FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 2022
3 – 3:30 p.m. | University Welcome & Opening Remarks
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
Angela Creager, Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science; Chair of the Department of History, Princeton University
Paul Monod, Hepburn Professor of History, Middlebury College
Kathleen Wilson, SUNY Distinguished Professor of History, Stony Brook University
3:30 – 5 p.m. | First Session
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
David Armitage, Harvard University | “George III and (Anti-)Slavery”
Alex Chase-Levenson, Binghamton University | “Borders, Frontier Lines, and the British World in the Long 19th Century”
Jeffrey Auerbach, California State University Northridge | “Underground Empire: The British Archeological Exploration of Jerusalem”
Chair: Paul Monod, Middlebury College
5:30 – 8 p.m. | Dinner
Location: Atrium – Louis Simpson Int’l Building
By Invitation Only
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2022
9 – 10 a.m. | Second Session
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
James J. Caudle, University of Glasgow | “Making Sense of James Boswell’s Political Writings” (Zoom talk)
John A. Eglin, University of Montana | “The End of the Affair: Girolama Piccolomini’s Portrait of James Boswell”
Chair: Joseph Puchner, Princeton University
10 – 10:30 a.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. | Third Session
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
Eliga Gould, University of New Hampshire, “Speculator in Revolution: Mary Hayley and the Risks and Rewards of American Independence”
Padraic X. Scanlan, University of Toronto | “Potatoes and Civilization: Political Economy in Ireland before the Famine”
Stephanie Barczewski, Clemson University | “Country Houses Are Not Like Hats: The Varieties of Englishness”
Chair: Nicholas Barone, Princeton University
12 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Fourth Session
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
Jennifer Hall-Witt, School for International Training |“Authoring the Managerial Memoir: Print Culture and John Ebers’s Seven Years of the King’s Theatre (1828)”
Paul Monod, Middlebury College | “Among Ruins: James Dawkins, Robert Wood, and the Decay of Empires”
Chair: Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University
2:30 – 3 p.m. | Break
Location: 210 Dickinson Hall
3-4:30 p.m. | Fifth Session
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
Stephen Taylor, University of Durham | “The imperial constitution of the Church of England”
Maya Jasanoff, Harvard University | “Namier Revisited: Life-Writing and History”
Kathleen Wilson, Stony Brook University |“Gothic Empire: Castle Spectre in the Imperial Provinces, 1788-1826”
Chair: Min Tae Cha, Princeton University
4:30 – 5 p.m. | Final Remarks
Location: Zoom & 211 Dickinson Hall
5 – 6:30 p.m | Closing Reception
Location: Chancellor Green Rotunda | Princeton University