Thursday, 14 September
1.00 – 1.45 pm
Welcome by Andreas Gestrich, Director of the German Historical Institute London
Introduction by Tobias Becker (London), Martina Steber (Munich), and Anna von der Goltz (Washington, DC)
Panel 1: Conservatism on Screen: Film and TV
Chair: Tobias Becker (London)
1.45 – 3.00 pm
Maya Pinhasi (Tel Aviv): American Conservatism and the Making of Corporate Hollywood
Nikolai Wehrs (Konstanz): “Yes Minister”. A Popular Sitcom as an Educational Medium for Thatcherism?
3.00 – 3.30 pm Tea and Coffee
3.30 – 5.00 pm
Andre Dechert (Augsburg): Longing for the Past. Conservatism and Changing US-American Family Values, 1981-1992
Michael Hill (Heidelberg): Old England. Constructions of Britain and Britishness in German Popular Conservatism, 1970-2000
6.00 – 8.00 pm
Roundtable Discussion
Cultures of Conservatism in an Age of Transformation – Interpreting Conservatism between the 1970s and 1990s
Chair: Christina von Hodenberg (London)
Discussants: Andy Beckett (The Guardian), Frank Bösch (Potsdam), Bethany Moreton (Dartmouth)
Friday, 15 September
Panel 2: Consumer Cultures
Chair: Alexander Sedlmaier (Bangor)
9.30 – 11.00 am
Lawrence Black (York): Handbooks of Conservatism
Amanda Eubanks Winkler (Syracuse): Andrew Lloyd Webber and Thatcherite Arts Policy
11.00 – 11.30 am Tea and Coffee
11.30 am – 1.00 pm
Matthew Francis (Birmingham): ‘The Spiritual Ballast Which Maintains Responsible Citizenship’: Property, Private Enterprise, and Thatcher's Nation
Reinhild Kreis (Mannheim): Conservative Practices. Lifestyles, Consumption, and Protest in 1970s and 1980s West Germany
1.00 – 2.00 pm Sandwich Lunch
Panel 3: Business Cultures
Chair: Jenny Pleinen (Augsburg)
2.00 – 4.00 pm
Bethany Ellen Morton (Dartmouth College): Between God and Wal-Mart
Marcia Chatelain (Washington, D.C.): Ronald McDonald, Richard Nixon, and the Fast Food Future of Black America
Bernhard Dietz (Washington, D.C.): From “New Class” to “Yuppies”: Managers and Conservatism in the USA, Great Britain and West Germany in the 1970s and 1980s
4.00 – 4.30 pm Tea and Coffee
Panel 4: Countercultures
Chair: Anna von der Goltz (Washington, D.C.)
4.30 – 6.30 pm
Craig Griffiths (Manchester): “Gay Equals Left?” Conservative Responses to Gay Liberation in West Germany and the United States, 1969-1980
Claudia Roesch (Münster): From Right to Life to Operation Rescue – The Re-shaping of Conservative Cultures through the Anti-Abortion Movement in the 1980s USA
Gisa Bauer (Bensheim): Evangelicalism in Western Europe and the USA in 1970s and 1980s
Saturday, 16 September
Panel 5: Cultures of Conservative Internationalism
Chair: Robert Saunders (London)
9.30 – 11.00 am
Martin John Farr (Newcastle): Thatcherism and the Transnationalisation of Conservatism, 1975-1997
Peter Hoeres (Würzburg): Thatcherism and Reaganomics in Germany: The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Conservative Revolutions in the Anglosphere
11.00 – 11.30 am Tea and Coffee
11.30 am – 1.00 pm
Sarah Majer (Potsdam): “Un anarchico conservatore“. Giuseppe Prezzolini and the Redefinition of Italian Conservatism in the 1970s
Johannes Großmann (Tübingen): Conservatism as a Lifestyle? Cross-Border Mobility, Transnational Sociability, and the Emergence of a Transatlantic Conservative Milieu since the Late 1960s
1.00 - 1.30 pm
Final Discussion
Chair: Martina Steber (Munich)