Below is the program and conference registration and hotel information for this year’s Southern Conference on British Studies (SCBS) Annual Meeting. Please join us for a wide-ranging series of panels, a keynote address delivered by Dr. Arunima Datta, a joint reception with the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association, and much more. The conference runs October 25-26, 2024, meeting in Kansas City, Missouri at the Westin Kansas City at Crown Center.  

 

The SCBS meets in conjunction with the Southern Historical Association (SHA) whose Annual Meeting runs from October 24-27, 2024. SHA attendance typically runs between 1,000 and 1,200 and includes academic historians, editors, museum and public history professionals, K-12 educators, and non-professionals who just love rigorous history. Registered participants for the SCBS Conference can attend SHA panels as well.  

 

Registration 

SCBS Conference attendees can register for the conference on the SCBS website, under the “Membership Application” tab (https://www.scobs.org/membership-application).

 

All presenters are expected to be registered for the conference and current members of the SCBS at the time of the conference. Everyone is strongly encouraged to register for the conference and renew their SCBS membership ahead of time using our website, although onsite registration will also be available at the time of the conference.  

 

Headquarters Hotel 

The Westin Kansas City at Crown Center, 1 E Pershing Road, Kansas City, MO 64108, will serve as the SCBS / SHA Annual Meeting headquarters for the 2024 conference. All SHA and SCBS sessions will take place within the hotel. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reservations and Rates 

By Phone: 1 (800) 937-8461 and use code SO8882
Online: https://www.marriott.com/event-reservations/reservation-link.mi?id=1700685580543&key=GRP&app=resvlink
SHA and SCBS On-Site Contact: Rafael Fernandez [Rafael.Fernandez@marriott.com]

  

Single Rate: $187.00 

Double Rate: $187.00 

Triple Rate: $212.00 

Quad Rate: $237.00 

Block Cut-Off Date: October 5, 2024 

  

Transportation and Parking 

The supershuttle will bring you from Kansas City International to the Westin for $41 (one way, reserve your ride at www.supershuttle.com). Self-parking is available on-site for $25/night or $35/night for valet parking. An electric car charging station is available at the hotel.

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Program Drafts for the SCBS and SHA 

The full draft program for the SCBS Conference is posted at the bottom of this page. The full draft of the SHA program (which includes all SCBS Panels and events) is posted on the Annual Meeting section of the SHA website (https://www.thesha.org/meeting).  
             

SCBS 2024 Program DRAFT

 

Friday, October 25, 8:15-8:45 – Continental Breakfast – 30 min.

 

Friday, October 25, 8:45-10:30 – 1:45 minute sessions

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Early Modern Britons and Britishness

 

Chair: Lucy Kaufman, University of Alabama

 

“An Examination of Lollardy and Scotland: A Forerunner for Scottish Protestantism,” Isaac Nesbit, University of North Alabama

 

“Elis Gruffydd’s Surprising Chronicle,” Ann Riley-Adams, Wayne State University

 

“Sinners of North Britain: The Act of Union and the Decline of Parish Discipline in Scotland,” Ryan Burns, Jacksonville State University

 

Comment: Lucy Kaufman, University of Alabama

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). Legacies of Identity in Postwar Britain

 

Chair: John Beeler, University of Alabama

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“Before the Beatles: Labour, Youth, and Popular Culture, 1960-1965,” Derek Medeiros,  Louisiana State University

 

“The Mixed Historical Legacies of the 1975 London Spaghetti House Siege,” Richard Voeltz,  Cameron University

 

“Identity Negotiation through Hip Hop: Rapping Jewishness and Muslimness in Britain,” Armin Langer, University of Florida

 

Comment: John Beeler, University of Alabama

Coffee/tea break, 10:30-10:45 – 15 minutes

 

Friday, October 25, 10:45-12:30 – 1:45 minute sessions 

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Gender, Religion, and Power in Early Modern England

 

Chair: Ryan Burns, Jacksonville State University

 

“Reinterpreting the Fall of Thomas Wolsey Through the Lens of Masculinity,” Jeremy Rodriguez, University of Central Florida

 

“The Dissemination of Mary Tudor’s Translation of Aquinas,” Daniel Bennet Page, Independent Scholar

 

“Preaching the Queen of Heaven at Paul’s Cross, 1558-1625: The Unintentional Consequences of Anti-Trinitarianism in England,” Heidi Olson Campbell, Baylor University

 

Comment: Ryan Burns, Jacksonville State University

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). Gender and the British Empire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

 

Chair: Kathy Callahan, Murray State University

 

“Embedding Empire through Family: How Empire was Made in Jamaica,” Kiri Raber, Florida State University

 

“Creating ‘Mothers in Israel,’” Megan Groninger, William Jewell College

 

“A New Conquest Without Blood or Confiscation,” Michael Vernon, Florida State University

 

Comment: Kathy Callahan, Murray State University

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Friday, October 25, 12:30-2:00 – 1.5 hour lunch / SCBS Executive Council meeting                                                    

 

Friday, October 25, 2:00-3:45– 1:45 minute sessions

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Race and Gender in the Atlantic World

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Chair: Charles Upchurch, Florida State University

 

“Fear, Paranoia, Rebellion, and War: The Role of the Caribbean in the Glorious Revolution,” Chelsi Arellano, Florida State University

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“[Un]expected Consequences: Bastardy and Punishment in Eighteenth-Century Virginia,” Ashley Gilbert, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

“The Literary Consequences of Anti-Slavery,” Sarah Stapleton, University of Kentucky

 

Comment: Charles Upchurch, Florida State University

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). War, Violence, and the Information State, 1880-1930

 

Chair: Jill C. Bender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

“Naval Attachés, the Naval Intelligence Department, and British Threat Assessment in the 1880s,” John Beeler, University of Alabama

 

“John Bull is Watching: The Development of Mass Domestic Governmental Surveillance in Britain during World War I,” Gary Girod, Oklahoma Panhandle State University

 

“A Spiral of Violence: General Macready and Ireland 1919-1921,” Stephen Duffy, Texas A&M University

 

Comment: Jill C. Bender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

Coffee/tea break, 3:45-4.00 – 15 minutes

 

Friday, October 25, 4:00-5.30

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Roundtable: Navigating the Changing Landscape of Academia: Tips and Resources for Non-Traditional Academic Positions

 

Amanda Allen, High Point University

Rebecca Hayes, The College Board

Chloe Northrup, Tarrant County College

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SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). British Remembering of Conflict: Stories of Forgetting and Selective Memory

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Chair: Andrew Kettler, University of South Carolina-Palmetto College

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“The Forgotten War: Remembering the Crimean War in Great Britain,” Niels Eichhorn, Stiftung Louisenlund

“Violence Abroad: The Anglo-Satsuma War and Memory in Great Britain,” Sabrina R. Cervantez, Louisiana State University

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“Defeated but Defiant: Confederate and Boer Recollections,” Duncan A. Campbell, National University

Comment: Andrew Kettler, University of South Carolina-Palmetto College

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Friday 5:00PM – 8:00PM Reception w/ European History Section of the SHA

Penn Valley Room, Westin Kansas City at Crown Center

 

Saturday, October 26, 8:15-8:45 – Continental Breakfast

 

Saturday, October 26, 8:45-10:30 – 1:45 minute sessions

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Rise of the Superpowers: Imperialism and Foreign Policy in the Twentieth Century

 

Chair: Jacob Ivey, Florida Memorial University

 

“The Mandate System and the End of Imperialism,” Benjamin Gladstone, University of Oxford

 

“Hook, Line and Sinker: the British Embassy in Cairo and Egypt’s ‘expulsion of Soviet advisers,’ 1972,” Gideon Remez, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

“Sudan and Anglo-Egyptian Relations: Postwar African Nationalism, the Cold War, and Western Foreign Policy,” Joseph Snyder, Southeast Missouri State

 

Comment: Jacob Ivey, Florida Memorial University

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). Making the Empire: Material Culture in the British World

 

Chair: Stephanie Koscak, Wake Forest University

 

“Turtle Eggs and Gold: English Hunger and New World Gold and Food in Sir Walter Ralegh’s Discovery of Guiana,” Jennifer Hope Tellman, Independent Scholar

 

“‘Reprobate Silver Shall Men Call Them:’ How Williamite Ministers Sold the Great Recoinage from the Pulpit,” Robin Hermann, University of Louisiana-Lafayette

 

“Pouring Praise: Commemorative Ceramics of British Military Celebrities in the Late Eighteenth Century,” Chloe Northrup, Tarrant County College

 

Comment: Stephanie Koscak, Wake Forest University

 

Coffee/tea break, 10:30-10:45 – 15 minute break

 

Saturday, October 26, 10:45-12:30 – 1:45 minute sessions

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Gender, Sexuality, and Love in a Modernizing Britain

 

Chair: Jason White, Appalachian State University

 

"Satisfie My Urgent Request": A Port Collector's Wife in Late Seventeenth-Century London,” Aaron Hoggle, University of Alabama

 

“‘Love’s Labour Won’: Arguing for Same-Sex Marriage in the Early Nineteenth Century?,” Charles Upchurch, Florida State University

 

“‘Aren't I glad I'm anonymous’: Sex, Self, and Society in Geoffrey Gorer’s Postwar Surveys,” Ruby Ray Daily, University of Arkansas

 

Comment: Jason White, Appalachian State University

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). Britain and Asia in the Long Nineteenth Century

 

Chair: Matthew Lockwood, University of Alabama

 

“Tigresses, She-fiends, and Amazons: Representations of Indian Women in the London Press during the 1857 Uprising,” Mary Purcell, Independent Scholar

 

“Illustrating Japan: Francis Brinkley, the Japan Weekly Mail, & the Imo Incident, 1882-1884,” Matthew McLin, Trine University

 

“Aspirations and Impacts: British Imperialism and Korea,” Morgan Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

Comment: Matthew Lockwood, University of Alabama

 

Lunch Break – 12:30 to 2:30 - 2 hours

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Lunch Event: The SCBS recognizes the changing landscape of academic positions. To foster this growing community, we invite participants in non-traditional positions (non-tenure and/or non-research institutions) to come together for an informal lunch to discuss these challenges, ways to manage new job expectations with ongoing research, and ways in which the SCBS may address these issues in the future. We welcome graduate students who will soon be on the job market to join as well. For more information or to indicate interest in joining, please contact Amanda Allen: aallen4@highpoint.edu.

 

Saturday, October 26, 2:30-4:15 – 1:45 minute sessions

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Irish Emigrants, Zulu Kings, and Slum Settlers: Reimagining “Problem” Populations across the British Empire

 

Chair: Mark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State University

 

“From Pauper to Settler: Assisted Emigration Schemes, Ireland’s Workhouse Women, and Colonial Reception,” Jill C. Bender, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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“The ‘Lion of the Zulu’ in the London News: King Shaka in British Popular Culture,” Jacob Ivey, Florida Memorial University

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“Damp, Diseased, and Dilapidated: Exploring the Language of Slum Clearance and Social Housing the Early Twentieth-Century British Empire,” Alexandra Lindgren-Gibson, University of Mississippi

 

Comment: Mark Doyle, Middle Tennessee State University

 

SCBS Room 2 (Union Hill West). New Directions in Nigerian History

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Chair: Saheed Aderinto, Florida International University

 

“We are Building the New Nigeria”: Lagos, Sport, and the Boys' Club Movement in Post-WWII Nigeria,” Michael Gennaro, Seminole State College of Florida

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“A History of Disability in Colonial Lagos, 1939–1960,” Rasheed Hassan, Florida International University

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“Fisheries Research and Development in Colonial Nigeria,” Sikiru Yusuff, Florida International University

“Blessings of Marriage:  Neoliberal Modernity and Family Planning in Yorubaland 1952-1990,” Ridwan Muhammed, University of Kansas

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“Transportation and Infrastructure in Colonial Lagos,” Adesoji Adedipe (University of Kansas)

 

Coffee/tea break, 4:15-4:30 – 15 minute break

 

Saturday, October 26, 4:30-5:45

 

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East). Plenary Lecture:

 

Introduction: Jill Bender, SCBS President, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

 

Dr. Arunima Datta, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas

“Waiting on Empire: South Asian Travelling Ayahs in Britain”

 

Saturday, October 26, 5:45-6:45     

                    

SCBS Room 1 (Union Hill East): Southern Conference on British Studies membership meeting

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