Draft Program for #BATW2021
We delighted to announce the draft programme for Britain and the World 2021.
There are 150 papers and 45 panels. The conference will be on Zoom, over three days, 16-18 June.
It’s a very international conference – online has had the effect that it’s the most international ever – and so the principal challenge has been time zones. There’s no ideal, but we’ve tried to schedule with the option that least inconveniences delegates, which is why we’ve gone with only three, two-hour, sessions each day, but with five parallel panels (and a ‘breakout lounge’).
The base time zone is US CST, and indicative locations are given below:
Session 1 0800 (London 1400, Delhi 1830, Sydney, 2300)
Session 2 1000 (London 1600, Delhi 2030, Sydney, 0100)
Session 3 1200 (London 1800, Delhi 2230, Sydney, 0300)
Nothing will be recorded – or pre-recorded – and this year there’ll be no plenaries. Please ensure that when giving your paper you speak for no longer than 20 minutes.
Chairs need only moderate, rather than formally respond. We welcome any volunteers to chair panels currently without a chair.
Programme planning is a complicated process at the best of times, so please only request changes for any corrections, or for typographical matters.
There’s no conference fee as such this year, but we do require delegates to be members of the society, and names and papers will not be finalised in the programme until membership has been confirmed. The society is non-profit, and two years without conference income has severely impacted our finances, so we hope you understand. Beyond this year’s conference, membership, as ever, includes subscription to the journal and future discounted in-person conference fee. Membership is $59, and you can join here: https://britainandtheworld.org/take-action.
We’re fervently hoping to be back in person – in Plymouth – in 2022, but one legacy of the pandemic is that hereafter we expect always also to be online, so feedback on this, our first online conference, will be particularly valuable, and we’ll be inviting you to complete an online feedback form after the conference.
It should be helpful to follow us on Twitter - @britishscholar - for real-time updates, and our hashtag is #BATW2021.
All links will be sent out nearer the time.
Please get back to us if you have any questions about anything at all.