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Comparative perspectives on regulating age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930
This is a one-day interdisciplinary conference which aims to explore the debates that led to the reform of age of consent laws around the British Empire during the years 1880 to 1930. The conference is particularly interested in exploring the issues of age of consent and child marriage through interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives in law and history.
The conference will be held at SOAS University of London; more information on the conference can be found here.
The conference will be followed by a drinks reception. Full conference programme:
09.30 - 10.00
Registration and coffee
10:00 - 10.15
Welcome and Opening remarks
Laura Lammasniemi, University of Warwick (UK)
10.15 - 12.15
Panel I: Understanding consent in colonial and racial contexts
Chair: Tanika Sarkar
‘“Of Previously Chaste Character”: Age, Consent, and the Law in Late Nineteenth-CenturyBritish Columbia’
Caitlin Cunningham, Birkbeck College (UK)
‘Cultures of Sex: Age of Consent Laws and the Making of Difference in Colonial Natal’
Nafisa Essop Sheikh, University of Johannesburg (South Africa)
‘Rukhmabai v Dadaji: Trying consent in colonial India’
Kanika Sharma, SOAS University of London (UK)
‘The Problem of African Childhood: Raising the Age of Consent in the Cape Colony,1890-1905’
Liz Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University (USA)
12:15 - 13:15
Lunch (Room S211)
13:15 - 14:45
Panel II: Defining childhood
Chair: Elizabeth Faulkner
‘From Juvenile Offenders to Protected Girls: Raising the Age of Consent in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa’
Sarah Duff, Colby College (USA)
‘Age of Consent and understandings of the Indian child’
Catriona Ellis, University of Edinburgh (UK)
‘“Of Tender Age”: Sexual Crime, Forensic Science, and the Gender of Childhood in Interwar India’
Ishita Pande, Queen’s University (Canada)
14:45 - 15:00
Coffee Break
15:00 - 17:00
Panel III: Age of marriage in the early 20th century
Chair: Laura Lammasniemi
‘Between legal pluralism and child welfare: Child marriage, the British Empire and the League of Nations’
Penny Sinanoglou, Wake Forest University (USA)
‘A “humanitarian question of international interest”: African girls, consent to marriage, and the League of Nations, 1920-1939’
Rhian Keyse, University of Exeter (UK)
‘Sorting girls and women: “coloured”, feminism, colonization and the child marriage restraint act in India’
Tania Sebastian, Vellore Institute of Technology School of Law (India)
‘The Enigma of Consent in Colonial India’
Aparna Bandyopadhyay, Diamond Harbour Women's University (India)
17:00 - 19:00
Wine reception and closing remarks (Room S211)
The conference is generously supported by the SLS and the Economic History Society.
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