Programme
Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick central campus
Room: FAB 2.43 (Faculty of Arts Building, 2nd Floor)
Thursday 8 June 2023
13.00 Welcome and Introduction
13.15-14.30
Panel 1: Women and International Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Atlantic World
Chair: Naomi Pullin (University of Warwick)
Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford) – ‘The Salon as an Informal Diplomatic Space’.
Natalie Hanley-Smith (University of Warwick) – ‘“Gallantry Filled Up The Evenings and Mornings”: Flirtatious Sociability on the Late Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour.’
Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham) – ‘The Sackville Street Plot: Revolution Behind Closed Doors’.
14.30-14.45 – Break
14.45-16.15
Panel 2: Public Opinion, Drink and Popular Politics in Early Modern Britain
Chair: Valérie Capdeville (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
Brian Cowan (McGill University) – ‘The Public Sphere in Early Modern Britain’
Hannah Straw (University of Warwick) – ‘“Blame Him That Debauched Him”: Homosocial Drinking and Moral Panic in Restoration London’.
Angela McShane (University of Warwick) – ‘Drink and Political Song in Early Modern England’.
Dave Steele (University of Warwick) – ‘The Belly of the Crowd in Nineteenth Century England’.
16.15-16.30 – Break
16.30-18.00 – Keynote Lecture
Rebecca Earle (University of Warwick) – ‘Food and the Colonial Experience’
18.00-19.00 – Drinks Reception and Canapés
Friday 9 June 2023
09.00-10.15
Panel 3: Contentious Political Sociabilities in Long Eighteenth-Century Britain
Chair: Kimberly Page-Jones (Université de Bretagne Occidentale)
Maria Tauber (University of Warwick) - “Allow Yourself Some Time to Be Easy and Cheerful Among Your Friends and Enemies” – Local Political Sociability in National Politics.
Anna Pravdica (University of Warwick) – ‘Oaths of the Many Great and Worthy Persons By Whom They Were Regarded’: Politically Potent Sociability in the Douglas Cause.
Brendan Tam (University of Warwick) - “Bringing Pitt Forward Again, in Spite of Himself” – The Political Instrumentality of Sociability.
10.15-10.30 – Break
10.30-12.00
Panel 4: The Sociability of Global Travel in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham)
Margaret Small (University of Birmingham) – ‘Sociability and the Solitary Traveller’.
Anna Harrington (PhD University of Birmingham) - ‘The Bottle We Passed Three Times Round’: Shipboard Sociability for Middling and Elite Passengers Travelling on East Indiamen, c. 1757-1835’.
Eleonora Sasso (University of Chieti-Pescara) – ‘Byron and the Sociability of Travel: The Romantic Struggle for Freedom Between East and West’.
Elvira Diana (University of Chieti-Pescara) – ‘Westerners Habits Seen as Strange by Muslim Travellers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’.
12.00-13.00 – Lunch
13.00-14.30
Panel 5: Credit, Trust and Public Opinion in Revolutionary France
Chair: Charles Walton (University of Warwick)
Ronan Love (University of Warwick) – ‘The Rise and Fall of Jacques Necker: Public Credit and Public Opinion from the Old Regime to the French Revolution’.
David Andress (University of Portsmouth) - “He is a False Man. I Shall Dine at His Paris Home Tomorrow”: Trust, Sociability and Personal Relations in French Revolutionary Politics.’
Marisa Linton (Kingston University, London) – ‘When Dining was Dangerous: Political Sociability Amongst the Jacobins of the Year II’.
Denise Davidson (Georgia State University) – ‘Food and Bourgeois Sociability: Rebuilding Society after the French Revolution’.
14.30-14.45 – Break
14.45-16.00
Panel 6: Drinking Sociability in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Rebecca Earle
Beat Kümin (University of Warwick) – ‘Spaces of Wine Consumption in Early Modern Europe’.
Persida Lazarević (University of Chieti-Pescara) – ‘Balkan Eighteenth-Century Drinking Sociabilities’.
Jan Blonski (European University Institute) – ‘Taverns and Drinking Culture in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth’.
16.00–16.15 – Break
16.15-17.45 – Keynote Lecture
Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) – ‘The Convergence of Family and Friendship: Intellectual Sociability in the Wake of the French Revolution’.
19.00 – Dinner Scarman Conference Centre, University of Warwick
Saturday 10 June 2023
Faculty of Arts Building, University of Warwick central campus
Room: FAB 5.03 (Faculty of Arts Building, 5th Floor)
9.00-10.15
Panel 7: The Food and Drink Experiences of Travellers in 18th-century Scotland
Chair: Beat Kümin
Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) – ‘The Scots and Their Food in the Testimonies of British and French Travellers in the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highlands and Islands.’
Marion Amblard (Université Grenoble Alpes) – ‘The Scots and Drinking in the Testimonies of British and French Travellers in the Eighteenth Century in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.’
Tri Tran (Université de Tours) – ‘Eating on the Road: Food and Social Practices of Transatlantic Highland Migrants During the Long 18th Century’.
10.15-10.30 – Break
10.30-12.00
Panel 8: The Culture of Political Sociability in Early Modern Europe
Chair: Mark Philp (University of Warwick)
Miriam Sette (University of Chieti-Pescara) – ‘William Godwin and the Romantics: Celebrity Culture and Politics’.
Rowena Willard-Wright (National Trust) – ‘Art and Diplomacy – The 3rd Duke of Dorset’.
Isabelle Le Pape and Isabelle Degrange (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) – ‘Food in the Art Discourse and Food Practices in the Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France’.
Ben Jackson (University of Birmingham) – ‘Gendered Mobility in Eighteenth-Century England: Men, Women, and Private Carriages’.
