The Churchill Centre

James W. Muller, afjwm@uaa.alaska.edu (University of Alaska, Anchorage)

The Churchill Centre is a worldwide membership organization devoted to the study of the life, times, speeches, and writings of Winston Spencer Churchill. It convenes the annual International Churchill Conference, publishes the quarterly journal Finest Hour, maintains a website www.winstonchurchill.org, and arranges lectures, seminars, symposia, and study tours on Churchill. As an APSA related group, it organizes a panel and a black tie academic dinner each year at the annual meeting. In 2010 the panel will be entitled “Churchill’s Brief Lives,” investigating his interwar book Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937 and reissued with four additional essays in 1938. For a book composed of twenty-five discrete portraits, whose only common theme is that they depict “Great Men” of Churchill’s age, Great Contemporaries has a singular unity, to be explored from different points of view by papers presented at the panel. Prospective presenters should send particulars of proposed papers, with contact information, to Professor James W. Muller (afjwm@uaa.alaska.edu), Academic Chairman of the Churchill Centre, who organizes the panel. Plans for the academic dinner will be published, and invitations available, in advance of the meeting.