Tickets for the conference are 100.

Price includes entrance to the film screening of

Les Forces Occultes during the evening of Friday 29 October at University College
London and a wine reception, as well as two buffet luncheons over the conference
weekend. Tickets for the Saturday evening conference dinner are an additional 40.
Cheques should be made payable to the 'CMRC' and sent to: Canonbury Masonic
Research Centre, Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ. Please be
sure to include your name and full contact details (including phone number and
email address) with your payment and state if you have any special dietary
requirements. Please also note that the CMRC does not accept credit card payment.
For further information please contact conference organiser, Matthew Scanlan, on:
Tel: 020 7226 6256
Email: conference@canonbury.ac.uk
Website: www.canonbury.ac.uk
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The conference organisers would like to thank both Lord and Lady Northampton for their generous support.
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Tickets for the conference are 100. Price includes entrance to the film screening of
Les Forces Occultes during the evening of Friday 29 October at University College
London and a wine reception, as well as two buffet luncheons over the conference
weekend. Tickets for the Saturday evening conference dinner are an additional 40.
Cheques should be made payable to the 'CMRC' and sent to: Canonbury Masonic
Research Centre, Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ. Please be
sure to include your name and full contact details (including phone number and
email address) with your payment and state if you have any special dietary
requirements. Please also note that the CMRC does not accept credit card payment.
For further information please contact conference organiser, Matthew Scanlan, on:
Tel: 020 7226 6256
Email: conference@canonbury.ac.uk
Website: www.canonbury.ac.uk
Registered Charity No. 1076548 Company Limited by Guarantee Registered in England No. 3667413
The conference organisers would like to thank both Lord and Lady Northampton for their generous support.
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Tickets for the conference are 100. Price includes entrance to a presentation by
Dr. Annamaria Motrescu of the University of Cambridge: Imperial masonic relations:
freemasonry in amateur flms, at 7pm on Friday 29 October at University College
London, as well as two buffet luncheons over the conference weekend.
Tickets for the Saturday evening dinner are an additional 40.00.
Cheques should be made payable to the CMRC and sent to: Canonbury Masonic
Research Centre, Canonbury Tower, Canonbury Place, London N1 2NQ.
Please be sure to include your name and full contact details (including phone number
and email address) with your payment and state if you have any special dietary
requirements. Please also note that the CMRC does not accept credit card payment.
BACS and IBAN transfer, as well as student reductions, are available on request.
For further information please contact conference organiser,
Matthew Scanlan, on: Tel: 020 7226 6256
Email: conference@canonbury.ac.uk
Website: www.canonbury.ac.uk
Canonbury Masonic Research Centre
XIII International Conference on
22 and 23 October 2011
6 CANONBURY PLACE, LONDON N1 2NQ
Freemasonry
and Empire
The conference organisers would like to thank Lord Northampton for his generous support.
Cover: The Duke of Connaught, Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge of England (1901-39), leading a masonic
procession in Bulawayo, Rhodesia, 1910. Photo courtesy of the Library and Museum of Freemasonry.
Saturday 22 October
9:00 Registration and coffee
9:50 Offcial opening
10:00 Keynote lecturer: Freemasonry across Empires
Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Florida
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Andrew Prescott, Kings College London
Empire, the Craft, culture and the Anglophone Caribbean
Dr. Allison Ramsay, University of the West Indies, Barbados
Western ideology meets Eastern promise: an archival view of the masonic
relationship between Umdat ul Umrah (future Nawab of the Carnatic)
and the Prince of Wales (future King George IV), Grand Master
Susan Snell, Archivist, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London

Freemasonry and the Indian Parsi Community: a late meeting on the level
Simon Deschamps, University of Bordeaux III
Uncharted masonic identities in British colonial amateur flms, 1920 - 1940
Dr. Annamaria Motrescu, Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote lecture: Freemasonry and slavery in the British Empire
Professor Ccile Revauger, University of Bordeaux III
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Dr. Jessica Harland-Jacobs, Associate Professor, University of Florida
Russian Freemasonry, imperial reform and utopianism in eighteenth
and early nineteenth-century imperial Russia
Dr. Yuri Stoyanov, SOAS
Freemasonry in Egypt in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Karim Wissa, Diplomat
Muslim reformers and the British Empire: the masonic affliations of
Jamal ad-din al-afghani and Mohammed Abduh
Said Chaaya, LEcole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EHPE), Paris
Freemasonry in the Congo, 1908-1914. Anti-masonic discourse of the
Catholic missionaries
Jimmy Koppen, Free University of Brussels
16:50 Panel discussion
17:30 Close
19:00 Dinner
Sunday 23 October
10:00 Keynote: Anglo-American masonic relations, 1840 - 1890
Dr. Jim Daniel, University of Sheffeld
10:45 Morning coffee
11:15 Chair: Professor Ccile Revauger, University of Bordeaux III
Iconography of the Imperial lodges
Mark Dennis, Curator, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
Setting the Empire in Stone: Richard, Earl Temple and the building of Stowe
Dr. Joan Coutu, Associate Professor, University of Waterloo
Eighteenth-century masonic halls and the British Empire
Harriet Sandvall, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, London
An Emblem of the Unity of the Empire: Freemasonry and the Imperial
Institute, South Kensington
Frank Albo, Peterhouse, University of Cambridge
12:35 Panel discussion
13:00 Lunch
14:15 Keynote lecture: Curling with Cannonballs: Fratriotism and the negotiation of
identity in Europe
Professor Andrew Prescott, Kings College London
15:00 Afternoon tea
15:30 Chair: Dr. Jim Daniel, University of Sheffeld
The great masonic Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte and the construction of
masonic identities in Europe (1800-1815)
Dr. Eric Saunier, University of Le Havre
Freemasonry and the Central Powers: the 1918 Berlin conference
Reinhard Markner, Berlin
Regimes of territoriality: overseas conficts and inner-European relations,
c.1870-1930
Dr. Joachim Berger, Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz
16:30 Panel discussion
17:00 Close