Schedule

NACBS 2024 | Denver | Nov 14, 4:00 PM EST – Nov 17, 1:00 PM EST Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Thu, Nov 14

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
2 hours
NACBS Executive Committee
Rock
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
2 hours
NACBS Council Meeting
Hopscotch
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
3 hours
Registration, Four Square Foyer
Four Square Foyer
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
2 hours
NACBS Council Dinner
Duck Duck Goose
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
2 hours
Graduate student reception
Four Square Ballroom

Fri, Nov 15

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
1 hour
Breakfast
Four Square Ballroom
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours 30 minutes
Registration
Four Square Foyer
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
1. Knowledge, Bodies, Representations: Centering Women in Histories of Ireland
Duck Duck Goose
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
2. Exercising early modern authority
Paper
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
3. Infrastructure, Administration, and Labor across the British Empire, circa 1660-1800
Dodgeball
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
4. Building the Empire: A Century of Architecture, circa 1860-1930
Scissors
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
5. Cultural Tensions in British India
Jax
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
6. Worlds of British and Allied Occupation, 1918-1923
Red Rover
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
7. “Who Needs the Empire?”: Mining and the De/Centering of the British Empire in the Study of Global Britain
Keep Away
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
8. New Histories of Work and Employment in Postwar Britain
Hopscotch
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
20 minutes
Break
Four Square Foyer
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
9. Law and Order in Irish and English Pre-Modern Towns
Duck Duck Goose
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
10. Publicity and Secrecy in Seventeenth-Century Religion and Politics
Jax
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
11. Dissolving (and Making) Political Bands: The Royal Navy in the Era of the American Revolution
Scissors
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
12. Hidden histories of women’s lives and hearts in the London Foundling Hospital archives, 1739-1919
Paper
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
13. Slavery and Freedom in the British World, 1807-1838
Dodgeball
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
14. Performing Britain: Popular Culture on the Victorian Stage
Keep Away
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
15. The British Empire in Asia: Art, Anti-Imperialism, & Asianism
Kick the Can
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
16. Roundtable: Imagining Europe, Inventing British Exceptionalism
Hopscotch
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
17. Race, Gender and the Politics of Identity in Late Twentieth Century Britain
Red Rover
11:50 AM - 1:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:10 PM
1 hour 10 minutes
Lunchtime Roundtable: Demystifying Journal Publishing
Red Rover
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
18. Gender and the Religious Life in Medieval England
Duck Duck Goose
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
19. Disputing Divinity: Religious Outliers and State Policy in the English Revolution
Keep Away
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
20. Perceptions of Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic
Jax
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
21. Beyond a Boundary: (Thinking About) People-Moving in the Nineteenth Century
Paper
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
22. Devious Women in Empire
Scissors
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
23. Sovereignty, Subjecthood, and Dissent in the British Imperial World
Dodgeball
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
24. Conservatism and Unionism in the UK, c. 1964 to the present day
Red Rover
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Western Conference on British Studies Business Meeting
Kick the Can
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
20 minutes
Break
Four Square Foyer
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
25. People and Parliament, c. 1559-1649
Paper
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
26. Racial Formation in Early Modern England
Red Rover
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
27. Trade and Economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century British world
Scissors
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
28. Caring for Soldiers and Sailors, 1689-1861
Kick the Can
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
29. Live, Look, Loot: British Cosmopolitan Identities and Material Culture
Duck Duck Goose
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
30. [Un]moral Claims and Building Authority in the Colonial World
Dodgeball
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
31. Diplomacy, Politics, and the late Twentieth Century State
Hopscotch
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
32. The Digital Humanities in British Studies: Getting Started with Research, Teaching, and Publishing
Jax
5:00 PM - 6:15 PM
1 hour 15 minutes
33. Evening plenary: “Oil, decolonization and the ruinous forms of racial capitalism at Heathrow”
Marco Polo
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Reception and awards ceremony
Four Square Ballroom

Sat, Nov 16

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
1 hour
Breakfast
Four Square Ballroom
7:30 AM - 12:00 PM
4 hours 30 minutes
Registration
Four Square Foyer
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
34. Reading Objects within Christian Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England
Duck Duck Goose
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
35. Comparative and Transnational Approaches to State Formation in Early-Modern Britain and Asia
Dodgeball
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
36. Rebels, Subjects, and Society in the British Atlantic, 1720-1833
Jax
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
37. Gender and Mental Illness in the Long Nineteenth Century
Hopscotch
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
38. Foundation: The Making and Unmaking of Imperial Institutions by Women, Sailors, and Spies
Paper
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
39. The Invention of the Multinational: Globalization and Empire in the Long Twentieth Century
Red Rover
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
40. Interpreting Constructed Memory and Contemporary Memorialization: Public History, Literature, and National Identity
Scissors
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
41. Coffin songs, zines and telephone kiosks: children and teenagers in Cold War Britain and beyond, 1950-2000'
Keep Away
10:00 AM - 10:20 AM
20 minutes
Break
Four Square Foyer
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
42. Lay Communities in London’s Medieval Religious Precincts
Duck Duck Goose
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
43. England and Europe in the Mid-Seventeenth Century
Jax
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
44. The East-West Connection: Banking, Insurance, and Empire
Paper
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
45. Roundtable: Antoinette Burton's Burdens of History at Thirty
Hopscotch
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
46. Rabies, Pneumoconiosis and Chemical injuries: advancements in British Healthcare and occupational health, 1900-1950
Kick the Can
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
47. Depicting Race in the Twentieth Century British World
Keep Away
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
48. Roundtable: New Approaches to the Pedagogy of British Studies
Red Rover
10:20 AM - 11:50 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
49. DEIdea Exchange
Scissors
11:50 AM - 1:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Lunch break
12:10 PM - 1:10 PM
1 hour
NACBS Business meeting
Red Rover
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
50. Not witches: women and magic in pre-modern England
Paper
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
51. Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World
Duck Duck Goose
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
52. Power, Politics, and the Imperial Constitution, 1660-1725
Keep Away
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
53. The edges of the 18th century in the archive
Scissors
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
54. Seeking "The Good Life" in Victorian Britain
Hopscotch
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
55. From Empire to Commonwealth: Historical Lineages of Greater Britain
Kick the Can
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
56. Private Made Public: Personal Life as Science, Entertainment, and Foreign Affairs in 20th Century Britain
Dodgeball
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
57. Race, Decolonization, and Capitalism
Red Rover
1:20 PM - 2:50 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
58. British Hong Kong and Modernity after the Second World War
Jax
2:50 PM - 3:10 PM
20 minutes
Break
Four Square Foyer
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
59. Status and Community in Medieval and Early Modern Towns
Duck Duck Goose
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
60. Roundtable: Taking Stock of Early Modern Political Practice
Dodgeball
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
61. Belief, magic, and empire
Paper
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
62. Roundtable: The Modern Saga and Forgotten History of Reynolds’ Mai Portrait
Red Rover
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
63. Queer Characters: Legal Lives and Law-Making Across The Empire
Hopscotch
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
64. Education and Identity in Britain, 1880-1920
Scissors
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
65. Environment, Agriculture, and Empire
Jax
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
66. Modern Ireland?
Keep Away
3:10 PM - 4:40 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
67. Coalscapes: place, heritage and the legacies of mining
Kick the Can
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
45 minutes
Poster Session and Pre-Plenary
Four Square Foyer
5:15 PM - 6:30 PM
1 hour 15 minutes
68. Plenary Session: “Savin, Sex, and Scandal: Rethinking Abortion in Early Modern England”
Marco Polo
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
1 hour
Happy Hour Reception
Four Square Ballroom

Sun, Nov 17

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
1 hour
Breakfast
Four Square Ballroom
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
69. Fighting Words: The English Reformation and Texts of Devotion, Education, and Governance (sponsored by the Graduate
Paper
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
70. Conceptualizing difference, 1600-1820
Duck Duck Goose
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
71. Informality and Empire
Kick the Can
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
72. Science, Literature, and the making of Victorian Culture
Scissors
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
73. Broken Bodies and Fractured Empires in Wartime, 1880-1947
Dodgeball
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
74. Traversing empires: three Australians abroad
Jax
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
75. Home Rule Politics: Constitutionalism, Terrorism, and Bigotry
Keep Away
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
1 hour 30 minutes
76. Race, Religion, and Resources in the late-colonial era
Red Rover
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
20 minutes
Break
Four Square Foyer
10:50 AM - 11:20 AM
30 minutes
82. Rhetorics and Realities of Class and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Duck Duck Goose
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
77. Music, Rhetoric, and the Elizabethan Succession Question
Jax
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
78. Materials of Conquest, Colonization, and Consolidation in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
Red Rover
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
79. Failure is Not an Option?: Understanding Failure in Early Eighteenth Century Imperial Reform
Keep Away
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
80. Imperial Education in the 19th and 20th century British Empire
Kick the Can
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
81. Policies, Laws, and Imperial Landscapes, 1900-1950
Paper
10:50 AM - 12:20 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
83. A Crisis in British Studies?: A Roundtable discussion
Dodgeball

Schedule

Thu, Nov 14

NACBS Executive Committee

NACBS Council Meeting

Registration, Four Square Foyer

NACBS Council Dinner

Graduate student reception

Fri, Nov 15

Breakfast

Registration

1. Knowledge, Bodies, Representations: Centering Women in Histories of Ireland

2. Exercising early modern authority

3. Infrastructure, Administration, and Labor across the British Empire, circa 1660-1800

4. Building the Empire: A Century of Architecture, circa 1860-1930

5. Cultural Tensions in British India

6. Worlds of British and Allied Occupation, 1918-1923

7. “Who Needs the Empire?”: Mining and the De/Centering of the British Empire in the Study of Global Britain

8. New Histories of Work and Employment in Postwar Britain

Break

9. Law and Order in Irish and English Pre-Modern Towns

10. Publicity and Secrecy in Seventeenth-Century Religion and Politics

11. Dissolving (and Making) Political Bands: The Royal Navy in the Era of the American Revolution

12. Hidden histories of women’s lives and hearts in the London Foundling Hospital archives, 1739-1919

13. Slavery and Freedom in the British World, 1807-1838

14. Performing Britain: Popular Culture on the Victorian Stage

15. The British Empire in Asia: Art, Anti-Imperialism, & Asianism

16. Roundtable: Imagining Europe, Inventing British Exceptionalism

17. Race, Gender and the Politics of Identity in Late Twentieth Century Britain

Lunch break

Lunchtime Roundtable: Demystifying Journal Publishing

18. Gender and the Religious Life in Medieval England

19. Disputing Divinity: Religious Outliers and State Policy in the English Revolution

20. Perceptions of Scotland in the Eighteenth-Century British Atlantic

21. Beyond a Boundary: (Thinking About) People-Moving in the Nineteenth Century

22. Devious Women in Empire

23. Sovereignty, Subjecthood, and Dissent in the British Imperial World

24. Conservatism and Unionism in the UK, c. 1964 to the present day

Western Conference on British Studies Business Meeting

Break

25. People and Parliament, c. 1559-1649

26. Racial Formation in Early Modern England

27. Trade and Economy in the eighteenth and nineteenth century British world

28. Caring for Soldiers and Sailors, 1689-1861

29. Live, Look, Loot: British Cosmopolitan Identities and Material Culture

30. [Un]moral Claims and Building Authority in the Colonial World

31. Diplomacy, Politics, and the late Twentieth Century State

32. The Digital Humanities in British Studies: Getting Started with Research, Teaching, and Publishing

33. Evening plenary: “Oil, decolonization and the ruinous forms of racial capitalism at Heathrow”

Reception and awards ceremony

Sat, Nov 16

Breakfast

Registration

34. Reading Objects within Christian Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England

35. Comparative and Transnational Approaches to State Formation in Early-Modern Britain and Asia

36. Rebels, Subjects, and Society in the British Atlantic, 1720-1833

37. Gender and Mental Illness in the Long Nineteenth Century

38. Foundation: The Making and Unmaking of Imperial Institutions by Women, Sailors, and Spies

39. The Invention of the Multinational: Globalization and Empire in the Long Twentieth Century

40. Interpreting Constructed Memory and Contemporary Memorialization: Public History, Literature, and National Identity

41. Coffin songs, zines and telephone kiosks: children and teenagers in Cold War Britain and beyond, 1950-2000'

Break

42. Lay Communities in London’s Medieval Religious Precincts

43. England and Europe in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

44. The East-West Connection: Banking, Insurance, and Empire

45. Roundtable: Antoinette Burton's Burdens of History at Thirty

46. Rabies, Pneumoconiosis and Chemical injuries: advancements in British Healthcare and occupational health, 1900-1950

47. Depicting Race in the Twentieth Century British World

48. Roundtable: New Approaches to the Pedagogy of British Studies

49. DEIdea Exchange

Lunch break

NACBS Business meeting

50. Not witches: women and magic in pre-modern England

51. Irish Catholicism in the Atlantic World

52. Power, Politics, and the Imperial Constitution, 1660-1725

53. The edges of the 18th century in the archive

54. Seeking "The Good Life" in Victorian Britain

55. From Empire to Commonwealth: Historical Lineages of Greater Britain

56. Private Made Public: Personal Life as Science, Entertainment, and Foreign Affairs in 20th Century Britain

57. Race, Decolonization, and Capitalism

58. British Hong Kong and Modernity after the Second World War