Discussion Groups

Hi all, are any folks out there interested in presenting on sex work? My own research is on subcultures of sex work in late-Victorian London but those who work on other time periods/geographic areas are v welcome to get in touch! Feel free to email me at wjr429@usask.ca.

I am intersted in putting together a panel about crime, policing, punishment or related issues in Britain and/or Empire. My paper would be about assaults on police in late-Victorian East London. Chronological and geographic diversity would be great.

If you are interested, please let me know - axa24@psu.edu.

Thanks,

Andy

Colleagues,

I am a professor of History at MSU-Denver and am in the late stages of writing a book focusing on shame and shaming in early modern England. I would like to present some of my research at the NACBS at Pasadena. The last three chapters I wrote explored drunkenness and shame; honor, shame and ministers’ wives; and ministers behaving badly. I would be eager to turn any of them into a conference paper. If anyone wants to be part of a panel that would fit with any of those topics, or on a broader panel on early modern cultural and/or religious history, let me know.

Yours,

Brian

bweiser1@msudenver.edu

Hello,

I'm looking to put together a panel on the Troubles and/or Northern Ireland. My own work focuses on republican activism and community murals in the 1970s and 1980s. Any paper on the Troubles would be welcome, but I think the panel could expand to discuss Northern Ireland in general if need be.

If anyone is interested, please feel free to reach out: youngrp@bc.edu

Hi! Looking for panelists or papers for a panel that would explore reading practices within the field of British Studies across historical periods and disciplinary approaches. This call is interested in work that examines how texts are read, circulated, interpreted, and taught in Britain and its imperial and global contexts. Possible topics include historical reading cultures, marginalia and annotation, institutional or classroom reading practices, digital reading environments, community or public reading, and the role of reading in shaping literary, cultural, and political life. Interdisciplinary approaches drawing from literary studies, history, cultural studies, media studies, book history, and the history of education are especially welcome. My own paper examines women’s reading practices in nineteenth-century colonial India.

I am a PhD candidate in the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and my research is on the intersection of education and reading cultures in India. Please email me at mohanty2@uwm.edu.

If anyone else is keen to set up a panel on women/gender in Victorian Britain, please let me know! I intend to present a paper on women and sociability in the context of Thomas Cook's holiday excursions.

Please reach out at jennazmrzel@gmail.com.

All the best!

Hello all,

I am hoping to organize a panel on the devotional material culture of late medieval England. My own paper is focused on paxes (liturgical kissing images) and their many forms and uses in the church and at home from 1250 to 1550. I would love to hear about any papers related to devotional objects in the British Isles during the late Middle Ages. If you have a paper you would consider presenting, please contact me at rebekkah.hart@case.edu or rebekkah.hart@getty.edu.

Hello Everyone! 

I am looking to create a panel on Britishness and national identity and/or material culture and national identity in the late 20th century. My paper proposal focuses on how fashion designers Vivienne Westwood, John Galliano, and Alexander McQueen affected the actions and attitudes of the government towards fashion as a source of cultural strength for the nation. The paper follows the building of London Fashion Week as a coherent organization and examines the effect of these designers collections and reputations on the image of Britain as a creative capital. 

If anyone has papers related to cultural organizations and institutions during this time period or national heritage as well that would be most welcome. 

I can be reached at mrashba@bu.edu, thank you! 

Hello everyone!

I am a researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and I plan to present a paper on my book in making, “Queen Anne’s power couple: The agency of the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough shaping the socio-political landscape of early 18th-century England”.

I would like to put together a three-person panel around the topics court, agency and gender in c. 1660-1720. I am especially looking for researchers working with original correspondence of early modern women at court, however, I am perfectly open to other related subjects you work on (and/or other time frames) that could be included into this proposed panel.

If you are interested in participating, please reach out – my e-mail address is dorota.vargova@oeaw.ac.at.