The North American Conference on British Studies Annual Meeting will take place November 11-13, 2016 in Washington, DC. Several NYCTC members are featured on the program:
- Peter Mandler is one of the panelists in a roundtable on Graduate Education and Preparing for the Job Market (Thursday, 6.30-8).
- Peter Mandler and Susan Pedersen are chairing the Modern History Workshop on Britain and Internationalism (Friday, 3.45-6.15), in which Emily Rutherford and Sam Wetherell are participating.
- Guy Ortolano is commenting on the panel “Imagining Community in the Age of Social Science (Saturday, 8.45-10.15).
- Peter Mandler is giving a paper, “The Language of Social Science in Everyday Life,” on the panel “Researching Ourselves: Class, Gender and the Social Survey in Britain, c.1930s-1970s” (Saturday, 1.45-3.15).
- Kieran Heinemann is giving a paper, “‘Does this country need the small investor any longer?’: The Plight of Private Investors on the Eve of Thatcherism, 1970-1980,” on the panel “Market Practices and Economic Mentalities in Twentieth-Century Britain” (Saturday, 1.45-3.15).
- Alma Igra is giving a paper, “Mandating Compassion: British Efforts to Establish Animal Charity Organizations in Palestine, 1919-1939,” on the panel “Imperial Fantasies, Sentiments and Nature: Scotland, English-Atlantic and Palestine” (Saturday, 3.30-5).
- Chika Tonooka and Freddy Foks are giving papers–“British Liberal Internationalism, the East and the (Dis)unity of Civilization, c. 1905-37,” and “Nations, Internationalism, and Economic Development: The Rise and Fall of Anthropological Economics, 1916-1959”–on the panel “One World or Many? Unity and Diversity in British International Thought” (Saturday, 3.30-5).
- Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is giving a paper, “Emotions and Understandings of Homelessness in Late Twentieth-Century Britain,” on the panel “Love, Labour, Politics, Home: What Does the History of Emotions Do for Postwar British History?” (Sunday, 8.45-10.30).
- Andrew Seaton is giving a paper, “Not Like Them: The Image of American Healthcare and the Survival of the National Health Service, 1948-1981,” on the panel “Evaluating the ‘Neoliberal Revolution’ in Post-War Britain” (Sunday, 10.45-12.30). Nicole Longpré is commenting on the panel.