Contacts/Organisation

Mélanie Cournil et Maud Michaud

Programme

• 9h15 : Welcome to participants

• 9h30 : Introduction Speech
  Maud Michaud : “Connected Philanthropies : Britain and its Empire, the foreign and the home fronts of British philanthropists and missionaries, 1750-1914”

• 9h45-10h45 : Keynote Speech by Alison TWELLS, Sheffield Hallam University
  “Abolition, Philanthropy and Public History”

• Followed by questions and discussions

• 10h45-11h10 : Coffee and tea break

• 11h10-11h40 : Aurélie BAUDRY-PALMER, Université du Sud Toulon-Var
  ‘Philanthropy and class interactions in mid- and late-Victorian Bristol’

• 11h40-12h10 : Muriel GLESER-NEVEU, Université Paris-Diderot
  “‘Charity is the calling of a lady ; the care of the poor is her profession’ : Women’s agency in two competing philanthropic models in Liverpool (1890-1907)”

• 12h10-12h40 : Alice BONZOM, Université Lyon 2
  ‘Souls for the soulless, homes for the homeless : prison relief inside and outside the prison (1856-1914)’

• 12h40-14h : Lunch

• 14h-14h30 : Tonatiuh USECHE SANDOVAL, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
  ‘British Positivists : Loving Humanity, but not as Philanthropists ?’

• 14h30-15h : Mélanie COURNIL, Université Lyon 2
  ‘Telescopic philanthropy at the time of abolitionism : saving the slave, forsaking the factory worker ?’

• 15h-15h15 : Coffee and tea break

• 15h15-15h45 : Aurélie PETIOT, King’s College, University of Cambridge
  ‘Charles Robert Ashbee’s Educational and Philanthropic Work, 1880s-1940s’

• 15h45-16h : Maud MICHAUD, Université Lyon 2
  ‘The Strangers’ Home for Asiatics : Redeeming the World within the Metropolis, 1857-1937’

• 16h-16h30 : Final discussions and concluding remarks