2008 BrANCH Conference Programme

3.30-4.00: Tea

4.00-5.00 SESSION

Richard Bell (American Antiquarian Society), “Humane Societies and the Cultural Significance of Suicide in America, 1760-1830”

Vivien Miller (Nottingham), “Domestic Atrocity and the Female Poisoner in the 19th Century United States”

5.15-6.15 SESSION

Peter Parish Lecture
Richard Blackett (Vanderbilt) tba

6.15-7.00: Drinks reception

7.00-8.30: Dinner

8.30-9.15 SESSION

Comments and discussion of the Parish lecture

SATURDAY, 20 September

9.00-10.45 SESSION

Carol Lasser (Oberlin), “Antebellum American Women and the Public Sphere: From Domestic Deference to Passionate Partisanship”

Stacey Robertson (Bradley), “Passionate Partisans: Women, Politics, and Abolition in the Old Northwest”

Daniel Peart (UCL), “Politics without parties: organizing the opposition to the establishment of slavery in Madison County, Illinois, 1823-1824”

10.45-11.15: Coffee

11.15-1.00 SESSION

Daniel E. Sutherland (Arkansas), “Partisans, Guerillas, and Bushwackers: Rethinking the American Civil War”

David T. Gleeson (Charleston), “Irish Civilians and the Confederate States of America”

Paul Quigley (Edinburgh), “‘A Southern heart to beat with indignation at Southern wrongs’: Victimhood and Confederate Nationalism”

1.00-2.00: Lunch

3.30-4.15: BrANCH AGM

4.15-4.55 SESSION

Robert Cook (Sussex), “William Pitt Fessenden, "moderate" Republicans and the Coming of the Civil War”
OR
Constance Schultz (South Carolina), “Like Mother, Like Daughter? Eliza Lukas Pinckney and Harriett Pinckney Horry, Widowed South Carolina Plantation Mistresses”

5.00-5.40 SESSION

William Carrigan (Rowan), “Albert Parsons, Robert Lewis Dabney, and the Revolutionary Nature of Reconstruction”
OR
John M. Thompson (Cambridge) “‘Get the Facts Vividly Before Them’: Theodore Roosevelt, Public Opinion, and the Panamanian Rebellion of 1903”

6.00: Drinks reception

7.00-8.30: Conference dinner

8.30-9.30 SESSION
Catherine Clinton (Belfast) title tba

SUNDAY, 21 September

9.00-10.45 SESSION

Howard Temperley (East Anglia), “Anglo-American Relations and the Suppression of the Slave Trade”

Richard Huzzey (Oxford), “Slaves, earthquakes and pressure from without: Charles Lyell and British attitudes to American slavery”

Eric Walther (Houston, “’Strutting in London’: William Lowndes Yancey as Confederate Commissioner to England, 1861-1862

10.45-11.10: Coffee

11.10-1.00 SESSION

Thomas Strange (Manchester), “The slave funeral: a form of religious resistance?”

Lydia Plath (Warwick), “The Mississippi Insurrection Scare of 1835: A Matter of Honour?”

Sergio Lussana (Warwick), “‘A Robust and Vigorous Lad”: Enslaved African-American Masculinity in the Antebellum United States’”

Stephen C. Kenney (Liverpool), “’…a dictate of both interest and mercy’: Slave health, ‘Negro physicians’ and infirmaries for the enslaved in the antebellum South”

1.00-2.00: Lunch

Conference disperses