This two-day conference takes place in Dwinelle Hall 3335 at the University of California, Berkeley.
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
FRIDAY, APRIL 13
09.00 Registration
10.00 Welcome
10.30 Roundtable: What do we mean by postwar?
14.00 Post-empire, post-nation?
TOM WRIGHT, York, A Very British punishment: The abolition of the death penalty in Britain and her empire
ERIK LINSTRUM, Harvard, The Truth about hearts and minds: Counterinsurgency and development in
the postwar British Empire
JEAN P. SMITH, UCSB, The Persistence of “imperial” networks: Postwar British migration to
southern Africa
Discussants: Jordanna Bailkin, University of
Washington & Thomas Metcalf, Berkeley
16.30 Against decline? Looking to the past,
imagining the future
ANDREW KEATING, Berkeley, Imperial commemoration and national culture
in postwar Britain
DANIEL S. LOSS, Brown, From ‘Redundant churches’ to ‘an inheritance unequalled’: The
aestheticization of England’s historic church buildings in the 1960s and 1970s
TAL ZALMANOVICH, Rutgers, “The Great unwashed! That’s what we are,
mate”: Homes and social mobility in postwar sitcoms
Discussants: Guy Ortolano, NYU & Jim Tomlinson, Dundee
SATURDAY,
APRIL 14
09.00 Coffee
10.00 Plenary: Jim Tomlinson
11.00 Social identities and civil
society
EVE COLPUS, Oxford,
‘The screen is two-way’: That’s Life!, television and social
activism in Britain, 1973−1994
CHARLOTTE GREENHALGH, Oxford,
Aging,
emotion, and the welfare state in postwar Britain
CHARLES SMITH, Loughborough, New law but no new deal? Gay men and ‘the
permissive society’ 1967−c.1985
Discussants: Becky Conekin, Yale &
Claire Langhamer, Sussex
14.30 The Politics of social
solidarity
RAJBIR P. HAZELWOOD, Washington University,
St. Louis, The Punjabi-UK diaspora and
the politics of violence and disorder, c. 1975−1985
NATALIE THOMLINSON, Cambridge, Feminism, anti-racism and coalition politics
in the radical left, c. 1975−1985
CHRISTOPHER MOORES, Birmingham, British civil liberties NGOs, test case
strategies, and human rights politics in postwar Britain
Discussants: Gautam Premnath, Berkeley &
James Vernon, Berkeley
16.30 Closing Plenary
