Day 1: Monday 5 September 2011

9.30-9.45 Welcome and introduction 9.45 - 10.30 Keynote 1 Adele Perry (Manitoba): Our Foreign Correspondent: Metis Families, Metropolitan Children, and Circuits of Empire. 10.30-10.45 Break 10.45 - 12.15 Panel 1: Colonial Family Networks Melodee Beals (Warwick): Affable Failures: Alexander MacAulay, Kinnetworks and the Eighteenth-Century Bubble Market Elizabeth Harvey (Warwick): Networks of Imperial Philanthropy : the development of the boarding out movement Saleem Khan (London Metropolitan): The Imans of Patna: A Muslim Politician Lawyer Family of British India 12.15 13.15 Lunch 13.15 14.45 Panel 2: Siblings and Family Trajectories Gwilym Colenso (Independent): Campaigning and collaborating across the Empire: the Family of Bishop John Collenso Khumisho Moguerane (Oxford): An history of an African Family north of the Cape Family, 1890-1927, schooling, employment and later lives of sons and daughters 14.45 15.00 Break 15.00 15.45 Keynote 2 Rhonda Semple (St. Francis Xavier University): Christian Model, Mission Realities: the business of regularizing sexuality in mission communities in late 19C north India

15.45-16.00 Break 16.00 17.30 Panel 3: Complicating Colonial Domesticities and Sexualities Fae Dussart (Sussex): Title TBC Chie Ikeya (National University of Singapore): Forbidden Intimacies: intermarriage, race and cultural difference in colonial Burma Amanda Hendrix-Komoto (Ann Arbor): Title TBC 17.30 - 18.30 Wine reception 20.00 Conference Dinner [not included in the conference fee]

Day 2: Tuesday 6 September 2011

10.00-10.45 Keynote 3 Elizabeth Elbourne (McGill): God and Marriage in the Early NineteenthCentury London Missionary Society: Negotiating Race, Class and Gender in the Choice of Missionary Wives. 10.45 11.00 Break 11.00 12.30 Panel 4: Law, the Family and the Colonial State Hayley Brown (Independent): Challenging the Imperial Family: Divorce in New Zealand Imams of Patna Jack Lord (SOAS): Children, family and the colonial state: authority and autonomy in the Gold Coast c. 1900-1957 12.30 13.30 Lunch 13.30 15.00 Panel 5: Family Separations, Exile and Home: Making and

Breaking Colonial Families Andrew May (University of Melbourne): Families, empire and exile in northeast India Mike Leigh (SOAS): Colonial Families in extremis: the case of Burma in 1942 Jean Smith (University of California): The Fairbridge Memorial College: Child Migration to Southern Rhodesia after the Second World War 15.00 15.15 Break 15.15 16.00 Keynote 4 Elizabeth Buettner (University of York): Revisiting Empire Families and its Public Reception. 16.00 16.15 Break 16.15-17.45 Discussion New Directions in Research 17.45 Conference end 17.45 - 18.30 Optional guided walking tour for delegates Colonial Families in Bloomsbury, London