Friday, 19 May 2023
Early Career Workshop
09.00–10.00
Panel I: 19. Jahrhundert (chair: Jonas Breßler)
Felicia Kompio (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): Local spaces of protest and order in Bristol at the time of the Queen Square Riots
Claudio Soltmann (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Hannibal Evans Lloyd as a Cultural Mediator between Britain and the German States: The Case of the London Literary Gazette (1817–1827)
10.00
Coffee Break
10.30–11.30
Panel II: Erster Weltkrieg und Zwischenkriegszeit (Chair: Lea Levenhagen)
Sarah Fißmer (Universität Bonn): Framing Reconciliation on the Western Front: The Discourse of Reconciliation in Current British Remembrance Practices at First World War Lieux de Mémoire
Chantal Sohrwardy (Technische Universität Dresden): Britische Kriegskameradschaft 1914–1938. Emotionen, Praktiken und Narrative.
Jonas Breßler (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz): Francos Freunde im Westen – Die westeuropäische radikale Rechte und der Spanische Bürgerkrieg
Main Conference
12.00
Registration
12.30
Kirsten Forkert (Birmingham City University) / Marius Guderjan (Freie Universität Berlin): Welcome: Political Culture and Culture Politics in Perspective
13.00
Panel I: Imaginaries (chair: Hannah Jones)
Paolo Chiocchetti (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin): The Convergence of Brexit and Partisan Identities: Ideological Sorting or Adaptation?
John Clarke (Open University): Defending “Our History”: Contested National Imaginaries in the UK
Zaki Nahaboo (Birmingham City University): Unforeignness “After” Empire: A Genealogy of British Citizenship
Daniel Ziesche (Chemnitz University of Technology): Class, ‘Valence’, and Emotions in English and German Political Culture
15.00
Coffee Break
15.30
Panel II: Practices (chair: Kirsten Forkert)
Marc Geddes (University of Edinburgh): Parliamentary Traditions in the UK: Exploring Beliefs, Practices and Dilemmas to Explain Change and Continuity in the House of Commons
Nikolai Wehrs (Universität Konstanz): Omnishambles! The Decline of the Civil Service Tradition and the Ascent of Party-Political Special Advisers in the United Kingdom since the 1970s
Hannah Jones (Warwick University) and Christy Kulz (Technical University Berlin): “Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack”, Generation Z: Children and young people’s political and civic responses to Britain’s “culture wars”
Pierre d’Alancaisez (Birmingham City University): The Long March through the Institutions at the Crossroads: What Next for Cultural Politics?
17.45
Award of the AGF dissertation prize
18.00
Keynote Lecture
Maria Grasso (Queen Mary University of London): Political Generations, Socialisation and Changing Values in the UK
19.30
Reception
Saturday, 20 May 2023
09.30
Panel III: Ideologies (chair: Christy Kulz)
Carlo de Nuzzo (Sciences Po Paris): Right-wing Populism: Style or Doctrine?
Sebastian Althoff (University of Paderborn): “I detest the Tories”: The Discursive and Affective Boundaries of Democratic Debates
Alan Convery (University of Edinburgh): Neverland: The Strange Non-Death of Cakeism in Conservative Thought on Europe
Antonios Souris (Freie Universität Berlin): Cooperative federalism, multiparty governments, and populism in Germany
11.30
Discussion: Political Culture – What’s next?
Kirsten Forkert (Birmingham City University) / Marius Guderjan (Freie Universität Berlin)
12.30
Strategic Meeting of the German Association for British Studies
Christine Krüger (University Bonn)