12th Annual Conference of the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe.
Athens 9 – 12 September 2021
Revolutions and rebellions have been a constant feature of the history of the modern age. Examples abound from the “Glorious” and the “Industrial” to the French and the American Revolutions; from the Haitian to the Greek Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848; from the Russian Revolution to the Mexican, the Chinese and the Iranian Revolution; from the anti-colonial uprisings of the twentieth century to the “velvet”, “rose” and “orange” revolutions of the twenty-first century. As moments of rupture and radical change, revolutions accelerate historical time, challenge existing hierarchies and mark the advent of new social, political and cultural formations and constellations; they unite and divide. Revolutions also constitute critical processes for the reconfiguration of conceptions of Europe. Ideas about Europe can be discovered at the intersection of political discourses, structures of power, geopolitical perspectives and identity projects. The history of modern revolutions offers a prime opportunity to re-examine and re-think European historical realities and recover the making of ideas about Europe in the modern age; revolutions have been central to discussions about Europe’s pasts and futures, and have shaped the continent’s political and cultural heritage.
The conference focuses on modern revolutions as social, political, cultural and intellectual events, and as transformative processes. It turns a critical eye on the conceptualization of the term “revolution”. It investigates the evolving ideas, perceptions and images about Europe in the context of revolutionary politics. It explores how modern revolutions have affected discourses about Europe.
Programme
Thursday, 9 SeptemberVenue: École Française d’Athènes
Online platform: Zoom (click here)
09:30 –10:30: Opening/Welcome
10:30 – 12:30: Panel 1: Languages, Concepts, Rhetoric (chair: Efi Gazi)Sara Sermini, “What is to be done? The language of rebellion from Russia to Europe”
Mehmet Dosemeci, “Movement, revolution, disruption”
Sam Kuijken, “The Comte de Ferrand’s théorie des révolutions: a conceptualization of revolutions by a forgotten mind of the French counter-revolution”
Ágoston Nagy & Henrik Hőnich, “From ‘revolutio’ to ‘forradalom’: a conceptual history of ‘revolution’ in the Hungarian social-political vocabulary of the first half of the 19th century"
12:30 – 13:00: Coffee/Tea Break
Lunch Break: 14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 16:30: Panel 2: Conservative Revolutions (chair: Gilles de Rapper)Iason Zarikos, “Do conservatives revolt? Of Europe, kings and new beginnings”
Matthijs Lok, “Moderate monarchism and conservative Europeanism in the post- revolutionary
era” (online)
Carolina Armenteros, “The conservative making of Italy’s liberal monarchy: Joseph de Maistre
and the origins of the Risorgimento, 1804-1861” (online)
16:30 – 17:00: Coffee/Tea Break
17:00 – 19:00: Panel 3: Afterlives of the French Revolution (chair: Kostis Gotsinas)Sanja Perovic: “When is radicalism? Revolutionary lives in translation”
Erica Joy Manucci: “When is radicalism? Writers and translators in Italy in the 1790s” (online)
Nicolai von Eggers: “The republican roots of communism: The French Revolution and French radicals in the 1830s”
Jean-Numa Ducange: “What is a ‘revolution’? Understanding the German and Austrian revolutions (1918-1919) in the light of the French Revolution”
19:00 – 21:00: Reception at the ÉcoleFrançaised’Athènes
Friday, 10 September
Venue: École Française d’Athènes
Online platform: Zoom (click here)
Patricia Chiantera-Stutte, “Gramsci, Cantimori, Malaparte and the “unfulfilled revolutions”
Milena Massalongo, “What European people lack but cannot miss: Bertolt Brecht and Alfred Döblin” (online)
Adriano Vinale, “The New Italian Epic: destituent narrative of European 20th-century revolutions”
Coffee/TeaBreak (11:30–12:00)
12:00 – 14:00: Panel 5: The Haitian Revolution and Europe (chair: Georgios Giannakopoulos)Miriam Franchina: “Thinking of Haiti in early 19th-century Italy”
Raphael Hoermann: “‘Only the rights of the European man’? Anti-colonial critique of European revolutions in Black Atlantic narratives of the Haitian Revolution”
Florian Kappeler: “Multidirectional solidarity. Haiti and the ends of Europe”
Jonas Ross Kjærgård: “The Haitian Revolution and the Danish Romantic imaginary”
Lunch Break: 14:00 – 15:00
15:00 – 17:00: Panel 6: The Greek Revolution of 1821, 1 (chair: Miltos Pechlivanos)NasiaYakovaki and S. Pilouri, “On Europe (and its many meanings) in the Greek revolutionary press”
Aristides Hatzis, “The enlightened, civilized, rule-governed wise Europe: the image of Europe in the Greek Revolutionary Press (1824-1827)”
Alexandra Sfoini, “Uses of Revolution in Greek and European discourse during the Greek Revolution of 1821” (online)
Coffee/TeaBreak (16:30 – 17:00)
17:00 – 18:30: Panel 7: The Greek Revolution of 1821, 2 (chair: Miltos Pechlivanos)Andreas Theophilis & Dimitris Rozakis, “Rebellion, revolution and legitimacy”
Andreas Tzanavaris, “British Conservatism and the Greek Revolution: The case of George Waddington”
Marina Kotzamani, “Passers collectivity and revolution”
Venue: Hellenic Open University
Online platform: Webex (click here. Meeting number: 188 680 3341 Password: mrie2021)
Gavin Murray-Miller, “Europe’s revolutionary tradition in transnational and global context” (online)
MatthijsTieleman, “The fallen Continent: A critical appraisal of Europe by the Dutch and American patriots, 1775-1787”
Chiara Corazza, “In the folds of this European civilization and one of its rejected parts: W. E. B. Du Bois gaze on Europe and the revolutions”
Vincent Benedetto and Frank Olivier Chauvin, “French socialism facing revolutionary movements in Constantinople at the beginning of the 20th century (1908-1923)”
Carolina Rito, “Unfinished revolutions: Contested narratives of the Portuguese Revolution”
Coffee/TeaBreak (11:30 – 12:00)
12:00 – 13.30: Panel 9: Rethinking 1848 (chair: Fernanda Gallo)Marion Loeffler, “Reverberations of 1848: Subaltern Western margins” (online)
James Morris, “Europe in the Wallachian Revolution of 1848”
Ignacio Garcia de Paso, “Revolution has sowed its seeds also around here: Empire and the global 1848 revolutions”
Lunch break: 13:30 – 14:30
14:30 – 16:00: Panel 10: Spaces, Trajectories, Networks (chair: Jan Vermeiren)Elisavet Papalexopoulou, “Sociability and secrecy: spaces for women’s political participation
in the Age of Revolutions”
Camille Creyghton, “Fraternity as a political ideal in trans-European networks of exiles in the
1840s” (online)
Ulrich Tiedau, “The Centenary of the Belgian Revolution in Britain, 1930”
Coffee/TeaBreak (16:00 – 16:30)
16:30 – 17:30: Keynote 2: Balász Trencsényi: European and anti-European Revolutions in East-Central Europe in the 20th Century 17:30– 18:00: Conference Conclusions:
Closing reception at the Hellenic Open University
Organizers
University of the Peloponnese, École française d’Athènes (EFA), Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie/Centrum Modernes Griechenland (CeMoG), Freie Universität Berlin, Hellenic Open University (Public History MA program), Institute for the Study of Ideas of Europe (ISIE), University of East Anglia.
Conference Scientific Committee
Tassos Anastassiadis (EFA/McGill University), Matthew D’ Auria (University of East Anglia), Fernanda Gallo (Cambridge University), Efi Gazi (University of the Peloponnese), Georgios Giannakopoulos (Academy of Athens Postdoc/King’s College London), Kate Papari (University of the Peloponnese, Freie Universität, Hellenic Open University Press), Miltos Pechlivanos (Freie Universitӓt), Peter Pichler (Karl-Franzens University Graz), Jan Vermeiren (University of East Anglia).
Local Organizing Committee
Efi Gazi, Georgios Giannakopoulos, Kostis Gotsinas, Kate Papari
Zeit & Ort
09.09.2021 - 11.09.2021
École Française d’Athènes, Hellenic Open University
Buchhandlung Weltenleser, Oeder Weg 40, 60318 Frankfurt