Friday, 13.03.2015 (Haus der Universität Bern)
09.00: Simona Slanička/Maud Harivel/Florian Schmitz
Conference Opening
Panel 1: Corruption in the Ecclesiastical Sphere
Chair: Simona Slanicka (Bern)
09.15: Olivier Christin (Neuchâtel)
La Simonie comme Catégorie de Description des Élections par Corruption
10.00: Bertrand Marceau (Paris)
Élection et Corruption au Monastère. Le triple Scrutin de Cîteaux (1625)
Coffee break (20 min)
Panel 2: Elections and the Monarchy
Chair: Hillard von Thiessen (Rostock)
11.00: Kateřina Pražákova (České Budějovice)
The Habsburg Empire and the French Kingdom in the Struggle for the Polish Crown
11.45: Kateřina Dufková (Prag)
Between the King and the Estates. Elections of the Provincial Officials in Early Modern Moravia
Lunch break (Haus der Universität)
Panel 3: On the road to “Modernity”?
Chair: Niels Grüne (Innsbruck)
14.30: Malcolm Crook (Keele) and Tom Crook (Oxford Brooks)
Contesting ‘corruption’. Electoral Morality and Practice in Britain and France, c. 1830- 1914
15.15 Nathalie Dompnier (Lyon-2)
La corruption électorale face à ses juges. Justice repressive et justice restitutive en France, 1848-1958
Coffee break
17.30: Round table
Contemporary Elections and Electoral Corruption
Ronald Kroeze (Amsterdam)/Mark Pieth (Basel)/Anca Simina (Bucharest)/ Richard Lappin (Warsaw)
(Hauptgebäude der Universität Bern, room HS 120)
20.00: Dinner, Restaurant Kornhauskeller (Kornhausplatz 18, 3011 Bern)
Saturday, 14.03.2015 (Haus der Universität Bern)
Panel 4: Republics, Elections, Corruption
Chair: Christian Windler (Bern)
09.00: Cristina Rosillo Lopez (Sevilla)
The Ancient Roman Way to win Elections. Practices and Discourse of Electoral Corruption during the Late Roman Republic (2nd-1st century BCE)
09.45: Maud Harivel (Bern)
Désintéresser les élections. Les mesures anti-fraudes dans la république de Venise
Coffee break (20 min)
Chair: Simona Slanicka (Bern)
10.45: Dorit Raines (Venice)
The Formation of Advocacy Groups in the Venetian Republic, or how to avoid illicit Exchange of Favors during Elections
11.30: Danilo Pedremonte (Genoa)
Seven Ballots for a Consul. The Election of Benedetto Luxoro as Genoese Consul in Marseilles (1758-1759)
Lunch
14.00: Raphael Barat (Lyon-2)
Les Brigues Électorales dans la République de Genève à la fin du XVIIe siècle
14.40: Florian Schmitz (Bern)
Obstacle or Catalyse? Elections in the Oligarchic Process (Berne, 1500-1700)
15.20: Jean-Claude Waquet (Paris)
Conference Synopsis
Coffee Break and Farewell