Final Program for #BATW2021
We've had a few questions about time zone, so as a reminder, our base time zone is US Central time, and indicative locations are given below:
Session 1 0800 (London 1400, Delhi 1830, Sydney, 2300)
Session 2 1000 (London 1600, Delhi 2030, Sydney, 0100)
Session 3 1200 (London 1800, Delhi 2230, Sydney, 0300)
Britain and the World Annual Conference
16-18 June 2021
Online
#BATW2021
Last year marked a first for Britain and the World: there was no conference. We're happy to say, however, that the 2020 Plymouth conference was merely postponed: it will take place 15-17 June 2022, with all arrangements as before.
Two years was too long without any conference however, and so this year, for – we hope – the only time, we're online, and BATW2021 has 115 papers in 42 panels. The nature of the technological and cultural transformation wrought by the Pandemic is such that there'll likely always now be a hybrid element to conference. The days of trying to accommodate – or, as often, forgetting – that a delegate had been forced to (try to) present via Skype have passed.
Our determination to be hybrid in some form in future is underlined by BATW2021 being the most international conference yet: people are able to participate without having to be present in person, challenge enough even when international travel was possible.
So this year we're delighted to welcome delegates from US, UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Hong Kong (China), Singapore, Israel, South Korea, Russia, Algeria, the Netherlands, Czech Republic, Poland, Italy, Denmark, France, Germany, and Switzerland. This is very exciting, and something we're committed to encouraging further.
More specific practical information will be disseminated by other means, but the general exhortation remains: please, unless you're told otherwise by your chair (and withdrawals have mean that there are several under-peopled panels), speak for no longer than twenty minutes.
Over the next three days do tell us if anything's awry, and please also be understanding: this is the first time we've tried to do anything like this, and we're trying to do our best. We'll send out a feedback link afterwards, but any comments and suggestions are welcome whenever.
We'd like to record our very grateful thanks to people and organisations who've helped make this conference possible.
Longstanding thanks to Sarah McDonald and Chris Grieves at Edinburgh University Press (the publisher of our journal), and to Lucy Kidwell at Palgrave Macmillan (the publisher of our book series). Our thanks also to Scarlett Rich at Adam Matthew Digital, James Williams at Yale University Press, and, at University of Central Oklahoma, UCO's Phi Alpha Theta Academic Honors Society for History, the UCO IT department, and to Rogelio Almeida in particular, for making this enterprise possible.
And to you. Your participation, and your membership, is greatly valued, and we hope both will continue.
We also hope you enjoy the conference.
WEDNESDAY 16 JUNE
0800
1. Tudor Maritime Communities and their Imperial Legacies
Chair: Carole Levin, University of Nebraska, US
Lydia Towns, University of Texas-Arlington, US, “The ‘Guinea Trade,’ Merchant Networks and the Start of London’s Transatlantic Trade, 1531-1562”
Alistair Maeer, Texas Wesleyan University, US, “Tudor Empire in Praxis: The Muscovy Company, Nautical Cartography, and the origins of an Imperial English Maritime Community”
Jessica Hower, Southwestern University, US, “The Lives and Afterlives of Tudor Empire: Henry VII, the Cabot Voyages, and the Memory of England’s First Trans-Atlantic Encounters, 1496-1685”
2. Knowledge, Communication, and the East India Company
Chair: Bhavani Raman, University of Toronto, Canada
Ben Gilding, University of Oxford, UK, “Distance, Subjecthood, and the Shaping of British India, 1773-1786”
Callie Wilkinson, University of Warwick, UK, “The East India Company and the Disinformation Order, 1798-1818”
Devyani Gupta, University of Leeds, UK, “Knowledge Practices and Postal Standardization in Nineteenth-Century India”
Joshua Ehrlich, University of Macau, Macau, “The History of Knowledge: A Useful Approach to the Histories of South Asia and the British Empire?”
3. Transnational Aid and Reconciliation
Chair: Rebecca Matzke, Ripon College, US
Paul J Weinbaum, Duquesne University, US, “Epidemics, Politics and Public Health, Ludwik Rajchman MD, The League of Nations Health Organization and the Creation of a Transnational Health Organization”
Julien Reiman, University of Cambridge, UK, “A Starving Man Helping Another Starving Man: UNRRA, India, and the Genesis of Global Relief, 1943-1947”
Sarah Fissmer, University of Bonn, Germany, “Reconciliation on the Western Front in the 21st Century: How Great War Lieux de Mémoire Can Help Foster Transnational Understanding and Perspectives”
4. Hard and soft power in the Middle East, 1917-2016
Chair: Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Foreign Policy Research Institute, US
Catriona Pennell and Margot Tudor, University of Exeter, UK,
“Problematising the ‘Inquiry’: Knowledge processes, production, and presentation in the aftermath of British military interventions in the Middle East”
Naama Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel, “Lesser Breeds’ or Blessed? Fundamental Paradigms as Relationship Shapers for the British in Mandatory Palestine”
Gerald Power, Anglo-American University, Czech Republic, “The British Council in the Arab Gulf, 1955-68”
5. The Special Relationship in war and peace
Chair: Sue Thompson, Australian National University, Australia
Craig E. Saucier, Southeastern Louisiana University, US, “Lord Lothian and the Genesis of Lend-Lease, 1940”
Clive Webb, University of Sussex, UK, “Fool’s Errand? Henry Wallace, the Third Force and the Origins of the Special Relationship”
WEDNESDAY
1000
1. New Approaches to Race and Gender in the Atlantic world
Chair: Michelle D. Brock, Washington and Lee University, US
Kelly Douma-Kaelin, Pennsylvania State University, US, “A Peculiar Relationship: Anglo-German Translingual and Transatlantic Marriages in the 18th Century Moravian Church”
Erika Gasser, University of Cincinnati, US, “English Manhoods in a Changing Atlantic at the turn of the Eighteenth Century”
2. Protection, Humanitarianism, Scotland, and the Empire
Chair: Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US
Katherine Haldane Grenier, The Citadel, US, “The Sunday Train Wars: Religion and Commercial Society in 1840s Scotland”
Darren Reid, University College London, UK, “The Aborigines' Protection Society "from the bottom-up": epistolary performances of imperial citizenship(s) in the late nineteenth century”
3. Careering and Commerce in mid-nineteenth century East Asia
Chair: Arunima Datta, Idaho State University, US
Sabrina R. Cervantez, Louisiana State University, US, “Pursuing Prestige and Profit in Tokugawa Japan: British and American Imperial and Economic Rivalries in East Asia, 1842-1852”
Andrew Bellamy, Baylor University, US, “'The Rude Concussions of Modern Times': Reconciling Free Trade, Opium, and Imperial Christianity in Britain's Chinese Print Culture, 1834-1839”
Mark Hampton, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, “Thomas Anstey in 1850s Hong Kong: Radicalism, Libel, and the Rule of Law”
4. Colonial Institutions and European Identity in British South Africa
Chair: John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University, US
Chris Holdridge, North-West University, South Africa, “Settler Colonialism, Natural Rights and the Rule of Law in the Cape Colony c. 1850”
Jacob Ivey, Fairmont State University, US, “‘For the Preservation of Peace’: Transnational Police Careers in Natal”
Nicole M. Mares, King's College, US, “Boer-War era depictions of British and Boer masculinity”
5. Commonwealth legacies and the mid-twentieth century
Chair: Caralou Rosen, CSU Fullerton, US
Paul Tonks & L.M. Ratnapalan, Yonsei University, South Korea, “Bound 'together by the golden thread of a common tradition'? Decolonization, Identity, and the Legacies of Empire in British-South Asian Relations”
Paula Hastings, University of Toronto, Canada,“‘Can it hold together? Canada, the British Caribbean, and the Commonwealth in Crisis in the early 1960s”
Dongkyung Shin, King’s College London, UK, “New ‘Colonial’ Universities in the British Commonwealth”
WEDNESDAY
1200
1. Global Networks of Goods and Knowledge, 1580-1700
Chair: Jessica Hower, Southwestern University, US
Joshua Ivinson, University of Cambridge, UK, “The forgotten history of a pioneering English Atlantic trade: Salt extraction on the Cape Verdean island of Maio, 1582-1635”
Michelle White, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, US, “A Craze for all Things Oriental”: Product Innovation and East Asian Trade in Restoration England”
Amanda Coate, Stanford University, US, “An Elephant in Dublin: Networks of Animals, Objects, and Knowledge in the Late Seventeenth Century”
2. Education, Marriage, and Intimacy Across the British World
Chair: Jonathan Shipe, Virginia Military Institute, US
Bethany Holley-Griffith, University of Central Oklahoma, US, “Challenging Society: Examining Nineteenth-Century British Institutions and Policies Related to Women’s Education”
Kseniya А. Sozinova, Ural Federal University, Russia, “Anglo-Russian marriages in the late 18th and early 19th centuries: Elizabeth Stephens and Mikhail Speransky”
Sucharita Sen, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ, “Beyond the Official Transactions - Colonial Intimacies and Interpersonal Relationships in Nineteenth Century British India”
3. Government and Industry in India, 1919-1949
Chair: Arunima Datta, Idaho State University, US
Thomas Gidney, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Switzerland, “Industrialisation as a standard of civilisation? British India’s accession to the ILO (1919-1923)”
David Whittington, University of the West of England, UK, “Philosophy versus Pragmatism: Anglo-American Differences over Indian Self-Government in the Decade before Partition”
Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College, US, “The Strange Case of Paul Mainprice: Britons, Kashmir, and the End of Empire”
4. Geopolitical challenges on land and sea since 1890
Chair: Leslie Rogne Schumacher, Foreign Policy Research Institute, US
Louis Halewood, University of Plymouth, UK, “Democratic Ideals and Reality Revisited: Theorists of Sea Power and International Co-operation, 1890-1919”
Jolanta Mysiakowska, The Institute of National Remembrance, Poland, “British foreign policy and the concept of national self-determination in Central and Eastern Europe (1917–1923)”
William Reynolds, King’s College London, UK, “‘We are a World Power or we are Nothing': British Grand Strategy from 1945 to Present”
THURSDAY 17 JUNE
Sponsored by Yale University Press
0800
1. The Problem of Piracy: Maritime Predation and its Meanings in Early Modern British and Colonial Waters
Chair: Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, UK
John Coakley, Merrimack College, US, “The Treaty of Madrid: Piracy and State Power in the Caribbean in 1670”
David Wilson, University of Strathclyde, UK, “Pirates, Scots, and Imperial Authority in the ‘British’ Atlantic, 1660-1726”
F. Gesine Brede, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, “Demons of the “free sea”? The image of English pirates in Exquemelin’s Buccaneers of America (1684) and Sigüenza y Góngora’s Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez (1690)”
Rebecca James, University of Southampton/Cardiff University, UK, “‘Captain Kennedy, by taking solemn Oaths of Fidelity to his Companions, was suffered to proceed with them’: Examining depictions of fellowship and mutiny in A General History of the Pyrates”
2. Atrocity, Famines, and Justice in Colonial India
Chair: Sucharita Sen, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Deana Heath, University of Liverpool, UK, “Torture, Scandal and the State: Facilitating Atrocity in Colonial India”
Subhasree Ghosh, University of Calcutta, India, “Clash of Ideas Between India and Britain: Women’s Question in Nineteenth Century Colonial India”
Emma Wordsworth, University of Auckland, NZ, ‘“One part Trojan Horse, one part opiate’: Reconciling self-interest and altruism in Victorian relief discourses during the Bengali and Anatolian famines, 1873-75”
3. The First World War
Chair: Justin Olmstead, University of Central Oklahoma, US
Andrew J. Whitford, United States Military Academy, US, “Nevil Macready and the challenges of Edwardian military authority 1910-1914
Beth Anderson, Roehampton University, UK, "Censorship of Military Information in First World War Britain: Relationship between the Public, the Press, and the Government"
Richard Dunley, University of New South Wales, Australia, “‘With us almost to a man’?: British efforts to win over Irish America 1914-1916”
4. Aesthetics of Empire, Yesterday and Today
Chair: Jacob Ivey, Fairmont State University, US
Ingrid Steiner, California State University-Dominguez Hills, US , “Pictures Across the Pond: William Byrd II and English Portraits in Virginia”
Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK, “The Imperial Aesthetic: Photography, Samuel Bourne and the Indian Peoples in the post-Mutiny era,”
Solmaz Kive, University of Oregon, US, “The Grammar of Ornament and the World’s Order”
THURSDAY
1000
1. Rethinking Imperial and Intellectual Networks in the Late 17th and eighteenth centuries
Chair: Lisa Clark Diller, Southern Adventist University, US
Joel Herman, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, “The Imperial Public Sphere: Context and Questions”’
Nat Cutter, University of Melbourne, Australia, “The Freshest Advices from Barbary: Maghrebi News and Experiences in British Expatriate Letters, 1660-1705”
Marco Barducci, Durham University, UK, “Was there an Anglo-Dutch Enlightenment? Transmission of ideas and intellectual change in England and the Dutch Republic, c.1650-1750”
2. Ireland and Empire
Chair: Darragh Gannon, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Trinity College, US, “Did Ireland Eat the Empire? Irish Food under the Union”
Michael de Nie, University of West Georgia, US, “The Irish Press and Imperial Morality, 1882-1885”
John Mitcham, Duquesne University, US, “The Dominions, the Commonwealth Ideal, and the Irish Question, 1907-1922”
3. History and memory in India
Chair: Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University, US
Sophie Seddon, Adam Matthew, UK, “Using primary sources to follow religious ideas during the East India Company’s control of India”
James Watts, University of Bristol, UK, “Statues and Contested Memory and History: The Clive Memorial Fund, Imperial Heroes, and the Re-imaginings of Indian History”
4. Intellectuals, imperialism, and ideology
Chair: Sue Thompson, Australian National University, Australia
Joseph M. Snyder, Southeast Missouri State University, US, “Literature as Mirror of Empire: Examining the Dialectic Between Narrative Forms and Contemporary English and British Imperialism—from Shakespeare to Conrad”
Martha A. Ebbesen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, “Zimmern goes to America”
5. Britain and Europe: before, during, and after
Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK
Christopher Day, University of Westminster, UK, “‘Diplomacy from below': Conservative grassroots organisations and continental cooperation, 1962-66”
Stuart Smedley, King’s College London, UK, “The bigger, the better? The historical disconnect between party policy and British public opinion regarding EU enlargement”
THURSDAY
1200
1. English Identity and European Relations, 1660-1820
Chair: Kelly Douma-Kaelin, Pennsylvania State University, US
Steven J. Casement, The Pennsylvania State University, US, “‘Towards Which You Must Always Lay for a Foundation’: Restoration Polemics, Anglo-Spanish Relations, and the Second Dutch War”
Lisa Clark Diller, Southern Adventist University, US, “Traveling Tolerances: English Protestants Abroad after the Restoration”
2. The Small, Local, and Remote: Rethinking Concepts of Space in Global and Imperial History
Chair: Erica Charters, University of Oxford, UK
Callum Kelly, University of Oxford, UK, “Better than the House of Any Stranger: Identity and Space at the English and Dutch Factories in Hirado, 1609–1640”
Michael Yeo, University of Oxford, UK, “Connecting the Imperial Periphery: Sojourners and Smugglers in the Port of Sandakan, North Borneo, 1878–1942”
Hohee Cho, University of Oxford, UK, “Medical Imperialism in the South Pacific: The Establishment of the Central Medical School, Fiji, 1920s–1930s”
3. Extraction, labour, and capital
Chair: Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US
Travis J. Cook, Arizona State University, US, “The British Mineral Endowment and the Modern Concrete World”
James Bohland, Ohio University, US, “Economic Intelligence for a New Age: the 1960s and the Creation of JIC(B)”
4. Britain, India, and Persia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century
Chair: Brandon Marsh, Bridgewater College, US
Caralou Rosen, CSU Fullerton, US, “In the Shadow of India: The Use of Imperial Rhetoric and Language in Curzon’s Persia, 1890-1905
Derek W. Blakeley, McNeese State University, US, “‘My dear Gandhi Curzon, So non-cooperation is apparently extending to the Cabinet’: Curzon, Montagu, and Cabinet Politics surrounding the passage of the 1919 Government of India Act”
Andrew Schumacher Bethke, University of Minnesota, US, “Successful Failure: Benjamin Jowett and the Attempted Regulatory Capture of the Indian Civil Service by the University of Oxford”
FRIDAY 18 JUNE
0800
1. Scots Abroad, 1600-1800
Chair: Paul Tonks, Yonsei University, South Korea
Joseph Wagner, University of St Andrews, UK, “Scottish Colonisation and Scottish Autonomy: An Entangled Atlantic History, 1603-1707”
Lowri Ann Rees, Bangor University, UK, “From Scotland to Wales via India: Sir William Paxton, the East India Company and social mobility, c.1744-1824”
Thomas Archambaud, University of Glasgow, UK, “Calamity in the West and revolutions in the East”: Sir John Macpherson, India and imperial governance in the British Empire (1770-1792)
2. Masculinity, Delinquency, and Virility Across the Empire
Chair: Jonathan Shipe, Virginia Military Institute, US
Patrick M. Kirkwood, Metropolitan Community College, US, “Theodore Roosevelt's Imperial West: Virility, Hybridity, and Transnational Anglo-Saxonism”
Sevali Hukku, Independent Scholar, India, “Multiple Masculinities: The Indian male subject under British rule”
Jasper Heeks, King’s College London, UK, “The spread of ‘genus larrikin’ 1870-1898: from Melbourne to the English south coast and many places in between”
3. War and identity
Chair: Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US
Daniel McKay, University of Cambridge, UK, “British-Dominion Relations and the Colonial and Imperial Conferences, 1887–1937”
Bonnie White, Memorial University of Newfoundland, UK, “We are British, too: The Cultural Legacy of the First World War on Newfoundland Identity"
Jayne Friend, University of Portsmouth, UK, “Unity, imperial identity and localised naval theatre: Royal Navy destroyer flag-flying visits and civic celebrations in interwar Britain”
4. Commonwealth, class, and coronavirus in contemporary Britain
Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK
Marc Collinson, Bangor University, UK, “Patrick Gordon Walker: A ‘Commonwealth man’ in Smethwick politics?”
Finn Gleeson, University College London, UK, “Race, Nation and Memory in London's Docklands: Towards a New History of Generation in Contemporary Britain”
FRIDAY
1000
1. Reporting, Remembering, and Role Playing the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Chair: Alistair Maeer, Texas Wesleyan University, US
Joseph R. Bienko, Pennsylvania State University, US, “Papists, Treason, Plot: Parliamentarian Anti-Catholic Propaganda and the Politics of Conspiracy during the First English Civil War, 1641-1646”
David Parrish, College of the Ozarks, US, “Remembering the Civil Wars: Jacobite memories of the wars of the three kingdoms”
Courtney Herber and Geoffrey Gimse, Independent Scholars, US, “Empire and Resistance: Prelude to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, a Role Playing Game
2. Travel, Maritime History, and Global Connections Across the British World
Chair: James Parker, University of Virginia, US
Jessica A. Sheetz-Nguyen, University of Maryland Global Campus, US, “Florentia: British Woman About Italy Telling Tales Out of School”
Holly Dayton, Northwestern University, US, “The British Traveler and British Culture Abroad: Willie Hoggan-Armadale and “Daisy Bell’”
Adrian Shubert and Boyd D. Cothran, York University, Canada, “The Edwin Fox: a maritime, micro-historical approach to Britain and the World, 1850-1914”
3. Economics and culture in Hong Kong and Singapore
Chair: Catherine Flinn, Central Connecticut State University, US
Adonis M.Y. Li, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, “‘A Springboard for Securing Business in China’: Britain and the Electrification of the Kowloon-Canton Railway, 1978-1985”
Tony Wing-kin Chui, National University of Singapore, Singapore, “Failed Aspirations to Perpetuate the Colony: Contested Infrastructure Projects in Early Post-war Hong Kong, 1945-49”
Andrew C. K. Yu, University of Edinburgh, UK, “Colonial legacy and inheritance: Scottish bagpipes culture in Singapore”
4. Ecology and Power in Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Chair: Jennifer Regan-Lefebvre, Trinity College, US
Katherine Arnold, London School of Economics, UK, “Imperfectly Integrated Outsiders: German Natural History Collectors in the Cape Colony, 1825-1850”
Charles V. Reed, Elizabeth City State University, US, “The Bambatha Revolt and the Quest for an Empire of Justice, 1906-08”
5. Political Ideas and Ideologies in Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Britain
Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK
Nick Barnett, University of Salford, UK, “From Greenham Common to Red Square: Women for Life on Earth and the Moscow Group for Trust”
Jacob L. Goodson, Southwestern College, US, “The Dark Years in Great Britain? Philosophical Responses to Brexit and the Future of the EU”
FRIDAY
1200
1. Early Modern Royalty and Diplomacy
Chair: Jessica Hower, Southwestern University, US
Courtney Herber, Independent Scholar, US, “Rituals for the Domestication of Strangers: Triumphal Entries for Foreign-Born Consorts of Tudor and Stuart England”
John Freeman, University of Cambridge, UK, The Disconnect between Early Modern Courtly and Colonial Relationships in England: The Perspective of the Duchy of Courland
William Kramer, Austin Community College, US, “The Irish Parliament of 1689: Legitimacy, Sovereignty and the Glorious Revolution in Ireland”
2. Transatlantic Demonstrations of Faith and Emotion
Chair: Erika Gasser, University of Cincinnati, US
Haig Z Smith, University of Oxford, UK, “The Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Companies (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance in North East America”
Chorfi Fatima, University Oran2, Algeria, “The Contribution of the Mayflower Compact in the foundation of the United States Constitution”
Daniel Johnson, University of Leicester, UK, “The Rationality and Spirituality of Isaac Watts in the Works of Jonathan Edwards”
James Gregory, University of Plymouth, UK, “‘Britons, ever preeminent in mercy, have outgone common examples, and overlooked the criminal in the captive’: discourse and display of mercy during the American Revolution”
3. Disinformation, Sieges, and Pax Britannica in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century
Chair: Xavier Guégan, University of Winchester, UK
Tatiana Kosykh, Ural Federal University, Russia, “Life in the Besieged City: British Soldiers in Cadiz 1810-1812”
Erik de Lange, Utrecht University, Netherlands, “The Anglo-Algerine War of 1824. Reconfiguring Pax Britannica in the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean”
4. Three islands and a continent
Chair: John C. Mitcham, Duquesne University, US
John Griffiths, Massey University, NZ, “The Calming of Popular Dance in a British Dominion: New Zealand 1920-1941”
Jody Crutchley, Liverpool Hope University, UK, “Britain and the Attempted Integration of Malta, 1953-1958”
Laura Seddelmeyer, Lycoming College, US, “Neighborly Relations across the Ditch?: Australia and New Zealand in the 1970s”
5. Popular Culture and Soft Power in the British World
Chair: Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK
Carey Fleiner, University of Winchester, UK, “‘Just an English Boy who won a Holiday in Waikiki:’ The Culture of English Humour in the Music and Performance of the Kinks”
Amit Gupta, US Air Force Air War College, US, “Britain’s Soft Power: From Paddington to Doctor Who”
Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University, US, “West Country Folkways in the American Midwest: The Case of the Pasty”