Churchill and Freedom

18:00

Drinks Reception for Conference Sponsors, RAF Club. (Business attire suggested)

18:30  

Drinks Reception, RAF Club, 128 Piccadilly, London W1J 7PY.

Select event for delegates attending in person only (not online).

Welcome by Churchill family and Laurence Geller CBE, Chairman of ICS.

12:30

Lunch – including special lunches for Sponsors and Speakers and for Chapter Presidents & Int Council Members.

14:00

Conference opens. Welcome and introductions by conference presenters Katherine Carter and Catherine Grace Katz. To be followed by opening remarks by Laurence Geller, Chairman of the International Churchill Society.

14:15

Personal Freedom: Churchill and South Africa, 1899

Session moderated by The Rt. Hon. Lord Boateng, former British Cabinet Minister and High Commissioner to South Africa.

Presentations by The Hon. Celia Sandys (author of Churchill: Wanted Dead or Alive and Churchill’s granddaughter) and Candice Millard (author of Hero of the Empire: The Making of Winston Churchill).

15:00

Break (videos to be shown)

15:10

Brough Scott MBE (author of Churchill at the Gallop) to present on what it would have been like to ride as a 21st Lancer in the Sudan.

15:30

Launch of new edition of Churchill’s The River War

Professor James Muller (editor of the definitive new edition of The River War) in conversation with Dr Piers Brendon (author of Winston Churchill: A Brief Life and former Keeper of the Churchill Archives Centre).

16:15

Presentation by Captain Jonathan Nice of Queen’s Royal Hussars on Churchill’s Regiment Today

16:30

Break

16:35

Presenting History: The Past, Present and Future of Churchill Exhibitions

Katherine Carter (Property Curator at Chartwell), in conversation with Kate Ballenger (Keeper of Palace and Collections at Blenheim), Dr Rob Havers, (President/ CEO of the American Civil War Museum) and Dr Xavier Bray (Director of the Wallace Collection).

17:20

Break

17:30

Making History – Dan Snow ‘The History Guy’ (historian and television presenter).

18:15

Break

18:30

Keynote: Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor and former politician and Governor of California) in conversation with Dan Snow.

19:30

Presentation of Churchill Awards and launch of International Competition

19:45

Close

20:30

Dinner at Grosvenor Marriott for delegates attending in person (not filmed) - Black-tie optional or business attire suggested.

Supported by Pol Roger (UK).

Toasts

12:30

Lunch – including special lunches for Sponsors & Speakers and for Academic Advisers.

14:00

Welcome by conference presenters Catherine Grace Katz and Katherine Carter.

14:15

The Churchill daughters at War – launch of Mary Churchill’s War (the edited diaries of Lady Soames)

The Hon. Emma Soames in conversation with Catherine Grace Katz (author of Daughters of Yalta).

15:00

Break

15:10

“Remember gentlemen, it's not just France we are fighting for, it's Champagne." Churchill, Champagne and the resistance in Epernay during the First and Second World Wars.”

Dr Charlotte Jones (Pol Roger, UK)

15:45

Break

16:00

The Atlantic Charter – its historic significance and legacy  

A special panel broadcast from America’s National Churchill Museum.

Tim Riley (Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator of America’s National Churchill Museum) in conversation with Professor David Woolner (author of The Last 100 Days: FDR at War and Peace & Senior Fellow and Resident Historian of the Roosevelt Institute), Dr Jonathan Eyal (Associate Director Strategic Research Partnerships at Royal United Services Institute) and Allen Packwood (author of How Churchill Waged War & Director of the Churchill Archives Centre).

16:50

Break

17:00

Alliance – scenes from a new play by Giles Cole about Churchill at the White House presented by Julia Holofcener and Graham Pountney

Featuring: Narrator – Giles Cole, Churchill - Nicholas Day, FDR - Patrick Poletti, Eleanor & others - Nichola McAuliffe, and Harry Hopkins - Graham Pountney.

Find out more about the play here. 

17:30

Break

17:40

Defending Freedom Today

A special panel pre-recorded from the National Churchill Leadership Center. Introduced by Geneva Henry (Dean of Libraries and Academic Innovation, George Washington University).

Justin Reash (Executive Director of the International Churchill Society US and Program Director of the National Churchill Leadership Center) in conversation with Omar Muhammed (historian and blogger, George Washington University, Program on Extremism).

18:30

The Inaugural Stephen and Jane Poss Churchill Lecture:

Mr Stephen Poss to introduce Professor Andrew Roberts (historian and author Churchill: Walking with Destiny).

‘Churchill and Russia: Opportunism or Consistency?’

19:25

Closing Remarks: Laurence Geller CBE (Chairman of the International Churchill Society)  

20:30

Dinner at Grosvenor Marriott for delegates attending in person. (Business attire suggested)