Friday, 19 May
14.00 – 14.30 Arrival & Registration
14.30 – 15.00 Welcome & Opening Remarks
Christiane Eisenberg, Director of the Centre for British Studies
Bernhard Dietz, President of the ADEF
Convenors:
Julia Eichenberg, Humboldt University Berlin
Tobias Becker, German Historical Institute
Daniel Steinbach, University of Exeter
15.00 – 17.00 Session I: Competitive Collaboration
Chair: Christiane Eisenberg, HU Berlin
Axel C. Hüntelmann, Charité, Berlin: The Foundation and early Establishment of Public Health Institutions in Germany and Britain around 1900
Volker Barth, Köln: Competing Partners: The Global Collaboration between Reuters and Wolff, 1859-1934
Chris Bannister, University of London: The War of Words in the River Plate: Propaganda in Argentina during the Second World War
Tea Break
17.30 – 19.00 Keynote Lecture
Gaynor Johnson, University of Kent: Twentieth Century British Foreign Policy and the German Question
19.00 – 20.00 Drinks Reception
Saturday, 20 May
9.00–11.00 Session II: Post-War Re-encounters
Chair: Wencke Meteling, University of Marburg
Ben Holmes, University of Exeter : ‘To give hope must be our mission above everything else’: British Humanitarian Aid to post-war Germany, 1919-1925
Tara Windsor, University of Birmingham: ‘If the students are cooperating today, surely there is hope for tomorrow!’: Student Associations and German-British Exchange after the First World War
Emily Oliver, University of Warwick: ‘Fagin in Berlin Provokes a Riot’: Anti-Semitism and Anglo-German Relations in Occupied Germany
Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.30 Session III: Imperial Connections
Chair: Bernhard Dietz, Mainz
Marine Fiedler, Bern / Sciences Po: Being a ‘Singaporer’ from Hamburg: The Relationships of a Hanseatic Family with the Britons of Singapore, 1840-1914
Daniel Steinbach, University of Exeter: Nation – Race – Empire: Britons and Germans in Colonial Africa
Jan Rüger, Birkbeck - University of London: Anglo-German Smuggling; or: Writing Europe into the History of the British Empire
13.30 – 14.00 Final Discussion & Closing Remarks
14.00 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 onwards General Meeting of the ADEF
(ADEF members only)