Day 1: Thursday 16 June

09:30-09:50 Registration: Seating – “Getting to Know You” (The King and I)

09:50-10:00 Opening Remarks: Professor Mark Harrison
Curtain: “This Could be the Start of Something Big” (The Bachelor)

10:00-11:10 Act 1: Empire – “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” (Mamma Mia!)
Jane Mullaney, Force and neglect? British Indian cholera control in 1880’s Bombay
Andrew Biederman, The collected tools of Elector Augustus of Saxony: modelling Saxon work, industry and materials through aesthetic utility
Nilanjana Dutta, Exploring the trail: situating the bone business in Colonial India and Britain amidst the wider socio-economic and ethical dimensions (1930-1985)
Chair: Pierce Jones

11:10-11:30 Interval: Tea/Coffee – “Let’s Have Another Cup of Coffee” (Face the Music)

11:30-13:00 Act 2: Environment – “Strawberry Fields Forever” (Let it Be)
Tanya Zeif, From sacred groves to groves of academe: an environmental history of Oxford University
Noé (Bertie) Royer, Last epoch, and beyond: future and natural histories 1749-1845
Madeline White, Arranging unknown worlds: plant collection, information management, and British Empire in the early 18th century
Yusuf Tayara, A contextual history of Mamluk science: astronomy in the Great Mosque of Damascus
Chair: August Aalto

13:00-14:00 Intermission: Lunch – “Food, Glorious Food” (Oliver!)

14:00-15:10 Act 3: Memory and the Mind – “Knowing Me, Knowing You” (Mamma Mia!)
Ffion Hughes, Le Dain in the sky with diamonds: competing perspectives on substance use at Canada’s Commission of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs 1969-1973 ONLINE
Francis Benyah, Prayer camps, mental health and healing traditions in post-colonial Ghana
Sami Alahmadi, Re-analyzing the historiography of Ottoman POWs in WW1
Chair: Swathi Srinivasan

15:10-15:20 Interval: Tea/coffee – “Tea for Two” (No, No, Nanette) 

15:30-16:40 Act 4: Public Health – “A Spoonful of Sugar” (Mary Poppins)
Swathi Srinivasan, Probing PEPFAR: a critical analysis of United States participation in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS response
Pierce Jones, AIDS and London: a local history of community public health interventions
Antony (Tony) Hollingworth, The introduction of a diphtheria vaccination programme during a time of war
Chair: Alexander (Alex) Aizenman

16:40-16:50 Closing Remarks: Dr Catherine Jackson
Curtain: “Sunrise, Sunset” (Fiddler on the Roof)