Birmingham/Warwick Workshop - Humanity
Warwick and Birmingham Universities 18th Century Centres Workshop
'Humanity'
Wednesday May 14, 2014
hosted by University of Warwick, Ramphal building R0.03/4
1 pm – 2:30 Travel, Transnational Identities and Otherness (chair: Mark Philp)
* Transnational Sentiment: The Staging of Early 19th Century Melodrama in Britain and France -- Kate Astbury (Warwick, French)
* Travel by the Book at the Cadbury Research Library -- Martin Killeen (Birmingham, Rare Books)
* Constructing the Other: Identity, Stereotypes and Satire in the Dialogue Genre -- Jake Halford (Warwick, History)
2:45 – 4:15 Rights and Slavery (chair: Giorgio Riello)
* Freedom, Rights, and the Haitian Revolution’s Radical Constitutionalism -- Philip Kaisary (Warwick, Law)
* Lost in Translation: Misinterpretations of Janissary 'Slave' Identity -- Gemma Norman (Birmingham, Ottoman Studies)
* Reciprocity, Rights and the French Revolution -- Charles Walton (Warwick, History)
4:15 – 4:45 Tea and coffee
4:45 – 6:45 Bodies and Migrations (chair: Maxine Berg)
* Addressing Migration: Letter Writing and the Intimate Politics of Distance -- Kate Smith (History, UCL/Birmingham)
* Thomas Jefferson's Body: A study in 18th-Century Performative Corporeality -- Maurizio Valsania (Turin, visiting Birmingham)
* Understanding Maritime Migrations in the Eighteenth Century -- Jelle van Lottum (Birmingham, History)
* Bodies, Population, and Power: The Concept of Biopower and the Re-Writing of Eighteenth-Century German History -- Claudia Stein (Warwick, History)
7:00 pm Dinner at Le Gusta (Warwick campus) (RSVP)