17 Jul 2015 | All day | CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DT - SG1&2 |
- Description
- Programme
Description
Please register online for this event.
Conference fee: £20 (full), £10 (students) – includes lunch, tea/coffee
Deadline: 15 July 2015
Twitter Hashtag: #CRASSHdrink
Convener
David Beckingham (University of Cambridge)
Summary
In debates about alcohol in Britain competing ideologies have shaped how people have read the evidence available to them and indeed how they have gone about collecting such evidence. This conference examines the construction and use of such evidence in the control of drinking and drunkenness, taking as its parameters the nineteenth-century and the regulations of World War One.
Scholars working across the social sciences and humanities are invited to address the connection between assessments of the cost of drink – however defined – and attempts to shape policy at local or national scales. By so doing, the conference will offer an important opportunity to consider the evidence base that has informed policy development on the drink question. But it also aims to further our understanding of what counted as evidence and whose evidence could be counted. Examples might include medical analyses, police statistics, brewery and taxation records, insurance calculations, and various religious and moral assessments that attempted to document the social costs of drinking and drunkenness.
Interrogating how these costs were counted will help us understand the trajectory of past regulation as well as holding out the potential for better historically-informed policy debates in the present.
Sponsors
Supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH).
Accommodation for speakers selected through the call for papers and non-paper giving delegates
We are unable to arrange or book accommodation, however, the following websites may be of help.
Visit Cambridge
Cambridge Rooms
University of Cambridge accommodation webpage
Administrative assistance: events@crassh.cam.ac.uk
Programme
FRIDAY 17 JULY 2015 (provisional) | |
9.30-10.00 | Registration |
10.00-11.15 | SESSION 1: POLITICS OF DRINK
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11.15-11.45 | Coffee break |
11.45-12.45 | SESSION 2: COUNTERING THE COSTS OF DRINK
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12.45-13.45 | Lunch |
13.45-14.45 | SESSION 3: WRITING THE COSTS OF DRINK
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14.45-15.15 | Coffee break |
15.15-16.15 | SESSION 4: HOW DRINKING WAS COUNTED
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16.15-16.30 | Short break |
16.30-17.30 | GENERAL DISCUSSION |