Day 1: Thursday 16 July 2015
9.00 – 9.10 Welcome
9.10 – 10.40 Panel 1: Nobilities
Hannah Leah Crummé (The National Archives, Kew), ‘Wilton at war: Spain and the Sidney-Herbert-Dudley network’
Jonas Van Tol (York), ‘The Rhineland nobility and their French connections on the eve of the French Wars of Religion, 1552-1562’
Violetta Trofimova (St. Petersburg, Russia), ‘French women writers in seventeenth-century England: personal and literary connections’
11.00 – 12.30 Panel 2: Cities and capital
Justin Colson (Exeter), ‘Social capital, merchant capital, not enough capital? Richard Arnold, his neighbours, and the social networks of trade in late fifteenth century London’
Jennifer Bishop (Cambridge), ‘Literary networks in the London livery companies in the early modern period’
Peter Claus (Oxford), ‘Sociobiology and City networks in the nineteenth century’
1.15 – 2.45 Panel 3: Exiles
Gaby Mahlberg (Northumbria), ‘The English republican exiles and their cross-confessional networks in Europe post 1660’
Rachel Rogers (Toulouse) ‘A radical network in exile? British members of the international community in early 1790s Paris’
Lisa Wynne Smith (Saskatchewan), ‘Hans Sloane and the Huguenots’
3.05 – 4.35 Panel 4: Life stages
Naomi Tadmor (Lancaster), ‘The settlement of the poor and family networks’
Chris Langley (Birmingham), ‘Orphans and bastards of the covenant: informality and child care networks in mid-seventeenth-century Scotland’
Oana Valentina Sorescu-Iudean (Regensburg), ‘Transylvanian Saxon testamentary networks in 18th century Hermannstadt’
4.45 – 5.45 Plenary 1: Edward Muir (Northwestern), ‘To trust is Good, But Not to Trust is Better’: The Italian Paradox’
Day 2: Friday 17 July 2015
9.00 – 10.00 Plenary 2: Emily Erikson (Yale): ‘Networks and early modern institutional change’
10.20 – 11.40 Panel 5: Knowledge
Lauren Kassell (Cambridge), ‘Networks of health and healing’
Margaret Small (Birmingham), ‘Beyond geography: Ramusio and his social network’
Evan Bourke (NUI Galway), ‘Women’s reputations and involvement in the Hartlib circle (c.1641-61)
11.50 – 1.10 Panel 6: Ego-centric networks
Aske Brock (Kent), ‘The incorporated early modern merchant: Thomas Papillon and his network’
Mark Philp (Warwick), ‘Degrees of intimacy and separation: William Godwin’s connections’
Kate Davison (Sheffield), ‘Ned Ward’s social network in early eighteenth-century London’
2.00 – 3.30 Panel 7: Trade and industry
Edmond Smith (Cambridge), ‘Entangled empires? London’s investment community and England’s global trade expansion’
Samantha Garwood (Sheffield), ‘Magnificent and mundane bottles: glass trade in the early modern Adriatic and networks for cross-cultural exchange’
Joseph Lane (London School of Economics), ‘Networks and knowledge in an early industrial district: the north Staffordshire potteries, 1750-1850’
3.50 – 5.10 Panel 8: Religion
Austen Saunders (Oxford), ‘Evidence of Elizabethan and Stuart clergymen’s social networks from subscribed copies of the Thirty Nine Articles’
Edward William Geall (Warwick), ‘‘Within any the Kynges Domynyons’: the foundations of the Royal Supremacy in Reformation Durham, c.1533-c.1547’
Anton Caruana Galizia (Newcastle), ‘Networking from the margins of eighteenth-century Europe: the correspondence of a Maltese nobleman’
5.15 – 5.40 Closing remarks: Lauren Kassell (Cambridge), Mark Philp (Warwick), and Phil Withington (Sheffield)