This event is supported by the University of Westminster’s Centre for Social Justice Research, the University of Leicester, and the Past & Present Society.
- 9.30am Arrival and introductions
- 10am-11.30am Panel 1
- Joe Cozens (National Archives), ‘State-related death and the Lancashire weavers’ rising of 1826’
- Jonah Miller (Westminster), ‘Killing protesters and protesting killings in Britain, c. 1830-50’
- Anja Johansen (Dundee), ‘Police Professionalisation and Police Violence, 1860s-1890s: British and European Perspectives on Accountability’
- Adam Elliott-Cooper (Queen Mary), ‘Psychiatrist, Pharmacist, Executioner: Examining Excited Delirium’
- 11.45am-1.15pm Panel 2
- Leon Hughes (Trinity Dublin), ‘A State of Despair and Destitution? The Multiple Slow Deaths of Revolutionary Detention’
- Anais Lefevre (Sorbonne), ‘“A New Death Row”: Facing death in U.S. prisons in the first decade of the AIDS crisis’
- Stacey Hynd (Exeter), ‘Killing Children, Terrorising the Future: Ethiopia’s “Revolutionary Generation”, the Red Terror and Children in State Detention, c. 1976-8’
- April Jackson (Warwick), title TBC
- 2.15pm-3.45pm Panel 3
- Zoe Alker (Lancaster) & Richard Ward (Exeter), ‘Deaths in prison custody, 1750-1950: Historical roots of a contemporary problem’
- Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (New England), ‘Mortality, Life Expectancy and Penal Policy: Lessons from Van Diemen’s Land’
- Mikhail Nakonechnyi (Helsinki), ‘Death, Smoke, and Mirrors: The Gulag’s Medical Manipulations in Comparative Perspective’
- Naomi Oppenheim (Inquest) & Jac St John (Westminster), ‘Inside the Inquest Archives’
- 4pm-4.45pm Panel 4
- Kiran Mehta (Leicester), ‘What counts as murder? Death in imperial British prisons, 1830-1900’
- Kristy Warren (Lincoln), ‘The Georgetown Gaol’s Treadmill and Punishment “Reform” in British Guiana’
- 4.45pm-5.30pm Concluding discussion
This event is invitation only.
Location
Room 250, 309 Regent Street London W1B 2HW
