Beyond the Coffee House: Masculinities and Social Spaces in the Long Eighteenth- Century

Friday 5th June 2015

Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS

Francis Bancroft Building, Room 1.02.6

9:30am – 10am: Registration and welcome

10am – 11:30am: Work & Professional Identity

• Tom Rusbridge (University of Sheffield) Making Masculinity; Leathercraft and exploded sociability

• Serena Dyer (University of Warwick) Mr Calico and Mr Fribble: Man-Milliners and Gendered Retail Work in England, 1770-1830

• Alice Marples (King’s College London) 'Polite' or Profitable? Scientific Identity and Interaction in the Early Eighteenth Century

11:30am – 12pm: Coffee and tea break

12pm- 1:30pm: Urban Space

• Dr. Tawny Paul (Northumbria University) Lower-middling masculinity and understandings of ‘public’ in eighteenth-century Edinburgh

• Dr. George Boudreau (La Salle University, Philadelphia) A 'Water-American' amongst the Guzzling Workmen: Young Benjamin Franklin and the Culture of Work and Sociability in 1720s London

• Owen Brittan (University of Cambridge) Negotiating Models of Military Sociability: Masculine Norms and Experience, 1688-1714

1:30pm– 2:30pm: Lunch, tea and coffee

2:30pm – 4pm: Sociability

• Tim Wales, Dr. James Brown, and Dr. Iona Hine (University of Sheffield) Intoxicants, Masculinity, and Clerical Sociability in England, 1680-1740

• Dr. Tim Reinke- Williams (University of Northampton) Polite men or libertines?  Men’s alehouse sociability in London, 1660-1750

• Valérie Capdeville (Université Paris 13) The Self and Social Construction of the London Clubman, or the Challenge of Masculine Sociability

4pm - 4:45pm: Karen Harvey (University of Sheffield) Mapping Masculinity: Men, Spaces and History.

4:45pm – 6pm: Wine Reception