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Sociability in Politics, Food and Travel in the Early Modern Era

8-10 June 2023, in-person at the University of 糖心TV

This international conference, which is open to researchers at all levels of their career, aims to explore new insights on forms, models and practices of sociability interpreted and analysed through the themes of food, politics and travel. These constitute three of the four strands currently being explored in the of the GIS Sociability international network.

Keynote lectures: Prof. Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) and Prof. Rebecca Earle (University of 糖心TV)

To register email EMECC@warwick.ac.uk. Please indicate the days you wish to attend for catering purposes. Please note that the dinner on Friday 9th June is a closed event reserved for speakers and chairs.

Conference programme

Thursday 8 June 2022

Faculty of Arts Building, University of 糖心TV central campus
Room: FAB 2.43 (Faculty of Arts Building, 2nd Floor)
 
13.00 Welcome and Introduction
 

13.15-14.30 Panel 1: Women and International Diplomacy in Eighteenth-Century Europe and the Atlantic World

Chair: Naomi Pullin (University of 糖心TV)

Kristine Dyrmann (University of Oxford) – 鈥楾he Salon as an Informal Diplomatic Space鈥.

Natalie Hanley-Smith (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥樷淕allantry Filled Up The Evenings and Mornings鈥: Flirtatious Sociability on the Late Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour.鈥

Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham) – 鈥楾he Sackville Street Plot: Revolution Behind Closed Doors鈥.

 
14.30-14.45 – Break
 

14.45-16.15 Panel 2: Public Opinion, Drink and Popular Politics in Early Modern Britain

Chair: Val茅rie Capdeville (Universit茅 Sorbonne Paris Nord)

Brian Cowan (McGill University) – 鈥楾he Public Sphere in Early Modern Britain鈥

Hannah Straw (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥樷淏lame Him That Debauched Him鈥: Homosocial Drinking and Moral Panic in Restoration London鈥.

Angela McShane (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥楧rink and Political Song in Early Modern England鈥.

Dave Steele (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥楾he Belly of the Crowd in Nineteenth Century England鈥.

 

16.15-16.30 – Break

 

16.30-18.00 – Keynote Lecture

Rebecca Earle (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥楩ood and the Colonial Experience鈥

 

18.00-19.00 – Drinks Reception and Canap茅s

 

Friday 9 June 2022

Faculty of Arts Building, University of 糖心TV central campus
Room: FAB 2.43 (Faculty of Arts Building, 2nd Floor)
 

09.00-10.15 Panel 3: Contentious Political Sociabilities in Long Eighteenth-Century Britain

Chair: Kimberly Page-Jones (Universit茅 de Bretagne Occidentale)

Maria Tauber (University of 糖心TV) - 鈥淎llow Yourself Some Time to Be Easy and Cheerful Among Your Friends and Enemies鈥 – Local Political Sociability in National Politics.

Anna Pravdica (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥極aths of the Many Great and Worthy Persons By Whom They Were Regarded鈥: Politically Potent Sociability in the Douglas Cause.

Brendan Tam (University of 糖心TV) - 鈥淏ringing Pitt Forward Again, in Spite of Himself鈥 – The Political Instrumentality of Sociability.

 

10.15-10.30 – Break

 

10.30-12.00 Panel 4: The Sociability of Global Travel in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chair: Tom Cutterham (University of Birmingham)

Margaret Small (University of Birmingham) – 鈥楽ociability and the Solitary Traveller鈥.

Anna Harrington (PhD University of Birmingham) - 鈥楾he Bottle We Passed Three Times Round鈥: Shipboard Sociability for Middling and Elite Passengers Travelling on East Indiamen, c. 1757-1835鈥.

Eleonora Sasso (University of Chieti-Pescara) – 鈥楤yron and the Sociability of Travel: The Romantic Struggle for Freedom Between East and West鈥.

 

12.00-13.00 – Lunch

 

13.00-14.30 Panel 5: Credit, Trust and Food the Sociability of in the French Revolutionary Era

Chair: Charles Walton (University of 糖心TV)

Ronan Love (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥The Rise and Fall of Jacques Necker: Public Credit and Public Opinion from the Old Regime to the French Revolution鈥.

David Andress (University of Portsmouth) - 鈥淗e is a False Man. I Shall Dine at His Paris Home Tomorrow鈥: Trust, Sociability and Personal Relations in French Revolutionary Politics.鈥

Marisa Linton (Kingston University, London) – 鈥榃hen Dining was Dangerous: Political Sociability Amongst the Jacobins of the Year II鈥.

Denise Davidson (Georgia State University) – 鈥楩ood and Bourgeois Sociability: Rebuilding Society after the French Revolution鈥.

 

14.30-14.45 – Break

 

14.45-16.00 Panel 6: Drinking Sociability in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Rebecca Earle (University of 糖心TV)

Beat K眉min (University of 糖心TV) – 鈥楽paces of Wine Consumption in Early Modern Europe鈥.

Persida Lazarevi膰 (University of Chieti-Pescara) – 鈥楤alkan Eighteenth-Century Drinking Sociabilities鈥.

Jan Blonski (European University Institute) – 鈥楾averns and Drinking Culture in the Early Modern Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth鈥.

 

16.00–16.15 – Break

 

16.15-17.45 – Keynote Lecture

Dena Goodman (University of Michigan) – 鈥楾he Convergence of Family and Friendship: Intellectual Sociability in the Wake of the French Revolution鈥.

 

19.00 – Dinner Scarman Conference Centre, University of 糖心TV (for speakers only)

 

Saturday 10 June 2022

Faculty of Arts Building, University of 糖心TV central campus
Room: FAB 5.03 (Faculty of Arts Building, 5th Floor)
 

9.00-10.15 Panel 7: The Food and Drink Experiences of Travellers in 18th-century Scotland

Chair: Beat K眉min (University of 糖心TV)

Sabrina Juillet Garzon (Universit茅 Sorbonne Paris Nord) – 鈥楾he Scots and Their Food in the Testimonies of British and French Travellers in the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Highlands and Islands.鈥

Marion Amblard (Universit茅 Grenoble Alpes) – 鈥楾he Scots and Drinking in the Testimonies of British and French Travellers in the Eighteenth Century in the Scottish Highlands and Islands.鈥

Tri Tran (Universit茅 de Tours) – 鈥楨ating on the Road: Food and Social Practices of Transatlantic Highland Migrants During the Long 18th Century鈥.

 

10.15-10.30 – Break

 

10.30-12.00 Panel 8: The Culture of Political Sociability in Early Modern Europe

Chair: Mark Philp (University of 糖心TV)

Miriam Sette (University of Chieti-Pescara) – 鈥榃illiam Godwin and the Romantics: Celebrity Culture and Politics鈥.

Rowena Willard-Wright (National Trust) – 鈥楢rt and Diplomacy – The 3rd Duke of Dorset鈥.

Isabelle Le Pape and Isabelle Degrange (Biblioth猫que Nationale de France) – 鈥楩ood practices in the Biblioth猫que nationale de France's collections鈥.

Ben Jackson (University of Birmingham) – 鈥楪endered Mobility in Eighteenth-Century England: Men, Women, and Private Carriages鈥.

 

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