NACBS: 5-8 Oct: 7

Dave Postles (pot@leicester.ac.uk)
Mon, 14 Aug 1995 10:15:53 +0100

31 Colonial Subjects and Cultural Authorities: Identity, Knowledge,
and Expertise Concerning Late Victorian Africa and India
Chair: Helen Cooper (SUNY, Stony Brook)

'Identity, race, and the ironic space of colonial situation:
James [_Africanus_] Beale Horton'
Douglas M. Haynes (U of California, Irvine)

'The Victorian subaltern as expert: T. N. Mukharji, exhibitions, and
the construciton of knowledge'
Peter Hoffenberg (U of Hawaii, Manoa)

'British women's periodicals and advice columns about trips to
India and sojourns there, 1860-1900'
Nupur Chaudhuri (Kansas State U)

Commentator: Dane Kennedy (U of Nebraska, Lincoln)

32 British Liberalism in a European Context, c.1870s-1920s
Chair: Anthony Brundage (California State Polytechnic U, Pomona)

'Nationalism and dilemmas of British Liberalism: a European
perspective, 1876-1914'
Eugenio F. Biagini (Princeton U)

'The fall of the first European Free Trade Community'
Peter Marsh (Syracuse U)

'Liberty and progress: languages and political economy in Britain,
perceptions of Europe, and the decline of Free Trade'
Frank Trentmann (Harvard U)

Commentator: William Lubenow (Stockton State U)

33 Representations and Collective Memory in Twentieth-Century Britain
Chair: Susan Pedersen (Harvard U)

'Domesticating Emmeline: public memory, commemoration, and
citizenship in Britain, 1928-93'
Laura E. Nym Mayhall (Millsaps College)

'Excavating the future in Conservative Britain: class, democracy,
and the fantasy of liberation, 1939-79'
Chris Walters (Williams College)

Commentator: Fred M. Leventhal (Boston U)

Presidential Address
Chair: Walter Arnstein, Vice President and President Elect (U of
Illinois, Urbana)

'The historical imagination'
Reba Soffer (California State U, Northbridge)

Reception at the British Embassy

34 The Shaping of Reform in East Anglia
Chair: John S. Morrill (Selwyn College, Cambridge)

'The Cambridge boies: uncovering the Combination Lecture at
Bury St. Edmunds in the 1590s'
John Craig (Simon Fraser U)

'The Ockley Conference: non-conformity in the 1630s'
Tom Webster (University of East Anglia)

'Currents of reform in the Stour Valley: the Winthrops of Groton,
1553-1630'
Francis J. Bremer (Millersville U)

Commentators: Caroline Hibbard (U of Illinois, Urbana) and the Chair
of this session.

35 The Politics of Necessity: Reason and State Theory in Early Modern Britain
Chair: Victoria Kahn (Princeton U)

'Republicanism and reason of state: from royal prerogative to the Rule
of Law'
Alan C. Houston (U of California, San Diego)

'From Protestant brethren to butterboxes: the invention of reason of
state thinking in early modern Britain'
Steven Pincus (U of Chicago)

'Revolution and reason of state, 1689/1790'
David Armitage (Columbia U)

Commentator: Laurence Dickey (U of Wisconsin, Madison)

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