12 December 2017

h. 09.30 - 13.00
Welcome and introduction
Matteo Millan (University of Padova - PREWArAs Principal Investigator)
Introduction. A false problem? Armed groups and political violence in Fin de Siècle Europe

Alessandro Saluppo (University of Padova)
A time of remorselessly rising tension, of impeding doom: strikebreaking and violence in the Great Unrest, 1910–1914

h. 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee break

Arnaud Houte (University of Paris – Panthéon Sorbonne)
Political violence and French republican consensus, 1880-1914

Romain Bonnet (University of Padova)
Organized violence, strikebreaking and the Jaunes. Institutionalized anti- republicanism in France Belle Époque

h. 14.30 – 18.30
Laurence Cole (University of Salzburg)
Militias, militaristic associations and political violence in Austria-Hungary c.1880–1914: Connections or disconnections?

Claire Morelon (University of Padova)
Respectable citizens: patriotism, social order, and latent violence in Austrian armed associations

Sven Oliver Müller (University of Tübingen)
Communities of Violence? Emotions and assaults at the homefront in Germany, Britain and France in 1914

Amerigo Caruso (University of Padova)
Delegating violence? Strikes and social conflicts in Imperial Germany, 1889–1914

13 December 2017
h. 09.30 – 12.30
Roundtable (Chair: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt)
Comparative and transnational perspectives in the study of pre-WWI political violence and armed associations