FRIDAY 22nd:

3pm on: Registration

4-4.45pm: Tea

4.45-5.30pm: 1. OPENING SESSION

Chair: Richard Carwardine (University of Oxford)

Jacqueline G. Campbell (University of Connecticut):
“ I look at them as Fallen Angels”:
The Cultural Politics of Occupation in Civil War New Orleans

5.45-6.45pm: Reception at the Rothermere American Institute
Sponsored by the RAI.

The Vere Harmsworth Library, which is housed in the RAI, will extend its opening hours until 6.45pm to allow delegates to inspect the library and a special nineteenth-century exhibition.
It will also be open on Saturday afternoon.

7pm Dinner

8.30pm: 2. PETER PARISH MEMORIAL LECTURE

Chair: Martin Crawford (Keele University)

Sean Wilentz (Princeton University):
The Rise of Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln

9.30pm-midnight: Bar

SATURDAY 23rd:

8-9am: Breakfast

9.00-10.45am: PLENARY SESSION

3. Democracy, Whiggery, and Popular Politics

Chair: Dan Feller (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

Daniel Walker Howe (Oxford and UCLA):
What Hath God Wrought: an unDemocratic View of Jacksonian America

Panel on the Rise of Democracy:
Commentators: Donald Ratcliffe (University of Oxford):
Interlocutors: Dan Howe, Bill Shade, Sean Wilentz

10.45-11.15pm: Coffee

11.15am-12.55pm: PARALLEL SESSIONS

4. Perspectives on Antebellum Democracy

Chair: Donald Ratcliffe (Oxford)

James Simeone (Illinois Wesleyan University):
The Dilemmas of Agrarian Democracy in Illinois

Maria O. Troyanovsky (Moscow State University):
Early American Democracy in Russian Historical Thought

William G. Shade (Lehigh University):
Changing Definitions of Democracy in the United States, 1776-1865

OR: 5. Responding to Rebellion

Chair: Constance Schulz (University of South Carolina)

Silvana R. Siddali (Saint Louis University):
Northern Responses to Sherman’s March

Nichola Clayton (University of Sheffield):
Henry Wilson’s Southern Tour and the Question of Confiscation in 1867

David M. Prior (University of South Carolina):
Reconstruction and the Cretan Insurrection against Ottoman Rule, 1866-68

1pm: Lunch

2-2.30pm: AGM

The Vere Harmsworth Library (housed in the Rothermere American Institute) will open specially for this afternoon, 12.00-4.00pm.

3.15-4pm: Presentation
Thompson Learning will unveil their new on-line resource:
Nineteenth-Century US Newspapers Digital Archive

4-4.30pm: Tea

4.30-6pm: PLENARY SESSION

6. Death in the Afternoon

Chair: Stephen Tuck (University of Oxford)

Vivien Miller (Middlesex University):
Dead Woman Walking:
The Lincoln Assassination and the Hanging of Mary Surratt

Clive Webb (University of Sussex):
Louis Moreno, the Last Mexican Lynched In California

6-7pm: Reception, in celebration of our President’s 90th birthday
Sponsored by Thompson Learning

7pm: Dinner

8.30pm: 7. AFTER DINNER TALK:

Chair: Jay Sexton (University of Oxford)

Daniel E. Sutherland (University of Arkansas):
James McNeill Whistler:
A Portrait of the Artist as Arms Dealer

9.30pm-midnight: Bar

SUNDAY 24th:

8-9am: Breakfast

9.15-10.45am: PLENARY SESSION

8. Reconstructing the Lives of Slaves

Chair: Rebecca Griffin (University of East Anglia)

Edward Baptist (Cornell University):
African-American Lives after Forced Internal Migration to the Deep South

Wesley Joyner (University of South Carolina):
The Intellectual Life of Muslim Slaves in America

10.45-11.15am: Coffee

11.15-12.45pm: PLENARY SESSION

9. Coming to Terms with the Civil War

Chair: Bruce Baker (Royal Holloway College)

Susan-Mary Grant (University of Newcastle):
‘ This Body Entire Shall Rise from the Grave’: Nationalism, Religion, and the
Disabled Veteran in the American Civil War.

Rebecca Starr (University of Gloucestershire):
‘What the Heart Arranged’: The Civil War of Sophie Bledsoe Herrick,
1870-1877

1pm: Lunch

2pm: Conference disperses

2.15pm: Walking Tour of Oxford