Thursday, 1 December 2011
3:00 p.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey/Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld)
3:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Section I: Violence – Pre-Political, Anti-Political, or Political?
(Chair: Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey, Bielefeld)
Freia Anders (Bielefeld)
The Limits of the Legitimate: The Quarrel over “Violence” between Autonomous Groups and the Authorities
Alain Dewerpe (Paris)
Is State Murder a Political Event? Some Reflexions from the 8 February 1962 Massacre at the Charonne Metro, Paris
Comment: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (Bielefeld)
Friday, 2 December 2011
9:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Section II: Boundary Disputes: The Political and Other Spheres
(Chair: Diana Mishkova, Sofia)
Christoph Gusy (Bielefeld)
The Laws – Basis and Objects of Political Communication
Kirsten Bönker (Bielefeld)
“Money, Money, Money”: Contested Boundaries? Money, Consumption, and Politics in the Late Soviet Union
Matthias Pohlig (Münster)
Internal and External Boundaries: Early Modern Politics Revisited
Comment: Willibald Steinmetz (Bielefeld)
2:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Section III: The Politics of Leadership
(Chair: Michael Freeden, Oxford)
Paolo Pombeni (Bologna)
The Word of a Leader: The Problem of How to Shape the Public Space in 19th and 20th Century European Politics
Jörn Leonhard (Freiburg)
Extraordinary Politics: On Heroes and Heroizations in the 19th Century
Comment: Thomas Mergel (Berlin)
Saturday, 3 December 2011
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Section IV: Visual Dimensions of Political Communication
(Chair: Pasi Ihalainen, Jyväskylä)
Eveline Bouwers (Bielefeld)
The Culture of Religious Violence in Post-Separation France: The Case of Brittany, 1906-1912
Bettina Brandt (Bielefeld)
Writing Political History after the ‘Iconic Turn’
Comment: Peter Geimer (berlin)
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Section V: Roundtable: The “New” Political History – and beyond?
(Chair: Willibald Steinmetz, Bielefeld)
Thomas Mergel (Berlin)
Henk te Velde (Leiden)
Luise Schorn-Schütte (Frankfurt/Main)
Frank Trentmann (London)
For registration please contact Claus Kröger (claus.kroeger@uni-bielefeld.de), as the number of participants is limited.