The Special Relationship
PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
MONDAY 7 MARCH
Symposium: all day - Arts A108*
Keynote: 6.00 p.m. - Jubilee 144
Marking the 70th anniversary of Winston Churchill’s speech promoting a
‘special relationship’ between Britain and the United States, this symposium
offers new critical reflections on the transatlantic alliance.
Special guests include Justin Webb, presenter of BBC Radio 4’s Today, and
Sir Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to Washington.
For more information, and to book a place, please contact Professor Clive
Webb (c.j.w...@sussex.ac.uk).
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
FULTON, MISSOURI, 5 MARCH 1946
Alan Dobson (Swansea), The Economic and Political Backdrop to the Fulton
Speech
Steve Walsh (Cardiff), 'Churchill and the discursive construction of
special Anglo-American relations'
RELIGION AND RACE
Dianne Kirby (Ulster), The Religious Dimension of the Anglo-American
Relationship
Clive Webb (Sussex), Race, Empire and the Special Relationship
US AND THEM
Justin Webb (BBC)
CULTURE AND COMMEMORATION
Sam Edwards (Manchester Metropolitan), ‘The Architecture of a Myth:
Constructing and Commemorating Churchill’s Special Relationship, c. 1919-66’
Alban Webb (Sussex), The Special Broadcast Relationship
BRITAIN, THE UNITED STATES AND THE WORLD
James Cooper (Oxford Brookes), The Anglo-American ‘Special Relationship’
and Northern Ireland
Todd Carter (Oxford), The moment Kissinger finally ‘discovered Africa’:
Anglo-American relations and the Rhodesian crisis, 1976
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Lord Renwick of Clifton
*University of Sussex
Sussex House, Falmer
Brighton, BN1 9RH
United Kingdom
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/history/newsandevents/specialrelationship
Professor Antoine CAPET, FRHistS
Head of British Studies
University of Rouen
76821 Mont-Saint-Aignan
France
antoine.ca...@univ-rouen.fr
'Britain since 1914' Section Editor
Royal Historical Society Bibliography
Reviews Editor of CERCLES
http://www.cercles.com/review/reviews.html
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