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British Studies Lecture Series

British Studies Lecture Series

The British Studies program at the University of Texas at Austin was created in 1975. For more than thirty years the program has sponsored public lectures in English literature, history, and government, and has conducted a weekly seminar called the Faculty Seminar on British Studies that includes faculty members, graduate students, undergraduates, and members of the Austin community.

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Éamon de Valera and the Creation of Modern Ireland

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2018/10/26

Speaker – Kevin Kenny, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY Éamon de Valera (1882-1975) is the most important and divisive figure in modern Irish history. After rising to prominence in the Easter 1916 rebellion, he rejected the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, provoking civil war in Ireland, but he returned to power in the 1930s and became the architect […]

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Martyrs and Mistresses in Restoration London

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2018/10/19

Speaker: Paul Sullivan – ENGLISH Edward Coleman was drawn, hanged, and quartered for treason in December 1678, a victim of the public frenzy around the ‘Popish Plot’. The Ransom Center’s Pforzheimer Collection includes hundreds of manuscripts from Coleman and his newsletter office, reporting information and court gossip to Richard Bulstrode, a British diplomat in Brussels. […]

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Light Reading for Intellectual Heavyweights

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2018/10/12

Speaker – Philip Waller OXFORD In ‘Light Reading’, Philip Waller will consider how various major figures, including Prime Ministers and Presidents, have chosen to relax by reading books, and whether their choices carry more significance than might appear. There are conflicts between what people feel they should read and what they do read. This tension […]

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Australia and the Non-Acceptance of Refugees

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2018/10/05

Speaker – Rhonda Evans GOVERNMENT By using a combination of boat turn-backs, offshore detention and processing, and a refusal to ever accept refugees who have tried to reach its shores by boat, Australia has emerged as a world leader in deterrence. The staggering costs and ineffable human suffering inflicted by these policies have led critics […]

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Castro’s Challenge to Britain and the United States

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2018/09/07

Speaker – Jonathan Brown When Fidel Castro formed an alliance with the Soviet Union in 1962, it sparked the Cuban missile crisis and became a defining incident of the Cold War. Graham Greene’s Our Man in Havana predates the Cuban missile crisis, but the plot involves missile installations and seems to anticipate the events of […]

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Scotland and Brexit

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2018/09/06

Speaker – George Scott Christian In the last four years, fundamental questions have arisen about the future of the composite state created by the 1707 Treaty of Union between England and Scotland. In 2014 a majority of Scots voted to ‘remain’ in the Union. Yet in 2016 a large majority (68%) voted to ‘remain’ in […]

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Florence Nightingale, Artificial Intelligence, and...

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2018/04/20

Although better known as a nurse, Florence Nightingale was also a skilled data scientist who successfully convinced hospitals that they could improve health care by using statistics. In 1859, in honor of these achievements, she became the first woman ever elected to the Royal Statistical Society. This talk will consider the question of what Nightingale’s […]

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Worldwide Consequences of American Expansion in 1898...

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2018/04/13

Karl Rove’s recent book, The Triumph of William McKinley, deals with the election of 1896 and its consequences. His lecture will expand on the results of the 1898 war with Spain: the annexation of the Philippines and Hawaii in the Pacific and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean as well as Cuba as a protectorate of […]

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America’s Global Empire – Tony Hopkins

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2018/04/06

Challenging conventional accounts of the place of the United States in the international order during the last three centuries, Tony Hopkins will argue that the United States was part of a British imperial order throughout this period. After 1898, it ruled a now forgotten empire in the Pacific and Caribbean. It brought formal colonial control […]

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Subversive, Rebellious, Genre-Busting: 18th and 19th...

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2018/03/30

This talk will serve as a preview of–and invitation to–‘New Directions’, the 26th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference to be held at UT April 11-15, and an occasion for Carol MacKay to review her contributions to some of its previous conferences. She will identify the recurring need to recover little-known women writers […]

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Running With Shakespeare – Tom Cable

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2018/03/23

Memorization has played a part in the composition and transmission of British literary texts. This talk will consider the embodied rhythms of poetry from Beowulf (eighth century) to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (fourteenth century), then on to Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1590s), and poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley two hundred years ago. With reference to […]

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British Labour, American Labor, and the Creation of...

British Studies Lecture Series ·

2018/03/20

Adam Howard U. S. Department of State From the Balfour Declaration’s publication in November 1917 to Israel’s creation in 1948, the American labor movement worked for a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Successive British governments struggled to reconcile the contradictions of the Balfour Declaration, but American labor’s hopes rose in 1945 with the British Labour Party’s historic […]

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September 08, 2006 – Peter Stanley – All Imaginable...

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2017/09/11

All Imaginable Excuses: Australian Deserters and the Fall of Singapore. The fall of Singapore in February 1942 is a defining moment in both British and Australian history. Popular nationalist accounts in Australia emphasize Churchill’s ‘betrayal’. Australians increasingly see Singapore’s surrender as marking-in the words of Prime Minister John Curtin at the time-as the start of […]

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September 01, 2006 – Kurt Heinzelman, Michael...

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2017/09/07

In 1984-85, during the protracted coalminer’s strike in Great Britain, Tony Harrison, the well-known poet, dramatist, translator, and screenwriter, wrote the poem ‘v.’, modeled to an extent on Thomas Gray’s ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’. In 1987, after Channel 4 made a film version of the poem, ‘v.’ acquired a certain notoriety, less for […]

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