Rethinking the Family in Early Modern Britain Workshop

Workshop: Thirkill Room, 1st floor of F staircase, Old Court.

9.30 Convene and welcome – Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster

9.45-11.15.am Panel 1

Dr Ella Sbaraini (Cambridge): Family Emotions

Dr Carys Brown (Cambridge): Religion, Spirituality, and Child’s Play in the Early Modern Family c.1660-1780

11.15am -11.30 Coffee

11.30-1pm Panel 2

Dr Sarah Fox (Edge Hill), Professor Karen Harvey (Birmingham), Dr Emily Vine (Exeter): Household Bodies: Power, Embodiment and the Early Modern Family

Dr James Fisher (Exeter): Household Economies

1-2pm Lunch: Latimer Room, Old Court

2-3.30pm Panel 3

Dr Elizabeth Foyster (Cambridge): Parenting the child with learning disabilities

Dr Anthony Delaney and Professor Helen Berry (Exeter): Queer Families

3.30-4pm Tea

4pm-5.30 Panel 4

Professor Vivien Dietz (Davidson College, North Carolina) and Professor Dana Rabin (Urbana-Champaign, Illinois): Race, Ethnicity and Empire

Professor Jason Kelly (Indiana University): Family, Empire and the Anthropocene

5.30-5.45pm Round-up