MIDDLE
ATLANTIC CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES
ANNUAL
MEETING
MARCH 22, 2003, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
PROGRAM
OF PANELS
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SESSION
ONE: 9:30-11:15
(I)
Oppression and Resistance in Late Medieval England
Chair: Samantha Kelly (Rutgers University)
Ilana Krug (University of
Toronto), “Wartime Corruption
and Complaints of the English Peasantry”
Peter Larson (Rutgers University), “The Bishop of
Durham’s Widows: A Failed Attempt at Seignorial
Exploitation After the Black Death”
Caroline Dunn (Fordham University), “Damsels in Distress
or Partners in Crime? The Abduction of Women in Medieval England”
Comment: James Masschaele
(Rutgers University)
(II)
Politics, Crisis and Revolution in 18th-Century Britain and the Atlantic World
Chair: Rachel Weil (Cornell University)
Gerard Siarny (University of
Chicago), “England in Europe: Divided Politics and
the Origins of the War of the Spanish Succession”
Mark Wallace (University of
St. Andrews), “Scottish Freemasonry,
1725-1808--The Culmination of Crisis: Lodge Conflict, Financial Distress,
Political and Religious Agitation”
Aki Kalliomäki (University of
California-Santa Cruz), “Revolution
Revisited: The United Irishmen in the Early American Republic”
Comment: Nicholas Rogers (York University)
(III)
Colonial Ideologies During the Inter-War Years
Chair: Brian Shipley (Rutgers University)
Diana Shull (University of
Colorado), “Protecting ‘Our’ Land
and Nation: William Joynson-Hicks’ Political Career
and the Discourse on Englishness”
Daniel Stephen (University of
Colorado), “West Africa at the British Empire Exhibition, 1924-1925”
Marc Matera (Rutgers University), “‘The Magic of Fear’:
British Response to Ògù Umùnwaànyi
Women’s War of 1929”
Comment: Catherine Candy (Raritan Valley College)
SESSION
TWO: 11:30-1:15
(I)
Politics, Ideologies, and Asia in Early Modern Britain
Chair: Alastair Bellany (Rutgers University)
Martine van Ittersum (Harvard University), “Imperialist
Ideologies in Early Modern Britain: ‘Grotian’ Rights
Theories and The English East India Company”
Philip J. Stern (Columbia University), “Statemaking
and Sovereignty and the East India Company-State in the Late Seventeenth
Century”
Andrew Mackillop (University of
Aberdeen), “British Provincials
and the Rise of Militarism in South Asia, 1750-1800”
Comment: Kumkum Chatterjee (Penn State University)
(II)
Gender, Work, and Authority in Victorian Britain and the Empire
Chair: Andrew August (Penn State-Abington)
Anne Clendinning (Nipissing University, Canada), “Engendering the Gas
Industry: Women, Sales, and Domestic Technology”
Elizabeth Prevost
(Northwestern University), “Negotiating the Nuptial Divide: Single Women and
the Problem of Marriage in the Mission Field”
Sascha Auerbach
(Virginia Commonwealth University), “‘A Right Sort of
Man’: Gender and Authority in the Victorian State Education System”
Comment: Mary Procida (Temple University)
(III)
Old Left and New Left: 20th-Century Cultural Debates
Chair:
David Silbey (Alvernia College)
Stephen Brooke (York University, Canada), “The Body, Sexuality
and Socialism: Dora Russell in the 1920s”
Lawrence Black (Westminster College), “The Enormous
Condescension of Prosperity: The British Left and Affluence in the 1950s and
1960s”
Guy Ortolano
(Northwestern University), “Recasting the ‘Two Cultures’”
Comment: William Lubenow
(Stockton State College)
LUNCH
SESSION
THREE: 2:30-4:15
(I)
Medicine, Mathematics and Music: Forms of Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century
Chair: Ann Coiro (Rutgers University)
Devin Griffiths (Rutgers University), “Harmonizing Milton:
Seventeenth-Century Musical Science and Areopagitica’s
Branching Epistemology”
Melanie Holm (Rutgers University), “Mathematics,
Empiricism, and Experimentation: Paradise Lost and the Search for Truth in Seventeenth
Century England”
Stephen Greenberg (National Library of Medicine),
“Thomas Sydenham and the Professionalization
of English Medicine”
Comment: Nigel Smith (Princeton University)
(II)
The Unruly Victorian Family Before the Bar
Chair: Nancy Ellenberger (US Naval Academy)
Ginger Frost (Samford University), “Enforcing (Im)Morality? Judges, Violence, and
Cohabitation in the Criminal Courts, 1850-1905”
Gail Savage (St Mary's
College of
Maryland), “Defining the
Boundaries of Marital Sexuality: Bigamy, Incest, and Sodomy in the
Divorce Court, 1857-1907”
Martin Wiener (Rice University), “Trials for Domestic
Homicide: Another Front in the Victorian War on Drink”
Comment: George Robb (William Paterson University)
(III)
Imperial Informants: Missionaries, Spies, and Company Men, c.1795-1930
Chair:
Randolph Trumbach
(Baruch College, CUNY)
Jodi Bartley (Marquette University), “Capital Crimes and
the Chinese Trade: British Perceptions of the Chinese Legal System from the
Letters of Sir George Thomas Staunton”
Anne Marie Stoner-Eby (University of
Pennsylvania), “Sinews of Empire?
Correspondence Between African Anglicans in the
Periphery and English Anglicans in the Metropole,
1880s-1920s”
Priya Satia
(University of California-Berkeley), “The Unofficial Mind
of British Agents in Arabia, 1900-1914”
Comment: Patrick McDevitt
(SUNY-Buffalo)
PLENARY
SESSION: 4:30-5:30
Lynn Lees (University of
Pennsylvania), “Creating a ‘Middle
Ground’: British Colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1850-1940”
RECEPTION