The National Identity Lecture Series
Frank McDonough is the organiser of the high profile lecture series at Liverpool John Moores University entitled: New Perspectives on National Identity. This series has attracted a number of world leading experts to discuss this most important aspect of history and the modern world.
The series began in September 2010 an has since become a major feature of the public lectures offered by the School of Humanties and Social Science. Many of the lectures have been filmed.
Dr Peter Frankopan – The Silk Roads: Questioning the Eurocentric view of history
Don Boyd: Representations of National Identity in British Films
Janet Suzman: South Africa: National Identitly is a Matter of the Heart
Professor Sarah Churchwell: F.Scott Fitzgerald’s Uncanny Intuition and The Dying of the American Dream
Stuart Maconie – Hope and Glory: The Days That Shaped British National Identity
Sir Richard J Evans – German National Identity