Winter Conference: speakers & tickets

The Flag Institute AGM & Winter 2019 Conference will take place on Saturday 2 November.

The venue is the People’s History Museum, Manchester, home to the world’s largest trade union and political banner collection.

Tickets are free to Flag Institute members.

Speakers and presentations include…

• Annie M. Platoff FF, Slavic Studies Librarian at University of California and Postgraduate PhD student in History, University of Leicester

Soiuz and symbolic union: Representations of unity in Soviet Symbolism

• Dr Andrea Cioncolini, Senior Lecturer in Thermal Hydraulics, Dr Mostafa R. A. Nabawy, Lecturer in Aerospace Engineering, and Dr Alistair Revell, Reader in Computational Fluid Dynamics

Flags that can generate energy from wind and sun

• Roger Ourset, Retired Professor and Dean of ESA Business School, Beirut, Lebanon

Flags and National Anthems

• Hannah Patton, Participant Coordinator, HeadStart Kent

Flast on tour: Talking about flags in unusual places

• Bernard Muscat, Flag Institute Social Media Officer

#WorldCupOfFlags: How Flag Institute content went (accidentally) viral

• Jenny van Enckevort, People’s History Museum

Conservation Studio Tour

Come and enjoy a unique mix of historic and contemporary vexillology, good company and the impressive People’s History Museum.

Continue the conversation at the President’s Dinner at San Carlo, a short walk from the venue.

The official Flag Institute hotel for the weekend is the nearby Premier Inn Manchester City Centre West.