This conference will explore the different ways in which ideas about race, nation and empire have informed the writing of British history from the late C18th to the present and the ways in which the writing of history is one of the practices that constitutes British people’s ideas of the relation between nation and empire.
Thursday 24th April 2008: The Neale Lecture: Geoff Eley (Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA), ‘What is the imperial imaginary? Britain in Europe and the World, 1815-2003’
The Neale Conference (25-26 April 2008):
Sessions and speakers:
Enlightenment histories: Karen O’Brien/Kathleen Wilson/Brian Young
C19th liberal historians: Theodore Koditschek/Marilyn Lake/Catherine Hall
Pre-1945 historiography: Saul Dubow/Bill Schwarz/Stephen Howe
Reconfiguring nation and empire: the 4 nations: John Mackenzie/Sonya Rose/Mary Hickman
Transnational work now – what place for the national?: Antoinette Burton/Chris Bayly/Mrinalini Sinha
Venue: University College London
For further details/registration see the website
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