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