How did activists remember, represent and reassess the revolutionary heritage of the ‘long nineteenth century’? On 4–5 November 2016, Northumbria University’s ‘Histories of Activism’research group will examine this question in association with the Society for the Study of Labour History (SSLH) and with the support of Durham’s Centre for Nineteenth Century Studies.
Attendance of this event is free, but all guests are asked to register via this link no later than 26 October. All registered participants will subsequently receive further information on the event. If you have any questions, you can contact the organisers (Daniel Laqua, Charlotte Alston and Laura O'Brien) via historiesofactivism@gmail.com.
PROGRAMME
Friday 4 November
14h00 Opening by the organisers
14h15 Radical histories of Ireland and Irishness
Terence McBride (University of the West of Scotland) – The radical narrative and Irishness in post-1848 Glasgow: the role of the Glasgow Free Press
Felix Larkin (Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland) – Riding the back of the tiger: Irish rebellions of the 19th century as portrayed in the Sunday Freeman newspaper
Ultán Gillen (Teesside) – Rethinking Wolfe Tone, reimagining revolution in 1960s Ireland
Chair: Peter O’Connor (Northumbria)
15h45 Coffee break
16h10 Echoes of 1848
Abigail Green (Oxford) – Children of 1848: Jewish liberal activists and the revolutionary tradition
Laura O’Brien (Northumbria) – ‘These great ideas bestowed to us by the past’: education, commemoration and the 1948 centenary of the French revolution of 1848
Daniel Laqua (Northumbria) – Nationhood between reconstruction and reunification: commemorating the 1848 revolution in 20th-century Germany
Chair: Timothy Baycroft (Sheffield)
17h40 Spaces and traces of radicalism
Joseph Hardwick (Northumbria) – Mapping Tyneside radicalism
Nigel Todd (WEA) – Newcastle’s radical past: a walking tour
20h00 Conference dinner
Saturday 5 November
10h15 Images and imaginations of revolutionary change
Ben Partridge (Newcastle) – Imagining revolutions: radical heritage in the photography of May ‘68
Laura Forster (King’s College London) – The battle for the Commune: Raspouteam and the remapping of Paris, 1871–2011
Discussant: Timothy Baycroft (Sheffield)
Chair: James Koranyi (Durham)
11h30 Coffee break
11h50 British activism and the construction of radical legacies
Joe Cozens (Essex) – The memory of the Peterloo Massacre in the long nineteenth century, 1819–1919
Mark Nixon (Edinburgh) – Political heritage in the 1884 franchise demonstrations in Scotland
Discussant: Joan Allen (Newcastle)
Chair: John Belchem (Liverpool)
13h05 Lunch break / AGM, Society for the Study of Labour History
14h15 National and international narratives
Thomas Jones (Buckingham) – Internationalising revolutionary commemoration after 1848
Tom Stammers (Durham) – Globalising the French Revolution in interwar France
Chair: Charlotte Alston (Northumbria)
15h15 Coffee break
15h30 Political movements and the uses of the past
Máire F. Cross (Newcastle) – Peace in our time? Revolutionary aspirations of French utopian socialists narrated in a twentieth century pacifist context
Marcella Sutcliffe (Cambridge) – Fighting for the soul of the British Left under Mazzini’s banner: co-operators versus socialists (c. 1885–1949)
Amerigo Caruso (Saarbrücken) – Anti-revolutionary paranoia and the foundation of modern conservative political discourse in the long nineteenth century
Chair: André Keil (Sunderland)
17h00 Closing remarks
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