9:00 – 9:30 Arrival and Registration. Tea & Coffee.
9:30 – 9:45 Introduction
9:45 – 10:30
Keynote Address
Prof. Peter Larkham
(Birmingham City University)
The rebuilding of post-war Britain: radical future or more of the same?
10:30 – 11:00 Tea & Coffee
PANEL ONE: Practicalities, Policy and Pragmatism in Transition from War to Post-War
Chair: Dr Juliette Pattinson (University of Kent)
11:00 – 11:30
Dr Martina Metzger
Bombing Impact and Transition Process in Berlin and London (1944-1949)
11:30 – 12:00
Charlie Hall
(University of Kent)
New Armouries and New Enemies: The Exploitation of German Science and Technology and the Start of the Cold War Arms Race
12:00 – 12:30
Beth A. Healey
(Northwestern University)
The Business of Murder: Tesch & Stabenow and the Zyklon B Trial 12:30 –
1:30 Lunch
PANEL TWO: The Memory and Experience of the Second World War in the former Eastern Bloc
Chair: TBC
1:30 – 2:00
Markus Wahl
(University of Kent)
‘Persons with frequent promiscuous behaviour’: Sex, STIs and the Transition of the Youth in Post-War East Germany
2:00 – 2:30
Dr Paulina Gulińska-Jurgiel
(Martin Luther University, Halle)
Transitional Justice in Post War Poland: Semantics, Law and Institutions
2:30 – 3:00
Krystyna Wieszczek
(University of Southampton)
The Dualities of Transition: George Orwell and Poland
3:00 – 3:30 Tea & Coffee
PANEL THREE: Politics of Remembrance: Using Memories of the Second World War for Political Ends
Chair: Dr Lucy Noakes (University of Brighton)
3:30 – 4:00
Dr Christopher Knowles
(King’s College, London)
From the desperate struggle against fascism to post-war social democracy: links between British and German socialists before, during and after the war
4:00– 4:30
Dr David Adams
(Birmingham City University)
Unearthing the promising and unsettling memories of the post-Second World War reconstruction
4:30 – 5:15
Plenary Discussion:
The Legacy and Commemoration of the End of the Second World War
Chair: Dr Stefan Goebel (University of Kent)
Participants: Prof. Peter Larkham (BCU), Dr Lucy Noakes (Brighton) and Dr Chris Knowles (KCL).
5:15 – 6:00 Wine Reception