MID ATLANTIC CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

ANNUAL MEETING:  14 APRIL 2007

University of Maryland at Baltimore County

 

REGISTRATION 8:00-9:00

 

 

SESSION ONE:  (9:00-10:45)

 

Seventeenth Century Foreign Policies

 

“Achieving Peace: Britain and Spain at the Dawn of the 17^th Century”

            Robert Cross, Princeton University

 

“Imperial Projects and Parliamentary Politics: The Debate on the Colonies in the Parliament of 1621”

            Aaron Slater, New York University

 

“Internationalist British Puritans: Religion, Newsgathering, and British Foreign Policy, 1618-1625”

            Jason White, Brown University

 

Chair and comment: Philip Stern, American University

 

English Voluntarism, 1840-1920

 

 “’An Urgent Appeal to the Benevolent’: Fashioning Anglo-Jewish Charitable Giving, 1840-1880”

            Sara Abosch, North Carolina State University

 

“’As a Woman My Country is the Whole World’: Voluntary Organizations, Public Diplomacy, and the Campaign against the Traffic in Women and Children in the 1920s”

            Daniel Gorman, University of Waterloo

 

“’You Can’t Be Sure of Any Society Which Does Not Divide’: Working-Class Distrust and the 19^th Century Dividing Friendly Societies”

            Marc Brodie, Monash University

 

Chair and comment: Tim Alborn (Lehman College/CUNY)

 

 

Race, Refinement, and Empire

 

“’Heddwch, Heddwch!’: Prosecutions of Sport in Early Modern Wales”

            Doug Krehbiel, Univ. of North Carolina-Wilmington

 

“’We Can Alleviate Though We Cannot Cure’: Bryan Edwards, the African Slave Trade, and Amelioration in theWest Indies, ca 1770-1810”

            Christa Dierksheide, University of Virginia

 

“Sprung from Ourselves’: British Interpretation of Racial Demographics in the Settler Colonies”

            Kathrin Levitam, College of William and Mary

 

Chair and comment: Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College

 

SESSION TWO  (11:00-12:45)

 

Eating, Dreaming, and Sleeping Empire

 

“The Eaters of Everything: Etiquettes of Empire in Kipling’s Narratives of Imperial Boys”

            Winnie Chan, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

“’Only an Oriental could have planned it’: Selling the Empire to Children in Frances Hodgson Burnett’s A Little Princess”

            Jean Fernandez, UMBC

 

“Visualizing an Imperial Legion: British War Photography c.1890-1918”

            Nicole Hudgins, UMBC

 

Chair and comment: Dane Kennedy, George Washington University

 

Nation, Religion, and Society in the Two World Wars

 

“’A Holy Panic’: Race, Vice, and Law in Wartime Britain, 1916-1919”

            Sascha Auerbach, Virginia Commonwealth University

 

“A Healthy Coalition: The Experience of the Church of Scotland during the Great War”

            Wayne Riggs, Marquette University

 

“’Out There You Picked Up Some Very Nasty ‘abits’: Public Attitudes Towards British Servicemen in Occupied Germany, 1945-1947”

            Alan Allport, University of Pennsylvania

 

Comment: George Robb, William Paterson University

 

Transatlantic Crossings

 

“New England Witchcraft in an English Context”

            Anna Suranyi, Northeastern University

 

"The Education of an African Missionary:  Philip Quaque in London in the Mid-Eighteenth Century"

            Travis Glasson, Temple University

 

“Postcards Across the Ocean: The United Kingdom-USA Chess Match, 1877-1880”

            Tim Harding, Trinity College Dublin

 

Chair and comment: Christopher Hodson, McNeil Center for Early American Studies

 

 

LUNCH 1:00-3:00

 

Plenary address:

"Empire and its Encounters:  the British and the Xhosa People of Southern Africa, 1800-1860."

Richard Price, University of Maryland:

 

 

SESSION THREE (3:15-5:00)

 

Medieval and Early Modern Women

 

“The Political and Cultural Influence of Sanchia of Provence”

            Kristen Geaman, University of Delaware

 

“Exploring Nonverbal Sociability in Seventeenth Century England”

Amanda Bilby, Johns Hopkins University

 

“Strumpets and Lucretias: The Coming of Actresses in Restoration England”

            Meagan Schenkelberg, Rutgers University

 

Chair: Lynn Bothello, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

Comment: Amy Froide, UMBC

 

Class, Ideology and Identity in Modern England

 

“Liberalism and the Shaping of Identities”

            William Lubenow, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

 

“’Distrust Each Other As They May’: Masters and Men in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton”

            Amber Vazquez, Univ. of Massachusetts-Boston

 

“(Re-)Constructing British Fascism: Explaining Sir Oswald Mosley’s Fascist Ideology”

            Daniel Ritschel, UMBC

 

Chair: Rene Kollar

Comment: Gail Savage, St. Mary’s College of Maryland

 

Art, Commerce, and Modernity

 

“Whose Britannia? Neo-gothic Landscape and the Question of British Modernity in the Art Photography of George Davison”

            Scott Lesko, Stony Brook University

 

“Whistler’s Gold: Deceptions of Commerce and Veracities of Art”

            Aileen Tsui, Washington College

 

"Constructing the Renaissance: the Shiift from Gothic to Renaissance Revivalism and Victorian Aesthetics"

            Dory Agazarian, CUNY Graduate Center

 

Chair and comment: Anne Nellis, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts

 

 

RECEPTION 5:15