Warwick History Postgraduate Conference 2017

The University of Warwick Wolfson Research Exchange

Thursday 1 – Friday 2 June 2017

Co-organised by Melissa Bennett & Anna Bruzzone

Thursday, 1 June

9.30 - 9.50 Conference registration

9.50 - 10.00 Opening remarks

10.00 - 11.00 Panel 1

Religion in Early Modern France Chair: Dr Giada PIZZONI

Sofia GUTHRIE Montauban's Protestant academy and the Huguenot cause: a collection of seventeenth-century academic dissertations.

David NICOLL Protestant noble identity: the case of Antoine de Crussol.

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee

11.30 - 1.30 Panel 2

Religion & Politics in England, 1660-1800 Chair: Dr Naomi PULLIN

Ruth BARBOUR Who were the Catholics in eighteenth century Warwickshire?

Martyn CUTMORE The odious name of Presbyterian: 1661 – Rhetoric and emotional community.

David FLETCHER ‘The Lancashire witches’, by Thomas Shadwell: censorship and religious belief in 1680s England.

Edward TAYLOR ‘My business is to make observations’: commenting on the news in the serial press in early modern Britain.

1.30 - 2.15 Lunch

2.15 - 3.45 Panel 3

Emotions & Identities Chair: Dr Kathryn WOODS

Valentina TOMASSETTI ‘Guard your beauty in the fortress of shame’ – Teaching emotions through manner manuals in Early Modern Europe.

Liana-Beatrice VALERIO Exploring the varied manifestations of emotions, bravado and masculinity among the South Carolinian and Cuban slave-holding elite 1820-1850.

Somak BISWAS Geographies of the self: letters, spaces and the shifting identities of the Western Indophile.

3.45 - 4.00 Coffee

4.00 - 6.00 Panel 4

Colonial worlds Chair: Dr George ROBERTS

Holly WINTER Managing the mundane: the gender politics of everyday objects in the Indian armies, 1799-1900.

Jo TIERNEY The design and manufacture of British printed textiles for export to West Africa: An analysis of the Pattern Book Evidence.

Charlie ANGELO Niceto de Zamacois in ‘El Museo Universal’, c.1857-1863: writing Mexico for Spanish audiences.

Anna BRUZZONE The fabrication of history and the politics of land: new archival evidence on Italian decolonization in Somalia.

6.00 - 7.00 Drinks reception – Callum MacDonald Bursary Award Ceremony

Friday, 2 June

9.30 - 11.00 Panel 5

Perspectives on Writing History Chair: Dr Elise SMITH

Joshua PATEL The ‘biological turn’ in history writing: what is man? And how do these assumptions drive history writing?

Camille MAHÉ The European children’s situation during the post-war period through the eyes of the International Red Cross (1944-1949).

John WILMOT ‘Airs, waters and places’ revisited: medical topography in explaining disease, c.1820 –1860.

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee

11.30 - 1.00 Panel 6

Body Politics Chair: Dr Meleisa ONO-GEORGE

Shrikant BOTRE The body of caste: making modern Marathi sexual anatomy.

Andrew BURCHELL At the limits of legitimacy: the ‘Smethwick corporal punishment case’, professional expertise and municipal politics, 1928-1945.

Taahira KHAN The prostitute and the domestic: reciprocity between Indian women and Europeans in the making of gender and health ideals in nineteenth-century colonial India.

1.00 - 1.45 Lunch

1.45 - 3.15 Panel 7

Revolt & Rebellion Chair: Dr Anna ROSS

Joseph CHICK The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381: leadership in the Suffolk rising.

Rosalyn NARAYAN Nena Sahib: An Indian Nat Turner in the Southern US Press, 1857.

Maria Reyes BAZTAN When the Third-World struggle stepped into the First-World: anti-colonial imagination and its influence on Basque and Catalan nationalism.

3.15 - 3.30 Coffee

3.30 - 5.30 Panel 8

Business Histories Chair: Dr Andrew JONES

Adrian ANTONY A global pounding – Money’s role in Britain’s European moment.

Christian VELASCO Stability perspectives: the Kenyan banking system after the Mau Mau war.

Connor WOODMAN Red Warwick and Warwick University plc: the struggle over institutional memory.

Rohini PATEL Scientific management and business education in early 20th century America.

5.30 - 5.45 Closing remarks