We encourage other graduates, undergraduates, Faculty Researchers, and Academics to attend and contribute their feedback. Please note that you can attend individual panels without staying for the entire day. Get in contact with OHGN President Kirsty Peacock (mailto:kirsty.peacock@wolfson.ox.ac.uk) if you have any questions or require further information.

Programme

09:15-09:30 Welcomes and logistics
09:30-11:00 Panel 5: Imperial Visions
Eleanor May Using property ownership to explore imperial constructions of race and gender in antebellum Louisiana.
Jack Jacobs From Sympathy to Satyagraha: Moral Empire in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke and Mahatma Gandhi
Maximilian Diemer (Re)Présentez vos armes au roi. Militarisation at 18th century Versailles and Vienna
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-13:00 Panel 6: Threads of Meaning
Abigail Westmark A Glittering Antithesis: Uncovering Gender Bias Through the Vernacular of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Needlework
Olena Chervonik Herschel’s Florilegium. A History of a Colour Stain.
Emily Carrington Freeman The Rhetoric of Colour: John Ruskin and the Question of Polychromy
13:00-14:00 Lunch break (lunch not provided)
14:00-15:30 Panel 7: Agents of Change
Kyle Siwek Clerics in Councils: The Presence and Influence of the established Church in Parish and District Politics, 1895-1910.
Jack Neill The Politics of the Parish’?: Popular Politics and the English Revolution
Kirsty Peacock Men must fight, and women must work – and weep’: New opportunities for women clerks in wartime City of London banks, 1914-1918?
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-17:30 Panel 8: Voices of Dissent
Josef Havránek The ‘Independent Society’ Ethos: Czech Oppositional Thinking 1978–2009
Anniki Mikelsaar Popular Mobilisation and the Estonian Re-independence Movement between 1988 and 1992
Eszter D Kovacs Gender Tensions: Hungary’s Abortion Debates and the 1973 Petition
17:30-17:45 Concluding remarks

We hope to see you there!