| Time | Detail |
| 9-10am | Registration |
| 10-11.30am | Understanding Britishness – An Overview
(Main lecture hall – Canalside West) Professor Christopher G. A. Bryant (University of Salford) Professor Susan Condor (University of Lancaster) Professor Tariq Modood (University of Bristol) |
| 11.30-11.45am | Coffee Break |
| 11.45-1.15pm | Session 1 |
| Top of page Panel 1 Literatures and Languages: Perspectives on Britishness in Postcolonial Literatures Christian Hogsbjerg (University of York)
‘The ‘Britishness’ of the young C.L.R. James; Fabianism, Liberal Humanism, Puritanism and Victorianism in colonial Trinidad’ Meenakshi Sharma (Institute of Management Technology, India)
‘The Empire of English and Its Legacy: A Citizenship of the Mind’ Katharine Burkitt (University of Salford)
‘A World Away: The construction of Britain and Britishness in the work of Derek Walcott and David Dabydeen’ |
| Top of page Panel 2 Teaching the Nation? Representations of Britishness in Schools Amy Von Heyking (University of Lethbridge)
“Proud to call themselves Englishmen”: Representations of Britishness in Twentieth Century English-Canadian Schools Prem Kumari Srivastava (University of Delhi)
British Popular Fiction in an Indian Classroom: A View from the ‘Other’ Carsten Quesel, (University of Applied Sciences North-Western Switzerland)
Narratives of Self-Government and National Identity. British Politics in Swiss History Textbooks |
| Top of page Panel 3 Britishness, diasporas, and tourism Jody Mellor (University of York)
Pakistani Diaspora: Class, Ethnicity and Cultural Capital Thomas Thurnell-Read (University of Warwick)
‘Here comes the drunken cavalry’: Managing and negotiating the Britishness of all-Male tours in Eastern Europe Hazel Andrews (Liverpool John Moores University)
Views from Abroad: Britishness in Charter Tourism |
| Top of page Panel 4 Projecting the nation(s): Celebrating Britishness Nick Groom (University of Exeter)
What is the future of the Union, Jack? Kelli Moore (James Madison University)
Whither to celebrate Whiteness: Bonding and the inclusion of ‘white’ as ethnicity? Arthur Aughey (University of Ulster) and Christine Berberich (University of Derby)
Englishness versus Britishness: Three perspectives of national identity |
| 1.15-2.15pm | Lunch (Castle Hill Suite) – Presentation by students of Tischner European University, Krakow: Young Poles and Britishness |
| 2.15-3.15pm | Keynote Speaker – Professor Krishan Kumar (Quayside lecture hall) |
| 3.15-3.45pm | Coffee Break |
| 3.45-5.15pm | Session 2 |
| Top of page Panel 1 Literatures and Languages: Perspectives on Britishness from Africa Francoise Ugochukwu (Open University)
From Nwana to Adichie – Britishness goes full circle in Nigerian Literature Feyisayo Ademola-Adeoye (University of Lagos)
The Role of English Language and British Identity in Nigeria. Marlene Briggs (University of British Columbia)
Post-traumatic Citizenship? Legacies of Empire and World War I in Doris Lessing's Writings on Southern Rhodesia |
| Top of page Panel 2 Britishness in three continents in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries Anna Gust (University College London)
Ideologies of ‘Britishness’ in Bombay’s colonial society (c.1792-1830) Roberto Zaugg (Istituo Italiano di ScienzeUmane)
Separateness and Cosmopolitanism?: British Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Naples Antoine Mioche (Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Britishness — the imperial vision of Sir William Knox (1732-1810) |
| Top of page Panel 3 ‘Home or Away’?: Britishness in Australia Jim Hammerton (La Trobe University, Melbourne)
Thatcher’s Refugees: Shifting Identities Among Late 20th Century British Emigrants Heather-Ann Forrest (University of New England)
Brand Britain: Representations of ‘Britishness’ in Australian trade marks Ben Wellings (Australian National University)
The English in Australia: a non-nation in search of an ethnicity? |
| Top of page Panel 4 Visions of 19th century Britishness Bennett Zon (University of Durham)
Representing Non-Western Music in Nineteenth-Century Britain Paloma Tejada Caller (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Negotiating future action: Competing discourses on Anglo-Saxon English origins in 19th century Spain Sumita Mukherjee and Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford)
Making Britain: South Asian Diasporic Impacts on British cultural identity, 1870-1950 |
| 7-8pm | Drinks reception – launch of Political Studies Association Britishness Group (guest speaker - Shahid Malik MP) |
| 8-10pm | Conference Dinner (keynote speaker – Professor Stuart Ward) |
| Time | Detail |
| 9.30-11.00am | Session 3 |
| Top of page Panel 1 (Re)Imagining Britishness: The Views from Abroad Atsuko Ichijo (Kingston University)
The power of island imagery: Representations of Britain in Japan Lesley Anne Claudio, Ayee Macaraig, and Hubert Pacheco (Ateneo de Manila University)
Prim and Improper: A Case Study on Filipino Youth’s Perceptions of Britishness based on Popular Culture Ebere Innocent Uwah (Dublin City University)
‘Britishness’ in Nollywood: The Construction of European Identity in Nigerian Films |
| Top of page Panel 2 Literatures and Languages: Perspectives on Britishness from Literary History ZsuzsannaAjtony (Sapientia University, Romania)
‘Ye quaint little islanders - Britishness from an external perspective’ Danny Robinson (Bloomsburg University)
‘England from a New England Perspective: The Passionate Ambivalance of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry James’ David Rudrum (University of Huddersfield)
‘The Mysterious Case of the English Murder: The Britishness of Crime Writing’ |
| Top of page Panel 3 Visitors and travellers: Exploring (British) identity and character Charles Reed (University of Maryland)
Respectable Subjects of the Queen: Royal Tours of Southern Africa and Imperial Citizenship, 1860-1901 Ruth Craggs (University of Nottingham)
Constructing the Commonwealth character: contact and comradeship on the Comex expeditions 1965-1973 Asli Yazici Yakin (University of Ankara)
Empires apart: Notes of two Turkish Travellers on Britainbetween 1930-60 |
| Top of page Panel 4 Understanding Britishness through sport Danielle Sarver (Kent State University) and Anne Osbourne (Louisiana State University)
British Sport, American Owner: Examining the impact and implications of American Ownership at Aston Villa Football Club Kath Woodward (Open University)
British Fair Play: Sport across Diasporas at the BBC World Service Paper three to be confirmed |
| 11-11.15am | Coffee Break |
| 11.15-12.15 | Keynote Speaker –Professor Sir Bernard Crick |
| 12.15-13.30 | Lunch and plenary presentation from British Council – Vron Ware (Open University), Nick Wadham-Smith (British Council) and Tamara Van Kessel (University of Amsterdam) |
| 13.30 - 15.00 | Session 4 |
| Top of page Panel 1 Diasporas and diffusion: Cultures of Britishness here and there Elizabeth Carnegie (University of Sheffield)
‘Every line of strength in American History is a line coloured with Scottish blood’: Scotland and the New World Diaspora Valerie Johnson (Kings College, London)
Imperial transfer? British multinationals and the paradox of British identity Angela McCarthy (University of Otago)
Scottishness and Britishness among New Zealand’s Scots Since 1840 |
| Top of page Panel 2 Britishness and Irishness Leigh-Ann Coffey (Queen’s University, Canada)
Abandoned Subjects: Loyalists in the Irish Free State, 1921-37 Thomas Hennessey (Canterbury Christ Church University)
Britishness in Ireland John Nagle (University of Ulster)
Multiculturalism’s Double-bind: the case of the London Irish |
| Top of page Panel 3 Projecting Britishness in the media Catherine Puzzo (University of Toulouse)
French national newspapers on Britishness: is there any representation of a British national identity for French readers? Marc Stanton (Edge Hill University)
Knowing You, Knowing Me: An Investigation into the presentation of developing nations by British Television News Karine Tournier-Sol (University of Toulon)
Britishness and European Integration since 1997 in the French Media |
| Top of page Panel 4 Britishness, education and understanding community Dina Kiwan, Birkbeck College, University of London
Constructions of ‘community’, ‘participation’, and ‘citizenship’: women’s experiences in multicultural London Alan Sears, (University of New Brunswick), Ian Davies (University of York) and Alan Reid (University of South Australia)
From Britishness to Nothingness and Back Again: Looking for a Way Forward in Citizenship Education Rhys Andrews (University of Cardiff), Mark Hearn (McQuarie University), Catherine McGlynn (University of Huddersfield) and Andrew Mycock (University of Huddersfield)
History teaching and identity: A comparison of young people in Australia and England |
| 15.00-15.15 | Coffee break |
| 15.15-16.45 | Session 5 |
| Top of page Panel 1 The Enduring Legacy of Britishness David Levey and Carmen Fernandez (University of Cadiz)
‘Somos britanicos’: National identity in Gibraltar Michael Belgrave (Massey University)
New Zealand and the End of Empire Siu-Han Chan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
On the One End of the Pendulum: Britishness in Colonial and the Post-Colonial Hong Kong |
| Top of page Panel 2 Displaying Britishness in Print, Film and Dress Mandy Kretzschmar (University of Leipzig)
Mother Britain and the Little Boy of Manly - Depictions of Britishness in the Australian print media Damayanthie Eluwawalage (Missouri State University)
Britishness, Social Attitudes, Clothing Practices and Colonial Distinctiveness in the Colony of Western Australia Annamaria Motrescu (University of London, Birkbeck College)
Instances of trans-national Britishness in colonial amateur films: the British Raj |
| Top of page Panel 3 Britishness, community and immigration Deepak Sawhney (Saint Mary’s College of California)
‘England is mine and it owes me a living’: immigration, emigration and identity in post-imperial Britain Paul Watt (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Under Siege in London Suburbs: Britishness, Racisms and the loss of local and national imagined communities Paul Thomas and Pete Sanderson (University of Huddersfield)
Young People, Community Cohesion and the meaning of Britishness Sarah Abramson (London School of Economics)
Anglo-Jewry, Continuity, and Beyond the ‘Other’: (Re) Negotiating a Controversial Position as Ethnic- White British Citizens |
| Top of page Panel 4 Literatures and Languages: Perspectives on Britishness in Contemporary Fiction Juan Perez-Ramos (Open University)
The view from Spain: re-imagining Britain in Javier Marías’s All Souls Jekaterina Haritonenko and Pavels Gavrilovs (University of Latvia)
Britishness as a Product: Julian Barnes’s materialized phobia María del Mar Ruiz (University of Almeria)
Hanif Kureishi’s Construction of Britishness |
| 16.45-18.00 | Concluding plenary session: Professor Stefan Berger (University of Manchester) Professor Krishan Kumar (University of Virginia) Dr Andrew Mycock (University of Huddersfield). |
| ***** End of Conference – Safe Home ***** |
