Friday, 30th May, 2003
19:30
Opening Address
Frank O'Gorman (Manchester)
Political Ritual in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Saturday, 31st May, 2003
9:00
Jörg Neuheiser (Köln)/Michael Schaich (London)
Welcome and Introduction
I. Civic Ritual
9:30 Rosemary Sweet (Leicester)
Urban Political Ritual in Eighteenth-Century Britain
10:00
Discussion
10:30
Coffee Break
11:00
Andreas Fahrmeir (Frankfurt a.M.)
The Lord Mayor's Show in Nineteenth-Century London
11:30
Discussion
12:00
Lunch
II. Ritual and Popular Politics
14:00
Detlev Mares (Darmstadt)
The Importance of Being Earnest: Rituals in Victorian Popular Radicalism
14:30
Matthias Reiß (London)
National Hunger Marches in 1920s and 1930s Britain
15:00
Discussion
15:30
Coffee Break
III. Commemorative Rituals
16:00
Dominic Bryan (Belfast)
Orange Order Parades in Northern Ireland, 1960-2000
16:30
Gerd Stratmann (Bochum)
The Golden Jubilee Celebrations
17:00
Discussion