#BATW2022 Conference Updates
Dear delegates,
We’re delighted to write with information on registration, accommodations, and more, for the Britain and the World annual conference: Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 June 2022 at the University of Plymouth. As always, do let us know if you have any further questions.
Our plenary speakers are Claire Jowitt (University of East Anglia), and Stuart Ward (University of Copenhagen). The conference will feature John M. MacKenzie as the chair for Stuart’s lecture and as we launch John’s festschrift, The MacKenzie Moment and Imperial History, and 13 other books published in our series with Palgrave Macmillan since we last met. We’ll also be able to discuss book and journal proposals, with all editors in attendance.
The conference hub – where the publishers will be based, and where lunch and all-day refreshments will be served – is the Sherwell Centre, a converted church on the university campus, with parallel and plenary sessions in next-door Portland Square. Sherwell and Portland are ten minutes' walk from both Plymouth train station and the conference hotel, Jury's Inn, where we have a conference rate for delegates (please quote JIUNIO140622 for Jurys Inn Plymouth website to book the rooms to stay between 14 – 18 June 2022).
The night-before-conference icebreaker will be held on the Tuesday evening in Sutton Harbour, ten minutes' walk from the hotel; a welcome reception will follow on the Wednesday; the Conference Dinner (£40) on the Thursday will be at the magnificent Stonehouse Barracks which overlooks Plymouth Sound; and our traditional last-night outings downtown will be in and around the Barbican and Sutton Harbour.
Getting to and from Plymouth may be via a direct train line with London Paddington, direct bus service from London Heathrow, London Paddington, or London Victoria, or flights to nearby Newquay or Exeter airports. Discounted rail tickets on Great Western Railway (GWR) services can be booked 12 weeks ahead of your return journey date.
We'll be awarding a prize for the best conference paper, which will include conditional acceptance for publication in the peer-reviewed Britain and World journal. All conference participants are eligible. Papers must be based on original research and should be submitted by 15 July 2022 to the award co-coordinators, Jonathan Shipe (jonshipe@me.com) and Jessica S. Hower (howerj@southwestern.edu). The piece should be approximately 7,000 words including citations (in preparation for a final article of between 7,000 and 10,000 words, including citations) and should be formatted in accordance with the editorial guidelines of the Britain and the World journal, which may be found here.
We encourage delegates who have books of their own recently published or in press to bring promotional material which we'd be happy to distribute.
The majority of papers will be delivered in person, but the conference’s virtual event platform, SpotMe, will be able to accommodate virtual papers and any enforced changes in travel plans, as well as provide recordings, schedules, and many other things we’ve never been able to offer before. If your plans have changed since you submitted your abstract, please let us know via email (contact@britainandtheworld.org) as soon as possible.
Registration is now open and the deadline is 1 May. Both rates include lunch each day and all-day refreshments. Space is limited for accommodation and the Conference Dinner, so please register and make your bookings as soon as possible.
Standard £225
Student £150
Society membership ($59) will be required for attendance. As well as allowing Britain and the World, which is non-profit, to continue, membership also includes a subscription to our twice-yearly Edinburgh University Press journal. It would be greatly appreciated if you would be so good as to ask your library to take up a subscription too.
Due to the costs of the SpotMe platform to accommodate our hybrid format and food/drink for our delegates in Plymouth, the registration fee has to be the same for virtual as for in-person attendees. We hope that you understand, and know that, we’re unflagging in our efforts to keep rates as low as possible. As a non-profit, income is merely to allow us to function.
Updates regarding the conference will be posted periodically on the BATW website. We’re finalising the (packed) programme, and will be able to publish a draft on 15 April.
The range and quality of the titles submitted was greatly heartening; it’s going to be a fantastic, deferred conference, in one of the most historic cities in Britain, on the south coast, in high summer. We’re very much looking forward to seeing you there, and if you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
On Twitter our @britishscholar hashtag is #BATW2022.
Martin, Jess, Jacob, and Justin