HISTORICISING THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

Historicising the French Revolution A Graduate Conference organised by graduates from the History Faculties of Oxford University and the University of Cambridge Held at St John’s College and New Hall, Cambridge 15-16 November 2007 Supported by the History Faculty (Cambridge), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Society for the Study of French History, the Centre for History and Economics, the Royal Historical Society, Wolfson College and St John’s College, Cambridge Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Opening remarks: Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge) Christian Amalvi (Montpellier) - Des historiens contre la Révolution : de "l'Ecole capétienne" d'Action française à la critique universitaire du bicentenaire. Une historiographie de combat : 1910-1997 Gareth Stedman Jones (Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge) – Dickens and the French Revolution Robert Tombs (Cambridge) – Ending the French Revolution: the career of Adolphe Thiers, 1823-77 Stuart Jones (Manchester) - French Liberalism and the Legacy of the Revolution Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford) - Between the memory of Robespierre and the cult of Napoleon: the ambivalent republicanism of Albert Laponneraye Alan Forrest (York) – The Wars of the French Revolution: Historicising the CitizenSoldier Lucy Riall (Birbeck) – The legacy of the French Revolution and political leadership in Risorgimento Italy Keith Baker (Stanford) – title tbc Organizing Committee: Isabel DiVanna, Ambrogio Caiani, Pernille Roge, Dawn Dodds, Tom Stammers and Tom Jones (from Cambridge) and Ludivine Broch, Iain Chadwick, Tom Williams and Michael Stitt (from Oxford) Draft Schedule Day 1 – November 15 09.00-09.30 – Registration 09.30 – 09.40 – Welcome Keynote by Michael Sonenscher (Cambridge) 09.40 – 10.4 – Morning Session 1 : Chair : Dr Sonenscher 09.40 – 10.10 – Opening keynote - Christian Amalvi (Montpellier) - Des historiens contre la Révolution : de "l'Ecole capétienne" d'Action française à la critique universitaire du bicentenaire. Une historiographie de combat : 1910-1997 10.10 – 10.40 – Gareth Stedman Jones - (Centre for History and Economics, Cambridge) – Dickens and the French Revolution 10.40-11.00 – Coffee 11.00-13.00 – Morning Session 2: Chair: William Nelson (Cambridge) 11.00 – 11.30 – Lucy Riall (Birbeck) - The legacy of the French Revolution and political leadership in Risorgimento Italy 11.30 – 12.00 – Stuart Jones (Manchester) - French Liberalism and the Legacy of the Revolution 12.00-13.00 – Questions and Answers (all speakers) 13.00 – 13.40 – Conference Lunch 13.40 – 15.10 – Celebrating 1789 – Twentieth century views on the Revolution – Graduate Panel 1 – Chair: Martin Ruehl Ludivine Broch (Oxford) - The French Revolution in contemporary commemorations Thomas Williams (Oxford) - Revolutionary Memory and Regional Identity: Commemorating the French Revolution in French-Occupied Germany, 1918-30 and 1945-49 Derek Vanderpool (Stanford) - Vichy’s sans-culottes: Rethinking the French Revolution’s Place in the National Revolution 15.10-15.50 – Question and Answers 15.50 – 16.10 – Coffee 16.10 – 17.40 – Graduate Panel 2 and 3 (parallel) The French Revolution and Political Theory – Graduate Panel 2 – Chair: tbc Micah Alpaugh (University of California, Irvine) - The Emergence of the Parisian Political Demonstration: Developing Nonviolent Protest Repertoire in the French Revolution, 1789-1795 Emile Chabal (Cambridge) - Uses and abuses of history: memories of the République in late 20th century France Daniel De Groff (York) - The Continuity of Discord: The French Nation and the Cult of the Universal Perspectives of 1789 in Cultural History – Graduate Panel 3 – Chair: Carolina Armenteros (Cambridge) Jonathan Smyth (Royal Holloway, University of London), Robespierre’s God. The continuing debate on the Cult and Festival of the Supreme Being in 1794 Adrian O’Connor (University of Pennsylvania) - The Educational Proposals of the French Revolution: A Case Study in the Intellectual and Cultural History of Expectations Tom Stammers (Cambridge) - The Bric-a-Brac of the Old Regime: collecting and cultural history in mid-nineteenth century France 17.40 – 18.10 – Questions and Answers 18.10 – 19.10 – Wine reception 19.30 – Conference dinner at New Hall Day 2 – November 16 09.00 – 10.30 – Graduate Panels 4 and 5 (parallel) Dealing with Facts: the memory of 1789 – Graduate Panel 4 – Chair: David Todd (Cambridge) Matthew D’Auria (Centre for European Studies, UCL) - The liberal historiography of the Restoration and the re-shaping of the French national narrative Mette Harder (York) - With ‘Heavy Baggage’ towards ‘Impassionate Posterity’ – Early Nineteenth Century Encounters between Ex-Conventionnels and Historians of the French Revolution Richard Jones (York) - Pulpit, Press and Prison – the case of William Winterbotham: Pittite attempts at clerical censorship in the aftermath of the French Revolution Echoes of 1789 in Nineteenth-century France – Graduate panel 5 - Chair: Dr Émile Perreau Saussine Thomas Jones (Cambridge) - Inspiration and Limitation: Ledru-Rollin and the Legacy of the French Revolution Dawn Dodds (Cambridge) – 'L'Ami du Peuple' of the Nineteenth Century: Violence and the Memory of François Vincent Raspail Iain Chadwick (Oxford) - Networks of Revolutionaries during the Paris Commune of 1871 10.30 – 11.00 – Questions and Answers 11.00-11.20 – Coffee 11.20 – 13.20 – Graduate Panels 6 and 7 The Legacy of the French Revolution I: Outside Europe – Graduate Panel 6 – Chair: tbc Isabel DiVanna (Cambridge) – The Legacy of the French revolution across the Atlantic: the Conservative Republic in Brazil (1890-1910) Ozan Ozavci (Manchester) - The French Revolution from Turkish Perspective: Ahmet Ağaoğlu and ‘High Individualism’ Tom Hopkins (Cambridge) - Historicising Saint-Domingue: Slavery and Revolution in French Historiography, c.1800-60 Anna Gust (UCL) – Politically in Europe, though geographically out of it": reconceptualising the French Revolution from the perspective of Bombay The Legacy of the French Revolution II: Inside Europe – Graduate Panel 7 – Chair: Alan Forrest (York) Przemyslaw Milewicz (Cambridge) - An uprising or a revolution? The legacy of the French Revolution and the domestic power struggle in the November Uprising in the Kingdom of Poland in 1830-31 Terrence Corrigan (Syracuse University) - Irish Catholics, Conservatism, and Counter-Revolution: Rethinking the History of Ireland and the French Revolution Suzanne Marcuzzi (Cambridge) - The French Revolution’s legacy for British liberty Franz Leander Fillafer (Cambridge)- Escaping the Enlightenment. The Liberals in the Habsburg Monarchy and the Historicisation of the Revolution 13.20 – 14.00 – Questions and Answers 14.00- 14.40 – Conference Lunch 14.40 – 17.10 – Afternoon Session : Chair: tbc 14.40 – 15.10 - Sudhir Hazareesingh (Oxford) - Between the memory of Robespierre and the cult of Napoleon: the ambivalent republicanism of Albert Laponneraye 15.10 – 15.40 –Alan Forrest (York) - The Wars of the French Revolution: Historicising the Citizen-Soldier 15.40 -16.10– Keith Baker (Stanford) – title tbc 16.10-17.10 – Questions and Answers 17.10 – 17.30 – Coffee 17.30-17.50 – Closing Keynote and Remarks – Robert Tombs (Cambridge) - Ending the French Revolution: the career of Adolphe Thiers, 1823-77