Nikolai Wehrs, FB Geschichte und Soziologie, Lehrstuhl für Zeitgeschichte, Universität Konstanz
All times in CEST
Friday, 11 June, 2021:
10.30 – 11.30 am
Welcome by the organisers / Social gathering in Breakout Rooms
Introduction by Nikolai Wehrs (Konstanz)
11.30 am – 1.00 pm
Keynote by Peter Mandler (Cambridge):
What (and When) Is "National Identity"? The History of an Idea in British Public Discourse since 1945
Introduction & Moderation: Almuth Ebke (Mannheim)
1.00 – 2.00 pm
Lunch break (optional: informal talks in Breakout Rooms)
2.00 – 3.30 pm
Panel I: “England Your England” – National Identity and the Question of Citizenship
Chair: Daniel Larsen (Cambridge)
Stephen E. Foose (Marburg): The British Passport – An Object of Identification between National and Imperial Belonging in England and Jamaica, 1948-1962
Isabelle-Christine Panreck (Dresden): Englishness, Scottishness and Britishness in the Curriculum. How Discourses on National Identity Shape “Citizenship Education” in the UK
Comment: Emily Robinson (Sussex)
3.30 – 4.00 pm
Tea and Coffee (optional: informal talks in Breakout Rooms)
4.00 – 5.30 pm
Panel II: “Empire Builders Reduced to Clerks”? The Experience of Decolonization
Chair: Martin Rempe (Konstanz)
Theo Williams (Durham): Pan-Africanism, George Orwell, and reconciling anti-imperialism with British patriotism
Lena Jur (Marburg): Children of Decolonization – Adoptions of coloured children in the United Kingdom, ca. 1948-1980
Comment: Julia Angster (Mannheim)
6.00 – 7.30 pm
Roundtable: The Orwell factor – British Intellectuals and the issue of collective identity since World War II
Chair: Anja Hartl (Konstanz)
Stefan Collini (Cambridge)
Charlotte Lydia Riley (Southampton)
Peter Stansky (Stanford)
Saturday, 12 June 2021:
9.00 – 10.30 am
Panel III: “The Gentleness of the English Civilization” – Marking National Identity in Popular Culture
Chair: Sven Reichardt (Konstanz)
Sina Schuhmaier (Mannheim): Competing Stories – On the ‘Englishness’ of British Popular Music
Felix Fuhg (Berlin): Made in Britain? National Identity, Transnational Fashion and the Rise of Multiculturalism in the 1960s
Comment: Dietmar Süß (Augsburg)
10.30 – 11.00 am
Tea and Coffee (optional: informal talks in Breakout Rooms)
11.00 am – 12.30 pm
Panel IV: “The English Revolution” – British Democracy, Brexit and the Question of Sovereignty
Chair: Sina Steglich (London)
Mathias Häußler (Regensburg): Little Britain or Great Europe? British attitudes towards EC membership prior to 1973
Robert Saunders (London): "Losing Sovereignty": Democracy and Identity on the Road to Brexit
Comment: Martina Steber (München)
12.30 – 13.00 pm
Final Discussion
Input by Almuth Ebke (Mannheim)