Fwd: Fighting for Britain? Negotiating identities in Britain during the Second World War

[Chris]

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>FYI and to pass on!
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Fighting for Britain? Negotiating identities in 
>Britain during the Second World War
>The Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars
>University of Edinburgh
>28-29 June 2012
>
>The Second World War is often seen as 
>constituting a high-water mark of Britishness: a 
>time when a strong sense of nationhood bound 
>together England, Scotland and Wales; when the 
>British were represented as one people, united 
>by a sense of common identity and purpose. Yet, 
>as the work of Sonya Rose suggests, the wartime 
>drive for unity was continually subject to 
>challenge and contestation on the grounds of 
>national, ethnic, gender and geographic 
>difference. This conference aims to address 
>Britain as a multi-national state, recovering 
>diversity and exploring the ways in which Wales, 
>Scotland and England related to the overarching 
>concept of Britishness. The conference will also 
>explore the relationship between Ireland and 
>Britain during the war, in particular Irish 
>citizens who volunteered to serve in the British forces.
>
>We welcome proposals for individual 20 minute 
>papers as well as submissions for panels of 
>three speakers and a Chair. Possible topics and 
>panels may include but are not limited to:
>• competing national and regional identities within Britain at a time of war
>• identity formation amongst servicemen and women in the British forces
>• the Irish contribution (North and South)
>• the maintenance of civilian/domestic identities
>• gender identities
>• ethnicity
>• objection to war
>
>There will be an invited panel of experts 
>including Dr Jeremy Crang (Edinburgh), Professor 
>Brian Girvin (Glasgow), Dr Martin Johnes 
>(Swansea) and Professor Gary Sheffield 
>(Birmingham) who will address the experiences of 
>Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England at war respectively.
>
>The conference will take place on Friday 29 June 
>2012. On the evening of Thursday 28 June, the 
>Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars will 
>host a wine reception at the Scottish 
>Storytelling Centre. This will form part of a 
>cultural event, The Warrior Poet: a 
>Multinational Perspective on the Second World War.
>
>Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words 
>to Anne Brockington, Secretary of the Centre for 
>the Study of the Two World Wars: anne.brockington at ed.ac.uk
>Deadline: 29 February 2012
>Conference organisers: Dr Wendy Ugolini 
>(University of Edinburgh) and Dr Juliette Pattinson (Strathclyde University)
>Best wishes,
>Juliette
>
>--
>Dr Juliette Pattinson,
>Senior Lecturer in Modern British History,
>Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences,
>McCance Building,
>University of Strathclyde,
>Glasgow, G1 1XQ
>
>
>The University of Strathclyde is a charitable 
>body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC015263
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