Workshop 4

The Relationship between International History and Government.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London
1 June 2017

The aim of this workshop is to explore avenues for the sustainable inter-action and exchange between International historians and policy Stakeholders.

Durbar Room, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall, London, 1 June 2017

TIMETABLE

9:30  Coffee and Tea

9:45  Welcome: Peter Jackson, Simon Ball and Patrick Salmon

10:00 Studying Practice chaired by Patrick Salmon

Speaker 1:    Professor Christopher Andrew (Cambridge) Intelligence Failure and Policy Makers at the Outbreak of War in 1914 & 2003
Speaker 2:    Professor Simon Ball (Leeds) London Killing: Assassination and the Domestication of Practice
Speaker 3:    Professor Peter Jackson (Glasgow) The Weight of the Past in Franco-British Relations after the First World War

11:30 Coffee Break

11:45 Roundtable on the Role of Grand Historical Narratives in the Practice of International Relations chaired by Simon Ball - The session with be led by Professor Patricia Clavin (Oxford), Professor Martin Thomas (Exeter), Professor Joe Maiolo (King’s) and Professor David Reynolds (Cambridge) but all members of the Workshop are invited and encouraged to participate.

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Roundtable: The Relevance and Irrelevance of International History in Foreign Policy-making chaired by Peter Jackson - The session will be led by Professor Laurence Badel (Sorbonne), Professor Louise Fawcett (Oxford), Dr Kristina Spohr (LSE), Dr Wang Wei (Nankai)

15: 30 Coffee Break

15:45  Wash-up: Peter Jackson and Simon Ball

16:00  End