Freemasonry and Empire
22-23 October 2011
Friday 21 October
19:00 Presentation at University College London by Dr Annamaria Motrescu of the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge:
Imperial masonic relations: freemasonry in amateur films
Saturday 22 October
9:00 Registration and coffee
9:50 Official opening
10:00 Keynote lecturer: Freemasonry across Empires
Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Florida
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Andrew Prescott, King’s College London
Empire, the Craft, culture and the Anglophone Caribbean
Dr. Allison Ramsay, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Western ideology meets Eastern promise: an archival view of the masonic relationship between Umdat ul Umrah (future Nawab of the Carnatic) and the Prince of Wales (future King George IV), Grand Master
Susan Snell, Archivist, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
Freemasonry and the Indian Parsi Community: a late meeting on the level
Simon Deschamps, University of Bordeaux III
Uncharted masonic identities in British colonial amateur films, 1920 - 1940
Dr. Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote lecture: Freemasonry and slavery in the British Empire
Professor Cécile Revauger, University of Bordeaux III
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Dr. Jim Daniel, University of Sheffield
Russian Freemasonry, imperial reform and utopianism in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century imperial Russia
Dr. Yuri Stoyanov, SOAS
Freemasonry in Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Karim Wissa, Diplomat
Muslim reformers and the British Empire: the masonic affiliations of Jamal ad-din al-afghani and Mohammed Abduh
Said Chaaya, L’Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EHPE), Paris
Freemasonry in the Congo, 1908-1914. Anti-masonic discourse of the Catholic missionaries
Jimmy Koppen, Free University of Brussels
16:50 Panel discussion
17:30 Close
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 23 October
10:00 Keynote: Anglo-American masonic relations, 1840 - 1890
Dr. Jim Daniel, University of Sheffield
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Iconography of the Imperial lodges
Mark Dennis, Curator, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
Setting the Empire in Stone: Richard, Earl Temple and the building of Stowe
Dr. Joan Coutu, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Eighteenth-century masonic halls and the British Empire
Harriet Sandvall, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
'An Emblem of the Unity of the Empire': Freemasonry and the Imperial
Institute, South Kensington
Frank Albo, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote lecture: Curling with Cannonballs: Fratriotism and the negotiation of identity in Europe
Professor Andrew Prescott, King’s College London
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Professor Cécile Revauger, University of Bordeaux III
The ‘great masonic Empire’ of Napoleon Bonaparte and the construction of masonic identities in Europe (1800-1815)
Dr. Eric Saunier, University of Le Havre
Freemasonry and the Central Powers: the 1918 Berlin conference
Reinhard Markner, Berlin
Regimes of territoriality: overseas conflicts and inner-European relations, c.1870-1930
Dr. Joachim Berger, Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
16:30 Panel discussion
17:00 Close
Tickets for the conference are £100. Price includes entrance to the abovementioned film showing, as well as two buffet luncheons over the conference weekend. Tickets for the Saturday evening dinner are an additional £40.00.
Cheques should be made payable to the ‘CMRC’ and sent to: Canonbury Masonic Research Centre, Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ. Please be sure to include your name and full contact details (including phone number and email address) with your payment and state if you have any special dietary requirements. Please also note that the CMRC does not accept credit card payment. BACS and IBAN transfer, as well as student reductions, are available on request.
For further information please contact the conference organiser Matthew Scanlan on tel: 00 44 (0)20 7226 6256 or email conference@canonbury.ac.uk
