Day 1: Monday 28th June 2021

 

1.00pm – 1.15pm – Welcoming Remarks

 

1.15pm – 2.15pm – Panel 1

 

Panel 1: Material culture

 

Dr Charlie Taverner (TCD): London’s hawkers and the technology of street food

 

Eliza McKee (QUB): ‘They go around the country making in the homes of the people’: travelling tailors and the production of men’s clothing in rural Ireland, c. 1850-1914

 

2.15pm – 2.30pm – Break

 

2.30pm – 4.00pm – Panel 2

 

Panel 2: Space

 

Freya Purcell (V&A/RCA): Time and space in a dish: how daily routine shaped the 18th century saloop stall

 

Lívia Louzada de Toledo Pugliese and Heliana Comin Vargas (USP): Work in the digital age and the impact on urban dynamics

 

Léa Leboissetier (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon): “They undoubtedly meet a distinct want” reassessing the role of pedlars and hawkers in post-1850s British metropolises and coastal cities (1870s-1940s)

 

4.00pm – 4.15pm – Break

 

4.15pm – 5.15pm – Panel 3

 

Panel 3: Temporalities

 

Professor Molly Warsh (University of Pittsburgh): ‘“Harpies”, “men who look like Caribs”, and tuna: perspectives on human and natural migrations in the early Iberian Atlantic’

 

Margaret Ritchie (Independent): Image and identity gendered aspects of seasonal contract workers in the British herring curing trade, 1880-1939

 

 

5.15 – 5.30pm – Break

 

5.30 – 6.30pm – Keynote 1

 

Professor Laurence Fontaine (DR CNRS): Itinerant merchants between networks of migration and survival strategy in Early Modern Europe

 

 

Day 2: Tuesday 29th June 2021

 

11.00 – 12.15pm – Panel 4

 

Panel 4: Representations

 

Ariane Mak (University of Paris): ‘I’m not really a costermonger you know”: from coster to market man in interwar Lambeth

 

Susan Curley Meyer (UCD): The visual and material culture of street trading in Dublin: women and working clothes

 

Dr Alison Toplis (Wolverhampton): Smocked and with ringlets – was the ‘Peculiar’ attire of navvies actually that strange?

 

 

12.15 – 1.00pm – Lunch break

 

1.00pm – 2.00pm – Keynote 2:

 

Professor Victoria Kelley (University for the Creative Arts): Markets on the move in London, c. 1850-1939: legal, economic and cultural dimensions of mobility in informal street selling  

 

2.00 – 2.15pm – Break

 

2.15 – 3.15pm – Panel 5

 

 

Panel 5: Push/pull factors

 

Sergio Molina Garcia (UCLM): The Social and labour conditions of Spanish seasonal rice-pickers in France

 

Nina Trige Andersen (Society for Labour History (SFAH), Denmark): Drummers, dreamers, and circuits of labour: a new perspective on the emergence of the Philippine state as a broker of workers to the world

 

3.15pm – 3.30pm – Break

 

3.30pm – 4.30pm – Panel 6

 

Panel 6: Host societies

 

Dr Konstantina Andrianopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens): A profile of Greek Orthodox migration to Istanbul in the mid 19th century

 

Cathal Burke O’Leary (DCU): The impact of revolution on attitudes towards Irish immigrants and labourers in Scotland, 1916-1923

 

4.30 – 4.45pm – Break

 

4.45pm – 6.15pm – Keynote 3:

 

Professor Johanna Wassholm (Åbo Akademi University):: Transnational mobile trade and ethnicity in the Nordics, 1800-1950

 

Anna Sundelin (Åbo Akademi University): Material culture and mobile trade in Europe’s northern periphery, 1840-1940

 

6.15– 6.30pm – Closing Remarks