Monday, September 23, 2024 Hotel check-in time 3pm-8pm
until 12:30 Arrival, Vinery Wasem
Registration, Monastery Engelthal
13:00 Get Together (Finger Food), Monastery Engelthal
14:00 Words of Welcome
14:30 – 17:00 Panel I: Managing the Transition? Crumbling Empires and the Ascension of Cultural Policy
Moderation: Bernhard Dietz
Simon Potter: The BBC and British Cultural Influence in the Colonial and Post-Colonial World, 1945-1975
Coffee Break
Alice Byrne: Indo-British Cultural Relations and Academia, 1947-1964
Discussion: Has European cultural policy been merely an extension of colonial rule, or are new forms of cultural policy emerging?
17:00 – 19:30 Break; Time for Check-in, Hotel Wasem
19:30 Dinner, Monastery Engelthal (Wine Cellar)
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
09:00 – 10:00 Morning Topic, Monastery Engelthal
Frank Trommler: "Cultural Politics and the Year 1945
Tracking the Historical Breaks and Continuities“
Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:30 Panel II: Culture for the “White Redoubt”? European Entanglements with Pariah States in Southern Africa
Moderation: Herlke Rausch
Vincent Kuitenbrouwer: ‘Die Stem uit die Stamland’: uncovering the ideological meaning of the Afrikaans programme of Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep (1949-1977)
Robert Uys: Paralleled Lives: The Live and Death of the Dingaanstat Mission Station and Apartheid South Africa, 1948 – 1994
Daniel Feather: Engaging with a Pariah State: British Cultural Diplomacy in Rhodesia, 1965 to 1980
Discussion: Was cultural policy intended to serve as a covert instrument for changing or reforming isolated regimes? To what extent did cultural policy serve the objective of maintaining the privileged position of white minorities?
12:30 – 13:30 Light Lunch (Conference Room)
13:30 – 15:00 Panel III: Caught up in the Cold War? New Perspectives on German Cultural and Development Policy in the Era of Decolonization Moderation: Marie Huber
Jana Otto: Striving for Development – Political and Economic Modernization Concepts as Reflected in Ghana’s Vocational Training Cooperation with East and West Germany
Sarah Bernhardt and Jahn Hermann: “Add to the image of the German Reich” – West German Cultural Policy in Togo after 1960
Discussion: How much did Cold War issues influence the cultural policies of European states in the era of decolonization? Has Germany been an outlier in terms of its cultural policy?
15:30 – 18:00 Wine Walk
Bracing walk with a small wine tasting in the surrounding vineyards
18:30 – 19:30 Evening Lecture, Monastery Engelthal
Jan Eckel: The Shape of Things (Not) To Come: Governing the World in a Postcolonial Age
19:30 Dinner, Monastery Engelthal (Wine Cellar)
Wednesday, September 25, 2024 Hotel check-out time until 11am*
*you may bring your luggage to the venue and store it in the conference room
09:00 – 12:00 Panel IV: Encoutering the Global? New (Post)Colonial Settings at the Dawn of Internationalization
Moderation: Andreas Rödder
Lauriane Simony: The Alliance Française in Post-Colonial and Authoritarian Burma (1960s-1970s): an “Unproblematic” Space for Cultural Freedom?
Carl Marklund: Swedish Cultural Policy during the Era of Decolonization
Coffee break
Eric Fillion: (Post)colonial Sites of Encounter: Navigating Culture and Politics at the Superfrancofête
Caroline Ritter: A Disinterested Broker or a Direct Competitor? The British Council and English-Language Teaching Overseas, 1970-1990
Discussion: In the three decades following the conclusion of the Second World War, was there a distinct shift in the types of cultural products that were deemed exportable? In terms of what was considered worthy of cultural exchange, were there significant differences among European states?
12:00 – 12:30 Final discussion
12:30 Lunch Packet & Departure