Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Corinna Radke and Paolo Chiocchetti (Web)
Time: 12.-14.12.2024
Venue: Berlin
Proposals by: 06.06.2024
The conference will provide an interdisciplinary forum to reassess the significance of border-making in the United Kingdom, both empirically (administrative, societal, and cultural boundaries within the UK as well as between the UK and the rest of the world), historically, and theoretically (concepts, methods, and interdisciplinary dialogue in British Studies). It will include keynote speeches and panels organized in four strands: (1) devolution; (2) (post-)colonial legacies; (3) the UK in Europe; (4) UK divisions: early 20th and early 21st centuries compared. Catharine Barnard (Cambridge), Michael Kenny (Cambridge) and Insa Koch (St Gallen) have already confirmed their keynote addresses, and the organisers are hoping to hear shortly from Virinder Kalra (Warwick) and David Olusoga (Manchester).
The organisers welcome established and early career scholars from all disciplines of the broad field of British Studies, including but not limited to British Literature, Cultural Studies, History, Law, Ethnology, Political Science, Sociology, Economics, Media Studies, International Relations, Anthropology, Art History, Geography, Border Studies, and Gender Studies.
Speakers without sufficient institutional funding can apply for the reimbursement of travel and accommodation expenses. The organisers plan to publish a selection of papers in an edited publication (special issue and/or edited volume) and are seeking funding for the conference.
Please send your short paper proposal (title, author, position, affiliation, e-mail, 250-word abstract, up to 5 keywords, proposed strand, estimate of total conference expenses, amount requested from the organizers) as a pdf format to Corinna Radke (corinna.radke@staff.hu-berlin.de) by the deadline of 6 June 2024. Informal inquiries can be sent to Paolo Chiocchetti (paolo.chiocchetti@hu-berlin.de) (Web).
Source: Gender Campus