Modern British Studies: A Collaboarative Workshop
Newberry Library
60 West Walton Street, Chicago
08.30 - 09.00
Friday 8th April 2016
Ruggles Room
Registration and coffee
09.00 – 09.15
Welcome and Introduction
09.15 – 11.15
Panel: The Individual
Ellen Wilkinson and the Radical Spider Web
Laura Beers (University of Birmingham)
Reality vs Imaginings: Reconstructing the Life Stories of Vagrants
Nick Crowson (University of Birmingham)
Of Lives and Landscapes: Britain’s 1939 Generation and the Great War
Emily Curtis Walters (Northwestern University)
Mermanjan Maughn, Subaltern Life Histories and Anglo-Afghan Conflict
Alexandra Lindgren–Gibson (Northwestern University)
Waltzing with the Goddess in Modern Britain: Rethinking Religion, Gender
and Secularism
Ruth Lindley (University of Birmingham)
Absence and the Individual in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Kate Smith (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Jim Sacks (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Commentator: Amy Harris (Brigham Young University)
11.15 – 11.45
11.45 – 13.45
Break
Panel: Race and Empire in British/Empire Studies
‘Taking A Short Trip To Ireland!’ Exhibiting Irish whiteness at Ballymaclinton
and World Fairs, 1907-1924
Shahmima Akhtar (University of Birmingham)
Racial Plasticity, Hybridity and Exclusion: Imagining, categorizing and policing
Anglo-Asian ‘miscegenation’ in the Interwar British Empire and the British
World
Robert Brown (University of Birmingham)
The Development of an "Anglo-world" Sexual Culture from the LateNineteenth to Early-Twentieth Centuries
Ruby Daily (Northwestern University)
Margaret Thatcher’s Peacock Blue Sari: The Conservative Party and BAME
Voters, 1951-86
Matthew Francis (University of Birmingham)
Kindred Distress: Race, Empire, and the Making of the Lancashire Cotton
Famine
Zach Sell (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Race and Colour: The Case of ‘White’ Immigrants in Postwar Britain
Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham)
Chair: Elizabeth Prevost (Grinnell College)
Commentator: Antoinette Burton (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
13.45 – 14.45
14.45 – 16.45
Lunch
Panel: Inequality
‘Are we rich yet?’: Investment clubs and the Search for an Investor-Consumer
Movement, c.1980-1995
Amy Edwards (University of Birmingham)
Businessmen in Liverpool and Glasgow during World War I
Emma Goldstein (Northwestern University)
Charity, Inequality and Humanitarianism
Matthew Hilton (University of Birmingham)
What Would a Cultural History of Inequality Look Like?
Matt Houlbrook (University of Birmingham)
Saving for the Future: Childhood, Consumption, and Citizenship
Laura Sefton (University of Birmingham)
Chair: James R. Lothian (Binghamton University)
Commentator: Lara Kreigel (Indiana University Bloomington)
16.45
Closing Remarks
Saturday 9th April 2016
Towner Fellows Room
08.30 – 09.00
Coffee
09.00 – 10.30
Panel: Scale
Time and the Scales of History: Are Historians Engaged in a Temporal Turn?
David Gange (University of Birmingham)
“The dangerous edge of things”: Questions of Scale at the Edge of the
British Empire
Kyle Gardner (University of Chicago)
The Production of Scale: Food and British history, 1750-2000
Chris Otter (Ohio State University)
The Hurricane and the Household: Scaling Empire and the Environment in
the Indian Ocean
Rob Rouphail (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Chair and Commentator: Fredrik Albritton Johnsson (The University of
Chicago)
10.30 – 11.00
Break
11.00 – 12.30
Panel: Rights
The Princely Predicament: India Reform and the Defense of Native
Sovereignty
Zak Leonard (University of Chicago)
British Civil Liberties Campaigns and the Lure of Human Rights:
Contextualizing Universality
Chris Moores (University of Birmingham)
Subjects, Citizens and Refugees: The Making and Remaking of Britain’s East
African Asians
Saima Nasar (University of Birmingham)
From Regulation III (1818) to the Rowlatt Acts (1919): The Colonial State of
Exception in-the-making
John Pincince (Loyala University)
Chair: Dana Rabin (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Commentator: Chris Otter (Ohio State University)
12.30 – 13.30
Lunch
13.30 – 14.30
Roundtable discussion: Future directions of Modern British Studies