History PhD Conference 2022 Research panels and programme Panel 1: 9:30-10:50am - Gender history (Chair: Florian Wieser) Ashlyn Cudney: Social Control and Disciplinary Bias: a Multi-Court Approach to Bute, 1648-1700. Katy Brooks Hughes: Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No: Women’s Contributions to the Student Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the United States, 1962-1973 Edara Daum: Damsels in Defence: Medieval Women, Gender and Siege Warfare in England and Scotland, 1100-1500 10:50am Break and refreshments Panel 2: 11:20am-12:40pm - Intellectual and ideological history (Chair: Dannii Browbank) Ash Charlton: A Data Mining Approach to Race and Slavery in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1860 Bo van Broekhoven: Influence of Early Modern Practises for Mental Wellbeing on the Plans for Universal Reform by the Hartlib Circle Kathryn M. Comper: The Reformation at Restoration: Kirk Discipline and the ‘Godly Community’ in Scotland, 1660-1685 Christopher Bates: The Anglicisation and de-Anglicisation of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 12:40pm Lunch (Macmillan Room for conference presenters) Panel 3: 1:40-2:45pm - Business and economic history (Chair: Bo van Broekhoven) Xian Wan: The Endings for Compradors: a comparative study of British, American and Japanese Trading and Banking Companies in Early Twentieth Century China Gino Magnini: A Macroeconomic Evaluation of Fascist Economic Policy in Interwar Italy, 1922-1939 Azrin Afrin: Chittagong as a Port City under British Colonial Rule: An Overall Observation, 1760-1947 1445 Break and refreshments Panel 4: 3:00-4:20pm Colonial and post-colonial history (Chair: Kathryn M. Comper) Florian Wieser: The Agency of Black and Native American People in the French-Spanish Conflict of the Seventeenth Century Caribbean Ramón Valdivieso: Conflicts between Modern Nation-states and Indigenous Peoples, specifically the case of the Mapuche in Northern Patagonia and Chile. Dannii Browbank: Policing Legitimacy, Identity and Public Order in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1998 Sian Davies: Sugar and Slate: A Labour History of the Pennants’ Estates in Jamaica and North Wales, 1780 - 1900 4:20pm Closing remarks and conference conclusion May 17 2022 09.00 - 16.30 History PhD Conference 2022 A wide ranging and fascinating series of topics, historical issues and presentations from first year History PhD students within the School. All are welcome to attend in person or online. Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Find the venue Register for the event
History PhD Conference 2022 Research panels and programme Panel 1: 9:30-10:50am - Gender history (Chair: Florian Wieser) Ashlyn Cudney: Social Control and Disciplinary Bias: a Multi-Court Approach to Bute, 1648-1700. Katy Brooks Hughes: Girls Say Yes to Boys Who Say No: Women’s Contributions to the Student Anti-Vietnam War Movement in the United States, 1962-1973 Edara Daum: Damsels in Defence: Medieval Women, Gender and Siege Warfare in England and Scotland, 1100-1500 10:50am Break and refreshments Panel 2: 11:20am-12:40pm - Intellectual and ideological history (Chair: Dannii Browbank) Ash Charlton: A Data Mining Approach to Race and Slavery in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1768-1860 Bo van Broekhoven: Influence of Early Modern Practises for Mental Wellbeing on the Plans for Universal Reform by the Hartlib Circle Kathryn M. Comper: The Reformation at Restoration: Kirk Discipline and the ‘Godly Community’ in Scotland, 1660-1685 Christopher Bates: The Anglicisation and de-Anglicisation of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826 12:40pm Lunch (Macmillan Room for conference presenters) Panel 3: 1:40-2:45pm - Business and economic history (Chair: Bo van Broekhoven) Xian Wan: The Endings for Compradors: a comparative study of British, American and Japanese Trading and Banking Companies in Early Twentieth Century China Gino Magnini: A Macroeconomic Evaluation of Fascist Economic Policy in Interwar Italy, 1922-1939 Azrin Afrin: Chittagong as a Port City under British Colonial Rule: An Overall Observation, 1760-1947 1445 Break and refreshments Panel 4: 3:00-4:20pm Colonial and post-colonial history (Chair: Kathryn M. Comper) Florian Wieser: The Agency of Black and Native American People in the French-Spanish Conflict of the Seventeenth Century Caribbean Ramón Valdivieso: Conflicts between Modern Nation-states and Indigenous Peoples, specifically the case of the Mapuche in Northern Patagonia and Chile. Dannii Browbank: Policing Legitimacy, Identity and Public Order in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 1998 Sian Davies: Sugar and Slate: A Labour History of the Pennants’ Estates in Jamaica and North Wales, 1780 - 1900 4:20pm Closing remarks and conference conclusion May 17 2022 09.00 - 16.30 History PhD Conference 2022 A wide ranging and fascinating series of topics, historical issues and presentations from first year History PhD students within the School. All are welcome to attend in person or online. Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Find the venue Register for the event
May 17 2022 09.00 - 16.30 History PhD Conference 2022 A wide ranging and fascinating series of topics, historical issues and presentations from first year History PhD students within the School. All are welcome to attend in person or online.
