Posters
The Centre for British Studies produces numerous posters to promote its events and the M.A. British Studies. These can be downloaded here.
Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2022/23 Overview
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Reading with Kit de Waal |
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Symposium |
| 06/02 |
Conflict, competition or cooperation? How historical experience and future choices will shape China's relations with the EU and UK
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| 13/02 |
Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain(Cambridge University Press, 2023) |
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Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2022 OverviewKeynote Lecture The Drawbacks of Political Stability. The British Case Prof Linda Colley Artist Lecture Notes from Lubberland Matthew Cowan
Student Project 2022
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06/12 29/11 22/11 19/11 |
Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2021/22 OverviewMonday Lecture Northern Ireland after Brexit Prof Katy Hayward Public Reading with Okechukwu Nzelu Monday Lecture Can the Anglo-Scottish Union Survive Brexit? Prof Michael Keating One-Day Online Colloquium The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy with Prof David Cannadine |
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12/07 05/07 17/05 |
Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2021 OverviewAn Oxford-Berlin Lecture Money, Books, and the Interpretation of Wills Prof Birke Häcker |
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2020
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| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2020/21 Overview | ||
| Keynote Lecture: Law, Judges, and the Unwritten Constitution. Some Contemporary Issues with Insights from Shakespeare (Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall) | ||
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2020 Overview |
2019
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| Master in British Studies | ||
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2019/20 Overview | ||
| Keynote Lecture: Emotions and the German Peasants' War, 1524-5 (Prof Dr Lyndal Roper) | ||
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2019 - Overview | ||
| The Oxford Berlin Lectures in the Humanities and Social Sciences | ||
| 02/07 | Book Debate: Exodus. Reckoning. Sacrifice. Three Meanings of Brexit | |
| 01/07 | From the Local to the Global Political Meetings and Public Space in England 1700-2000 |
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| 25/06 | Reading: Wales Book of the Year 2017 Winner | |
| 15/06 | All the World’s a Page – How to Travel the World with Literature Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften |
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| 23/05 | Panel Discussion: Brexit – An Ongoing Transition? | |
| 14/05 | Becoming Cosmopolitan: British Literary Culture and the Internationalisation of the Periodical Press around 1900 |
2018
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| Master in British Studies | ||
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2018/2019 - Overview | ||
| 10/12 | Excavations in Homer | |
| 03/12 | Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way | |
| 08/11 | Panel Discussion: Universities Working Together Across Borders in an Era of Nationalism | |
| Series: The Oxford Berlin Lectures in the Humanities and Social Sciences | ||
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2018 - Overview | ||
| 02/07 | Lecture: Stigma Machines (Prof Dr Imogen Tyler) | |
| 28/05 | Lecture: British Building Societies 1970-2010 (Dr Olivier Butzbach) | |
| 02/05 | Lecture: Imaginary Economies - Neoliberal Economy and the Arts (PD Dr Melissa Kennedy) | |
| 24/04 | Lecture: Why Imagined Economies (Prof (em.) John Clarke) | |
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2017/2018 - Overview | ||
| 5/03 | Lecture: Living the Cold War - Memoirs of a British Diplomat (Sir Christopher Mallaby) | |
| 5/02 | Lecture: Living or Leaving Brexit Britain? (Dr Benedicte Brahic) | |
| 22/01 | Lecture: Youth Receptivity to Radical Rigthwing Agendas (Prof Dr Hillary Pilkington) |
2017
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Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2017/2018 - Overview |
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| 29/11 | Lecture: Different Worlds of Social Justice (Prof Dr Cornelius Torp) | |
| 14/11 | Public Reading: The Good Immigrant (Nikesh Shukla) | |
| 9/11 | Keynote Lecture: The 21st Century Mind (Prof Baroness Susan Greenfield) | |
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2017 Overview | ||
| 12/07 | Discussion: The Future of European Integration after Brexit | |
| 03/07 | Lecture: Austerity, Brexit and the Public Mood (Dr Kirsten Forkert) |
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| 26/06 | Lecture: Brexit and the Future of UK Universities (Prof Jan Palmowski) |
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| 19/06 | Lecture: Books, Brexit and Beyond (Jacks Thomas) | |
| 01/06 | Lecture: Brexit and Business Law (Prof Dr Dr h.c. mult. Jürgen Basedow) |
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| 22/05 | Lecture: Northern Ireland and Brexit (Prof Christopher McCrudden) |
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| 02/05 | Lecture: A Vote Against Me (Prof Dr Magdalena Nowicka) | |
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2016/2017 - Overview | ||
| 23/01 | Lecture: Brexit - Xenophobia or Xenophilia? (Prof Helen Cowie) | |
| 09/01 | Lecture: Brexit and the UK Constitution (Prof Alison Young) |
2016
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| Master in British Studies | ||
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2016/2017 - Overview | ||
| 12/12 | Lecture: A Fusion Perspective on Brexit Crisis Management (Prof. Lee Miles) | |
| 05/12 | Keynote Lecture: Sleepwalkers vs Warmongers - The 1914 Debate Revisited (Prof. Sir Christopher Clark) | |
| 7/11 | Lecture: Brexit - The Potential Economic Impacht (Dr. Ulrich Hoppe) | |
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2016 - Overview | ||
| 13/07 | Lecture: Devolution in the UK (Dr.Arjan Schakel) | |
| 29/06 | Lecture: Scotland, the UK and the EU (Dr. Neil McGravey) | |
| 15/06 | Lecture: The Future of Scotland in the UK (Prof. Paul Cairney) | |
| 02/06 | Lecture: Brexit, Could it Happen? (Rt. Hon. Ben Bradshaw) | |
| 23/05 | Lecture: Is Britain Going to Leave the EU? (Prof. Pauline Schnapper) | |
| 21/04 |
Lecture: Comparing and Contrasting the Europeanisation of Regions (Magnus Lindh) |
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| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2015/2016 - Overview | ||
| 06/01 |
Lecture: Britain Counts: Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey - Research from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age (Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh) |
2015
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| Master in British Studies | ||
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2015/2016 - Overview | ||
| 02/11 | Panel Discussion: Austerity and Human Rights in the UK and Europe | |
| 19/11 | Keynote Lecture: The Case for Retaining the UK Human Rights Act (Shami Chakrabarti) | |
| 9/12 | Lecture: The Making of Magna Carta (Dr. Hugh Doherty) | |
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2015 - Overview | ||
| 06/04 | Lecture: 'Let each Woman Play a Woman's Part'. Women and Ulster Unionism (Dr Diane Urquhart) | |
| 05/18 | Lecture: The Shock of the Fall. A Public Reading (Nathan Filer) | |
| 05/12 | Lecture: Britain's Future - in Europe? Consequences of the General Elections for the Country and its Neighbours (Ulrich Storck) | |
| 05/07 |
Lecture: Politics of Well-Being in Britain (Professor Ian Bache) |
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| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2014/2015 - Overview | ||
| 01/26 |
Lecture: Collecting Data. Knowledge Production in British Censuses and Surveys since 1801 (Pd Dr. Kerstin Brückweh) |
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| 01/12 | Lecture: Cultural Threads. Transnational Textiles Today (Prof. Jessica Hemmings) |
2014
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| Master in British Studies | ||
| Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2014/2015 - Overview | ||
| 12/03 | Lecture: The Love of Strangers. Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English `Fin de Siècle´(Dr Stefano Maria Evangelista) | |
| 12/01 | Lecture: After the Scottish Independence Referendum: What now for the Future of the UK? (Dr Gerry Mooney) | |
| 11/21 | Lecture: A Tribute to F.A. Mann (1907 - 1981) | |
| 11/12 | Keynote Lecture: German History for an English-Speaking Public | |
| Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2014 - Overview | ||
| 06/24 | Lecture: The British Literary Marketplace. Prizes for All? | |
| 06/23 | Lecture: Independent Scotland? Causes and Consequences. A Panel Discussion | |
| 06/05 | Lecture: UK Politics and Media - Following Revelations of Mass Surveillance | |
| 05/08 | Lecture: Dawn Oliver - Reforming the United Kingdom Parliament |
2013
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| 01/14 | Panel Discussion: The UK Phone Hacking Scandal |
2012
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| 06/16 | Olympia - Arbeit am Mythos | |
| 06/12 | John Peet - The Euro and the Future of Europe | |
| 01/30 | Erik Swyngedouw - The Ground-Zero of Politics: Musings on the Post-Political Polis | |
| 01/16 | Martin Rowson - Drawing Conclusions: Visual Satire in Britain |
2011
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| 11/07 | Sir Christopher Mallaby - Germany 1990 - the then British Ambassador remembers and reflects | |
| 01/10 | Christian Weikop - The British Reception of German Expressionism |
2010
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| 12/06 | Chris Bennion - Staging the Past: How London‘s Ragged School Museum makes Victorian
education accessible for the schoolchildren of today
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| 11/03 | MP David Willets - The Right Honourable | |
| 10/18 | Professor Sir David Cannadine - Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the 'Special Relationship' in Historical Perspective | |
| 02/01 | Rüdiger Görner - ’Britain, the Land without Music’
Some Reflections on a Prejudice
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| 01/27 | Professor The Lord Watson of Richmond CBE - Jamestown: The Voyage of English |
2009
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| 11/24 | Baroness Ruth Deech, DBE - St Anne‘s College, Oxford University - “Ethics and Embryos: National Comparisons” | |
| 07/06 | Rachel Seiffert - Writer in Residence | |
| 05/28 | Anthony J. Nicholls - University of Oxford - Ups and downs in Anglo-German relations, 1949-2008 | |
| 05/11 | Dr. Vera Alexander (Aarhus University) - Restless in a Flowerbed: A Literary Walk through Kew Gardens | |
| 05/04 | Terry Eagleton - Lancaster University und Galway University - The Death of Criticism? |
2008
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| 12/15 | Gerry Mooney - Open University - Towards the Break-Up of Britain? What's Different This Time? | |
| 12/08 | Mark Britton - British Humour in the German Adventszeit: "Weihnachten in Britton" | |
| 06/02 | Heinz-Gerd Reese - Stiftung Luftbrückendank - Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948-1949 und die Stifung Luftbrückendank | |
| 01/10 | Adam Tooze - University of Cambridge - „Warfare State“ oder „Welfare State“? Deutschland und England zwischen Krise und Krieg 1933-1945 |