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NACBS/Mid-Atlantic Conference on
British Studies
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Venue: ANA Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Date: 5-8 October 1995
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* Programme: part 1 *
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1 Social Structures of London, 1500-1625
Chair: R. Malcolm Smuts (U of Massachusetts, Boston)
'From ritual to policy: change in the parishes of London, 1500-1620'
Claire S. Schen (Harvard U/Suffolk U)
'Competing communities: the French Church of London, its congregation
and the London parishes, 1560-1625'
Charles Littleton (U of Michigan)
'Music and musicians in the pre-industrial metropolis: professional
activities and private interests of royal musicians in the City and
suburbs of Tudor London, 1500-1600'
Fiona Kisby (Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, U of London)
Commentator: Julia F. Merritt (U of Sheffield)
2 Travel, Nationality and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: Jack P. grene (John Hopkins U)
'The making of aristocratic identity and the 4th duchess of Beaufort's
Grand Tour, 1769-1774'
Maura A. Henry (Harvard U)
'"Resolved to remember we are Americans": the emergence of an American
identity among Americans in Britain, 1740-76'
Susan L. Lively (Harvard U)
'An elusive frontier: the British Army and the limits of national
identity in North America, 1754-83'
Eliga H. Gould (U of New Hampshire)
Commentator: Linda Colley (Yale U)
3 France, Refugees and British Tourism
Chair: Donald E. Ginter (Concordia U)
'The British reception of refugees from the French Revolution'
Alison G. Olson (U of Maryland, College Park)
'Memorialising Napoleon: British tourism and collecting after
Waterloo'
Stuart Semmel (Harvard U)
Commentator: Nicholas Rogers (York U)
4 Gender, Race and Law in the British Empire
Chair: Susan Thorne (Duke U)
'Oriental subjects of the East India Company: race, gender and the
state in Britain's Indian empire'
Sudipta Sen (Beloit College)
'Law, race, and sexuality in nineteenth-century South Africa'
Pamela Scully (Kenyon College)
'Law, empire and women: the case of the Contagious Diseases Ordinances
in Britain's S.E. Asian colonies'
Philippa Levine (U of Southern California)
Commentator: Ian C. Fletcher (Georgia State U)
5 Progres, Power and Peril: Envisioning the Victorian and Edwardian City
Chair: Polly Beals (Southern Connecticut State U)
'"A vampire trade ion insurance": white slavery and the Social Policy
Campaign in Britain, 1900-12'
Alison S. Fletcher (John Hopkins U)
'"The progress of the intelligent, the moral, and the kindly": Robert
Vaughan's celebration of urban culture in _The Age of Great Cities_'
Mary Hora (U of Toronto)
'"A grand work of noble conception": London's Queen Victoria Memorial
and Imperial space'
Tori Smith (Rutgers U)
Commentator: Pamela J. Walker (Carleton U).
These are the first five of 39 sessions. The rest will follow in batches.
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