10:00 PANEL 4: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES: RACE, SEXUALITY AND GENDER

Chair: Laura Schwartz

Molly Wilson-Smith. Darwinism, gender and feminism: the invention of capitalist

human nature in nineteenth century Britain

Hannah Ayres. Queering Public History: Identity and Community

Becky Hodgkinson. Migrant Work and Leisure: Caribbean Women’s Experiences of

Postwar and Postcolonial Britain

11:20 Coffee Break

11:40 PANEL 5: LOCAL POLITICAL CULTURE AND URBAN SOCIAL CHANGE IN

MEDIEVAL AND MODERN ENGLAND

Chair: Sarah Richardson

Sarah Boote-Powell. Bringing To Light ’The Hidden Things of Darkness’: Local

Politics in Three Midland Boroughs in the Age of Reform, 1826-41

Joe Chick. Take No Parishioners: Poverty Management in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-

Century Parishes

12.40 LUNCH BREAK

13.40 PANEL 6: EARLY MODERN EMPIRES: CULTURES OF BANDITRY, CORRUPTION,

AND MATERIAL CULTURE

Chair: Anne Gerritsen

Qianwen Qing. Scandal in the Caribbean, 1680—1720

Cheng He. The Formation of Lacquer in the Early Modern Europe

Sander Molenaar. The social organisation of sea bandits in Chaozhou, ca. 1460

15.00 COFFEE BREAK

15.20 PANEL 7: RELIGION, POLITICS, AND PERFORMANCE IN RESTORATION ENGLAND

Chair: Mark Knights

Hannah Straw. “This race of Drunkards, Pimps and Fools”: The Court Wits and

Performance

David Fletcher. ‘Hypocritical Religionaries’ remembered in Restoration drama

PANEL 6: EARLY MODERN EMPIRES: CULTURES OF BANDITRY, CORRUPTION,

AND MATERIAL CULTURE

Chair: Anne Gerritsen

Qianwen Qing. Scandal in the Caribbean, 1680—1720

Cheng He. The Formation of Lacquer in the Early Modern Europe

Sander Molenaar. The social organisation of sea bandits in Chaozhou, ca. 1460

16.20 CLOSING REMARKS