Bad Habits Workshop 5-6th September 2024

Teelings Whiskey Distillery, 13-17 Newmarket, Dublin 8

Thursday 5th September 

09:00-09:30 – Registration 

09:30-09:45 – Welcome: Steve Taylor/ Alice Mauger, Alchemy Room 

09:45-11:15 – Panel 1: Space and Place, Alchemy Room 

1. Morgan Wait (University College Dublin), “Terrorising the Dance Floor Cannibalising the Poppers”:  Rethinking Intoxication on the Gay Scene in Dublin, 1979-1993 

2. Catherine Arnott Smith (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Certain Subjects: Medical Information in  the Public Library 

3. Mark Ronan (University College Dublin), “Absorbed by the Cesspools”: The functions of Extra Societal Spaces in Modern Addiction Narratives 

11:15-11:45 – Break: Finishing Room 

11:45-13:15 – Panel 2: Religion and Ideology, Alchemy Room 

1. Milorad Lazic (The George Washington University), Social(ist) Hygiene? Regulation of Sexual  Behaviour in Socialist Yugoslavia 

2. Dorota Dias Lewandowska (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences),  “She doesn’t trust the doctor at all”: Priests as Mediators of Medical Knowledge in 19th Century Rural  Poland 

3. Emine Evered (Michigan State University), “Drunk like a Turk”: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity in  Turkey 

13:15-14:00 – Lunch: Finishing Room 

14:00-15:00 – Panel 3: Cultures and Constructions, Alchemy Room 

1. Fabiola Creed (University of Glasgow), “These Ultraviolet Rays Contain Vitamin E…Good for a  Hangover”: “Cowboy” Sunbed Sellers and Consumers, 1983-7 

2. Kyle Evered (Michigan State University), The Bad Habits of White Émigrés in Turkey: The Moral and  Medicalized Scapegoating of Russians from Late Ottoman time into the Present 

15:00-15:30 – Break: Finishing Room 

15:30-16:30– Keynote: Alchemy Room  

Prof. Jim Mills, Chasing Addicts: Phantoms in the Archives, Figures on the Street, University of  Strathclyde 

16:30-17:00 – Break and Discussion of Publication Plans: Finishing Room 

17:00 – Distillery Tour 

19:30 – Workshop Dinner: The Port House, 21 Camden Street Lower, Dublin

Friday 6th September 

10:00-11:30 – Panel 4: Caste and Class, Alchemy Room  

1. Julien Clenet (University College Dublin), “To bet or not to bet”: Gambling and Sport in Nineteenth Century Dublin 

2. Harsha VS (Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit), Good or Bad? A Hidden History of Food  Hierarchy in Colonial Malabar 

3. Gita Bania (University of Hyderabad), Criminalizing Marginality: Exploring the Nexus of Cannabis  Consumption and Crime in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Colonial India 

11:30-11:45 – Break: Finishing Room 

11:45-13:15 – Panel 5: Conduct and Consequence, Alchemy Room  

1. Dan O’Neil (University of Nottingham), “The ship must be sunk and the sailor drowned”: Masculinity  and Health in British Cigarette Marketing, 1950-1970 

2. Braden Neihart (Community College of Aurora), Forest for the Trees: Inebriation in American Ski  Culture 

3. Jeremiah Garsha (University College Dublin), Forces of Habit: Bad Behaviour in Times of Empire 13:15-14:00 – Lunch: Finishing Room 

14:00-15:00 – Panel 6: Drugs/Stimulants, Alchemy Room  

1. Peder Clark (University of Strathclyde), “£12 trip to an evil night of Ecstasy”: Tabloid Sub-editors on  Drugs in Nineties Britain 

2. Fabienne Gallaire (Independent Scholar), Bitter Draughts: On a Few Campaigns Against Modern  Stimulants 

15:00 – Workshop Finish