British Intellectual Conservatism: Past and Present Conference in Cambridge
British Intellectual Conservatism: Past and Present
6 th and 7 th July 2023
Churchill College Cambridge
Day One – 6th July
Panel 1: Conservatism Today
Johnny Burtka (Intercollegiate Studies Institute): Americanism, Conservatism, and One-Nation Conservatism
Phillip Blond (ResPublica): The Future of Conservativism
Daniel Pitt (University of Sheffield): Intellectual Conservatism Today
Ferenc Hörcher (University of Public Service, Budapest): Politics about Intellectual Conservatism today – the Case of Sir Roger Scruton
Chair: Kevin Hickson (University of Liverpool)
Panel 2: History of the Conservatives
Luke Blaxill (University of Oxford): 'The Stupid Party': Historicising the development of anti 'anti-intellectualism' by opponents of Conservatism
Sam Blaxland (University College London): The Conservative Party and the ‘Outer Fringes of the UK’: Policymaking, adaption and the ‘Celtic vote’ since 1945
Mark Garnett (Lancaster University): What's in a name? The strange survival of the "Conservative Party" brand
Thomas Prosser (Cardiff University): A Burkean theory of institutional stability and change
Chair: Stuart Ball (University of Leicester)
Keynote
Vernon Bogdanor (King’s College London): A conservative society, a market economy and limited government. Are they compatible?
Chair: Ferenc Hörcher (University of Public Service, Budapest)
Panel 3: Age of Churchill
Stuart Ball (University of Leicester): The ‘New Conservatism’ of the 1920s: the state, capitalism, democracy and the challenge of Socialism
James Vitali (Policy Exchange): Constructive Conservatism: the intellectual origins of the property owning democracy
Chair: Allen Packwood (Director of the Churchill Centre)
Panel 4: Age of Thatcher
Emily Stacy (Honorary Research Fellow at the Mile End Institute): "I feel I have been accepted as a Leader in the International Sphere": Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Policy, 1975-79.
Daniel Pitt (University of Sheffield): Thatcher’s Thoughts and the British Constitution: From their Lordships House to Statecraft
Kevin Hickson (University of Liverpool): Traditional Toryism - For and Against Thatcherism
Lord (David) Frost (House of Lords): What lessons does the Age of Thatcher offer to modern Conservatives?
Chair: Max Skjönsberg (University of Cambridge)
Keynote
Danny Kruger MP: Post-liberal Conservative a Perspective from Parliament
Chair: Phillip Blond (ResPublica)
Day Two – 7th July
Keynote
Professor Lord Norton of Louth (University of Hull and the House of Lords): Conservatism and Conservative Success
Chair: Daniel Pitt (University of Sheffield)
Panel 5: LSE Right
Ojel Rodriguez Burgos (University of St Andrews): The LSE Right, Thatcherism and the Future of the Conservative Party
Robert Grant (University of Glasgow): Salisbury, LSE, Oakeshott, Scruton: Implications for Policy
Christopher Fear (University of Hull): Michael Oakeshott: Civil Association and Conservatism
Antony Mullen (University of Bolton): T.S. Eliot and the Conservative Imagination
Chair: Zeena Mistry (University of Hull)
Panel 6: Peterhouse Right
Ferenc Hörcher (University of Public Service, Budapest): Scruton and Watkin – an unappriciated influence
Daniel McCarthy (Modern Age and Intercollegiate Studies Institute): Maurice Cowling and Willmoore Kendall Against J.S. Mill's Tyranny of Feeling
Bracy Bersnak (Christendom College): The Conservative Sensibility of Evelyn Waugh
Anthony O’Hear (University of Buckingham): Peterhouse Culture: Three Voices
Chair: Imogen Sinclair (St Mary's University, Twickenham)
Panel 7: Free Speech and Conservatism
Matt Beech (University of Hull): Free Speech, Marxism, and the Culture War
David Jeffery (University of Liverpool): Free Speech for Conservatives in UK Academia: Fact or Fiction?
Zeena Mistry (University of Hull): Explore how being dual heritage and conservative fit into the tradition of conservatism: a British Indian perspective
Chair: Thomas Prosser (Cardiff University)
Panel 8: Political Theology and Conservatism
Ryan Haecker (PhD from Cambridge): God Save the Sleeping King: Translatio Imperii from Waterloo to Brexit
Sebastian Morello (University of Buckingham): Conservatism and Grace: Is a secular society possible?
Imogen Sinclair (St Mary's University, Twickenham): The State and the Soul: pre-political sources of social order
Chair: Matt Beech (University of Hull)
Keynote
Phillip Blond (ResPublica)
Chair: Johnny Burtka (Intercollegiate Studies Institute)