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Scripting Revolution

Inactive Research Group
This conference will look at modern revolution as a historical script invented in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and then elaborated and improvised upon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than asking which is the first modern revolution, or what stages all revolutions may (have to) go through, we will examine revolution as a way of defining and acting upon a particular situation, a narrative frame that political actors explicitly adopted and extended as giving meaning to their goals and strategic choices. To call oneself a revolutionary after the eighteenth century, in other words (or a counter-revolutionary too, for that matter), was to embrace a genealogy and script for action that could be changed or improvised upon, but was necessarily accepted before it could be adjusted or extended in a new context. The aim of the conference will be to see the extent to which modern revolutions can be analyzed and interpreted in this way as so many variations on a common theme. From this perspective, "scripting revolution" would also be about modes of historical writing and narration.
 
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Panelists

Pierre Serna (keynote speaker) - IHRF/Sorbonne
J.P. Daughton (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Tim Harris (panelist) - Brown University
David Como (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
Jack Rakove (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
David Armitage (panelist) - Harvard University
Caroline Winterer (commentator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Katherine McDonough (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Keith Baker (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
Joseph Zizek (panelist) - University of Auckland
Dan Edelstein (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
David A. Bell (commentator) - Princeton University
Kelly Summers (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Carla Hesse (panelist) - UC Berkeley
Guillaume Mazeau (panelist) - IHRF/Sorbonne
Mary Ashburn Miller (commentator) - Reed College
Derek Vanderpool (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Gareth Stedman Jones (panelist) - Queen Mary, University of London
Dominica Chang (panelist) - Lawrence University
Kent Wright (commentator) - Arizona State University
Nancy Kollmann (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Lynn Patyk (panelist) - Dartmouth College
Claudia Verhoeven (panelist) - Cornell University
Amir Weiner (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
Jonathan Beecher (commentator) - UC Santa Cruz
Tom Mullaney (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Alex Cook (panelist) - UC Berkeley
David Strand (panelist) - Dickinson College
Elizabeth McGuire (panelist) - Harvard University
Andrew G. Walder (commentator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Edith Sheffer (moderator) - °®åú´«Ã½
Lillian Guerra (panelist) - University of Florida
Jean-Marie Apostolidès (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
Abbas Milani (panelist) - °®åú´«Ã½
Silvana Toska (commentator) - Cornell University
 
 

 

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