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CALL FOR PAPERS Fighting for Britain? Negotiating identities in Britain during the Second World War The Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars University of Edinburgh 28-29 June 2012 The Second World War is often seen as constituting a high-water mark of Britishness: a time when a strong sense of nationhood bound together England, Scotland and Wales; when the British were represented as one people, united by a sense of common identity and purpose. Yet, as the work of Sonya Rose suggests, the wartime drive for unity was continually subject to challenge and contestation on the grounds of national, ethnic, gender and geographic difference. This conference aims to address Britain as a multi-national state, recovering diversity and exploring the ways in which Wales, Scotland and England related to the overarching concept of Britishness. The conference will also explore the relationship between Ireland and Britain during the war, in particular Irish citizens who volunteered to serve in the British forces. We welcome proposals for individual 20 minute papers as well as submissions for panels of three speakers and a Chair. Possible topics and panels may include but are not limited to: - competing national and regional identities within Britain at a time of war - identity formation amongst servicemen and women in the British forces - the Irish contribution (North and South) - the maintenance of civilian/domestic identities - gender identities - ethnicity - objection to war There will be an invited panel of experts including Dr Jeremy Crang (Edinburgh), Professor Brian Girvin (Glasgow), Dr Martin Johnes (Swansea) and Professor Gary Sheffield (Birmingham) who will address the experiences of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England at war respectively. The conference will take place on Friday 29 June 2012. On the evening of Thursday 28 June, the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars will host a wine reception at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. This will form part of a cultural event, The Warrior Poet: a Multinational Perspective on the Second World War. Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Anne Brockington, Secretary of the Centre for the Study of the Two World Wars: anne.brockington@ed.ac.uk<mailto:anne.brockington@ed.ac.uk> Deadline: 29 February 2012 Conference organisers: Dr Wendy Ugolini (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Juliette Pattinson (Strathclyde University) Dr Wendy Ugolini Lecturer in British History University of Edinburgh School of History, Classics and Archaeology Rm 1.29, William Robertson Wing Old Medical School Teviot Place Edinburgh EH8 9AG Tel: 0131 650 3766 Fax: 0131 650 3070 Experiencing War as the 'Enemy Other'. Italian Scottish Experience in World War II http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/catalogue/book.asp?id=1204839 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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