Dartmouth Events

Students from History's Fall 2023 London Foreign Study Program will present their research during the inaugural History FSP Mini Conference. Attend an individual session or the entire day. All are welcome!
 

9:45 - 10:00 am:  Welcome and Introductions

10:00 - 11:30 am: Panel 1.  19^TH CENTURY SOCIAL PROGRESS (OR NOT)
Chair: Professor Cecilia Gaposchkin

Jadyn Malone: Birthing Narratives: Unveiling the Realities and Resilience of Lower-Class Women in Nineteenth-Century London.

Evelyn Piech: The Personal Versus the Public: Mourning Culture and Writing in the Nineteenth Century.

Kayla Entwistle: The ‘Model Prison’ Madhouse:  An Exploration of What Maniacal Symptoms Warranted Convict Removal from Pentonville Prison to Bethlem Royal Hospital in the 1840s.

Olivia Becker: Quandaries of Coordinated Abolition: The Relationship Between the Anti-Corn Law League and the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 1838-1850.
 

11:30-11:45: Break
 

11:45 am - 1:15 pm: Panel 2 CASE STUDIES: HISTORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Chair: Professor Leslie Butler

Alexandra (Nohi) Perry: Ka Makana: The Diplomacy of Gift Giving Between the Hawaiian and British Monarchy.

Spencer Mancuso: Lord Manan’s Path to Public Discussion of War-Time Trauma. 

Samuel Beutner: Sir Joseph Banks: “Great Panjandrum of British Science,” and Overlooked Contributor to Modern Scientific Practice.
 

1:15-2:15 pm: Lunch Break (provided)
 

2:15 - 3:45 pm: Panel 3 WAR AND SOCIETY
Chair: Professor Robert Bonner

Michelle Mule: Anglo-Saxon Villains and Danish Heroes: John Lydgate’s The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund and the Late Medieval Conception of Viking Age Invasion.

Thomas Corrado: Earl and Espionage: Exploring Robert Harley’s Relationship with Espionage and Propaganda vis-à-vis Daniel Defoe Before, During, and After the 1707 Acts of Union. 

Rachel Kahng: The Reoccupation of Hong Kong: An examination of the approaches and attitudes of the British military administration.

Samuel Orientale: The Falklands War: Post-Traumatic Effects of British Imperial Memory.
 

3:45 - 4:00 pm: Break
 

4:00 - 5:30 pm: Panel 4 SPORT AND SOCIETY; SOCIETY AND OUTING
Chair: Professor Louis Lu

Carter Ley: Victorian Social Climbers: How the Enlightenment and Romanticism Motivated London’s Highest Society at the Dawn of Alpinism.

Luis Lutfi: Championing Victorian Sports: The Educational Influence of Public School Student Participation.

Matt Koff: '“Tell the Truth”: The Ethics, Aftermath, and Efficacy of OutRage!’s 1994 ‘Outing’ of the Anglican Church'