Wednesday 12 September:
Reception at Amiens City Hall at 6:30pm
Thursday 13 September:
9- 9:15 = Introduction: Marie Ruiz (université de Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France)
9:15-10:15 = Keynote Address
Eric Richards (Flinders University, Australia) – “Migration at Extremes”
10:15-10:45 = Discussion
10:45-11: Coffee break
11-12 = Panel 1: Exceptional Migration Patterns (Chair: Laura Sims)
Bernard Porter (Newcastle University, UK) – “British colonial migration in the 19th century. The Short Route”
James Hammerton (LaTrobe University, Australia) – “’Empire made me?’: English lower middle-class migrants and expatriates, 1860-1930.”
12-12:30 = Discussion
12:30- 1:30 pm = Lunch
1:30 pm- 2:30pm = Panel 2: Scottish Migration (Chair: Yann Béliard)
John MacKenzie (Lancaster University, UK) – “Early nineteenth century war and the distinctive Scottish Diaspora”
Marjory Harper (University of Aberdeen, UK) – “The hands of the clock have begun to move backwards”: postwar emigration from Scotland”
2:30 – 3 pm = Discussion
3 – 4pm = Panel 3: Ireland, the Great War and New Zealand (Chair: Marianne Kac-Vergne)
David Fitzpatrick (Trinity College, Ireland) – “Irish Migration and the Great War”
Jim McAloon (Victoria University, New Zealand) – “Irish immigrants and the middle class in colonial New Zealand 1890-1910”
4 – 4:30 pm = Discussion
Friday 14 September:
9:30-10:30 = Panel 4: Labour Migration (Chair: Géraldine Vaughan)
Fabrice Bensimon (Université Paris-Sorbonne) – “British Labour and Migration to Europe during Industrialisation (1815-1860). The Case of the Lace Makers”
Yann Beliard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle) – “Migration to and from Hull, and its impact on the labour movement, 1840s-1914”
10:30-11 = Discussion
11-11:30 = Coffee break
11:30-12:30 = Panel 5: Religious Migration (Chair: Aurélie Thiria)
Hillary Carey (University of Bristol, UK) – “Clergy for Convicts: Religion, Emigration and the Convict Probation System in New South Wales”
Géraldine Vaughan (université de Rouen – IUF) – “‘Promote Protestant emigration!’: John Dunmore Lang, Religious Immigration and Imperial Identities in the Mid-Victorian era”
12:30-1pm = Discussion
1-2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30-3:30pm = Panel 6: The Empire and WWI: Canadians and Kiwis (Chair: Frédérique Spill)
Kent Fedorowich (University of the West of England, UK) – “The ‘Sawdust Fusiliers’: The Canadian Forestry Corps, 1916-1919”
Adam Cutforth (France-New Zealand Association) – “‘There and back again’: an ANZAC’s round-trip to the Western Front”
3:30-4pm = Discussion
4 – 4:15 pm = Coffee break
4:15 – 5:15 pm = Panel 7: Imperial Relations and Migrant Representations during WWI (Chair: Nathalie Saudo-Welby)
Edward Higgs (University of Essex, UK) – “Spirit photography as war photography, and migration across the Great Divide”
Santanu Das (King’s College London, UK) – “South Asian Troops in Europe, 1914-1918 – Image, Song, Literature”
5:15-5:45 pm = Discussion
5:45 pm = End of Conference
Colonial and Wartime Migration, 1815-1918 