Martineau Society Annual Meeting 2017
24th – 27th July
The Mercure Royal Hotel, Hull.
Conference Programme
Monday 24th July
From 14.00 Arrival and Registration
17.00 – 18.00 Committee Meeting
18.30 Dinner and Lecture. Dr Nick Evans, University of Hull. ‘Female Agency and the fight against the Slave Trade – the case of Hull.’
Tuesday 25th July
9.30 – 10.15 Iain Crawford: Transatlantic Exchanges: Harriet Martineau and The Southern Rose
10.15 – 11.00 John Warren: Harriet Martineau reasonably close to Hull: the medium and the message of her children’s story The Settlers at Home (1841)
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 – 12.15 Stuart Hobday: Charlotte Brontë and Harriet Martineau
12.15 –1.00pm John Vint: Demerara: Harriet Martineau and the Political Economy of Slavery
Lunch
1400 Afternoon Trail – Hull’s Old Town and Museum Quarter
18.30 Dinner and Quiz
Wednesday 26th July
9.30 – 10.15 Carol Chilton: The Early Education of Harriet Martineau and Florence Nightingale
10.15 – 11.00 Keiko Funaki: Harriet Martineau’s feminist economics in Female Industry.
11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break
11.30 Martineau Society AGM – for Agenda click here
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Afternoon Trail – train to Beverley to see the Minster, and Wednesday Market
18.30 Dinner and Auction
Thursday 27th July
10.00 – 10.45 Elisabeth Sanders Arbuckle: Harriet Martineau and her Nephews
10.45 – 11.30 Sue Brown: Julia Wedgwood and Harriet Martineau; a study in disillusionment.
12.00 Conference close and buffet lunch.