Britain after Brexit: geopolitical dislocations and realignments
Aix-Marseille University, Campus ALLSH, Bâtiment Le Cube (Le Plateau)
Aix-en-Provence, 24 September 2021
8h30 Introductory remarks
9h Keynote address
Prof. Philip Rycroft, former Permanent Secretary of the Department for Exiting the EU (DexEU, 2017-19) and head of UK governance in the Cabinet Office (2015-19), honorary professor Edinburgh University, and Distinguished Honorary Researcher at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy and POLIS, University of Cambridge.
‘Pathways to independence: will Scotland leave the UK?’
10h Andy Mycroft (University of Huddersfield), ‘Falling between three stools? Brexit and ‘Global Britain”
10h45 coffee break
11h15 Pauline Schnapper (Paris 3), Brexit: the view from France
12h pause déjeuner
14h Gilles Leydier (Université de Toulon), Geopolitics, national identity and Brexit: The case of Scotland
14h 45 Karine Bigand (AMU), Northern Ireland: post-Brexit prospects
Tea break
15h45 Valérie André (AMU), The ‘Singapore scenario’ for post-Brexit Britain
16h30 Matthew Graves (AMU), Britain’s wandering islands: rebordering after Brexit
17h Questions and concluding remarks