So Obama is in - what is our agenda for change now?

The American election has held us all entranced. But now its over, what happens next?

We will be trying to take stock of this extraordinary week in politics tomorrow with our Fabian conference America Votes, Europe Responds at Westminster Central Hall. It is a good moment to be meeting in the very same building that hosted the first ever meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in January 1946. Can we make sure we are actors, and not just spectators, in the search for the new multilateralism our age needs and a progressive politics of hope and change?

We’ve been debating the politics of the World After Bush beginning with an essay in the summer of 2006, looking ahead to the 2009 inauguration and the politics of a new multilateralism and have since put up a manifesto of new ideas for UK and US foreign policy.

We have also been pushing for a more open and less controlled form of party politics, with David Lammy and our new paper from Will Straw and Nick Anstead setting out the argument, and some of the practical steps we could take to start to build this.

But how can that translate into change at home and abroad?

Tomorrow, David Lammy will ask what the US election result means - and who owns change in British politics.

What will change mean in America? Is this the new dawn - or a crisis of raised expectations? Does Europe have an answer to Henry Kissinger’s famous question - who do I call? And what should Brown, Merkel and Sarkozy say when they pick up the phone before January 20th?

And how do we translate the lessons of the movement politics to British politics? Ben Brandzel will speak about his experiences with MoveOn and the Obama campaign, with British activists and thinkers, and those returning from the US campaign trail.