Workshop 3 - The Cultural Turn and its Influence on the Practice of International History (March 2017)

Workshop schedule‌

 

Panel 1:

  • Barbara Haider Wilson (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften - Austrian Academy of Sciences): ‘Applying New International History Approaches to a famous Diplomatic go between: Anton Prokesch von Osten (1795-1876) and the Ottoman Empire’.
  • Gaynor Johnson (University of Kent) ‘Prosopography, International History and the Cultural Turn’.

Panel 2:

  • Harry J. Mace (University of Kent): ‘Strong Moral Convictions…’ Re-examining the power of language and gendered assertiveness in the Netherlands and France during the Cold War.
  • Glenda Sluga (The University of Sydney): ‘International and Diplomatic History after the Cultural Turn’. Commentary by William Mulligan (University College Dublin)

Panel 3:

  • Sarah Miller Davenport (University of Sheffield): ‘Decolonizing the United States: the Problem of Hawai'i in an Age of Self-Determination’.
  • Sarah Dunstan (University of Sydney): ''In Pursuit of Decolonization: black internationalism at the end of French Empire, 1956-1959.' Commentary by: Patrick Finney (Aberystwyth University) 

Panel 4:

  • Andrew Preston, (University of Cambridge): "The Promise and Pitfalls of the Cultural Turn: Religion as a Case Study"
  • Hamish Scott (Oriel College, Oxford): 'The continuities of diplomatic culture, c.1700- 1900' Commentary by Simon Ball (University of Leeds)