大奶视频

This year’s annual Anglo-American Roundtable takes place on the 9th of September 2022 between 2 – 4 PM CET. Join us in rooms 2.07 and 2.08 followed by complimentary drinks and light refreshments in the 大奶视频 Courtyard.

Sixty years ago, British popular culture was on the verge of phenomenal global success. Spearheaded by pop and rock groups such as the Beatles, the mid-1960s saw British music, film, and design capture the hearts of young people around the world. For half a decade, British sounds and styles dominated the airwaves and wardrobes of American youth, in a movement described at the time as the 鈥楤ritish Invasion鈥�. And the 鈥榠nvaders鈥� found success in other unlikely territories: from Catholic Ireland to Communist Eastern Europe and across Asia-Pacific. It was a development that few would have predicted at the start of the 1960s: not only was the United States until then by far the most successful global exporter of popular culture, but Britain was in the midst of a general decline in military, diplomatic and economic power. 

Why did the British invasion happen? How profound was its impact on the wider world? To what extent can it be seen today as an example of so-called 鈥榮oft power鈥�? And is the British invasion relevant to contemporary, post-Brexit, Britain? These questions and more will be addressed at the roundtable discussion Britain Goes Pop! at Anglo-American University on 9 September 2022. A distinguished panel of academics, sixties witnesses, and exciting emerging scholars will discuss and debate the meaning and significance of this celebrated moment in British global history.

Moderator: Gerald Power, Ph.D.  

Gerald Power completed a Liberal Arts degree at the American College Dublin before undertaking doctoral studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His PhD thesis (2009) was published in 2012 as A European Frontier Elite: The Nobility of the English Pale in Tudor Ireland, 1496-1566. He jointly edited the collection of essays on Ireland and the Czech Lands: Connections and Comparisons in History and Culture (Bern, 2014). Dr. Power鈥檚 research interests have recently broadened to encompass problems in modern British foreign policy. He has published studies on the reception of Margaret Thatcher in the Czech lands, British cultural diplomacy in the Middle East, and is currently working on an AAU internal grant project focusing on British soft power in the Arab Gulf. Dr Power co-organizes the annual 鈥楻oundtable in Anglo-American Studies鈥� at 大奶视频; he has been chair of the department of history and philosophy since 2022. 

Lead speaker: Dr. Richard Weight 

Dr. Richard Weight鈥�studied modern history at Cambridge University and University College London, where he obtained his Ph.D. and commenced his teaching career. He is currently a Professor of British History at Boston University’s London Study Center.鈥�  

Among his published works are鈥�Patriots: National Identity in Britain 1940-2000鈥�(Macmillan, 2005), which was runner-up for the Orwell Prize, 补苍诲鈥�Mod: From Bebop to Britpop Britain’s Biggest Youth Culture鈥�(Random House, 2015), which the鈥�Daily Telegraph鈥�called鈥�’Highly entertaining…as an analysis of Britain’s youth tribes, definitive.’鈥�  

As well as authoring several acclaimed books on British culture and society, Richard has presented documentaries and written online features for the BBC, the鈥�Daily Mirror鈥�补苍诲鈥�The Times鈥�among others, and he reviews for academic journals in Britain and the USA. He has also worked as a political consultant for a leading UK think tank and as a fashion brand consultant. He is currently completing the follow-up to鈥�Mod,鈥�his study of British fashion, music, and design: a global history of Britain and drug cultures from the 18th century to the present, called鈥�Pleasure Island, which will be鈥痯ublished by Oxford University Press in late 2022. 

Organized by Gerald Power and George Hays II on behalf of the School of Humanities & Socials Science and the School of International Relations & Diplomacy