On April 6 to 7, I will participate in a conference organized by the History of Parliament research group in cooperation with Prof. Christopher Reid of Queen Mary University London.
The conference program may be found here.
My own paper, titled
“A Rhetoric of Silence: Silent Members in the July Monarchy Chamber of Deputies (1830-1848)”,
will be concerned with the rhetorical role of the silent members in the parliamentary debates of the July Monarchy. As I will argue, these silent members were anything but passive. Rather, they developed a complex rhetoric of their own, playing a significant role in the development of debates.
Theo Jung 