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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
01/11

Reading with Kit de Waal

03/11-
04/11

Symposium

Berlin and the BBC

06/02

Conflict, competition or cooperation? How historical experience and future choices will shape China's relations with the EU and UK

 

13/02

Untied Kingdom: A Global History of the End of Britain(Cambridge University Press, 2023)

 

 

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11/07

 


01/07

Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2022 Overview

Oxford-Berlin Lecture Colonial Memory, multicultural commemoration: South Asia, Europe and the First World War Prof Santanu Das

Farewell Lecture In Praise of Betting: Merchant Bets, Capitalism and the Judgement of the People around 1700 Prof Christiane Eisenberg

Keynote Lecture The Drawbacks of Political Stability. The British Case Prof Linda Colley

Monday Lecture "On Not Translating Africa": Jennifer N. Makumbi and the Production of Literary Value Prof Birgit Neumann

Artist Lecture Notes from Lubberland Matthew Cowan

 

Student Project 2022

All(e)in Berlin

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06/12

29/11

22/11

19/11

Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2021/22 Overview

Monday 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 Overview

An Oxford-Berlin Lecture Money, Books, and the Interpretation of Wills Prof Birke Häcker

Monday Lecture Highland Fling Prof Claire Squires

Public Reading with Glenn Patterson

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2020

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2020/21 Overview PDF
  Keynote Lecture: Law, Judges, and the Unwritten Constitution. Some Contemporary Issues with Insights from Shakespeare (Mary Howarth Arden, Lady Arden of Heswall) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2020 Overview PDF
2019

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2019/20 Overview PDF
  Keynote Lecture: Emotions and the German Peasants' War, 1524-5 (Prof Dr Lyndal Roper) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2019 - Overview PDF
  The Oxford Berlin Lectures in the Humanities and Social Sciences

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02/07 Book Debate: Exodus. Reckoning. Sacrifice. Three Meanings of Brexit PDF
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 PDF
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? PDF
14/05 Becoming Cosmopolitan: British Literary Culture and the Internationalisation of the Periodical Press around 1900 PDF
2018

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2018/2019 - Overview PDF
10/12 Excavations in Homer PDF
03/12 Berlin Rules: Europe and the German Way PDF
08/11 Panel Discussion: Universities Working Together Across Borders in an Era of Nationalism PDF
  Series: The Oxford Berlin Lectures in the Humanities and Social Sciences PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2018 - Overview PDF
02/07 Lecture: Stigma Machines (Prof Dr Imogen Tyler) PDF
28/05 Lecture: British Building Societies 1970-2010 (Dr Olivier Butzbach) PDF
02/05 Lecture: Imaginary Economies - Neoliberal Economy and the Arts (PD Dr Melissa Kennedy) PDF
24/04 Lecture: Why Imagined Economies (Prof (em.) John Clarke) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2017/2018 - Overview PDF
5/03 Lecture: Living the Cold War - Memoirs of a British Diplomat (Sir Christopher Mallaby) PDF
5/02 Lecture: Living or Leaving Brexit Britain? (Dr Benedicte Brahic) PDF
22/01 Lecture: Youth Receptivity to Radical Rigthwing Agendas (Prof Dr Hillary Pilkington) PDF
2017

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
 

Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2017/2018 - Overview

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29/11 Lecture: Different Worlds of Social Justice (Prof Dr Cornelius Torp) PDF
14/11 Public Reading: The Good Immigrant (Nikesh Shukla) PDF
9/11 Keynote Lecture: The 21st Century Mind (Prof Baroness Susan Greenfield) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2017 Overview PDF
12/07 Discussion: The Future of European Integration after Brexit PDF
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) PDF
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) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2016/2017 - Overview PDF
23/01 Lecture: Brexit - Xenophobia or Xenophilia? (Prof Helen Cowie) PDF
09/01 Lecture: Brexit and the UK Constitution (Prof Alison Young) PDF
2016

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2016/2017 - Overview PDF
12/12 Lecture: A Fusion Perspective on Brexit Crisis Management (Prof. Lee Miles) PDF
05/12 Keynote Lecture: Sleepwalkers vs Warmongers - The 1914 Debate Revisited (Prof. Sir Christopher Clark) PDF
7/11 Lecture: Brexit - The Potential Economic Impacht (Dr. Ulrich Hoppe) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2016 - Overview PDF
13/07 Lecture: Devolution in the UK (Dr.Arjan Schakel) PDF
29/06 Lecture: Scotland, the UK and the EU (Dr. Neil McGravey) PDF
15/06 Lecture: The Future of Scotland in the UK (Prof. Paul Cairney) PDF
02/06 Lecture: Brexit, Could it Happen? (Rt. Hon. Ben Bradshaw) PDF
23/05 Lecture: Is Britain Going to Leave the EU? (Prof. Pauline Schnapper)  PDF
21/04

Lecture: Comparing and Contrasting the Europeanisation of Regions (Magnus Lindh)

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  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2015/2016 - Overview PDF
06/01

Lecture: Britain Counts: Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey - Research from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age (Prof. Dr. Kerstin Brückweh)

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2015

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2015/2016 - Overview PDF
02/11 Panel Discussion: Austerity and Human Rights in the UK and Europe PDF
19/11 Keynote Lecture: The Case for Retaining the UK Human Rights Act (Shami Chakrabarti) PDF
9/12 Lecture: The Making of Magna Carta (Dr. Hugh Doherty) PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2015 - Overview PDF
06/04 Lecture: 'Let each Woman Play a Woman's Part'. Women and Ulster Unionism (Dr Diane Urquhart) PDF
05/18 Lecture: The Shock of the Fall. A Public Reading (Nathan Filer) PDF
05/12 Lecture: Britain's Future - in Europe? Consequences of the General Elections for the Country and its Neighbours (Ulrich Storck)  PDF
05/07

Lecture: Politics of Well-Being in Britain (Professor Ian Bache)

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  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2014/2015 - Overview PDF
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) PDF

 

2014

 

Date Title Link
  M.A. British Studies PDF
  Master in British Studies PDF
  Events and Lectures - Winter Semester 2014/2015 - Overview PDF
12/03 Lecture: The Love of Strangers. Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English `Fin de Siècle´(Dr Stefano Maria Evangelista) PDF
12/01 Lecture: After the Scottish Independence Referendum: What now for the Future of the UK? (Dr Gerry Mooney) PDF
11/21 Lecture: A Tribute to F.A. Mann (1907 - 1981) PDF
11/12 Keynote Lecture: German History for an English-Speaking Public PDF
  Events and Lectures - Summer Semester 2014 - Overview PDF
06/24 Lecture: The British Literary Marketplace. Prizes for All? PDF
06/23 Lecture: Independent Scotland? Causes and Consequences. A Panel Discussion PDF
06/05 Lecture: UK Politics and Media - Following Revelations of Mass Surveillance PDF
05/08 Lecture: Dawn Oliver - Reforming the United Kingdom Parliament PDF

 

2013

 

Date Title Link
01/14 Panel Discussion: The UK Phone Hacking Scandal PDF

 

2012

 

Date Title Link
06/16 Olympia - Arbeit am Mythos PDF
06/12 John Peet - The Euro and the Future of Europe PDF
01/30 Erik Swyngedouw - The Ground-Zero of Politics: Musings on the Post-Political Polis PDF
01/16 Martin Rowson - Drawing Conclusions: Visual Satire in Britain PDF

 

2011

 

Date Title Link
11/07 Sir Christopher Mallaby - Germany 1990 - the then British Ambassador remembers and reflects PDF
01/10 Christian Weikop - The British Reception of German Expressionism PDF

 

2010

 

Date Title Link
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 PDF
10/18 Professor Sir David Cannadine - Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the 'Special Relationship' in Historical Perspective PDF
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 PDF

 

2009

 

Date Title Link
11/24 Baroness Ruth Deech, DBE - St Anne‘s College, Oxford University - “Ethics and Embryos: National Comparisons” PDF
07/06 Rachel Seiffert - Writer in Residence PDF
05/28 Anthony J. Nicholls - University of Oxford - Ups and downs in Anglo-German relations, 1949-2008 PDF
05/11 Dr. Vera Alexander (Aarhus University) - Restless in a Flowerbed: A Literary Walk through Kew Gardens PDF
05/04 Terry Eagleton - Lancaster University und Galway University - The Death of Criticism? PDF

 

2008

 

Date Title Link
12/15 Gerry Mooney - Open University - Towards the Break-Up of Britain? What's Different This Time? PDF
12/08 Mark Britton - British Humour in the German Adventszeit: "Weihnachten in Britton" PDF
06/02 Heinz-Gerd Reese - Stiftung Luftbrückendank - Die Berliner Luftbrücke 1948-1949 und die Stifung Luftbrückendank PDF
01/10 Adam Tooze - University of Cambridge - „Warfare State“ oder „Welfare State“? Deutschland und England zwischen Krise und Krieg 1933-1945 PDF