Press Releases
2021
Date
Title
Link
31/05
Britons in Berlin: An Exploration through the Senses
An Interactive online student-led project held by the Centre for British Studies
An Interactive online student-led project held by the Centre for British Studies
2020
Date
Title
Link
16/06
Looking Across the Channel
The HU's Centre for British Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary
The HU's Centre for British Studies celebrates its 25th anniversary
2019
Date
Title
Link
8/01
Regulating Uncertain Futures: Law and Science
20/05
Public Reading with writer Alys Conran (Wales)
24/06
Exodus. Reckoning. Sacrifice. Three Meanings of Brexit
24/06
From the Local to the Global:
Political Meetings and Public Space in England 1700-2000
Political Meetings and Public Space in England 1700-2000
07/10
Emotions and the German Peasants' War, 1524-5
2018
Date
Title
Link
14/01
Call for Applicants 2018
22/01
Youth Receptivity to Radical Rightwing Agendas:
A Pan-European Perspective
A Pan-European Perspective
05/02
Living or Leaving Brexit Britain? Narratives of Transformations, Lost Privileges and Quieter Everyday
24/04
Why Imagined Economies?
02/05
Imaginary Economics:
Neoliberal Economy and the Arts
Neoliberal Economy and the Arts
28/05
Ebb and Flow of a Not-for-profit Alternative
within the Land of Financial Capitalism:
British Building Societies 1970-2010
within the Land of Financial Capitalism:
British Building Societies 1970-2010
02/07
Stigma Machines
10/12
Excavations in Homer: Speculative Archaeologies in Alice Oswald’s and Barbara Köhler’s Responses to the Iliad and the Odyssey
2017
Date
Title
Link
13/01
Brexit and the UK Constitution:
Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
Where Are We Now and Where Are We Going?
13/01
Brexit:
Xenophobia or Xenophilia?
Xenophobia or Xenophilia?
23/01
Call for Applicants 2017
02/05
Poles in Post-Brexit-Vote Britain
01/06
Brexit and Business Law
19/06
Books, Brexit and Beyond
26/06
Brexit and the Future of UK Universities
03/07
Austerity, Brexit and the Public Mood
12/07
Public Discussion: The Future of the UK
23/07
“It's not the economy, stupid” Brexit and the Cultural Sector
6/11
Keynote: The 21st Century Mind
14/11
Public Reading: The Good Immigrant
29/11
Lecture: Different Worlds of Social Justice
2016
Date
Title
Link
28/01
Call for Applicants 2016
12/04
Comparing and Contrasting the Europeanisation of Regions. Asymmetrical Patterns of Regional Action in Sweden and England
10/05
Is Britain Going to Leave the EU? The Referendum Campaign and the Crisis of British Democracy
18/05
Brexit, Could it Happen?
25/05
The Future of Scotland in the UK. Does the Popularity of the SNP Make Independence Inevitable?
26/05
Back to the Present: Moments that Made Modern Britain
02/06
Back to the Present: Moments that Made Modern Britain
07/06
Scotland, the United Kingdom and the EU: Ever Looser Unions?
17/06
Devolution in the UK:
Moving towards a Dissolved or Strengthened Union?
Moving towards a Dissolved or Strengthened Union?
30/06
Brexit: What Future for Britain, Germany and Europe?
20/10
The Future of the UK: Post-Brexit Referendum
20/10
Brexit: The Economic Impact
25/10
Keynote Lecture: Sleepwalkers vs Warmongers: The 1914 Debate revisited
20/12
LITERARY FIELD KALEIDOSCOPE:
Public Reading
Public Reading
20/12
A Fusion Perspective on Brexit Crisis Management:
Reflections on a Single Market outside the Single Market?
Reflections on a Single Market outside the Single Market?
2015
| Date | Title | Link |
| 03/12 |
Lecture: Britain Counts.
Knowledge Production in Censuses and Survey Research
from the Nineteenth Century to the Digital Age
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 24/11 |
Public Readings of the British Council Literature Seminar: Brit Crime – A New Golden Age of Crime Writing?
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 12/11 |
Lecture: The Making of Magna Carta. In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 30/10 | On Liberty – The Case for Retaining the UK Human Rights Act | Pressemitteilung |
| 20/10 | Austerity and Human Rights in the UK and Europe | Pressemitteilung |
| 21/07 | Jubiläum des Großbritannien-Zentrums | Pressemitteilung |
| 28/04 | Public Reading: The Shock of the Fall | Pressemitteilung |
| 27/04 | Lecture: Britain's Future - in Europe? | Pressemitteilung |
| 27/04 | Lecture: Politics of Well-Being in Britain | Pressemitteilung |
| 14/01 | Literaturseminar: Form in Tension | Pressemitteilung |
2014
| Date | Title | Link |
| 04/12 | Lecture: Cultural Threads. Transnational Textiles Today | Pressemitteilung |
| 27/11 |
Lecture: The Love of Strangers. Literary Cosmopolitanism in the English ‘Fin de Siècle’
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 27/11 |
Lecture: After the Scottish Independence Referendum:What now for the Future of the UK? |
Pressemitteilung |
| 30/10 | Lecture: German History for an English-Speaking Public | Pressemitteilung |
| 24/06 | The British Literary Marketplace: Prizes for All? | Pressemitteilung |
| 16/06 |
Event: Independent Scotland? |
Pressemitteilung |
| 03/06 |
Lecture: UK Politics and Media.
Following Revelations of Mass Surveillance
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 07/04 | The Pleasure of Leisure: A Regency Ball with Jane Austen |
2012
| Date | Title | Link |
| 22/10 |
Keynote Lecture: Poetics of Crossing: The Zigzag Lines of Late Nineteenth-Century Indian Migration to Britain
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 21/05 | Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften: Play It Like Britain | |
| 06/02 |
Monday Lecture: Let the Games Live On – Britischer Botschafter spricht über das Erbe der Olympischen und Paralympischen Spiele 2012
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 30/01 | Monday Lecture: The Ground-Zero of Politics: Leben in der post-politischen Stadt? | Pressemitteilung |
| 16/01 | Exhibition: South Asians Making Britain | Pressemitteilung |
| 07/01 | Phone Hacking Panel: Abhörskandal in Großbritannien | Pressemitteilung |
2011
| Date | Title | Link |
| 26/10 | Keynote Lecture: Germany 1990 - the then British Ambassador remembers and reflects | Pressemitteilung |
| 05/10 | Monday Lecture: Challenges to Universities in the 21st Century | Pressemitteilung |
| 04/10 | Great Expectations: neue Direktorin am Großbritannien-Zentrum | Pressemitteilung |
| 10/01 | Monday Lecture: The British Reception of German Expressionism | Pressemitteilung |
2010
| Date | Title | Link |
| 06/12 | Monday Lecture: Staging the Past: How London‘s Ragged School Museum makes Victorian education accessible for the schoolchildren of today | Pressemitteilung |
| 18/10 |
Keynote Lecture 2010: David Cannadine, Winston Churchill, Anglo-America and the
“Special Relationship” in Historical Perspective
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 05/07 | Monday Lecture: Prof Hermione Lee, Reading a Life | Pressemitteilung |
| 21/06 | Elections Panel: The General Elections | Pressemitteilung |
| 17/06 | Reading: Bernardine Evaristo | Pressemitteilung |
| 01/06 | Mysterious Britain | Pressemitteilung |
| 17/05 | Monday Lecture: Dr Roland Wenzlhuemer, "Yet Another Divided City: London and Global Communications in the 19th Century" | Pressemitteilung |
| 22/04 | Engagement für die deutsch-britischen Beziehung: Jürgen Schlaeger von der Britischen Königin ausgezeichnet | Pressemitteilung |
| 15/02 | Master in British studies 2010 | Pressemitteilung |
| 01/02 | Monday Lecture: Prof Rüdiger Görner, "Britain, the Land without Music - some reflections on a prejudice" | Pressemitteilung |
| 27/01 | Monday Lecture: Lord Watson, "Jamestown: The Voyage of English" | Pressemitteilung |
2009
| Date | Title | Link |
| 12/01 |
Monday Lecture: Prof Stephen Mennell, "Indigestion in the Long 19th Century: Aspects of English Taste
and Anxiety, 1800-1950"
|
Pressemitteilung |
| 20/11 | Monday Lecture: Ruth Deech, "Ethics and Embryos: National Comparisons" | Pressemitteilung |
| 04/11 | Monday Lecture: Margaret MacMillan, "The Uses and Abuses of History" | Pressemitteilung |