2012-2013

Organising Committee

Seb Averill - MA in Modern History
James Bennett - MA in Modern History
Sarah Jane Bodell (joint chair) - MPhil/PhD
Lucy Gill - MARSCH
John Morgan (joint chair) - MPhil/PhD

The full conference programme, including abstracts,
can be downloaded here. (PDF Document)

Warwick History Postgraduate Conference	DAY 1
Location: Zeeman (Maths & Stats) Building, Warwick University
Date: Thursday 30th May, 2013
9:15 – 9:45	Registration - Zeeman Building Atrium
9:45 – 9:55	Opening remarks in MS.02 Prof Maria Luddy, Head of Department
10:00 – 11:20	Panel 1a in MS. 03 ‘Locating Luxury’ Chair - Natalie Cox Serena Dyer - Squeezing, Transforming, Distorting: Representations of the Fashionable Body in Satirical Prints, 1750-1820 Karolina Hutkova - The Indian Silk Industry and the Seventeenth-Century System of Trade Claire Tang - Enamelled Porcelain in Eighteenth-Century China Anqi Wu - The Relationship Between Porcelain and Women in 1550-1750 China
	Panel 1b (running in parallel) in MS. 05 ‘Early Modern Religious Exchanges’ sponsored by the Early Modern Forum Chair - Stephen Bates Caitlin Scott - The Problem of Toleration: Religious Persecution During the English Interregnum (1649-1660) Chris Scanlon - Survey of the Anglo-American Trans-Atlantic Puritan Community, 1632-60 Laura Johnson - Antichrist and The Brats of Babylon
11:20 – 11:50	Break - Zeeman Building Atrium
11:50 – 13:00	Panel 2a in MS. 03 ‘Tudor England’ sponsored by the Early Modern Forum Chair - Dr David Hitchcock Josh Moulding - Retrospectives Presentation Alice Byrne - The Cult of St George and the Henrician Reformation Ben Redding - The Birth of the 'Elephant and the Whale': Henrician Naval Policy and its Inspiration on Elizabeth I Matthew Wakeman - Games Legislation in Early Modern England
	Panel 2b (running in parallel) in MS. 05 ‘War and Memory in the Twentieth Century’ Chair - Grace Huxford Collin Lieberg - Retrospectives Presentation Jasmine Ryder McGiff - The Church of England and the First World War Blanka Matkovic - Demographic Losses in the Second World War in Former Yugoslavia: Methodological Issues Richard Preece - Bella Horrida Bella? The Twice Thankful Villages in National Context
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch - Zeeman Building Atrium
14:00 – 15:00	Panel 3a in MS. 03 ‘Sex and Sexualities in the Modern West’ Chair - Sarah Jane Bodell Mara Gregory - 'Beamed Directly to the Children': School Broadcasting and Sex Education in Britain, 1966-1980 Martha Michaud - The Gay Autobiography of the Early Twentieth Century: Transsexual Narratives and the Development of the Homosexual Discourse in North America Hannah Perkins - The World at Her Fingertips: The Changing Place of Female Masturbation in Society
	Panel 3b (running in parallel) in MS.05 ‘Communicating War’ Chair - Hannah Graves Mark Bennett - 'Strange Views Upon the American Question': Sheffield and the American Civil War Denis Courtois - Is London Out of Touch? The Uphill Battle of the BBC in France, 1940-42 Grace Huxford - Brainwashing in Britain: The Aftermath of the Korean War (1950-53) in British Cold War Culture
15:00 – 15:30	Break - Zeeman Building Atrium
15:30 – 16:30	Panel 4a in MS. 01 ‘The Politics of Pop Culture in the Modern Americas’ Chair - Josh Moulding Charlie Angelo - Postcolonial Comedy and National Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Hispanic World Hannah Graves - 'A Disservice to the U.S.': The Blackboard Jungle (1955) and the Politics of Export in Cold War Hollywood Sebastian Averill - 'Shadows Betray You Because They Belong to Me': Christopher Nolan's Batman Trilogy and the Ideological Functioning of Persistent Auterism
	Panel 4b (running in parallel) in MS.05 ‘Early Modern English Cultures’ sponsored by the Early Modern Forum Chair - Malik Ahmad Helen Livingstone - Murder of Maleficium? Infant Death and Witchcraft in Early Modern England Paula McBride - Magic, Witchcraft and Healing in the Early Modern English Midlands Lucy Gill - Drinking in Restoration London: The World of the Tavern in the Diary of Samuel Pepys

	DAY 2
Date: Friday 31st May, 2013
9:30 – 10:00	Registration - Mathematics Building Atrium
10:00 – 11:00	Panel 5a in MS. 03 ‘Modern Musical Cultures’ Chair - Collin Lieberg Andrew Hodgetts - Why did the British Musicians' Union restrict American jazz musicians from performing in Britain from 1935 until 1961, and what were the consequences of the restrictions for music in Britain? Jess Coupe - April in Paris Rhiannon Roberts - 'Where is the Love?': A Content Analysis of Misogyny in Popular Hip-Hop, 1990-2010
	Panel 5b (running in parallel) in MS. 05 ‘Cultural Approaches to Early Modern England’ sponsored by the Early Modern Forum Chair - Naomi Tom Colville - Conceptions of the Idiot in the Early Modern Period Gareth Davies - 'In the Existing State of Things [Marriage] Must of Necessity Be An Affair of Finance': Economic Aspects of Marriage-Making as Reflected in Eighteenth-Century Novels and Plays Han Zhao - 'Conscience Will Keep a Private Session Within Your Selves': The Cultures of Shame in Britain, 1650-1800
11:00 – 11:30	Break - Zeeman Building Atrium
11:30 - 12:30	Panel 6a in MS.03 ‘Childhood and Society in the Modern British Isles’ Chair - Jenny Crane Cecilia Hallstrom - Cork Inquiry 1859: Revealing the Irish Workhouse Child Emma Thornton - Experiences and Treatment of Physically-Handicapped Children, 1900-1950 Jane Winter - 'A Silly Woman is a Tragedy': The Role of Girls' Clubs in Shaping the Bodies, Minds and Futures of Girls and Young Women, c. 1918-1939
	Panel 6b (running in parallel) in MS.05 ‘Encounters with Empire’ Chair - Rebecca Williams Natalie Cox - Cooley, Kirk and the 1864 Maps of Lake Nyassa: Reconstructing an Historical Geography of Nineteenth-Century British Geography Kyle Jackson - Mizos, Missionaries and Medicine: Early Religious and Medical Contact in Lushai Hills Helen Scadeng - Women's Health and Emigration: The Organised Emigration of Single British Women to South Africa, 1901-1910
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch - Zeeman Building Atrium
13:30 - 14:30	Panel 7a in MS.03 ‘Care and Control in Modern Britain’ Chair - Tom Bray James Bennett - 'A Slum Sport Played in Slum Stadiums': 1980s Football Culture, Politics and the Hillsborough Disaster Alice Jordan - Women and Eugenics: Involvement and Influence on Twentieth-Century Britain Claire Sewell - Social Psychiatry, Social Research and the Emergence of the Carer in Post-War Britain
	Panel 7b (running in parallel) in MS.05 ‘Early Modern Coventry and Warwickshire’ sponsored by the Early Modern Forum Chair - Dave Toulson Ruth Barbour - Eighteenth-Century Warwickshire Catholics: Dangerous 'Others' or Friendly Neighbours? Julie Chamberlain - Women's Contribution to Public Life in Early Modern Coventry Rachel Kelsey - Networks and Politics of Early Modern Gentry Women in Warwickshire
14:30 - 15:00	Break - Zeeman Building Atrium
15:00 - 16:00	Panel 8a in MS.03 ‘Radicalism, Politics and Print’ Chair - Steven Gray Rowan Burrows - The Chartist Press and Oratory Journalism Henry Chen - The Fall of the Qing Empire and the Rise of Chinese Nationalism: A Study of Liang Qichao's Work Charlotte Peavoy - The Religious and Political Beliefs of the Members of the Rosehill Circle of Coventry
	Panel 8b (running in parallel) in MS.05 ‘Approaches to Medical History’ Chair - Claire Sewell Laura Glenny - There Are Three of Us in This Relationship: to what extent has the technological innovation of ultrasonography altered perceptions of foetal personhood from 1965 to 2000? Cassie Livesey - Stress and Control in Britain and America: A Comparative Study Greg Wells: Retrospective Diagnosis versus Narrative-Based Medicine: A New Slant on an Old Debate
16:00 – 16:20	Closing remarks in MS. 02 Han-na Cha, Research Student Skills Programme Prof Rebecca Earle, Director of Graduate Studies
16:20	Wine reception - Zeeman Building Atrium

Organising Committee

Warwick History Postgraduate Conference