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2021-2022 Conference Committee

• Niels Boender
• Eren Delaney
• David Fletcher
• Camilo Uribe Botta
• Liuyue Yang

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POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE 2022

THURSDAY 26^TH & FRIDAY 27^TH MAY 2022 in the WOLFSON RESEARCH EXCHANGE (UNIVERSITY LIBRARY)

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PROGRAMME

THURSDAY 26^TH MAY

09:30-10:00 Registration and refreshments

10:00-10:15 Welcome from Organising Committee

10:15-10:30. Introductory remarks from Professor Tim Lockley (Head of Department)

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Session 1: Methodologies: New approaches and disciplinary questions

Chair: Dr Ben Smith

10:30-10:50 Nicolás Gómez Baeza. Managers from the British world: a methodological approach to study Patagonian sheep farming industry labour regimes

10:50-11:10 Steve Russ. Feeling and Thinking: from there and then to here and now

11:10-11:30 Camilo Uribe Botta. Methodological approaches to the history of plant collecting: Orchids between Colombia and the UK in the late 19th century

11:30-12:00 Q and A

Session 2: Rethinking Museums & Colonial Knowledge

Chair: Dr. Tom Lowman

12:00-12:20 Fleur Martin. Silent Heritage: Ruxton's Nigeria Collection at the Horniman Museum

12:20-12:40 Jason Cyrus. Couture & The Colonial Lens

12:40-13:00 Nathalie Cooper. 'Turning to Account': South African Collections at the Horniman Museum

13:00-13:30 Q and A

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13:30-14:15 Lunch

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Session 3: Economics and Consumption in Chinese History

Chair: Dr. Song-Chuan Chen

14:15-14:35 Liuyue Yang. Material Culture, Domestic Life and Social Identity: A Case Study on a Dowry Inventory in Late Qing Merchant Family (1851-1861)

14:35-14:55 Zhaoqin Yao.The development of Shanghai Stock Exchange Markets from 1900 to 1950

14:55-15:15 Q and A

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15:15-15:45 Refreshments

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Session 4: Historical attitudes to Crime

Chair: Professor Sarah Richardson

15:45-16:05 Beth Howell. A Killer and a Victim: examining the representation of women in the world of crime through 19th century visual and popular culture, 1850-1896

16:05-16:25 Hannah Straw. “…They Will Pay for Their Crime on the Gallows”: Restoration Libertinism and Violent Criminality

 16:25-16:45 Q and A

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FRIDAY 27^TH MAY

09:30-10:00 Refreshments

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Session 5: Early Modern Religion

Chair: Professor Mark Knights

10:00-10:20 Mathilde Alain. A Portuguese embassy at the royal court of Ethiopia: the travel account of Francisco Álvares (1520)

10:20-10:40 Imogen Knox. Emotional responses to suicidal intent in British supernatural narratives, 1560-1735

10:40-11:00 David Fletcher. “The Popish Plot in a play”: Anti-Catholicism on the English stage, 1679-1681

11:00-11:30 Q and A

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11:30-12:00 Refreshments

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Session 6: Activism and Youth

Chair: Josh Patel

12:00-12:20 Emma Orchardson. Unity, Loyalty, Obedience, Discipline: The militarization of the Malawi Young Pioneers

12:20-12:40 Samir Hamdoud. Young People, Disease and Medical Care at the Royal Albert Asylum, 1870 - 1920

12:40-13:00 Kirstie Neale. Establishing Unions and Unity: Deaf-led Activism in Late Twentieth-Century Britain

13:00-13:30 Q and A

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13:30-14:15 Lunch

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Session 7: Imperial Networks

Chair: Professor David Lambert

14:15-14:35 Catriona Sharples. Colonial Science and the West India Regiments: Searching for Hidden Histories of Scientific Knowledge in the 19th Century Atlantic World.

14:35-14:55 Jack Bowman. Printing Pan-Africanism: The Black Jacobins and the Early Political Thought of C. L. R. James

14:55-15:15 Q and A

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15:15-15:30 Closing remarks

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If you have any questions, please contact the organising committee at historypgconference@warwick.ac.uk