MIDDLE ATLANTIC CONFERENCE ON BRITISH STUDIES

9 April 2005

 

Hilton Hotel

Alexandria at Old Town

Alexandria, Virginia

22314

1-703-837-0440

 

SESSION ONE: 9:30-11:15 am

1)       Religion, Ethnicity, and Empire

 

Chair: Gail Savage (St Mary’s College of Maryland)

 

Christopher N. Fritsch (Independent Scholar)

“How English was English North America?: The Practice of Law on the Delaware in the Seventeenth Century”

 

Mathias D. Bergmann (Randolph-Macon College)

“Contending with Britishness: Catholic Marylanders’ Responses to the Rise of a British Identity, 1689-1720”

 

James H. Adams (Independent Scholar)

“Whose Hibernians?: Representing Fenianism in Anglo-American Discursive Space”

 

Comment: Nancy Ellenberger (United States Naval Academy)

 

2)       Cultural Controversies: Religion and Literature in the 19^th Century

 

Chair: Laura Mayhall (Catholic University)

 

William C. Barnhart (Caldwell College)

“Anglican Volunteerism, Ecclesiastical Politics, and the Bath Church Missionary Association Controversy, 1817-1818”

 

Margaret D. Stetz (University of Delaware)

“The Case of the Panicking Publisher: A New View of the Oscar Wilde Trials of 1895”

 

Barbara A. Suess (William Paterson University)

“Scientific Metaphor in Ruskin, Pater, Wilde, and Yeats: The Politics of Literary Discourse”

 

Comment: William Lubenow (Stockton State College)

 

SESSION TWO: 11:30 am-1:15 pm

1)       New Research on Early Modern England

 

Chair: Amy M. Froide (University of Maryland—Baltimore County)

 

Katharine Olson (Harvard University)

“Private Devotion, Religious Ideals, and Household Life in Early Modern Britain: The Case of Wales, c. 1500-1630”

 

William E. Burns (Independent Scholar)

“Out of the Mouths of Babes: Prophetic Infants in Interregnum England”

 

Caroline Boswell (Brown University)

“Contested Social Spaces in Interregnum England”

 

J. Lyndsey Rago (University of Delaware)

“ ‘Wheels of a Feller Kind’: The English State Lottery in the Reign of George III”

 

Comment: Sabrina Baron (Folger Library and University of Maryland)

 

2)       Race, Emigration and Empire in the 20^th Century

 

Chair: Sascha Auerbach (Virginia Commonwealth University)

 

David Simonelli (Youngstown State University)

“ ‘Laughing nations of happy children who have never grown up’: Race, Commonwealth and the 1924-25 British Empire Exhibition”

 

Kennetta Hammond Perry (Michigan State University)

“Presenting Race, Representing Reality: Black Migrants and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Postwar Britain, 1948-1962”

 

Timothy Forest (University of Maryland)

“Racism, Profit, Alliance?: The Politics of Scottish Emigration to British Columbia in the 1920s”

 

Comment: Dane Kennedy (George Washington University)

 

LUNCH

 

SESSION THREE: 2:30-4:15 pm

1)       Roundtable Discussion: Beyond the Atlantic

 

Moderator: Christopher Grasso (College of William and Mary)

 

Alison Games (Georgetown University)

“Migrants, Oceans, and the Culture of Expansion”

 

Paul Mapp (College of William and Mary)

“The Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Continent in the Middle”

 

Philp J. Stern (American University)

“British Atlantic and British Asia: Comparisons and Connections”

 

2)       Gendered and Ethnic Identities in British Culture

 

Chair: Dina Copelman (George Mason University)

 

Joseph Sramek (CUNY Graduate Center)

“ ‘The Master is No Longer a Master’: Anxieties about the Manliness of British Civil Servants in Company India”

 

Sara Abrosch (Independent Scholar)

 “Modern British Anti-Semitism and the ‘Jewish Question’: A Preliminary Investigation”

 

Comment: Randolph Trumbach (Baruch College—City University of New York)

 

PLENARY SESSION: 4:30-5:30 pm

Dane Kennedy, Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History

            and International Affairs.  The George Washington University

“Bohemianism and the Rise of Victorian Relativism”

 

RECEPTION