20-22 September 2018
Programme of Events
Thursday 20 September 2018
18.00-19.00 Introduction: Jennifer Ballantine Perera (Garrison Library)
Official Welcome: Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia MP
Vote of thanks: Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
19.00 Reception in the Library Garden
Friday 21 September 2018
9.00-11.15 Session 1
Chair: Astrid Rasch (Trondheim)
Yasmin Khan (Oxford):
Indian Dreams in Brexit Britain
Elizabeth Buettner (Amsterdam):
Migration and the Postcolonial EU: Britain and the Netherlands Compared
Camilla Schofield (East Anglia):
‘Let us be a warning’: Brexit Britain, the American Right and the Fall of Europe
11.15-11.45 Break for Coffee
11.45-14.00 Session 2
Chair: Richard Toye (Exeter)
Bill Schwarz (Queen Mary):
The Contraction of England
Neal Ascherson (UCL):
Scotland, Brexit and the persistence of empire
Michael Kenny (Cambridge):
English Nationalism and Brexit: “Britannia Unchained” or Post-Industrial Revolt?
14.00-15.00 Break for Lunch
15.00-16.30 Session 3
Chair: Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
Jamie Trinidad (Cambridge):
Brexit and the Status of the Gibraltar Border
Jennifer Ballantine Perera (Garrison Library):
(Bre)xit or (Bre)entry into the World: the Spirit of Citizenship and Global Britain against the backdrop of Gibraltar
16.30-17.00 Break for Coffee
17.00-18.30 Session 4
Chair: Stuart Ward (Copenhagen)
Keynote: Fintan O’Toole (Irish Times):
The Pleasures of Self-Pity
Saturday 22 September 2018
9.00-11.00 Session 5
Chair: Kalathmika Natarajan (Copenhagen)
Astrid Rasch (Trondheim):
Complexity made simple: Battles over imperial memory in contemporary Britain
Katie Donington (London South Bank):
Relics of empire? Slavery, imperialism, and decolonising the museum
Olivette Otele (Bath):
Memorabilia of the past, Brexit Britain and the re-writing of colonial history
11.00-11.30 Break for Coffee
11.30-13.30 Session 6
Chair: Christian Damm Pedersen (Southern Denmark)
Richard Drayton (KCL):
Bigger vs. Little Britain: God, War, Union, Brexit and Empire in Twenty-first century Conservative ideology
Saul Dubow (Cambridge):
Rhodes Must Fall: Decolonising and the problem of Declension in Circuits of Knowledge
13.30-14.30 Break for Lunch
14.30-16.00 Session 7
Chair: Ezekiel Mercau (Dublin)
R. Toye and D. Thackeray (Exeter):
Imagining Empire 2.0? Brexit and the historical debate about Britain’s economic future
Stuart Ward (Copenhagen):