Aston University (Birmingham, UK) Friday 29 March 2019
Guest speakers
Prof Dr Heinrich Detering (Universität Göttingen)
Dr HDR Thierry Laurent (Sorbonne/Université de Haute Alsace)
Papers, posters, performances and other interventions (20-25 minutes max) are invited for a special one-day colloquium at Aston University, Birmingham, UK on Friday 29th March 2019. The aim of the colloquium will be to explore, analyse and celebrate the representations and narratives of cross-border affiliations, inspirations and tensions that mark, shape and transform relationships between Europeans across the centuries but especially those that traverse the English Channel in either direction. Contributions from humanities specialists of any European culture (including Britain) and time frame are welcome.
This colloquium is not a forum for international relations, diplomacy, political science, current affairs or simple lamentation. Rather, it is about the richness and timelessness of a continental village of which the personal, artistic, cultural, geographical and historical infrastructure can never be destroyed by treaty, law or any legal instrument. The publication of a collection of peer-reviewed papers from the colloquium is planned. Abstracts of 250 words in English by 7 December 2018 to
Brian Sudlow b.sudlow@aston.ac.uk
Uwe Schütte u.schutte@aston.ac.uk