Levke Harders, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften und Europäische Ethnologie / Center Interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung Innsbruck, Universität Innsbruck
Thursday, 26 April 2018
1:30 pm
Arrival & Registration
2 pm
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Andreas Gestrich (London, Director of the GHIL)
Falko Schnicke (London) and Levke Harders (Bielefeld)
2:30 pm
Session 1: Belonging and Nation-building
Timothy Baycroft (Sheffield): Models of Belonging: Historical Reflections
Michael Rowe (London): Imagining the Rhineland: Region and Nation Building in France and Germany
4:30 pm
Session 2: Politics of Representation
Cindy McCreery (Sydney): Crossing the Line: Political, Spatial and Racial Border Crossings in the 1901 British Imperial Royal Tour
Falko Schnicke (London): Performing the Commonwealth: Britain’s First Post-Colonial State Visits to India and Pakistan in 1961
6:15 pm
Floya Anthias (London): Thinking with ‘Belonging’ as an Analytical and Political Prism: Complexities and Translocations
8 pm
Dinner at TAS Restaurant, 22 Bloomsbury St, London WC1B 3QJ (at own expense)
Friday, 27 April 2018
9:30 am
Session 3: Practices and Spaces of Belonging
Ursula Lehmkuhl (Trier): Processes of De- and Re-Territorialization and Practices of Placemaking and Belonging: Theoretical Considerations and Analytical Perspectives in International History
Maiken Umbach (Nottingham): Borders and other Boundaries: Heimat and the Private Photography of Jews and Other Germans in Nazi Germany
11:15 am
Session 4
Migration and Contested Belongings
Levke Harders (Bielefeld): Alsace as Borderlands: Migration and Region in the Nineteenth Century
Anne Winter (Brussels): Non-nationals between Belonging and Expulsion: Cities and ‘Foreigners’ in the Formative Years of the Belgian Kingdom, 1830-1880s
1:45 pm
Session 5: Border Practices
Benjamin D. Hopkins (Washington): Frontier as Practice: Frontier Governmentality along the Nineteenth Century Global Periphery
Sarah Frenking (Göttingen): Practices and Perception of Spatial Ordering: French-German Bordermaking around 1900
3:30 pm
Guided Tour: Migration History in London (in cooperation with the Migration Museum)
6 pm
Philip Murphy (London): Foreigners, Friends and Family: The Conservative Party and the Problem of British National Identity since 1945
7:30 pm
Dinner at the German Historical Institute London
Saturday, 28 April 2018
9:30 am
Session 6: (Post-)Colonial Regions
Julio Decker (Bristol): Transfers, Adaptions, Withdrawals: Contested Spatial Regimes in German Southwest Africa, 1884-1914
Anne-Isabelle Richard (Leiden): Eurafrica and African Belonging in the Late 1940s
11:15 am
Session 7: Empire and Beyond
Amanda Behm (York): Edens of Exclusion: the Anglo-American Pacific and the Fates of the Late-Modern British Empire
Almuth Ebke (Mannheim): Britain 1981: Spheres of Belonging in a Post-Imperial Society
12:45 pm
Reflections on the Conference & Closing Discussion
Gerard McCann (York): Concluding remarks
13:30 pm
End of Conference
There are a limited number of participant/discussant places available on a first come basis. Expressions of interest should be emailed to sterckx@ghil.ac.uk by 19 April 2018. Please note that (free of charge) advance registration is mandatory and that participants will have to make their own travel arrangements.