Programme

Day 1

9.00 Registration

9.15 Introduction and welcome

9.30–10.30 Session one

• Chair: Richard Toye

• Geoff Eley (University of Michigan), “Setting the Stakes: Munich, Peace, and the Contest of Futures”

• Mary Heimann (Cardiff University): “Czechoslovakia and the Munich Agreement”

10.30–10.45 Coffee break

10.45–11.45 Session two

• • • • Chair: Geoff Eley

      • Karina Urbach (IHR/Princeton): “‘Those English pigs!’ German Opinions on the Sudeten Crisis”

      • Christian Goeschel (University of Manchester): “Mussolini, Munich and the Italian People”

11.45–12.45 Session three

• Chair: Karina Urbach

• Julie Gottlieb (University of Sheffield): “The Private and Emotional History of the Munich Crisis”

• Adrian Bingham (University of Sheffield), “‘Give yourself over to the world process’? Everyday politics and the Munich Crisis in Britain”

12.45–1.45 Lunch

1.45–2.45 Session four

• • • • Chair: Adrian Bingham

      • Susan Grayzel (Utah State University): “Gas Mask Sunday: Material Objects, the Body and the Munich Crisis”

      • Michal Shapira (Tel Aviv University, Israel): “Melanie Klein and the Coming of World War II: Archival Writing on the Munich Crisis, 1938”

2.45–3.00 Comfort break

3.00–4.00 Session five

• • • • Chair: Jessica Wardhaugh

      • Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge): “Fearful Empire: Munich and the Rise of American Power”

      • Richard Toye (University of Exeter): “Winston Churchill, Munich, and ‘the European System’”

4.00–4.15 Coffee

4.15–5.30 Session six

• • • • Chair: Frank Mort

      • Miklos Lojko (Central European University, Budapest): ““Curs Yapping Round the Dying Stag”, or the Rituals of a Fractured Society: Hungary in the vortex of the Munich Crisis of 1938″

      • Jessica Wardhaugh (University of Warwick): “France in the Blue Light of Munich: Popular Agency, Activity, and the Reframing of History”

5.30–6.20 Keynote: Gabriel Gorodetsky (Fellow, All Souls College Oxford; Emeritus Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel): “‘What, No Chair for Me?’ Russia’s Conspicuous Absence from the Munich Conference”

7.15 Dinner for conference speakers

Day 2

9.00–10.20 Session one: The People’s History of the Munich Crisis in Britain (three papers, 20 minutes each)

• • • • Chair: Miklos Lojko

      • Tom Dowling (University of Sheffield), “One of ‘internationalism’s foot soldiers’: An Introduction to the Diaries of Frank Mortimer Grimes”

      • Dr. Paul Horsler (London School of Economics), “Prayer and Praise during the Munich Crisis: a story of church attendance”

      • Liam J. Liburd (University of Sheffield), “Munich, Mosley and the Meaning of a ‘Fascist Peace’”

10.20–10.40 Coffee

10.40–12.00 Session two: The Emergency of the Crisis and the Institutionalisation of Emergency (four papers, 20 minutes each)

• • • • Chair: Richard Toye

      • Rebecca Gill (University of Huddersfield), “The 1938 Conference of the International Red Cross Committee: humanitarian diplomacy and the Red Cross ideal of internationalism”

      • Barry Doyle (University of Huddersfield) and Rosemary Wall (University of Hull), “First Aid, Civil Defence and Preparation for War in England and France in the 1930s”

      • Rowan G.E. Thompson (Northumbria University), “The Munich Crisis, the Air League of the British Empire and the Preparation for War”

12.00–12.30 Roundtable and editorial meeting

• Chair: Julie Gottlieb

12.30–1.30 Lunch

1.30–2.50 Session THREE: Individual Interpretations of the Crisis and its Consequences (three papers, 20 minutes each)

• Chair: Gabriel Gorodetsky

• Helen Goethals (Université Toulouse II Jean Jaurès), “News that STAYS news? Some poets’ perspectives on the Munich crisis”

• Dr Tommaso Milani (London School of Economics), “A Neutralist Alternative? Hendrik de Man, the Munich Conference, and the Oslo Group, 1936-1940”

• Connor Schonta (Liberty University, Virginia), “Observing Crisis: George Kennan’s Interpretations of Munich”

2.50–4.10 Session four Aftermath, Reflection and Analysis of the Crisis (three papers, 20 minutes each)

• • • • Chair: Rebecca Gill

      • Jakub Drábik (Institute of History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava), “A very long shadow: The Munich agreement in post-war Czechoslovak communist propaganda and dissident discourse”

      • Lori Helene Gronich (Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, USA), “Psychology and Choice in British Foreign Policy: Explaining Appeasement and the Munich Crisis of 1938”

      • George Giannakopoulos, “The death of a New Europe: British liberalism, East-Central Europe and the politics of appeasement”

4.10 Closing remarks

4.45 Finish