The Center for British Studies hosts visiting speakers, runs conferences and workshops, and coordinates lectures and seminars across various disciplines.
2022-23
- Multiculturalism in the European Union (Conference)
- Interpreting UK Legislatures (Conference)
- Matt Beech (University of Hull / IES Senior Fellow), British Politics After Boris Johnson
- Freddy Foks (King’s College, Cambridge), Emigration State: Race, Mobility and Citizenship in Britain, 1850 - 1980
2020-21
2019-20
- Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers), The Case of the Occulted Landscape: Wuthering Heights and Ontological Reading
- David Whineray (IES Senior Fellow), Brexit and the British Election: What Happens Next
- John Kerrigan (Cambridge), Lampedusa: Migrant Tragedy
- Can the People Rule? Gandhi, Dignity, and Resentment
- Hindu Nationalism in Gandhi's India(link is external)
- Gandhi, Savarkar and the Muslim Question(link is external)
- Decentering Local Leadership (Workshop)
- David Whineray (IES Senior Fellow), US, UK, EU: Brexit, Trump, Foreign Policy and Transatlantic Relations
- Matt Beech (University of Hull / IES Senior Fellow), Boris, Brexit and Europe: An Interpretation(link is external)
2018-19
- Interpreting Brexit: Reimagining Political Traditions (Workshop)
- So What Are We to Make of Brexit?(link is external)
- Brexit, Britain, Scotland: The Future of the UK
- Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires
- Saving the Children: Humanitarianism, Internationalism and Empire, 1915-1970
- Churchill: Walking with Destiny
- Strange Vernaculars (Colloquium)
- Governing Healthcare Networks (Workshop)
- British Art and the Global(link is external) (Conference)
- A View From Britain: Towards Brexit?(link is external)
2017-18
- Community Governance and Counterterrorism: Policies, Practices, and Lessons (Workshop)
- Why Are Labour's Progressives Ineffective?(link is external)
- The Decentered State (Workshop)
- Feminism and Politics in 1980s Britain
- Scotland and the UK Post-Brexit
- From Brexit to Donald Trump: How Far Does the Economy Explain the Rise of Populism and Nationalism? (Underhill Lecture)
- Sculpture and the Decorative in Britain (Conference)
- Politics as Literature (Conference)
2016-17
- Inside Co-Production (Workshop)
- The Effect of Brexit: Voices from Germany and Britain(link is external)
- Decentering European Governance (Workshop)
- Logic and Literary Form (Conference)
- Brexit and its Aftershocks(link is external)
- Contemporary British Collections at the British Library
- Brexit and the Northern Irish Vote(link is external)
- Victorian Liberalism and the Effect of Sovereignty: A View from the Settler Periphery
- The Neoliberal Origins of the New Progressive Politics
- Sambo: a (Post)Colonial (Mis)Education
- The Chaos of Empire
- Making Britain Great Again? Lessons for America from Brexit (Underhill Lecture)
- Interpreting the English School in International Relations (Workshop)
- 24th Annual Conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism: Romanticism and its Discontents
- A Genealogy of Governance