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Friday, October 17, 1997
Noon-2:00 p.m.	Registration, Adams Alumni Center
1:30-3:00 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions, Adams Alumni Center

1.	Tudor-Stuart Theater and Cultural Practices Chair: James J. Yoch, University of Oklahoma
	"Desire, Diplomacy, and Drama: England and Muscovy in the Sixteenth Century." Daryl W. Palmer, University of Akron
	"Habitat and Race in Early Modern England." Geraldo U. de Sousa, Xavier University
Top of Page	"Patronage and the Shakespeare First Folio." David M. Bergeron, University of Kansas Comments: James J. Yoch

2.	Men Behaving Badly: Male Behavior and the Construction of Victorian Identity Chair: Nancy LoPatin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
	"'I will kill you by inches': Wife Beating and Wife Murder in Victorian England." George Robb, William Paterson College
	"Mr. Punch's Bad Boys: Table Talk and Masculine Community in Mid-Victorian London." Patrick Leary, University of Indiana
Top of Page	"'His behavior was not of that gentlemanly nature it ought to have been': Policing Sociability in Victorian Mutual Improvement Societies." Anne B. Rodrick, University of Texas Comments: Nancy LoPatin

3.	Colonial Encounters Chair: Rose Greaves, University of Kansas
	"English Orientalist Painter-Writers in Egypt, 1880-1925." Oliver B. Pollak, University of Nebraska at Omaha
	"Maugham, Malaya, and Memsahibs: W. Somerset Maugham's Representation of British Women in Colonial Malaya." Troy Bassett, University of Kansas
Top of Page	"The Measure of a Race: Pyramid Metrology and British Identity" Eric Michael Reisenauer, University of South Carolina at Sumter Comments: Rose Greaves

3:00-3:30 p.m.

Break, Adams Alumni Center

3:30-5:00 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions, Adams Alumni Center

4.	Locating Authority on the Shakespearean Stage Chair: Maureen Godman, University of Kansas
	"Beyond Marketing: Anachronism in a Dramatic Historical Romance." Clinton Crumley, University of Kansas
	"'Then since the heavens have shaped my body so . . .': Body as Place in the Body Politics of Shakespeare's 2 & 3 Henry VI." Daniel Kulmala, University of Kansas
Top of Page	"Bodies and Texts that Matter: Historicizing Versus Hypostatizing in Shakespearean Authorship." Courtney Lehmann, Indiana University Comments: Maureen Godman

5.	Social Control and Social Policy in Britain, 1880-1963 Chair: Elaine A. Reynolds, William Jewell College
	"The Key to All Knowledge?: Literacy's Place in Britain's Board School Curriculum, 1880-1912." Gretchen R. Galbraith, Grand Valley State University
	"Defining and Redefining the Family in Post-War Britain." Mary A. Thomas, Bentley College
Top of Page	"The Debate on the Death Penalty, 1922-1957." Victor Bailey, University of Kansas Comments: William G. Staples, University of Kansas

6.	Intellectuals and Ideas in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Chair: Glenn Burgess, University of Hull
	"Patriarchia, Authority, and Censorship: A 1630s Licensing Document from the Personal Rule of Charles I." Anthony B. Thompson, University of Kentucky
	"'Parochial Geniuses' and the Republic of Letters in Eighteenth-Century England." Vladimir Jankovic, University of Kentucky
Top of Page	"Anglican Conceptions of 'Primitive Christianity,' 1660-1740." John C. English, Baker University Comments: Glenn Burgess

5:15-6:45 p.m.	Reception, Spencer Museum of Art
7:00-8:00 p.m.	Dinner, Adams Alumni Center
8:00-9:30 p.m.	Plenary Session, Adams Alumni Center
Top of Page	"Sex, Lies, and Drapery Goods: Gender and Commercial Conflict in the Victorian County Court." Margot Finn, Emory University

Saturday, October 18, 1997

7:30-9:00 a.m.	Registration, Kansas Union
8:30-10:00 a.m.	Concurrent Sessions, Kansas Union

7.	Historiography and Identity in Early Modern Britain Chair: Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa
	"Britons, Commerce, and Atlantic Ethnologies: Daniel Defoe and 'the whole frame of time and nature.'" Katherine Clark, University of Kansas
	"Women in History: Republican Motherhood and Mrs. Macaulay's History." Philip Hicks, St. Mary's College
Top of Page	"The Uses of the 'Common-Law Mind': James Tyrrell and Whig History." Julia Rudolph, University of Pennsylvania Comments: Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg

8.	Liberalism, Party Politics, and Social Reform Chair: Robert Butler, Elmhurst College
	"Liberal Reform and the Whigs: Joseph Parkes and the Art of 'Party' Management." Nancy LoPatin, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point
	"The Persistence of Victorian Liberalism: Social Reform in Britain during the 'Great Depression, 1869-1899." Robert F. Haggard, University of Virginia
Top of Page	"'Petition and Debate': The Georgian Notion of Liberal Tactics." William Anthony Hay, University of Virginia Comments: Robert Butler

9.	Class, Culture, and Conflict in Victorian England Chair: Carl Strikwerda, University of Kansas
	"Savages in the City: Bohemianism in Mid-Victorian London." Paul Menair, Emory University
	"Guardians of English Identity: Gentlemen in Anthony Trollope's Barsetshire Series." Erik S. Schmeller, Southern Illinois University
Top of Page	"The Police and the People in Mid-Victorian Britain: The Case of the Birmingham Murphy Riots of 1867." Paul Mulkern, University of Wisconsin-Madison Comments: Carl Strikwerda

10:15-11:15 a.m.	"Spencer Research Library: Introduction to the Collections," and Coffee Break, Spencer Research Library
11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m.	Luncheon, Adams Alumni Center
12:15-1:30 p.m.	Plenary Session, Adams Alumni Center
	"Absolutism and Stuart Kingship, 1603-1688." Glenn Burgess, University of Hull

1:45-3:15 p.m.

Concurrent Sessions, Kansas Union

10.	The English Civil War in an Atlantic Context Chair: Peter Mancall, University of Kansas
	"The English Civil War in the Puritan Island Colonies." Alison Games, Georgetown University
	"The Emergence of Anglo-American Imperialism: Civil War Politics, Commercial Society, and the 'Old Aristocracy.'" Rina Palumbo, Johns Hopkins University
Top of Page	"Anglo-American Political Alignments During the English Civil Wars." Carla Pestana, Ohio State University Comments: Peter Mancall

11.	Evangelical Influences Chair: Richard W. Davis, Washington University
	"Missionary Fervor: The East India Company Charter, 1813." Michael A. Rutz, Washington University
	"The Dissenters and the Whigs, 1832-1835." Christopher L. Pepus, Washington University
	"'The Visitation of God?': Religious Aspects of Famine Policy in Ireland, 1845-1847." Edward G. Lengel, University of Virginia
Top of Page	Comments: Walter L. Arnstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

12.	Celtic Nationalisms Chair: Victor Bailey, University of Kansas
	"Negotiating Nationalism through Dance: A Pointed Pleasure." Anne McKee Stapleton, University of Iowa
	"The Political Construction of National Identity: British Politics and the Rise of Catholic Nationalism in Ireland, 1795-1820." William J. Swart, University of Kansas
Top of Page	"Gentleman Volunteers: The Apprenticeship in Arms of British and Irish Military Officers, 1585-1702." Roger B. Manning, Cleveland State University Comments: Victor Bailey

3:15-3:30 p.m.	Break, Kansas Union
3:30-5:00 p.m.	Concurrent Sessions, Kansas Union

13.	Allegiance and Conversion to Jacobitism Chair: Jonathan C.D. Clark, University of Kansas
	"The Jacobite Conversion of Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery." Lawrence B. Smith, Lenoir-Rhyne College
	"'This Age's Wonders': Panegyric and Proselytism in Jacobite Writing by Women." Leigh Anne Eicke, University of Maryland
Top of Page	"Affirming Authority and Securing Allegiance through the Drawing of Lots after the 1715 and 1745 Jacobite Rebellions." Lisa Steffen, University of Kansas Comments: Robert Cornwall, Manhattan Christian College

14.	Body Language: The Rhetoric, Practice, and Professional Status of Health Care in Modern Britain Chair: Michael MacDonald, University of Michigan
	"Criminally Insane Bodies and the Practice and Professionalization of Forensic Psychiatry." Jonathan Andrews, Oxford Brookes University
	"'Nun-entities': The Nurse and Female Space in Nineteenth-Century London." Lori Williamson, Oxford Brookes University
Top of Page	"'The Battle for Health': Socialist Doctors and Health Reform in Twentieth-Century Britain." John Stewart, Oxford Brookes University Comments: Michael MacDonald

15.	Views and Reviews: The Fourth Estate in Victorian Britain Chair: Walter Arnstein, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	"Pyrrhic Victory: The Bismarck Myth and the Congress of Berlin in the British Review Press." Todd Edward Larson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	"The New Federalism?: Gladstone and the Liberal Press during the Home Rule Crisis, 1885-1886." Chet DeFonso, Northern Michigan University "Chartists and Republicans: Reynold's Newspaper and Reform, 1850-1872." Michael Shirley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Comments: Josef Altholz, University of Minnesota

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