{"id":155,"date":"2016-06-28T15:35:54","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T15:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/?page_id=155"},"modified":"2016-06-29T07:29:34","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T07:29:34","slug":"programme","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ihavebeentodwight2016\/programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\u2019ve Been to Dwight\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Transnational Perspectives on Addiction, Temperance and Treatment
\nin the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries <\/strong><\/h3>\n

Dwight, Illinois; 14-17 July, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve Been to Dwight,\u201d is an off-year conference of the Alcohol and Drugs History Society, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Leslie E. Keeley Company\u2019s closure. It gathers historians and social scientists at the site of the company\u2019s former headquarters to present and discuss new research on the history of addiction, temperance and treatment in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The conference considers the broad topic of \u201caddiction\u201d in a transnational, comparative, historical framework.<\/p>\n

Download conference programme<\/a> (PDF)<\/p>\n

Schedule of Events<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Thursday 14 July 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2:00-5:00 <\/strong>Registration
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

5:00 <\/strong>Greeting and Conference Opening<\/p>\n

5:15-6:30 <\/strong>Keynote address
\nProf. Sarah W. Tracy, Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential\u00a0Professor, University of Oklahoma
\n“No One Can Eat Just One” — Food Addiction within the History of Alcohol and Drugs<\/em><\/p>\n

6:30-8:30<\/strong> Reception hosted by the First National Bank of Dwight<\/p>\n

Friday 15 July 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n

9:00-9:30 <\/strong>Registration and refreshments
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:30 \u2013 11:00 <\/strong>Panel 1 Addiction, governments and frontiers<\/em>
\nChair: Tim Hickman – Lancaster University, UK<\/p>\n

Medicinal liquor sales and the health of the people: Liquor laws and pharmaceutical activism in two Canadian provinces
\n<\/strong>Dan Malleck – Brock University CA<\/p>\n

Drugs, Smuggling, and Automated Borders: A Losing Battle of Escalation or State\/Non-State Symbiosis<\/strong>
\nAndrae Marak – Governor\u2019s State University Ill, USA<\/p>\n

The junkie and the \u201cpharmakon\u201d: an ambiguous addiction (a case study in France, 1960s-1980s)<\/strong>
\nAlexandre Marchant – Lyc\u00e9e Lakanal, Sceaux, FR<\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 11:15 <\/strong>Coffee break
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:15-12:45 <\/strong>Panel 2 Temperance and intemperance<\/em>
\nChair: Scott Martin – Bowling Green State University, USA<\/p>\n

”Alcohol; a funny medicine” – scientific discourse on addiction addressed to children in the UK<\/strong>
\nAnnemarie McAllister – University of Central Lancashire, UK<\/p>\n

Not Your Grandmother\u2019s WCTU: Untapped Resources in Temperance Research<\/strong>
\nJanet Olson – Northwestern University and Frances Willard House, USA<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cA victim of intemperance\u201d \u2013 The Drunkard\u2019s Story<\/strong>
\nMichele Rotunda – Union County College, USA<\/p>\n

\u00a012:45-1:45 <\/strong>Lunch
\n(with table displays from Janet Olsen, \u2018Nearly Neighbors: Evanston and Dwight;\u2019 Dave Trippel, \u2018The evolution of the \u201cTemperance Pledge\u201d in the U.S. and Great Britain between 1800 and 1880;\u2019 and Kim Drechsel\u2019s \u2018Keeley Collection\u2019)<\/p>\n

1:45-3:15 <\/strong>Panel 3 The Sober and the Sodden: Alcohol, Gender, and Respectability in the Nineteenth-Century South<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: William J. Rorabaugh – University of Washington, USA<\/p>\n

From Whiskey to Beer: The Role of Alcohol in the American Civil War<\/strong>
\nJoseph Beilein, Jr. – Pennsylvania State University, Erie\/Behrend, USA<\/p>\n

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Sobering Prospects?: Virtue, Vice, & Violence in Antebellum South Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Hill Welborn III – Georgia College and State University, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cShe Was in the Habit of Drinking Stimulants\u2026to excess\u201d:<\/strong> Women, Alcoholism and Early Death in St. Louis, Missouri, 1875-1885<\/strong>
\nSarah Lirley McCune – University of Missouri, USA<\/p>\n

3:15-3.30 <\/strong>Coffee break<\/p>\n

3:30- 5:00 <\/strong>Panel 4 Inebriety around the world<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Annemarie McAllister – University of Central Lancashire, UK<\/p>\n

\u201cEnglish-minded\u201d and \u201cVernacular-minded\u2019 Temperance in British India<\/strong>
\nRobert \u2018Eric\u2019 Colvard – Wayne State University, NE, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cAny form of treatment that might be speedily successful should be given a fair trial\u201d: The Inquiry as to Certain Alleged Cures for Inebriety, Victoria, Australia, 1901-03<\/strong>
\nCaroline Clark – Victoria University, AUS<\/p>\n

The Decolonization of Alcoholism<\/strong>
\nCharles Ambler – University of Texas, El Paso, USA<\/p>\n

5.30 <\/strong>Special Event:
\nTour of Dwight, \u2018The Town Inebriety Made Famous.\u2019 Hosted and led by the Dwight Historical Society.<\/p>\n

Saturday 16 July 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n

9:00 \u2013 10:45 <\/strong>Panel 5, Roundtable: Not for the Squeamish: Multi-, Inter-, and Trans-Disciplinary Approaches to Addiction and Gender<\/em><\/p>\n

Moderator: Nancy Campbell – Dept. of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA<\/p>\n

Michelle McClellan – Dept. of History, University of Michigan, USA<\/p>\n

Jill Becker – Dept. of Psychology, University of Michigan, USA<\/p>\n

Beth Glover Reed – Depts. of Social Work and Women\u2019s Studies, University of Michigan, USA<\/p>\n

M. Leora Bowden – University of Michigan Medical Center, USA<\/p>\n

10:45 \u2013 11:00 <\/strong>Coffee break<\/p>\n

11:00-12:30 <\/strong>Panel 6 Alcohol and Drugs- commonalities and interrelationships<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Dan Mallek – Brock University, CA<\/p>\n

\u201cArticles of Common Use\u201d: Alcohol, Drugs, and Intoxication in Early American Temperance Discourses<\/strong>
\nDavid Korostyshevsky – University of Minnesota, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cA hard lesson for temperance men\u201d: Nineteenth-Century Americans and the Turn to Opiates<\/strong>
\nElizabeth Kelly Gray – Towson University, USA<\/p>\n

Brothers and Sisters of Temperance: The Washingtonians, Sons, and Daughters of Temperance in Norwalk and Sandusky, 1828-1889<\/strong>
\nJosh Steedman – University of Toledo, USA<\/p>\n

\u00a012.30-1.30 <\/strong>Lunch (with displays from Olsen, Trippel and Drechsel as before)<\/p>\n

\u00a01:30-3:00<\/strong> Panel 7 Brothers, sisters and alcohol<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Annemarie McAllister – University of Central Lancashire, UK<\/p>\n

The Manly Medical Vision of Female Alcoholism in Modern Mexico, 1870-1920<\/strong>
\nAndrei Guadarrama – Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma, Mexico<\/p>\n

Drinking for Health or Courting Addiction? Women and Tonic Wine in Late Victorian Britain\u2019<\/strong>
\nThora Hands – Strathclyde University, UK<\/p>\n

\u201cShe Voted for King George\u201d: Prohibition and the Corrupted Public Sphere in Dashiell Hammett\u2019s Red Harvest<\/strong>
\nDavid Pratt – College of William and Mary, USA<\/p>\n

3:00-3:15 <\/strong>Coffee break
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

3:15-4:45 <\/strong>Panel 8 Addiction and Activism: Lessons From the Grassroots<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Scott Martin<\/p>\n

Activism and the Ordinary Joe: Navigating the Crack Era Bronx<\/strong>
\nMichael J. Durfee – Niagara University, USA<\/p>\n

Social Drinkers and \u201cKiller Drunks:\u201d MADD and the Uses of the Alcoholic<\/strong>
\nColin Eager – SUNY, Buffalo, USA<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019se a Viper\u201d: Confronting Reefer Madness through Jazz, 1930-1940<\/strong>
\nBob Beach – SUNY, Albany, USA<\/p>\n

7.00 <\/strong>Conference dinner at The Country Mansion<\/p>\n

Sunday 17 July 2016<\/strong><\/h2>\n

9:00-11:00 <\/strong>Sunday Brunch<\/p>\n

11:00-12:30 <\/strong>Panel 9: Taking the Cure<\/em><\/p>\n

Chair: Tim Hickman – Lancaster University, UK<\/p>\n

Alternative American alcohol treatment in Danish environments around the turn of the 19th<\/sup> century<\/strong>
\nSidsel Eriksen – Copenhagen University, DK<\/p>\n

A New Home on the Range: Addiction, Treatment, and Punishment at the Federal Narcotics Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas, 1938-1971<\/strong>
\nHolly Karibo – Oklahoma State University, USA<\/p>\n

Miracle Cure or Chemical Slavery? African American New Yorkers and Methadone, 1962-1977\u2019<\/strong>
\nKyle A. Bridge – University of Florida, USA\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Special Event: The AA Roundup<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On Sunday afternoon, following the conference, the Village of Dwight will be hosting its own commemorative event to mark the Keeley anniversary\u2014a recreation of the \u201cAA Roundup,\u201d which was a summer barbecue hosted jointly by the Keeley Company and Alcoholics Anonymous in the 1950s and 60s. There will be a variety of events and speakers with a great deal of historical interest. The town will open a time capsule placed at the 50th<\/sup> anniversary of the Keeley Company\u2019s founding. Conference participants are cordially invited to attend!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve Been to Dwight\u201d programme committee<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  • Timothy A. Hickman, Lancaster University, Chair and Conference Organizer.<\/li>\n
  • Dan Malleck, Brock University<\/li>\n
  • Scott Martin, Bowling Green State University<\/li>\n
  • Annemarie McAllister, University of Central Lancashire<\/li>\n
  • James Mills, Strathclyde University<\/li>\n
  • William White, Chesnut Health Systems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The committee would also like to extend special thanks to Mary Flott, Frederick Strufe, the members of the Dwight Historical Society, Eric Stewart of the First National Bank of Dwight and Bob Ohlendorf and Ashley Maskel of the Country Mansion. Without their enthusiasm, hard work and support, this conference couldn\u2019t have happened!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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