Postgraduate Conference 2007/2008
GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2008 |
DAY 1 |
Date: Thursday 29th May, 2008 | |
Venue: Mathematics Building, Warwick University Campus | |
Conference Time: 9.00am to 5.00 pm | Followed by drinks reception: 5.00pm to 6.00pm |
9:00 – 9:30am
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Registration - Mathematics Building Atrium
Tea & Coffee |
9.30 – 10.00am | Opening remarks from Dr Rebecca Earle – MS. 01 |
10.00 – 11.20am
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Session 1a in MS. 01 ‘The Global Representation of Nations’ Chair: William Rupp Gerard Hill: ‘An unprecedented influx’: representations of the Irish in the Toronto Globe 1847-55. Farhat Hussain: 'The presence and portrayal of Muslim medicine in western history of medicine of texts since 1900' Yoni Ozdana: 'The Crimean War: The European Balance of Power from the Ottoman Perspective' Andrea Cadelo-Buitrago:'Images of Nation in Nineteenth-century Colombia' |
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Session 1b (running in parallel) in MS. 02 ‘Popular Culture/ Media of Expression’ Chair: Jonathan Willis Mary Legge: 'Filming the White's Man's Burden: Film Propaganda and the British Retreat from Empire, 1946-57' Katie Nelson: 'The First English Autobiography? Tudor Musician Thomas Whythorne and his Manuscript' Kirstin Lohman: 'The popular experience of Punk in Eastern Europe' Simon Willmetts: 'Confronting Modernity: Mexico and the Beat Generation' |
11:20 – 11.40am | Tea & Coffee - Mathematics Building Atrium |
11.40 – 1:00pm |
Session 2a in MS. 01
‘Seeing Space in History: A Look at the Material and Physical World’ Chair: Kate Smith Jenny Elliott: 'Domestic Objects and the Communication of National Identity in Ireland 1890-1920' Anna Clugston: 'An Inconvenient Truth: Suburbia and the American Use of Space in the 1940s and 50s' Harriet Palfreyman: 'Cutting for the Stone; Medical illustration and surgical knowledge in early modern England' Morwenna Rae: 'An Eighteenth Century Village' |
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Session 2b (running in parallel) in MS. 02
‘Constructing Identities: Spotlight on Slavery’ Chair: Lydia Plath Alicia Mascall: 'How Scientific and Intellectual Ideas Regarding Race and Gender Influenced Public Discourse and Public Policy in the U.S. 1870-1920' Sergio Lussana: 'Band of Brothers: Enslaved Masculinity and Friendship in the Antebellum South' Emma Rhoades-Brown: 'Significance of gender on the slave body in the South US' Abigail Betts: 'Comparative study of runaway slaves in the Americas' |
1:00 – 2:00pm | Lunch - Mathematics Building Atrium |
2:00 – 3.00pm |
Session 3a in MS. 01
‘Life on the Margins: Experience and Attitudes’ Chair: Sergio Lussana Roxanne Homayoun Mirza: ‘Unemployment in Inter-War Britain: Masculinity, Psychological Health, and Physical Health’ Charlotte Edy: 'Poor relief and social welfare in France during the wars of religion' Anna Galvin: 'From asylums to psychiatric hospitals. A study of St Matthew's Hospital in the twentieth century' |
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Session 3b (running in parallel) in MS.02
‘Contested Cultures: Power and Society’ Chair: Laura Sangha Jonathan Packer: 'The history of white farmers in Zimbabwe. Whose right to the land?' Stephen Bates: 'Evangelism and Conversion in Reformation England' Saghar Sagedian: 'Missionary Activites in Iran, 1850-1911 : some Iranian Documents' Account' |
3:00 – 3.20pm | Tea & Coffee - Mathematics Building Atrium |
3.20 – 4.40pm |
Session 4a in MS. 01
‘Framing the Experience of Violence’ Chair: Thomas Rogers Ian Davis: ‘Caught in the Crossfire: Dauphiné Towns in the French Wars of Religion’ Paul Morris: 'Remembering the Fallen since 1945: The National Memorial Arboretum and The Armed Forces Memorial' Aidan Jackson: 'Violence in the Californian Gold Rush: Extent, Nature, and Conceptualisations' Harriet Fisher: 'The Prosecution of the Crime of Rape in Seventeenth-Century England' |
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Session 4b (running in parallel) in MS.02
‘Left out. Politics on the Edge?’ Chair: William Rupp Laura Bridgman:"My Place is in the Co-operative Movement" - Women's Employment and Education in the campaigns of the Women's Co-operative Guild, 1889 to 1919' Celia Hughes: 'The History of the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign: the substructure of far left British activism, 1966-69' Andrew Leach: 'Popular Support of Appeasement: Trade Union Pacifism in 1930s Britain' |
4.40 - 6.00pm |
Closing remarks from Prof Peter Marshall, Director of Graduate Studies followed by Drinks Reception - Mathematics Building Atrium |
GRADUATE CONFERENCE 2008 |
DAY 2 |
Date: Friday 30th May, 2008 | |
Venue: Mathematics Building, Warwick University Campus | |
Conference Time: 9.30am to 12.40 pm | Followed by light lunch: from 12.40pm onwards |
9:30 – 10.00am
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Registration - Mathematics Building Atrium
Tea & Coffee |
10.00 – 11.20am |
Session 5a in MS. 01
‘Communicating Morality’ Chair: Mark Hailwood Young-Hwi Yoon: 'The Impact of Abolitionism on the Place of Morality in British Politics in the late 18th century' Hayley Norton: 'Wedding Sermons in Early Modern England: Practice and Genre' Noah Bell: 'The administrative performance of Warwickshire JP's with respect to the problem of the poor, 1660-1685' Jenny Townshend: 'Richard Baxter and the Reformation of Manners' |
11.20 – 11.40am | Tea & Coffee - Mathematics Building Atrium |
11.40 - 12.40pm |
Session 5b in MS.01
‘Tools of Imperialism? Structuring a Nation’ Chair: Katie Nelson Joydeep Sen: 'Just Another Colonial Science? Astronomy in India, c.1815-c.1875' Hema Yellapragada:'Interplay of Imperialism and Nationalism on Princely states of India, 1914-1922' Matthew Lockwood: 'The growth of professionalisation in the Royal Navy through conflict with Spain in the eighteenth century and its emergence in the Napoleonic War' |
12.40 – onwards |
Closing remarks from Prof Margot Finn (TBC), Department Chair, followed by Light Lunch - Mathematics Building Atrium |