Mid-Atlantic Conference on British Studies

29 March 2008

Commons Building

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

8-9 Registration

9-10:45 Session One

Special Session: Women’s Agency in Early Modern England

Skylight Room

Chair: Julie Taddeo (University of Maryland)

Gemma Allen (Oxford University) “’Your Kind & No Symple Mothers Holsome Advyse’: The Cooke Sisters and Female Counsel in Elizabethan England”

Melissa Harkrider (Wheaton College) “‘Helping Forwardness’: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Reform in Sixteenth Century Lincolnshire””

Amanda Bilby, (Johns Hopkins) “’Guided by One Spirit’: Agency, Identity and Gender among Early Quaker Missionaries”

Rosemary O'Day  (The Open University) “Family Affairs: Women and the Furtherance of Family Interests in the later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries”

Comment: Amy Froide (UMBC)

10:45-11 Coffee

11-12:45 Session Two

Political Communities in Modern Britain

Room 318

Sara Abosch (Colby College) “‘Poverty and Madness-A Case for the Benevolent’: the Shaping of Anglo-Jewish Charitable Contributions, 1840-1880”

W.C. Lubenow (Stockton College of New Jersey) “The Production, Reproduction and Communication of Trust: London’s Clubs, 1850-1914”

Gareth Jenkins (University College, London) “The Local, Regional and National in Conflicting Conceptions of British Identity, 1880-1921”

Chair and Comment: Tim Alborn (CUNY)

The Pastoral, the Urban, and the Nation

Skylight Room

Kathrin Levitan (William & Mary) “The City and the Nation: Celebrating British Urban Life after 1848”

Nanette Thrush (Chester College of New England) “Caveat Emptor: History for Sale”

Scott Lesko (SUNY, Stony Brook) “Whose Britannia? Landscape Imagery and the Question of British Modernity in the Art Photography of George Davison”

Chair and Comment: George Robb (William Paterson)

Reading Late Nineteenth-Century Gender and Identity

Room 331

Sue Ann Schatz (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania) “How to be a Feminist Without Saying So: The New Woman and the New Man in Mary Cholmondeley’s Red Pottage”

Michelle Davidson (University of Cincinnati) “Performers to Remember: The Representation of Music in the Autograph Letters Scrapbook of Countess Katrine Cecilia Cowper”

Anthony Lee (SUNY, Binghamton) “Reading Richard Ellmann Writing Oscar Wilde”

Chair and Comment: Laura Mayhall (Catholic University)

1-2:30 Lunch and Plenary Lecture

Skylight Room

“Mortgage, Marriage and Morals: The Relationship between Common Law and Equity in Early Enlightenment England"

Julia Rudolph (University of Pennsylvania)

Chair: Lynn Botelho (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)

2:30-4:15 Session Three

Politics and Policy in Twentieth Century Britain

Skylight Room

Daniel Ritschel, (UMBC) “The Morphology of Fascism: Explaining Sir Oswald Mosley’s Ideology of British Fascism”

Dorothy Kenny (UMBC) “Seeing through Smoke: Sorting through the Science of British Environmental Policy following the 1952 London ‘Killer Smog’”

Jeremy Sphar (UMBC) “A Matter of Motive: British Mercenaries in Post-Colonial Africa”
 

Chair and Commenter: Andrew August (Abington College, Penn State University)

Race, Status, and Authority in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Room 318

Peter Larson (University of Central Florida) “Sports, Games and the Changing Fear of Disorder in County Durham, 1377 to 1504”

Yaroslav Prykhodko (University of Pennsylvania) “On Form and Essence: The Mind-Body Dichotomy and Early Modern Racism”

Anna Suranyi (Northeastern University) “Barbadosed: The Kidnapping of Irish laborers to Serve the British Caribbean Colonies”

Michael Conforti (Fordham University) “Lord Mansfield, the Imperial Constitution and Campbell v. Hall”

Chair and Comment: Philip J. Stern (American University)

Propaganda and Imperial Encounters

Room 331

Charles Reed (University of Maryland) “Royal Tourists Encounter the Empire in South Africa and India, 1860-1875”

Rebecca Matzke (Ripon College) “Imperialists Like Us: Colonialist Themes in British Propaganda for Americans in the Great War”

Chair and Comment: Dane Kennedy (George Washington University)

4:30-5:45 Session Four

Special Session: Roundtable Discussion on Seth Koven, Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London (Princeton, 2004)

Skylight Room

Moderator: W.C. Lubenow (Stockton State)

Discussants: Dina Copelman (George Mason University); Nancy Ellenberger (United States Naval Academy); Sascha Auerbach (Virginia Commonwealth University); Bill Cohen (University of Maryland)

Respondent: Seth Koven (Rutgers University)

Reception to Follow