CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor
Saturday 6 November 1999
PROGRAMME
9.30-10.15 Coffee
10.15-11.15 Clare Midgley: 'Family, fireside evils' (William Wilberforce): The British evangelical campaign against sati(widow-burning) and the beginnings of cultural imperialism in India
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-1.00 Harriet Guest: 'Hail, sacred home!' Domesticity and Empire at the turn of the century
Kate Davies: Abolition and the luxury of feeling
1.00-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Helen Weston: Representing people from France's colonies on the eve of the Napoleonic Empire: a public and private matter
3.00-3.15 Tea
3.15-4.00 Panel: Joanna de Groot (Chair), John Whale and Mark Hallett will lead a discussion on future perspectives