Conference: ‘Histories of Activism’ Postgraduate Conference
Organised by the Histories of Activism Research Group at Northumbria University and the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH), Venue: Bishopsgate Institute, London, Saturday, 26th November 2011.
To register your attendance or for any enquires please email vanessa.sherriffs [at] northumbria.ac.uk or p.simpson [at] northumbria.ac.uk
Histories of Activism Postgraduate Conference – Programme
Registration 10.00am – 10.45am
10.45am – 11am – Welcome and Introduction
11am – Panel One: Structures of Activism (Chair: TBC)
Graham Baxendale (University of Southampton), Activism and the Decriminalisation of Homosexuality: Exploring the Role of Popular Opinion, Elite Activism and Party Politics
Stefan Muller (University of Duisburg-Essen), German Trade Unions and the new Eastern policy
Aaron Franks (University of Glasgow), Arriving at ‘So We Stand’ and the Journey to Climate Justice
Davide Tabor (University of Turin), A Model of Circular Political Transmission: The Case of the Italian Socialist Party Between the 1800s and 1900s
1-2pm. Lunch Break
2pm – Panel Two: Activism and the Written Word (Chair: Dr. Daniel Laqua)
Sandra Guerreiro Dias (University of Coimbra), Poetics and Activisms in Post-Revolutionary Portugal
Ian Gwinn (University of Liverpool), People’s History as Cultural Praxis: The Case of History Workshop
Elen Cocaign (University of Paris), Politicising New Audiences, Popularising Ideas: Bookselling Activists in Interwar Britain
3.45pm – Panel Three: Transfers of Activism (Chair: Vanessa Sherriffs)
Paul Simpson (University of Northumbria), The Internationalism(s) of the Independent Labour Party in the Interwar Years
Benedict Greening (London School of Economics), Bermudian Black Activism and Decolonisation, 1968 – 1973
Malcolm Petrie (University of St. Andrews), Unity form Below? The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on Labour and the Left in Aberdeen and Dundee, 1936 – 1939
James Perkins (Birkbeck College, University of London) The British Balkan Committee and the Radical Conscience: The Political Activism of Some Edwardian ‘Trouble Makers’
5.30pm – 6pm – Concluding Remarks