, University of Southern California The Irish Connection: Cromwellian Administrators and Irish Exiles in English Imperial Expansion, 1649-84 Jennifer Wells, Brown University The Changing Economy, Violence, and the Emergence of Irish Catholic Identity John Montao, University of Delaware 48. Cambridge Room Poverty and Mobility in Early Modern England Chair and Comment: Rich Connors, University of Ottawa Laboring Men on the Move: Risk and Opportunity at Sea in Early Modern England Eleanor Hubbard, Princeton University Servants, Convicts, and Slaves: The Evolution of Unfree Labor in the English Caribbean Colonies Abigail Swingen, Texas Tech University The Passing of Paupers: Settlement, Mobility and Indoor Relief Susannah Ottaway, Carleton College 49. Colonial Legacies and Social Expertise in Postcolonial Britain Chair and Comment: Guy Ortolano, New York University The Colonial Origins of Post-War British sociology: Post-colonialism avant la letter George Steinmetz, University of Michigan Experts After Empire: Refugee Camps in 1970s and 1980s Britain Jordanna Bailkin, University of Washington Psychology after Empire: British Experts and the Postcolonial Personality ErikLinstrum, University of Michigan Brighton Room

50. Windsor Room Bodies of Knowledge; Knowledge about the Body: Women, Science, and Religion at the Turn of the Century Chair: Kirsten Leng, Northwestern University Sex, Science and Religion: Mary Scharlieb and the Popularization of Gynaecological Knowledge Jacqueline deVries, Augsburg College Christian Science and British Israelism in Late Nineteenth-Century London Pamela Walker, Universite dOttawa and Carleton University Bodily Fortunes: Sex, Race and Religion in the Writings of Constance Maynard Naomi Lloyd, University of British Columbia Comment: Kali Israel, University of Michigan

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51. Parliament 1-2-3 Gender, Citizenship, Reconstruction and Feminist Politics in Twentieth Century Britain Chair/Comment: Laura Frader, Northeastern University Gender, Labour Activism and the Post Office plan for the Second World War Mark James Crowley, Wuhan University Designing Consumers: British Citizens and Housing Plans during World War II Sandra Trudgen Dawson, Northern Illinois University Feminism in Power: The Greater London Councils Womens Committee 1982-86 Stephen Brooke, York University, Canada 52. Parliament 4 Troublemaking and Transformation in Tudor-Stuart England Chair and Comment: Muriel McClendon, University of California, Los Angeles, Counterfeit Christians, Lechers, and Fools: Masculine Reputation and Religious Conflict in England and Scotland Lisa McClain, Boise State University Reputation and Reconciliation in a Warwickshire Community: The Case of Thomas Lucas of Stratfordupon-Avon Susan Cogan, Utah State University Troublemaking and Civic Reputation: Homosexual Transgression and Authority in Early Stuart Kings Lynn Catherine F. Patterson, University of Houston