Announcement of conference and call for papers:
British Island Stories: History, Identity and Nationhood (BRISHIN)
King's Manor, York, 17-19 April, 2002.
Conference key speakers include:
Professor Linda Colley (author of Britons: Forging the Nation)
Professor Norman Davies (author of The Isles: A History)
Professor David Eastwood (joint-editor of A Union of Multiple Identities)
Dr Robert Phillips (author of History Teaching, Nationhood & the State)
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (author of Who Do We Think We Are? Imagining
the New Britain & columnist with The Independent)
Professor Tariq Modood, (Founding editor of Ethnicities)
British Island Stories: History, Identity and Nationhood (BRISHIN) is funded
under the ESRC's Devolution & Constitutional Change Programme. About 80
academics from a range of disciplines will be coming together to discuss the
central themes of the project (see attachment). We would like to invite
scholars from a wide range of disciplines (such as history, cultural/media
studies, education, archaeology, anthropology, politics, sociology and other
social sciences) from across the United Kingdom, Ireland and abroad to give
papers and participate.
Details and a booking form are attached, or please contact us at the address
below
Dr Helen Brocklehurst & Dr Robert Phillips
http://www.swan.ac.uk/BRISHIN/york_conference.htm
Dr. Helen Brocklehurst
Research Officer
Department of Education
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea
SA2 7NB
+44(0)1792 518605 fax: +44 (0)1792 290219
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