On March 6, I’m participating in a workshop organized by Ludovic Marionneau of Helsinki University within the framework of the ERC Research Group ‘CALLIOPE, Vocal Articulations of Parliamentary Identity and Empire‘
under the title
Oratory and Represenation: Parliamentary Discourses and Practics in the Nineteenth Century
Venue: University of Helsinki – Topelia D112
The call for papers can be found here.
[EDIT April 16, 2020: A detailed report on the workshop, written by Josephine Hoegaerts, has now been published on H-Soz-u-Kult.]
Program
9:00 – 11:00 – First Session
- Theo Jung (University of Freiburg): Performing Silence in the House of Speech: Benjamin Disraeli and the Parliamentary Sphinx.
- Clarice Bland (University of Helsinki): Emotion, Not Eloquence: Bulwer-Lytton in the House of Commons.
- Tamás Nyirkos (Pázmány Péter Catholic University): Conservative Orators in Restoration France: Bonald vs. Chateaubriand.
- Ludovic Marionneau (University of Helsinki): “The president shakes the bell to no avail”: performance in the French parliamentary debates leading to Jacques-Antoine Manuel’s exclusion, 1823.
11.00 – Coffee break
11.20 – 12:50 – Second Session
- Carlo Bovolo (University of Eastern Piedmont): Images from the Parlamento Subalpino: political and cultural representations of the Parliament in the Kingdome of Sardinia (1848-1861).
- Daniel Morat (Free University of Berlin): Parliamentary Speech and Stenographic Practice in the German Reichstag, 1871-1914.
- Oriol Luján (Complutense University of Madrid): Political Representation in 19th century Spain: a conceptual perspective.
12.50 – Lunch
14.00 – 15:50 – Third Session
- Anna Rajavuori (University of Helsinki): Performing socialist in the Parliament: class and authority in the early 20th century Finland’s representative politics.#
- Ivan Sablin (University of Heidelberg): When Subalterns Speak: Performing Class and Ethnicity in the Russian State Duma, 1906–1917.#
- Karen Lauwers (University of Helsinki): The relevance of histories of extra-parliamentary representation and informal political communication (France, 19th-20th centuries).
15.50 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00 – Keynote Speech
- Henk Te Velde – University of Leiden
17:00 – 17:30 – Concluding remarks
- Josephine Hoegaerts – University of Helsinki
Theo Jung 