Imagining a future (inside/outside) Britain

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Organised by the CRECIB (Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique), the SFEE (Société Française d’Etudes Ecossaises) and the CAS (Centre for Anglophone Studies) – 12 and 13 March 2026

How has the future of the United Kingdom and its various components been imagined, conceived and projected at all periods, including the present day? Drawing on the interdisciplinary field of futures studies, and more specifically critical futures studies, this conference, supported by two scientific societies, the SFEE and the CRECIB, and by the Centre for Anglophone Studies (CAS) of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès University, proposes to study the ways in which the future of the United Kingdom and its constituent nations has been imagined over time, in fictional and non-fictional modes. We will be looking at both representations of the future of the United Kingdom as a whole (the future of the British State, society and Union), and representations of the future of the various constituent territories of the United Kingdom, either within the Union and the Empire or outside of it.

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Organising committee
Nathalie Duclos (CAS, UT2J, and president of the Société Française d'Etudes Ecossaises, SFEE)
Anita Jorge (CAS, UT2J, and secretary of the Centre de Recherches en Civilisation Britannique, CRECIB)
Myriam Yakoubi (CAS, UT2J)

Scientific Committee
Philippe Birgy (CAS, UT2J), Nathalie Duclos, Anita Jorge, Myriam Yakoubi