We encourage other graduates, undergraduates, Faculty Researchers, and Academics to attend and contribute their feedback. Please note that you can attend individual panels without staying for the entire day. Get in contact with OHGN President Kirsty Peacock (mailto:kirsty.peacock@wolfson.ox.ac.uk) if you have any questions or require further information.

Programme

09:15-09:30 Welcome and logistics
09:30-11:00 Panel 1: Transformative Forces
Thomas Bombarde Evaluating the 1787 Anglo-French Eden Treaty as a cause of France’s pre-Revolutionary Riots
Daniel Göttlich Protestantism and the Roots of Modern Science
Menggelisha Economic Growth and Productivity of China, 1840-2010
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 2: Embodied Histories
Rebekah Wahnon-Pym Military and Masculinity in Crisis: The Intersection and Interation of Ethnic and Gender Thought in the 4th Century Refugee Crisis
Joana Neves Teixeira ecovering Indigenous Gender Fluidity and Women’s Bodily Agency in 16th and 17th century Coastal Brazil
Charlotte Bookham Dispossessed Possessions: constructing selfhood and social boundaries through the material culture and domestic spaces of travelling circus groups in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain
13:00-14:00 Lunch break (lunch not provided)
14:00-15:00 Panel 3: Urban Dynamics
Alessandro Bianchi Frictions and Fusions in the Origins of Psychiatry: Pinel, Esquirol, and the Georgetian Synthesis
Jonathan Steuer Collective lawdays or individual supplicating? A comparative analysis of urban petty crime in 17th century Bristol and Frankfurt a. M.
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Panel 4: From Science to Suppression
Alexander Grange The officers of the West Africa Squadron and Britain’s campaign against the slave trade
James Sutton Nations in Arms? Britain’s Foreign Units and a European Military System in Transition
Trent Andrew Harron Science and Government Between the Two World Wars, 1919-1939.

We hope to see you there!