FRIDAY, MARCH 23rd

 

12:00-5:00 p.m. – REGISTRATION & COFFEE (HSSB 4041)

 

1:00–2:45 p.m. – SESSION ONE

 

1A. Elizabeth Tudor: Princess & Queen (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair – Lori Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate University)

 

         “Marian Resistance Writings & the Elizabethan Succession”

         Paulina Kewes (University of Oxford)

 

         “Imperious: Elizabeth & the Management of Elizabethan England”

         Norman Jones (Utah State University)

 

         “Elizabeth I & the Execution of the Earl of Essex”

         Paul E.J. Hammer (University of Colorado at Boulder)

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1B. Smallpox in Its Times (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – Stephanie Seketa (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Break Out! The Spread of Lethal Smallpox from London into the Shires, 1660-1740”

         Bob Frank (UCLA)

 

         “Healers & Hellions: The Formation of London’s Medical Reform Community in the 1740s”

         Margaret DeLacy (Independent Scholar)

 

         “(Not) seeing is (Not) Believing: Smallpox & Victorian Visual Culture”

         Matthew Newsom Kerr (Santa Clara University)

 

1C. Photographic Encounters: Empire, War & Publics during the Victorian Era (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Sarah Hoglund (Boise State University)

 

         “Settlers & Romanticism: The Ideology of Encounter in Australian Colonial Photography”

         Jarrod Ray Hore (Macquarrie University, Australia)

 

         “‘The Most Interesting Exhibition in London at the Present Time’: The 1855 Exhibitions of Roger Fenton’s Photographic          Pictures of the Seat of War in Crimea”

         Peter H. Hoffenberg (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

 

         “Urbs Prima in India: Presenting Bombay to Britons in 1892”

         Dinyar Patel (University of South Carolina)

 

 

1D. Development & Censorship in Imperial & Post-Imperial Africa (HSSB 6056)

 

    Chair & Comment – Richard A. Voeltz (Cameron University)

 

         “‘A Fanciful Vision’: Colonial Co-Operative Development in the Gold Coast, 1930-1957”

         Ryan Minor (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “‘What’s burnt won’t be missed’: Censorship, Spin, & the British Colonial Archive at the ‘End’ of Empire”

         Joel M. Hebert (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)

 

         “‘Please start saving wildlife now not later’: Thatcherite Britain’s Overseas Development Administration, Global                          Conservation, & Kenya’s Most Endangered Species”

         Jeff Schaeur (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

 

3:00–4:45 p.m. – SESSION TWO

 

2A. Seventeenth-Century Puritan Cultures (HSSB 6056)

 

    Chair & Comment – Vanessa Wilkie (Huntington Library)

 

         “‘Without Vain Pomp’: Puritan Burial Practices in England, 1560-1640”

         Katie Correia (Utah State University)

        

         “To cutt the throate of all Protestants’: Identities, Moderation & the Protestant Archpriest Controversy, 1600-  1604”

         Jesse McCarthy (Vanderbilt University)

 

         “From Solomon to Joshua: Politics & Preaching at the Funeral of James VI & I”

         Nathan Perry (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

 

2B. All the World a Stage: Incorporating Role-Playing into British History Courses (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – William Keene Thompson (UC Santa  Barbara)

 

         “Henry VIII & the Reformation Parliament”

         Patrick Coby (Smith College)

 

         “Constitutionalism vs Royal Absolutism: The Glorious Revolution in England, 1685-9”

         Joe M. Sramek (Southern Illinois University)

 

         “Rage Against the Machine: Technology, Rebellion & the Industrial Revolution”

         Brendan Palla (University of Providence)

 

         “Modernists in Britain, 1922”

         Beth Wightman (California State University Northridge)

 

2C. Money, Masculinity & Conversion in Nineteenth-Century Culture (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Ren Pepitone (University of Arkansas)

 

         “The Archive of Finance: A Cultural History of the Stock Price Index in the Victorian Press”

         John Handel (UC Berkeley)

 

         “‘Turning Bad Jews into Worse Christians’: Hermann Adler and the London Society for Promoting Christianity Among           the Jews”

         Robert H. Ellison (Marshall University)

 

         “Will Someone Think of the Men? E. Belfort Bax, Misogyny, & the Feminist Movement”

         Joel Virgen (UC Davis)

 

2D. Twentieth-Century Literature (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Lana Dalley (CSU Fullerton)

 

         “Strawberries & Cream: A Brief Gastro-Political Analysis of Naomi Mitchison’s We Have Been Warned (1935)”

         Carl Lindner (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)

 

         “The Library of Michael H.R. Tolkien (1920-84): A  Snapshot of a Twentieth-Century British Collector of Books”

         Bradford Lee Eden (Valparaiso University)

 

5:00-5:30 p.m. – PCCBS BUSINESS MEETING

(IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056)

 

 

 

5:45-8:00 p.m. – PLENARY ADDRESS & AWARDS RECEPTION

(Betty Elings Wells Pavilion, UCSB Faculty Club)

 

“Unsettled: Citizens, Migrants, & Refugees”

Jordanna Bailkin (University of Washington)

 

Introduction by Erika Rappaport (UC Santa Barbara)

        

DINNER AT LEISURE

 

 

  

 

SATURDAY, MARCH 24th

 

 7:45-8:45 a.m. – BREAKFAST BUFFET (HSSB 3041)

 

8:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. – REGISTRATION (HSSB 3041)

 

9:00–10:30 a.m. – SESSION THREE

 

3A. Spaces of Legitimacy & Voices of Authority: British Medicine (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College)

 

         “‘Very tedious & pompous processes’: Gendered Medicinal Authority in Eighteenth-Century Britain”

         Elizabeth Schmidt (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “A Woman’s Business: Branding Marie Stopes, 1918-1939”

         Julie Johnson (UC Santa Barbara)

 

3B. Dimensions of Time (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada,  Las Vegas)

 

         “Articulating Time: Temporal Construction in Thomas  Lodge’s A Margarita of America (1596)”

         Jennifer Tellman (Louisiana State University)

 

         “Redeeming the Time: Punctuality, Credit, & the Middling Sort”

         Ken Corbett (University of British Columbia)

 

         “Generations in Victorian Britain”

         Martin Hewitt (Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge)

        

3C. Gender & Meaning in Nineteenth-Century Literature (HSSB 4041)

 

    Chair & Comment – Julie Carlson (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Novel Actresses: Gender & Genre”

         Bethany Wong (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “‘A harder name than thoughtlessness’: Intimate Violence in   The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)”

         Judith Broome (William Paterson University)

 

         “Finding the Holy Grail of Manhood, or Bridging  Masculinity from England to America & from Moscow to the                            Caucasus in Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-4) & The Cossacks  (1863)”

         Irina Strout (University of Tulsa)

        

3D. Gender, Work & Affect in Postwar Britain (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Erika Rappaport (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Secondary Education & Everyday Life in the United Kingdom in the 1970s”

         Laura Carter (University of Cambridge)

 

         “Troubled Times: Coping with Deindustrialization & Unemployment in a Divided Belfast, 1960s-80s”

         Christopher Lawson (UC Berkeley)

 

         “Air Stewards & Affective Economies of Heathrow Airport”

         James Vernon (UC Berkeley)

 

         “From Feminist Labor Activism to the ‘Family Friendly’  Employer: The Making of Working Families”

         Sarah Stoller (UC Berkeley)

 

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – SESSION FOUR

 

4A. Secrets & Sequestration in the Seventeenth-Century (McCune HSST 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Susan Amussen (UC Merced)

 

         “The Policy of Sequestration during the English Civil War, 1642-1649”

         Charlotte Young (Royal Holloway, University of London)

 

         “Secrets in Secret Writing: Deciphering the Shorthand of George Treby, Chairman of the Commons Committee of                   Secrecy Investigating the Popish Plot, 1679-1681”

         Andrea McKenzie (University of Victoria)

 

         “England’s Guantanamos, 1660-1689”

         David Cressy (Ohio State University)

 

4B. From Gin to School: Social Regulations (HSSB 4041)

 

    Chair & Comment – Kimberly Latta (Independent Scholar)

 

         “How Did the Gin Craze End? Perceptions, Realities & Historical Constructions of Drinking Culture Change”

         David Clemis (Mount Royal University)

 

         “The Association for the Preservation of Liberty & Property Against Republicans & Levellers: Suppressing Social                        Movements in Great Britain, 1792-1793”

         Micah Alpaugh (University of Central Missouri)

 

4C. Family Politics: Lives, Laws & Colonial Rule(s) (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Peter H. Hoffenberg (University of  Hawai’i at Manoa)

 

         “The ‘Turton Job’ & the Sexual Politics of Lord Durham’s  Administration”

         Jarett Henderson (Mount Royal University)

 

         “Colonial Legacies: Inheritance in Nineteenth-Century White Settler Colonies of the British Empire”

         Bettina Bradbury (York University)

 

4D. Cultural Legacies of the Second World War (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – David Campion (Lewis & Clark  College)

 

         “Implicit Wars & Perceptions of Threat: The Irish &  Germans Living in Britain, 1939-40”

         Tiffany Beebe (University of Colorado Boulder)

 

         “The Shape of the City to Come: The Festival of Britain &  the Modern British City, 1951”

         Deborah Lewittes (City University of New York)

 

         “US-UK Relations on Psychological Warfare in the Cold War Period & UK Strategy Towards Japan”

         Kenzo Okuda (Independent Scholar)

 

 

12:15-2:00 p.m. – LUNCHEON

(UCSB Faculty Club Dining Room)

 

1:00-2:00 p.m. –PLENARY ADDRESS

(UCSB Faculty Club Dining Room)

 

“Slavery & the Complications of Patriarchy

in the Seventeenth-Century British Atlantic”

 

Susan Amussen (UC Merced)

 

Introduction by Sears McGee (UC Santa Barbara)

 

 

 

2:15-3:45 p.m. – SESSION FIVE

 

5A. Reading the Book of Nature in Early Modern England: Three Perspectives (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Gideon Manning (Claremont Graduate University)

 

         “Nature’s Economy: Nature & Natural History in the Writings of Richard Hakluyt (1552?-1616) & Thomas Harriot                     (1560-1621)”

         David Harris Sacks (Reed College)

 

         “The Nature of Money: Metallurgical Knowledge in Gerard de Malynes’s Lex Mercatoria (1622)”

         Christopher Consolino (The Johns Hopkins University)

 

         “Late Renaissance Anatomy in London: Edward Browne (1644-1708) Lectures to the Company of Barber Surgeons”

         Louis Caron (UC Santa Barbara)

 

5B. Gender, Sexuality, & Religion in Britain, 1880-1930 (HSSB 4080)

 

         Chair & Comment – Jarett Henderson (Mount Royal University)

 

         “‘The Sorrows of Scepticism’: Sexual Science & the Evangelical Modern”

         Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia)

 

         “Refashioning Religious Community in Early Twentieth- Century Britain: Adela Curtis & the ‘White Ladies’”

         Jane Shaw (Stanford University)

 

         “Talking to the Dead: Spiritualism, Haunted Historians & Gendered Authority, 1880-1920”

         Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College)

 

5C. Social Science, Metaphor & Myth at the Fin-de-Siècle (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Terence Keel, UC Santa Barbara

 

         “Scientific Concept to Popular Metaphor: The Totem in British Periodicals”

         Amy Woodson-Boulton (Loyola Marymount University)

 

         “Uneasy at the Top: Mythic Function & Modern Science in Victorian Anthropology”

         Courtenay Raia (The Colburn School, Los Angeles)

 

        “A Text-Book Case: H.G. Wells & the Teaching of Biology by Post”

         Lisa M. Lane (MiraCosta College)

 

       “Reconcilable Differences: Evolutionary Science & Secular Readings of Biblical Motifs in H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine          (1895)”

      Margo Beckmann (University of Guelph)

 

5D. Dimensions of Postwar Domestic Politics (HSSB 4041)

 

    Chair & Comment – Laura Carter (University of Cambridge)

 

         “The Payment of Wages & the Repeal of the Truck Acts in  England, 1940-1986”

         Christopher Frank (University of Manitoba)

 

         “Common People Like You: Urban Renewal & the Politics  of the Ordinary in 1970s Britain”

         Jesse D. Meredith (University of Washington)

 

       “‘School Food is a Business & Should Operate Like One’: Privatization in the School Lunch Rooms of the U.K. & U.S.,                1980-82”

         Caitlin Raithe (UC Santa Barbara)

 

3:45-4:15 Afternoon Coffee & Tea--HSSB 6028

 

4:15-5:45 p.m. – SESSION SIX

 

6A. Piscatorial Politics in Early Modern England (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Sears McGee (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Fish or Flesh: The Fishmongers, the Butchers, & the Battle over Lent in Early Stuart London”

         Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University)

 

         “Ten Demi-Culverins for Aldeburgh: Suffolk Herring Fishermen vs the Dunkirkers, 1625-1630”

         Thomas Cogswell (UC Riverside)

 

         “Nashe’s Red Herring & Referentiality in Satire”

         Jennifer Andersen (CSU San Bernardino)

 

6B. Useful Knowledge (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – Louis Caron (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “John Dury, Practical Divinity & the Advancement of Useful   Knowledge in the Seventeenth Century”

         Simon Brown (UC Berkeley)

 

         “‘Prize Culture’: One Document, 300 Ships, & Multitudinous Eighteenth-Century Industries”

         Joe Krulder (Butte College)

 

         “Imagining Victory in Cartagena, 1741: Admiral Vernon versus the One-armed, One-legged, One-eyed Admiral                        Blas de Lezo”

         Luz Elena Ramirez (CSU San Bernardino)

 

6C. Public & Private in the Making of British Burma & India (HSSB 4020)

 

         Chair & Comment – Chandra Mallampalli (Westmont College)

 

         “‘The Road to Mandalay’: Railways, Development, &    Empire in British Burma, 1870-1900”

         David Baillargeon (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Martial Spaces: British Army Posts in India & the Construction of the Martial Races”

         Joseph Bickley (University of Arizona)

 

         “Privacy, Race & Domestic Space in Late Nineteenth-Century India”

         Kristina Molin Cherneski (University of Alberta)

 

6D. Twentieth-Century Photographic Politics (HSSB 4041)

 

    Chair & Comment – Christopher McGeorge (USC)

 

         “Mrs Braddock Sees a Tory Peep Show: Photography & Political Culture in Britain, c.1918-1950”

         James Thompson (University of Bristol)

 

         “‘They’re not “works” they’re photographs’: Documentary Photography, Representation, & Political Agency in Dublin,              c.1970-1990”

         Erika Hanna (University of Bristol)

 

5.45 – 7.00 p.m. – GRAD STUDENT RECEPTION

(McCune Conference Room)

 

DINNER AT LEISURE

 

 

 

 

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 25th

 

7:45-8:45 a.m. – BREAKFAST BUFFET

(HSSB 4041)

 

9:00-10:30 a.m. – SESSION SEVEN

 

7A. Cultures of Imagination (HSSB 4020)

 

    Chair & Comment –  Alister Chapman (Westmont College)

 

         “Imagining Antiquity in the Eighteenth Century”

         Carole Paul (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “The Phantasmagoria of Elephanta: Optical Technologies & Haunted Stories”

         Niharika Dinkar (Boise State University)

 

7B. Nineteenth-Century Female Professionals (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – Joy Dixon (University of British Columbia)

 

         “‘Everyone is most kind’: Social Networks & Women’s Struggles to Enter the Legal Profession, 1893-1923”

         Ren Pepitone (University of Arkansas)

 

         “‘My beloved Masaccio& Giotto all the rest of the blessed company’: Winifred Margaret Knights & the Rediscovery of               the Trecento in the Long Nineteenth Century in Britain”

         Lyrica Taylor (Azusa Pacific University)

 

7C. Culture Legacies of the First World War (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – Patty Seleski (CSU San Marcos)

 

        “War & Whiggism at Wembley”

         Joshua Rocha (UC Santa Barbara)

 

         “Greater Wars: Rethinking the Trench in Modern British History”

         Taylor Soja (University of Washington)

 

         “Resettling the Refugee: A Short History of the Refugee Camp after World War I”

         Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada Las Vegas)

 

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. – SESSION EIGHT

 

8A. Catherine of Braganza Reconsidered (HSSB 4080)

 

    Chair & Comment – Kathleen Noonan (Sonoma State University)

 

         “A Historiographical Glass Ceiling: The Misrepresentation of Catherine of Braganza”

         Jillian Azevedo (UC Davis)

                                   

         “Catherine of Braganza: Political Agency & Space Negotiation at the Court of Charles II”

         Michelle White (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga)

 

8B. The Political & Cultural Economy of Empire & its Discontents (McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020)

 

    Chair & Comment – David Baillargeon (UC Santa Barbara)

 

        “Colonialism Without Borders: British Finance, Railways, &   Mines in Portuguese Angola & Belgian Congo, 1899-1931”

          Peter Vale (UC Berkeley)

 

         “Diasporic Identity, Sub-Imperialism, Inter-Imperial Cooperation, Anti-Colonialism, & Sub-Prime Lending during the               Great Depression: British Efforts to Quash the Expulsion of Indo-British Bankers from Indochina, 1933-4”

          Marc Jason Gilbert (University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

 

         "Political & Cultural Ramifications of Brexit”

          Martin Farr (Newcastle University)