Conference, Friday 12th May 2006
Conference Centre, Bramber House, University of Sussex

10.00 - 10.30: Registration and welcome

10.30 - 11.15

Alan Lester 'Geographies of Empire: from networks to trajectories?'

Steph Newell 'Queering imperial history'

11.15 - 11.45: Tea/Coffee

11.45 - 1.00: Slavery and Atlantic Studies

Trevor Burnard 'Regions in the British Atlantic World'

Marcus Wood 'The great blacks in the wax museum in Baltimore, and the
screening of film memory of Atlantic Slavery'

1.00 - 2.00: Lunch

During Lunch there will be a screening of Richard Grove's film 'The Life and Times of El Nino'

2.00 - 2.45: Networks of press and governance

Simon Potter 'Imperial networks, Commonwealth media'

Zoë Laidlaw 'Colonial Connections: networks, patronage and information in the
British Empire, 1815-45'

2.45 - 4.00: Networks of science and knowledge

Saul Dubow 'Nations, Nodes and Knowledge: Problems in the Circulation of
Ideas'

Richard Drayton 'Maritime networks and the making of exotic Knowledge'

Richard Grove 'Measuring weather and collecting cyclones; imperial networks and
the invention of global climate, colonial meteorology and oceanography1700- 1870'

4.00 - 4.30: Tea / Coffee

4.30 - 5.15: National and trans-national histories

Ann Curthoys 'Transnational Histories and National Politics: Recent developments
in Australian historiography'

Catherine Hall 'Harriet Martineau's Metropolitan Mappings'