Wednesday, 27 September
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1-3, 10117 Berlin
Brexit: Social, Political and Cultural Disintegration?
17.00
Public Panel Discussion:
John Clarke
Maria Sobolewska
Paul Taggart (t.b.c.)
Chair: Rebecca Bramall
18.30
Reception
Thursday, 28 September
Conference, Centre for British Studies, Mohrenstraße 60, 10117 Berlin
Populism, Political Parties, Political Extremism
09.30
Rebecca Bramall: Tax in the Populist Imaginary
Marius Guderjan & Adrian Wilding: Brexit Populism – Disenfranchisement and Agency
Ben Pitcher: Antiracism, Right-Wing Populism and the ‘Political Establishment’
Chair: Allan Cochrane
11.00
Coffee Break
Devolution, New Borders, Fragmentation I
11.15
Kevin Bean: ‘Break for the Border?’ – Brexit, Northern Ireland and the Future of the United Kingdom
Paul Carmichael & Derek Birrell: Brexit, Devolution and Northern Ireland's Political Parties: Differential Solutions, Special Status or Special Arrangements?
Allan Cochrane: From Brexit to the Break-Up of Britain?
Chair: Steven Truxal
12.45
Lunch at Restaurant ChaCha
Devolution, New Borders, Fragmentation II
14.00
Hugh Mackay: Elites in Wales
Jennifer Jacob: Towards Little England Research? Consequences of Brexit on UK Higher Education
Megan Foster, Marius Guderjan, Yuliia Horovetska & Samuel Müller: The UK and the EU in 2030
Chair: Carlo Morelli
15.30
Coffee break
Migration, Racism, Xenophobia
15.45
Magdalena Nowicka: Uni-Culti Myths and Liberation Dreams – Poles in Britain on Brexit-Effects
Gesa Stedman & Jessica Fischer: Literature, Cultural Exchange and Migration from the 17th-21st Century
Arne Gutsche: Migration and Political Participation – Eligibility to Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum and the British EU Referendum
Chair: Jürgen Schlaeger
17.15
Rounding-off Session
Chair: Gesa Stedman
18.30
Conference Dinner
Friday, 29 September
Conference Continued and Network Meetings, Centre for British Studies
Parallel Conceptual Workshops
9.30
a) Agency
b) Representation and Recognition
10.45
Presentation and Discussion of Workshop Findings
11.30
Coffee Break
Network Meeting
11.45
Chair: Gesa Stedman
12.45
Lunch
Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)