British European Policy: Traditions and Dilemmas
Host: Center for British Studies, University of California, Berkeley
Venue: 223 Moses Hall
Date: Friday 8th November 2013
9.00-9.15: Coffee and Welcome
Session 1: National Identities
Chair: Mark Bevir
9.15-10.00: Mike Kenny, ‘The return of “Englishness” in British Political Culture – the
end of the Unions?’
10.00-10.45: Helen Brockelhurst, ‘Educating Britain? Political Literacy and the
Construction of National History’
10.45-11.00 Coffee
Session 2: Euroskepticisms
Chair: Pauline Schnapper
11.00-11.45: Ben Wellings, ‘Euroscepticism and the Anglosphere: traditions and
dilemmas in contemporary English nationalism’
11.45-12.30: Karine Tournier-Sol, “Reworking the euroskeptic and Conservative
traditions into a populist narrative: UKIP’s winning formula”
12.30-1.30: Lunch (201 Moses Hall)
Session 2: Political Parties
Chair: Pauline Schnapper
1.30-2.15: Craig Parsons and Cary Fontana, ‘‘One Woman’ Prejudice’: Did Margaret
Thatcher Cause Britain’s Anti-Europeanism?’
2.15-3.00: Mark Vail, ‘Between One-Nation Toryism and Neoliberalism: The Dilemmas
of British Conservatism and Britain’s Evolving Place in Europe’
3.00-3.15: Tea
Session 4: Discourses of Tradition
Chair: Mark Bevir
3.15-4.00: Pauline Schnapper, ‘The Post-New Labour Party and Europe: Back to the
Future’
4.00-4.45: Piers Ludlow, ‘Safeguarding British identity or betraying it? The role of
British ‘tradition’ in the Parliamentary debates on EC membership, 1967-1975’
4.45-5.00: Wrap-up session
6.30pm Conference dinner at Revival (2102 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley)