keynote speakers
Jeremy Black
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(Professor Emeritus,
University of Exeter)
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Jeremy Black is a prolific lecturer and writer, the author of over 100 books. Many concern aspects of eighteenth century British, European and American political, diplomatic and military history but he has also published on the history of the press, cartography, warfare, culture and on the nature and uses of history itself.
Roy Foster
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(Emeritus Professor of Irish History, University of Oxford; Professor of Irish history and Literature, Queen Mary University of London)
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R.F. (Roy) Foster is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Oxford and of Irish History and Literature at Queen Mary University of London. His many prizewinning books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, The Irish Story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland, the two-volume authorised biography of W.B.Yeats, Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1923 and On Seamus Heaney. A Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy, and the holder of several honorary degrees, he is also a well known cultural commentator and critic.
Uta Staiger
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(Associate Professor of European Studies,
University College London)
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Uta Staiger is Associate Professor of European Studies at UCL, where she directs the European Institute, the university’s hub for research on Europe and a European Commission designated Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is also Pro-Vice-Provost (Europe), a strategic position shaping UCL’s engagement with the European higher education sector. Her research sits at the intersection of modern European thought, culture, and politics, with recent publications including a co-edited volume on Brexit and the future(s) of Europe (UCL Press 2018), an article on the cultural sources of British bargaining in the Brexit negotiations (JCMS 2021), and a book chapter on mourning, tragedy and the law in contemporary philosophy (Legenda, MHRA). Uta is a member of the Russell Group EU Advisory Group and the Advisory Board of the Scottish Council on European Relations, a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.
