Location: Wilder House, University of Chicago- 5811 S. Kenwood Ave., Chicago, 60637
Sponsors: The Nicholson Center for British Studies & the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
Conference Program
BREAKFAST & OPENING REMARKS, 10-10:20
BREAKFAST & OPENING REMARKS, 10-10:20
Panel 1 - Ideologies of Classification
10:20-12
10:20-12
Chair: Felipe Gaitan-Amman (ACLS/Mellon New Faculty Fellow, Dept. of Anthropology)
- 10:20: Maura Capps (History, University of Chicago) "Clover Colonialism: The Fate of Sown Grasses and Enlightenment Husbandry in Britain’s Settler Empire, 1780-1850."
- 10:40: Aakash Solanki (Social Sciences, University of Chicago) "The Criminal Tribes Act: Classifying People in British India (1871-1927)."
- 11:00: Heather V. Vermeulen (American Studies/African American Studies, Yale) "Plantation Ecologies: Thomas Thistlewood’s Libidinal Linnaean Project and the Ritual Cultivation of Death."
- 11:20-12: Panel chair comment & audience discussion
LUNCH BREAK 12-1
Panel 2 - Legislating, Administering, Experimenting
1-2:40
Chair: Daragh Grant (Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences)
- 1:00: Lydia Craig (English, Loyola University) "Conciliation and Containment: Sir Charles Wager and American Colonial Politics."
- 1:20: José Juan Pérez Meléndez (History, University of Chicago) " 'Informal Empire' Takes Three to Tango: Great Britain, Brazil and the Zollverein during the Aberdeen Bill Crisis, 1844-1846."
- 1:40: Tim Soriano (History, University of Illinois at Chicago) "The Royal Navy, Legal Pluralism, and Authority in Early Colonial Sierra Leone: 1670-1810."
- 2:00-2:40: Panel chair comment & audience discussion
TEA FOR PARTICIPANTS & ATTENDEES, 2:40-3:20
Panel 3 - Ideas and Realities of Production
3:20-5:00
Chair: Christopher Taylor (Assistant Professor, Dept. of English)
- 3:20: JiHae Koo (English, Indiana University) "A Portrait of the Artist as a Paterian Aesthete: When Pater Confronts Irish Colonial History."
- 3:40: Sam Rowe (English, University of Chicago) "Oriental despotism and consumerist insatiability: the case of William Beckford's Vathek."
- 4:00: Christopher Todd (History, University of Chicago) "Pricing People.
- 4:20-5:00: Panel chair comment & audience discussion