Programme
Day 1
0930 – Arrival Refreshments
1000 – Welcome to King’s College London, the Corbett 100 Project.
- Dr James W E Smith | Department of War Studies, King’s College London.
Sir Julian Corbett at Kings: setting an agenda?’
- Professor Andrew Lambert | Laughton Chair for Naval History
Theme: Sir Julian Corbett, his Scholarship, and Perspectives
Panel 1. Corbett and the Evolution of Naval history
Chair and Presenter: Rachel Blackman-Rogers | PhD Candidate, King’s College London
-Dr Alan James | King’s College London ‘Making Sense of Tudor Naval Power’.
-Professor Richard Harding | University of Westminster ‘Corbett’s Seven Years War’.
12.00-13.00 Lunch – Council Room & Old Committee Room
13.00- 15.00 Panel 2. ‘The British Way of War’.
Chair and Presenter: Dr Hilary Briffa| Department of War Studies, King’s College London
-Dr Dan Whittingham | University of Birmingham ‘The British Way of War’.
-Dr Rob Johnson | Director of the Oxford Changing Character of War Centre.
‘Soldiers and Maritime Strategy’
-Dr Louis Halewood | University of Plymouth ‘The International Navy of the World’? Britain, the United States, and the Naval Balance of Power, 1919-1922’
15.00-15.30 Break - Council Room & Old Committee Room
15.30- 17.00 Panel 3. The Legal Dimension and International impact.
Chair and Presenter: Dr Gabriela A Frei | Jesus College, University of Oxford
-Dr Alan M Anderson ‘Corbett and International Law: The Immunity of Private Property at Sea.’
-Dr Jake J Widen ‘Impact and Influence: Corbett in Sweden’.
1700-1900 Reception – Council Room & Old Committee Room
Day 2.
0930 – Arrival Refreshments
Theme: Sir Julian’s Influence Beyond Britain
10.00 Welcome - Professor Andrew Lambert
10.10 – 12.00 Panel 4. The Sea Commonwealth & AUKUS Anticipated: Corbett in the Anglosphere.
1010: Chair: Dr James W E Smith | Department of War Studies, King’s College London | Corbett 100 Committee
-Dr David Kohnen, CDR USN (Ret) | U.S. Naval War College
‘Crossing the Atlantic: Corbett and the Development of American Maritime Strategy.’
-Lt Cmdr Mark Bailey PhD RAN | Australian Naval Institute.
‘Corbett, Empire and Commonwealth.’
12.00-13.00 Lunch – Council Room & Old Committee Room
Theme: British Maritime Strategy and The Royal Navy after 1945
13.00-15.00 Panel 5. Corbett’s Legacy and Maritime Strategy: Decline and Revival?
Chair: Lt Cmdr Mark Bailey PhD, RAN | Australian Naval Institute | Corbett 100 Committee
-Dr James W E Smith ‘The Abolition of Admiralty and the Continental Commitment.’
15.00-15.30 Break - Council Room & Old Committee Room
15.30- 17.00 Panel 6. Corbett and the Contemporary Royal Navy?
Chair: Dr David Kohnen, CDR USN (Ret) | U.S. Naval War College| Corbett 100 Committee
-Commander Andrew Livsey RN | Hudson Fellow, St Antony’s College, Oxford
‘The Royal Navy and Corbett 1990-2020.’
-Captain Kevin Rowlands RN | Head Royal Navy Strategic Studies
‘Some Principles of Maritime Strategy Making in the Royal Navy Today.’
1700: Closing Remarks and Keynote: Professor Andrew Lambert
17.30: End of Conference
Follow on events:
- 8 June Online – School of Security Studies Research Conference ‘Back to the Future’ (8-9th June)o Dr James W E Smith: Forgetting Corbett: The Decline of Historically-ledMethodology and Maritime Influences on Strategy in the Contemporary era?
- 2022 Online – Corbett 100 Seminar at King’s: Dr Kunika Kakuta, University College London, Sir Julian Corbett and 5th Century Athens to Imperial Japan.
- 2022 Online – Corbett 100 Seminar. Professor Beatrice Heuser: Sir Julian Corbett and The Evolution of Strategy
Please visit the School events page for further details on King’s events related to Corbett 100.
• 21-22 September 2022 Goldrick Conference, Canberra Australia - Australian Naval Institute, University of NSW (Canberra), Australian Defence Force Academy, the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security and the Australian Seapower Centre - Corbett 100 and Indo-Pacific Maritime Strategy.
• May 2023 – Corbett 100 in the United States, U.S. Naval War College.
*Please note this is a draft programme as of 16 May 2022. Additional speakers and/or chairsare likely to be added.
Due to space constraint’s this conference is by invite only. Please contact corbett100@kcl.ac.uk for any queries.