Scholarly Networks in the British Empire: 5-6 July, 2010
Programme
Sunday 4th July
from 14.00 Wadham College accommodation open for check-in
Monday 5th July
9.00-9.30 Registration - JCR Lounge, Wadham College
(All sessions will take place in the JCR Lounge, unless otherwise indicated)
9.30-9.40 Welcome & Introduction
Dr Tamson Pietsch & Prof Janet Wilson
9.40-11.10 Panel 1: Institutions: imperial and national
Chair: Dr William Whyte (University of Oxford)
Prof Geoffrey Sherington (University of Sydney): ‘Home and Away: Imagining the University of Sydney 1850-1880’ Dr Paul Stortz (University of Calgary): ‘From Westminster to War: Canadian Universities’ and Scholars’ Negotiated Colonial Hegemony to Great Britain, 1930-1945’ Dr Jerome Teelucksingh (Universities of the West Indies): ‘Afraid of cutting the umbilical cord: Influence of British tertiary education on the Anglophone Caribbean’
11.10-11.30Tea and Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 2: Disciplines: foundations and development
Chair: Dr Simon Potter (NUI Galway)
Dr Heike Jöns & Prof Michael Heffernan (Loughborough University): ‘The British Empire and Commonwealth as travel destinations of Cambridge academics: A comparison of different disciplines, 1926-1955'
Dr Ulrike Hillemann-Delaney (Imperial College, London): ‘British Sinology and the networks of Empire, 1780-1850’
Chair: Prof Janet Wilson (University of Northampton)
Dr Ann McClellan (Plymouth State University): ‘Far and Away: Women’s Scholarly Networks in Postcolonial Britain’ Dr Juliette Milner-Thornton (Griffith University): ‘Northern Rhodesia the Half-Caste Education Debate and the Creation of Coloureds’. Dr E Lisa Panayotidis (University of Calgary): ‘War, Leadership, and the Action of Educated Elites: Advice to Graduating Students in Canadian Universities during a Time of War, 1939-1945’
15.30-16.00 Tea and Coffee
16.00-17.30 Panel 4: Generating knowledge in the space of connection
Chair: Dr Paul Stortz (University of Calgary)
Dr David Schorr (University of Tel Aviv): ‘The Society for Comparative Legislation – An Imperial Discipline Colonizes the Metropolis’ Dr Tamson Pietsch (University of Oxford): 'Between Metropole and Colony: TH Laby and GWC Kaye's Table of Physical and Chemical Constants (1911)' Dr Swarupa Gupta (Ministry of Culture, Government of India): ‘Scholarly Networks, Interconnections between Universities and Ideas about Nationhood in Bengal: Beyond the Binary of Imperial Metropolis and Colony’
18.30-19.30 Keynote Address - Lecture Room 6, New College
Professor Miles Taylor (Director, Institute of Historical Research, London)
'The Dominion of History: the Export of Historical Research from Britain since 1850'
19.30 Conference Dinner – Founder’s Library, New College
Tuesday 6th July
9.30-11.00 Panel 5: Contesting Empire
Chair: Prof David Dickson (Trinity College, Dublin)
Dr Heather Ellis (Humboldt University, Berlin): ‘“Great Imperial Universities”?: Critiquing Empire at Oxford, London and Edinburgh, 1890-1918’ Dr Sean Mills (NYU): ‘Anti-imperialism in Canada and the Caribbean: Scholarly Networks and the Creation of Left Nationalist Political Projects in the Sixties’ Dr Dan Rycroft (University of East Anglia): ‘Beyond colonial hegemony: ‘tribal’ identity and anthropological networks in India’
11.00-11.30 Tea and Coffee
11.30-13.00 Panel 6: Scholars: networks and influence
Chair: Dr Frank Bongiorno (Menzies Centre, King's College, London)
Prof Brian Shoesmith (Edith Cowan University & Bangladesh): ‘A Profound Influence: The Scholarly Networks of Harold A Innis’ Prof Janet Wilson (University of Northampton): 'Scholarly networks and the Early European Past: Australia, New Zealand and the United States, 1900-60'
Hannah Forsyth (University of Sydney): ‘Technology and the university: two British scientists in Australia.’
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Panel 7: Academic connections: from imperial to transnational
Chair: Prof Saul Dubow (University of Sussex)
Andrew Boggs (University of Oxford): ‘The ties of Empire, Goldwin Smith and the evolution of the Canadian university’ Dr Julia Horne (University of Sydney): ‘The Carnegie Corporation and universities in interwar Australia’ Dr Ulrike Kirchberger (University of Bamburg): ‘German Scientists in the British Empire (1850-1914): Between International Science, Imperialism and National Identity’
