Please note: This is a provisional programme only. Times and membership of panels may change.
Monday 5th July
9.40-11.10 Panel 1: Institutions: imperial and national
Geoffrey Sherington (University of Sydney): ‘Home and Away: Imagining the University of Sydney 1850-1880’
Paul Stortz (University of Calgary): ‘From Westminster to War: Canadian Universities’ and Scholars’ Negotiated Colonial Hegemony to Great Britain, 1930-1945’
Jerome Teelucksingh (Universities of the West Indies): ‘Afraid of cutting the umbilical cord: Influence of British tertiary education on the Anglophone Caribbean’
11.30-13.00 Panel 2: Disciplines: foundations and development
Esperanza Brizuela-Garcia (Montclair State University): ‘Nationalist expatriates. British historians and the African past’
Ulrike Hillemann-Delaney (Imperial College, London): ‘British Sinology and the networks of Empire, 1780-1850’
14.00-15.30 Panel 3: Constructing identities: race, gender, nation
Ann McClellan (Plymouth USA): ‘Far and Away: Women’s Scholarly Networks in Postcolonial Britain’
Juliette Milner-Thornton (Griffith University): ‘Northern Rhodesia the Half-Caste Education Debate and the Creation of Coloureds’.
E Lisa Panayotidis (University of Calgary): ‘War, Leadership, and the Action of Educated Elites: Advice to Graduating Students in Canadian Universities during a Time of War, 1939-1945’
16.00-17.30 Panel 4: Generating knowledge in the space of connection
David Schorr (University of Tel Aviv): ‘The Society for Comparative Legislation – An Imperial Discipline Colonizes the Metropolis’
Ross Jones (University of Sydney): ‘Anatomies of Empire: Race, Evolution, and Scientific Networks in the Twentieth-Century British World’
Swarupa Gupta (Calcutta): ‘Scholarly Networks, Interconnections between Universities and Ideas about Nationhood in Bengal: Beyond the Binary of Imperial Metropolis and Colony’
18.30-19.30 Keynote Address
Professor Sheldon Rothblatt (UC Berkeley)
Tuesday 6th July
9.30-11.00 Panel 5: Contesting Empire
Heather Ellis (Humboldt University, Berlin): ‘“Great Imperial Universities”?: Critiquing Empire at Oxford, London and Edinburgh, 1890-1918’
Sean Mills (NYU): ‘Anti-imperialism in Canada and the Caribbean: Scholarly Networks and the Creation of Left Nationalist Political Projects in the Sixties’
Dan Rycroft (University of East Anglia): ‘Beyond colonial hegemony: ‘tribal’ identity and anthropological networks in India’
11.30-13.00 Panel 6: Scholars: networks and influence
Brian Shoesmith (Edith Cowan University & Bangaladesh): ‘A Profound Influence: The Scholarly Networks of Harold A Innis’
Hannah Forsyth (University of Sydney): ‘Technology and the university: two British scientists in Australia.’
14.00-15.30 Panel 7: Academic connections: from imperial to transnational
Andrew Boggs (University of Oxford): ‘The ties of Empire, Goldwin Smith and the evolution of the Canadian university’
Julia Horne (University of Sydney): ‘The Carnegie Corporation and universities in interwar Australia’
Ulrike Kirchberger (University of Bamburg): ‘German Scientists in the British Empire (1850-1914): Between International Science, Imperialism and National Identity’
16.00-17.30 Concluding Panel