Cultures of Intelligence

Cultures of Intelligence

Veranstalter
Deutsches Historisches Institut, Universität Potsdam, Universität Mannheim, University of Leeds
Veranstaltungsort
Deutsches Historisches Institut London
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
09.06.2016 - 11.06.2016
Deadline
03.06.2016
Website
Von
Prof. Dr .Sönke Neitzel

The workshop will investigate the current state of our understanding of national, international, transnational and comparative cultures of intelligence. Culture may be taken to include the role of intelligence services in society and/or the state, the representation of intelligence in the public sphere, or the interests, assumptions and operating procedures of intelligence. 

The conference will interrogate whether there are distinctive national intelligence cultures. To what extent did co-ordination between national secret service traditions, their various cultural representations in literature and the media, and practical intelligence work, give rise to specific national cultures of intelligence? It will ask whether the intelligence field, by its very functioning, creates the 'secret service disposition' without which it could not function. It will further interrogate the existence of specific national habitats, the durable set of cognitive and affective dispositions rooted in early socialization, the characteristic ways of moving, speaking, and interacting with others that create and sustain the immediate complicity within a culture. The comparison of national cultures will open up the possibility that there is, in fact, an intelligence 'game', constituting an objective transnational complicity which underlies all antagonisms.

To register your interest in attending, please email Carole Sterckx by 3 June: sterckx@ghil.ac.uk

Programm

Thursday 9th June 2016
14:15
Introduction by Andreas Gestrich, GHIL
14:30
Key note: Peter Jackson, Glasgow
Political culture and intelligence structures in France and Britain between the World Wars

15:15
Coffee break
United States – late but efficient? Chair: Michael Wala, Bochum
15:45
Philipp Gassert, Mannheim
America’s Turn toward Internationalism and shifting Discourses on Intelligence
16:30
Bernhard Sassmann, Mannheim
Bureaucratization vs. Publication of the Secret: American Intelligence, Politics and the Media 1914-1947
17:15:
Simon Willmetts, Hull
The OSS Field Photographic Unit: How the OSS used Culture
18:00
end of the first day

Friday 10th June 2015
Britain – the master of Intelligence?
Chair: Matthew Jones, LSE
9:30
Simon Ball, Leeds
Secret Histories: Writing for Power and Influence
10:15
Gerald Hughes, Aberystwyth
A very British Secret Service
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Michael Rupp, Potsdam
A ‘British Way in Warfare’ and the Modern Concept of Intelligence – Professional Discourses on Intelligence in the British Military Periodicals 1919-1939
12:15
Jérme aan de Wiel, Cork
“At every railway terminus there stands at least one G man”. Irish intelligence, red tape and bias, 1900-1916
13:00
Lunch
Chair: Simon Ball, Leeds
14:30
Alan MacLeod, Leeds
The Professionalization of British Intelligence
15:15
Christopher Murphy, Salford
The Man from AUNTIE: Documenting intelligence on the BBC
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Huw Dylan, Kings College
Culture, adaption and change in British intelligence in the transition from world war to Cold War.
17:15
Martin Thomas, Exeter: After the war was over: Franco-Algerian security cooperation in the 1960s
19:30
Conference dinner

Saturday 11th June 2016
Germany – a ‘Sonderweg’ in Intelligence?
Chair: Andreas Gestrich, GHIL
9:30
Frederik Müllers, Potsdam
On honour and spies: Civil and military discourses on intelligence in Germany, 1871-1945
10:15
Markus Pöhlmann, Potsdam
The Evolution of the All-Source Military Intelligence System in Germany, 1890-1918
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Magnus Pahl, Dresden
Typically German? Working methods of Hitler’s military intelligence
Conclusion
12:15
Sönke Neitzel, Potsdam
Was there a national culture of Intelligence?
13:00:
End of the conference

Kontakt

Prof. Dr. Sönke Neitzel

Universität Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam

soenke.neitzel@uni-potsdam.de


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