Constitutional Cultures: On the Concept and Representation of Constitutions in the Atlantic World

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Constitutional Cultures: On the Concept and Representation of Constitutions in the Atlantic World

Veranstalter
Prof. Silke Hensel / Prof. Hans-Ulrich Thamer, Sonderforschungsbereich 496
Veranstaltungsort
Agora Tagungshotel, Münster
Ort
Münster
Land
Deutschland
Vom - Bis
12.05.2011 - 14.05.2011
Deadline
02.05.2011
Website
http://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB496/veranstaltungen/exposes/SFB_flyer_constCultures.pdf.
Von
SFB 496, Prof. Silke Hensel / Prof. Hans-Ulrich Thamer

The thesis of the Atlantic Revolution is meant to serve the conference as a starting point for a comparative perspective upon constitutional cultures. Constitutions, in their enactment, set up a new order, but at the same time lay claim to future continuity. Constitutions can only do justice to their central tasks of legitimizing and integrating political communities and their institutions if their normative rules and offered meanings are accepted and practiced, if communication about fundamental values and patterns of behavior takes place between wielders of power and citizens. This permanent process of conveying and securing the basic patterns of social-political arrangement and loyalty has a subjective dimension that is conveyed through symbols.

Even and especially in a modern constitutional state – which represents in the first place a legal phenomenon – a constitution is also just as much a matter of a symbolic order. In the newer constitutional-historical and cultural-historical discussion, this is referred to as constitutional culture. The concepts of political order and the guiding ideas inscribed into the constitution are not self evident; they must be conveyed symbolically. In order for the constitution to develop a binding force it first requires a conceptual community of citizens in which the central ideas of political order are identified with the constitution itself. The importance of this dimension becomes especially clear in the negative example of the failure of a constitutional order. But it can also be seen when parties in political conflict appeal to the constitution despite contrary goals and reasons, where the constitution thus becomes a unifying symbol.

Programm

Thursday, May 12th

14:30-15:00
Welcome: Silke Hensel and Hans-Ulrich Thamer (Münster)

Introduction: Constitutions and Constitutional Cultures

15:00-15:35
Hans Vorländer (Dresden): The Constitution as Symbolic Order: On what "Constitutional Culture" Means

15:40-16:15
Jaime E. Rodríguez O. (Irvine): Hispanic Constitutionalism and the Federal Republic of Mexico

16:50-17:25
José M. Portillo Valdés (Vitoria / Mexico City):The Imperial Crisis of the Spanish Monarchy

17:30-18:05
Klaus Deinet (Wuppertal): Competing Strands of French Constitutional History in the First Half of the 19th Century

18:10-18:40
Section Discussion
Discussant: Andreas Biefang (Berlin)

Friday, May 13th

Representation of Constitutions: Constitutional Bodies and Celebrations I

9:30-9:55
Katrin Dircksen (Münster): Representations of Competing Political Orders: Constitutional Festivities in Mexico City (1824-1846)

10:00-10:25
Vivien Green Fryd (Nashville): Representing the Constitution in the U.S. Capitol Building: Freedom and Slavery

11:00-11:25
Sebastian Dorsch (Erfurt): Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Institution Building: The Congress of Michoacán (1823-1835)

11:30-11:55
Ulrike Bock (Münster): Failing to Construct a Lasting Order? Constitutions and Constitutional Bodies in Yucatán (1823-1839)

12:00-13:00
Section Discussion
Discussant: Annick Lempérière (Paris)

Representation of Constitutions: Constitutional Bodies and Celebrations II

14:30-14:55
Armin Owzar (San Diego / Münster): Celebrate the Constitution: Political Culture in France during the Long 19th Century

15:00-15:25
Christina Schröer (Freiburg): Symbolic Politics and the Visualization of the Constitutional Order during the First French Republic (1792-1799)

16:00-16:25
Martin Knauer (Münster): Allegorical Embodiments of the Ideal Constitutional Political Order in Early Southern German Constitutionalism (1800-1850)

16:30-17:30
Section Discussion
Discussant: Hans-Ulrich Thamer (Münster)

Saturday, May 14th

The People as Sovereign: Elections

9:30-9:55
Marcela Ternavasio (Rosario): Representation, Suffrage and Political Order in the River Plate during the Era of the Revolutions

10:00-10:25
Silke Hensel (Münster): The Symbolic Meaning of Electoral Processes: Mexico in the Early 19th Century

10:30-11:00
Malcolm Crook (Keele): Citizenship without Democracy: The Culture of Elections in France under the Constitutional Monarchy (1814-1848)

11:30-11:55
Christian Müller (Münster): “Apples of Gold in Frames of Silver?" Symbolic Politics, Suffrage Laws, and Electoral Practices in the United States of North America (1770-1880)

12:00-13:00
Section Discussion
Discussant: Ulrich Mücke (Hamburg)

Please visit our website at: http://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB496/veranstaltungen/exposes/SFB_flyer_constCultures.pdf

Kontakt

Kümmel

Sonderforschungsbereich 496 - Teilprojekt C5
Salzstraße 41
48143 Münster

ConstitutionalCultures@uni-muenster.de

http://www.uni-muenster.de/SFB496/veranstaltungen/exposes/SFB_flyer_constCultures.pdf.