MWCBS Does Chicago (1999)

The University of Chicago in Hyde Park was the site of a well-attended MWCBS this past October. There were some seventy papers, including plenaries in the rooms of the Quad Club by Patricia Thane, University of Sussex, on "The ageing of 20th-century British society: burden or benefit?" and Johann Sommerville, University of Wisconsin, Madison, on "Revisionism Revisited: Consensus and Conflict in Early Modern Britain." Julie Elb, University of Memphis, "Beauty and the feast: food and feminine identity in nineteenth century England," won a monetary award for best graduate student paper. For the complete list of papers given, see The British Studies Intelligencer 7th sers., IX, 2 (Fall 1999), http://www.nacbs.org/intelligencer/9/92.html. Kudos to Doug Bradburn and Ted Cook of the University of Chicago for superb local arrangements.

1999 Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, IL, Conference Program

Friday October 22

9:30-10:30 Registration, John Hope Franklin Room, Social Science Research Building, University of Chicago
10:30-12:00
- Representation, Authority and Religion in Elizabethan England
  - Christina Carlson (University of Chicago), "'Lying wonders and counterfeite zeale': Samuel Harrison's Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures and the Allen-Parsons debates, c. 1560-c. 1603"
  - Zachary Cannon (University of Chicago), "Elizabeth I and the vocation of queenship"
  - Renee Bricker (Antioch College)"Iconography and database design: iconography of Elizabeth I"
  - Chair/comment: Amy Froide (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga/Newberry Library)

- War, Morality, and Empire
  - Michael Healy (University of Loyola at Chicago), "'Let us go forward together'? The British government and the military service of black people"
  - Dean Rapp (Wheaton College), "Sex in the cinemas: war, moral panic, and the British film industry, 1910-1918"
  - Phyllis Lassner (Northwestern University), "'A bridge too close: British women writing from the victory of World War II to the end of empire"
  - Chair/comment: Jo Hays (Loyola University)

- Bending to Bars of Patriarchy: Representations of Women of the Long Eighteenth Century in London Court Records
  - Mary Jo Kietzman (University of Michigan-Flint), "Stealing to own oneself: the case of one extraordinary female recidivist"
  - Jeannine Hurl (York University), "Violent women and gossiping men: deconstructing gender through assault and defamation in London 1680-1720"
  - Kathy Callahan (Marquette University), "Separate spheres: using The Proceedings to understand women in late 18th-early 19th century London"
  - Chair/comment: Peter Linebaugh (University of Toledo)

12:00-12:30 Coffee/Tea/Snack
12:30-2:00
- New Computer Technology and British History
  - Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford), "The Royal Historical Society British History Bibliography to 1992 on CD-ROM"
  - Newton Key (Eastern Illinois University), "Parliamentary History on CD-ROM"
  - Todd Larson (University of Illlinois, Urbana-Champaign), "Britannia Rules the Web? The Internet and the Future of British History in America"
  - Chair/comment: Richard Gorrie (University of Guelph)

- Charity, Crime and Social Responsibility in Early Modern England
- Lee Beier (Illinois State University), "Disorder in early modern England: petty crime in London, 1558-1642"
- Laura Yungblut (University of Dayton), "'Mayntayninge the indigente and nedie': the institutionalization of social responsibilty in the case of resident alien communities in Elizabethan Norwich and Colchester"
- Susannah Ottaway (Carleton College), "Work and independence among the elderly of early modern England"
- Chair/comment: Edward Cook (University of Chicago)

- Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of the Modern State
  - Margaret Preston (Boston College), "An Irish Quaker's conundrum: a shift in radical theology"
  - Kate Costello-Sullivan (Boston College), "What is the nature of that hyphen? Hybridity and the illusion of purity in Rudyard Kipling's Kim"
  - Stephen Small (Boston College), "Drinking, dining and dressing up: masculinity and patriotism in eighteenth century Ireland"
  - Chair/comment: Emmet Larkin (University of Chicago)

2:15-3:45
- Mediums, Mystics and Monsters of the Deep
  - Michael Shirley (Eastern Illinois University), "Spiritualism, rationalism, and the quest for truth: the contradictions of mid-Victorian thought"
  - Todd Larson (University of Illinois), "A very Victorian monster: the Daedalus sea serpent, the press, and the British imagination, 1848-1900"
  - Robert McLain (University of Illinois), "Adepts, mahatmas, and masters: Annie Besant's theosophy and Indian nationalism"
  - Chair/comment: Richard Spall (Ohio Wesleyan University)

- Family Troubles: Negotiating the Poor Law in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
  - Marjorie Levine-Clark (University of Colorado at Denver), "The family paradox: single women and the Poor Law in the 1830s and 1840s"
  - Lydia Murdoch (Indiana University), " "Unsevered ties: family strategies and the care of children in London Poor Law district schools, 1870-1914"
  - Moira Martin (University of the West of England), "Women, the Poor Law, and family responsibility, 1870 to 1930"
  - Chair/comment: Patricia Thane (University of Sussex)

- Revisiting the Past: Remembrance and History Writing in Stuart England
  - Melinda Zook (Purdue University), "The Restoration remembered: the making of Whig myth and history"
  - Janelle Greenberg (Pittsburgh University), "Anti-royalist political thought from 1642 to 1700: 'the more things change, the more they stay the same'"
  - Elizabeth Sauer (Brock University), "Re-membering the regicide"
  - Chair/comment: Johann Sommerville (university of Wisconsin)

3:45-4:15 Coffee/tea
4:15-5:45
- The Future of the Past: Teaching British History Today
  - Marji Morgan (Southern Illinois University), "The teaching of history and the public"
  - Robert Butler (Elmhurst College), "The state of British history at liberal arts colleges"
  - Chair: Patty Seleski (California State, San Marcos)
  - Comment: the audience

- Pushing the Boundaries of Separate Spheres
  - Teri Sabatos (Indiana University), " Mourning becomnes visible: the widow in Victorian art"
  - Jennifer Stolpa (Loyola University), "Anne Bronte's Agnes Grey and Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth: Victorian novelists in support of women's ministry"
  - Philip Hicks (St. Mary's College), "Imagining female patriotism: tyhe Roman matron in Britain, 1700-1815"
  - Chair/comment: Carla Hay (Marquette University)

- High Churchmen, Latitudinarians, and Anglican Revisionism During the Restoration
  - Robert Ingram (University of Virginia), "Archbishop Thomas Secker (1693-1768), high churchmanship, and the defense of Anglican orthodoxy in the mid-eighteenth century"
  - Jeffrey Chamberlain (University of St. Francis), "High churchmen and the 'latitudinarian mood'"
  - James Caudle (Ouchita Baptist University), "Scenes from the 'history wars' of the eighteenth century: the Clarendon thesis, revisionism, and the thirtieth of January, 1660-1760"
  - Chair/comment: Lois Schwoerer

6:00-7:00 Social Hour, John Hope Franklin Room
7:00 Dinner, Reynolds Club
- Plenary Speaker: Patricia Thane (University of Sussex), "The ageing of twentieth-century British society: burden or benefit?"

Saturday October 23

8:00-9:45
- Rioters, Recusants, and Petitioners: Female Challenges to Political Authority in 17^th century England
  - Colleen Sequin Valparaiso University), "'To forsake husband, life and all': women and recusancy in early modern England"
  - John Hintermaier (Princeton University), "Riotous religion" popular resistance to Stuart rule in seventeenth century Scotland"
  - Susanna Calkins (Purdue University), "Prophesies, petitions and prisons: political expressions of English Quaker women, 1660-1700"
  - Chair/comment: Hilda Smith (University of Cincinnati)

- The Provision of Medical Care in Late Victorian and Edwardian England: Class, Politics, Respectability and Reform
  - Anne Rodrick (William Paterson University), "'Completing the circle of organized self-help: medical services, political interests, and issues of class in late Victorian Birmingham"
  - Thomas Velek (Mississippi University for Women), "the development of health and welfare service in Scottish schools in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries"
  - Chris Prom (University of Illinois), "Friendly societies, medical charities, and respectability in England's industrial north"
  - Chair/comment: Josef Altholz (University of Minnesota)

- British Identity and the 'Other'
  - Nancy Stockdale (University of California at Santa Barbara), "Colonizing the Bible: English women in Palestine, 1800-1939"
  - Michael de Nie (University of Wisconsin), "'A medley mob of Irish-American plotters and dupes': the British press and transatlantic fenianism"
  - James Lothian (Chicago), "All Bellocians now? The formation of the English Catholic intellectual community, 1918-1931"
  - Chair/comment: Marjorie Morgan (Southern Illinois University)

9:45-10:15 Coffee/Tea
10:15-11:45
- Christian Intellectuals and Social Criticism in Early Twentieth Century Britain
  - Meredith Rusoff (Northwestern University), "Reconsidering R. H. Tawney: the roots of Tawney's Christian socialism"
  - Adam Schwartz (Northwestern University), "G. K. C.'s Jewish problem: anti-semitism in Chesterton's writing and responses to it"
  - Peter Catterall (University of London/Westminster College), "The end of the Nonconformist conscience: the Free Churches in the inter-war years"
  - Chair/comment: Chet DeFonso (Northern Michigan University)

- Popular Politics, Discourse and Ideology in Stuart England
  - Ian Archer (Oxford University), "Popular politics in sixteenth and early seventeenth century London"
  - Edward Vallance (Oxford University), "Ideology and allegiance in the English civil war"
  - Gary DeKrey (St. Olaf College), "Between law and resistance: the politics and discourse of the London Whigs, 1682-83"
  - Chair/comment: Robert Bucholz (Loyola University of Chicago)

- Defining the Feminine in Law, Literature, and Feasting
  - Katherine Fromm (Iowa State University), "Mary Jane Meadowes - the female Robinson Crusoe? And who is the anonymous female author?"
  - Julie Elb (University of Memphis), "Beauty and the feast: food and feminine identity in nineteenth century England"
  - Tara Beaton (York University), "'I shall humble myself to no man': a mid-Victorian debate about insanity and adultery"
  - Chair/comment: Jane Karoline Vieth (Michigan State University)

12:00-2:00 Lunch, Quad Club
- Plenary Speaker: Johann Sommerville (University of Wisconsin, Madison) "Revisionism Revisited: Consensus and Conflict in Early Modern Britain"

2:00-3:15
- Literature and Political Identity in Seventeenth Century England
  - Steven Pincus (University of Chicago), "Political Economy in the Glorious Revolution"
  - Richard Strier (University of Chicago), "The Tempest and Colonial Administration"
  - Derek Hirst (Washington University), "Literature and National Identity, 1640-1660"
  - Chair/comment: the audience

- Britain and the Experience of World War II
  - James Barnes (Wabash College), "Spying on Britain during World War II"
  - Phyllis Soybel (Elmhurst College/Columbia College), "'We'll make our own mistakes': the unlikely success story of Anglo-American naval intelligence exchange"
  - Alexander Nalbach, "Brave Old World: Britain and Hitler's Declaration of War on the United States"
  - Chair/comment: Thomas Mokaitis (DePaul University)

- The Culture of Poor Relief and Health Care in Modern Britain
  - Thomas Prasch (Washburn University), "The changing city and its changeless criers: reading the marginal poor through the 'Cries of London'"
  - Lynn MacKay (Brandon University), "Using poor relief: its place in the lives of the St. Martin's poor, 1815-1820"
  - Lucinda Beier (Illinois State University), "'I used to take her to the doctor and get the proper thing': twentieth century health care choices in Lancashire working class communities"
  - Chair/comment: Walter Arnstein

3:30 - 5:00
- Economics and War at the Center and the Colonial Peripheries
  - Jacob Rukeyser (University of Chicago), "The Irish war in English eyes"
  - John Smail (University of North Carolina at Charlotte), "Economic history and post-modernism: making sense of industrialization and class formation in eighteenth century England"
  - N. Luke Brown (University of Chicago), "Land vs. labor, colonies vs. trade: economic ideologies and English expansion in the seventeenth century"
  - Chair/comment: TBA

- Popular Culture in 1960s Britain
  - Chad Martin (Stanford University), "The angry brigade: countercultural politics"
  - David Simonelli (Tulane University), "Folk influences in rock music: class values"
  - Julie Smith (University of Arkansas) "The investiture of the Beatles: youth culture"
  - Chair/comment: D. L. LeMahieu (Lake Forest College)

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