2025 Annual Conference

2025 HOTCUS Annual Conference,18-20 June 2025


The 2025 HOTCUS annual conference will be held at the University of Lancaster, 18-20 June 2025. We are delighted to announce that Professor Andrew Preston (University of Cambridge) will be our keynote speaker, titled “Defending the American Way: The Liberalism of War and FDR’s National Security Revolution.”

The Call for Papers has closed, but remains available through this link. The schedule is available here, and registration has now been opened and is accessible here.

Additional extras like the conference meal and on-campus accommodation are also available to book at the same time. 

The conference meal is a 3-course meal, on-campus, on the Thursday evening. 

The on-campus accommodation offered when you register for the conference is university accommodation, i.e. private dorm rooms with single, double or twin beds, with breakfast included. They are only available for two-night bookings, i.e. Wednesday 18 June and Thursday 19 June, and offered on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note – if you need an itemised list of what you have booked, particularly for reimbursement from your institution or funders, please click ‘Continue’ from your booking confirmation page. Then click on the little arrow near your name (which should appear in bold text halfway down the page) to reveal a more detailed outline of your booking. You can then save this page as a PDF. The email notification you will receive, does not provide any of this information. 

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