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20-22 September 2012
Démocratie « en conteste » :
Contestation et participation dans les pays du Monde anglophone
colloque international
20-22 septembre 2012
Professor Gary GERSTLE
Political Sciences and Political History - Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, US
Dr Jennifer LEES-MARSHMENT
Senior lecturer in Political Sciences - University of Auckland, NZ
Dr Cristiana OLCESE
Research Fellow - University of Southampton, UK
To download programme in pdf file click here [PDF - 412 Ko]
1.30-2.00pm - Welcome address and opening remarks
2.00-3.00pm - Keynote 1 - Gary Gerstle
3.00-4.30pm - Session 1
4.30-5.00pm - Tea / Coffee break
5.00-6.30pm - Session 2
10.30-11.00am - Tea / Coffee break
11.00-12.00pm - Keynote 2 - Cristiana Olcese
12.00-2.00pm - Lunch
2.00-3.30pm - Session 4
3.30-4.00pm - Tea / Coffee break
11.00-11.30am - Tea / Coffee break
11.30-12.30pm - Keynote 3 - Jennifer Lees-Marshment
12.30-1.00pm Closing remarks - Divina Frau-Meigs
1.00pm - End of Conference
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Conference papers will be given in English and will last 20 minutes (except for keynote talks) followed by questions
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Gary Gerstle
SESSION 1 - Thursday 20 September 2012 - 3.00-4.30pm
A. Early Democracy: Multiple meanings, conflicting practices
Petit amphi - Chair Myriam Boussahba-Bravard (Université Paris Diderot)
- Peter Gurney - The Democratic Idiom: languages of democracy in Britain, 1830-1848 (to read abstract click here [PDF - 426 Ko])
- Mark Philp - Between Word and Deed: languages of democracy/practices of participation: England from 1789-1850 (to read abstract click here [PDF - 341 Ko])
B. Twists & Turns of Democracy
Grand amphi - Chair Johann Neem (Western Washington University)
- Andrew Robertson - Democracy: America's other peculiar institution (to read abstract click here [PDF - 502 Ko])
- Reeve Huston - Rethinking 1828: the emergence of competing democracies in the United States (to read abstract click here [PDF - 426 Ko])
SESSION 2 - Thursday 20 September 2012 - 5.00-6.30pm
C. Critical Perspectives on Free Market Democracy
Grand amphi - Chair Martine Azuelos (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Scott Fitzgerald - Movements, Policy and Protest: challenging economic inequality in the US and the UK (to read abstract click here [PDF - 416 Ko])
- Pierre Guerlain - Democracy Inc.. in the US (to read abstract click here [PDF - 531 Ko])
- Jean-Baptiste Velut - Contested Plutocracy: reformist and radical forms of social advocacy in America (to read abstract click here [PDF - 419 Ko])
D. Activists across Borders
Petit amphi - Chair Laura Hobson-Faure (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Yohanna Alimi - Weaving a Transatlantic Feminist Network: the impact of the French revolution of 1848 on the American contest for women's rights (to read abstract click here [PDF - 346 Ko])
- Daniel Prosterman - Global Democratic Visions: electoral reform activism in the early twentieth century (to read abstract click here [PDF - 348 Ko])
- Jim Cohen - Defending the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants and Contesting the Boundaries of National Citizenship in the US (to read abstract click here [PDF - 416 Ko])
SESSION 3 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 9.00-10.30am
E. Who Governs?/Who Participates?
Grand amphi - Chair Pauline Schnapper (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- David Fée - Planning for Housing in the UK: the contradictions of democracy (to read abstract click here [PDF - 256 Ko])
- Houari Mired - Democratic renewal in the English regions since 1994. Why is governance (still) contested? (to read abstract click here [PDF - 355 Ko])
- Coralie Raffenne - Multi-level Governance, Managerial Ideology and the Myth of Citizen Participation in the EU (to read abstract click here [PDF - 334 Ko])
F. Democracy at Work
Petit amphi - Chair Evelyne Payen-Variéras (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Christine Zumello - Crafted Democracy in the USA? 'Vote, invest and express yourself' (ro read absract click here [PDF - 419 Ko])
- Sheena Raja - A Faux-public Sphere: marketing online conversation economies for citizen consumers (to read abstract click here [PDF - 424 Ko])
- Jean-Christian Vinel - The Right-to-Work: the American Right and the struggle against industrial democracy, 1941-1958
Grand amphithéâtre - Chair Sarah Pickard (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
11.00-12.00pm - Keynote 2 - Cristiana Olcese
Contesting the Cuts through Social Media: key tasks in between mobilizations
Cristiana Olcese
SESSION 4 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 2.00-3.30pm
G. Alternative Spaces of Public Expression
Grand amphi - Chair Divina Frau-Meigs (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Guillaume Marche - Local Democracy and Contested Public Space: San Francisco and the politics of graffiti (to read abstract click here [PDF - 335 Ko])
- Emmanuelle Avril - Social Networks and Democracy in the English-speaking world: counterculture or mainstream? (to read abstract click here [PDF - 417 Ko])
- Andrew Perrin - Letters to the Editor: demographic and cultural contours of a mediated public sphere (to read abstract click here [PDF - 326 Ko])
H. Vested Interest Democracy
Petit amphi - Chair Romain Garbaye (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Daniel Carpenter - Anxieties of Soliciting Empire: transformations of the petition across languages and peoples in the Saint Lawrence Valley and the Gulf of Maine, 1740-1840 (to read abstract click here [PDF - 426 Ko])
- Romain Huret - No Representation without Taxation! Businessmen against federal taxation from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (to read abstract click here [PDF - 430 Ko])
- Marie-Claire Considère-Charon - Identifying a Democratic Deficit in Ireland: focus on institutional and constitutional issues
SESSION 5 - Friday 21 September 2012 - 4.00-5.30pm
I. Productive Protest
Grand amphi - Chair Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Sandrine Tolazzi - Channeling Indigenous Contestation of Uranium Mining in Australia: legislation, negotiation, co-optation (to read abstract click here [PDF - 342 Ko])
- Pauline Peretz - Common Cause: a democratic organization of distrust vis-à-vis the State in post civil-rights America (to read abstract click here [PDF - 420 Ko])
- Sarah Pickard - Productive Protest? The contested higher education reforms in England, 2010-2012 (to read abstract click here [PDF - 264 Ko])
J. Leaders & Citizens
Petit amphi - Chair Fabrice Bensimon (Université Paris Sorbonne)
- Joanna Innes - Democracy and Demagoguery in the British Isles, 1700-1850 (to read abstract click here [PDF - 345 Ko])
- Daniel Foliard - The Lion of Nineveh: Henry Layard, radicalism and the reflections of fallen Empires (to read abstract click here [PDF - 258 Ko])
- Paul Blokker - A Comparative Engagement with Dissent and Constitutionalism (to read abstract click here [PDF - 255 Ko])
SESSION 6 - Saturday 22 September 2012 - 9.30-11.00am
K. Representative vs Direct Democracy
Grand amphi - Chair Nathalie Caron (Université Paris Est Créteil Val de Marne - UPEC)
- Geoffrey Pleyers - Contesting or Complementing Representative Democracy? Experiments and tensions in the alter-globalization and indignados/occupiers movements (to read abstract click here [PDF - 337 Ko])
- Jacques-Henri Coste - The Contested Terrains of Digital Democracy, Open Source Innovation, and Intellectual Property in the US: the PIPA and SOPA case (to read abstract click here [PDF - 424 Ko])
- Isabelle Sinic-Bouhaouala - Conservatism and Direct Democracy in California: questioning the legacy of progressivism (to read abstract click here [PDF - 506 Ko])
L. Creative Destruction?
Petit amphi - Chair Christine Zumello (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
- Gary Anderson, Geoff Bright, Gillian Whiteley - `What Rough Beast...? Monstrous practices of dissent and the ends of conviviality (to read abstract click here [PDF - 515 Ko])
- Christos Efstathiou - The Ideological Roots of the Battle of Cable Street (to read abstract click here [PDF - 330 Ko])
- Valérie Peyronel - The 1998 Agreement and its Consequences: contested democracy in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Grand amphithéâtre - Chair Emmanuelle Avril (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle)
11.30-12.30pm - Keynote 3 - Jennifer Lees-Marshment
Partners not Protesters? Managing contests to traditional democracy through expanded public input into political decision making
(to read abstract click here [PDF - 445 Ko])
Jennifer Lees-Marshment
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Grand amphithéâtre
12.30-1.00pm - Closing remarks
Divina Frau-Meigs, directrice CREW EA 4399
&
Emmanuelle Avril
1.00pm - end of conference
Conference papers will be given in English and will last 20 minutes (except for keynote talks) followed by questions
to download programme in a pdf file click here [PDF - 412 Ko]
Yohanna Alimi, PhD student, Teaching Fellow, American Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Gary Anderson, Lecturer in Contemporary Performance, Free University of Liverpool / Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home, UK
Professor Emmanuelle Avril, British Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Paul Blokker, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Trento, Italy
Geoff Bright, Research Associate, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Professor Daniel Carpenter, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, USA
Claire Ceruti, PhD student, University of Johannesburg, associated with the South African Research Chair in Social Change, SA
Professor Jim Cohen, American Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Professor Emeritus, Marie-Claire Considère-Charon, British and Irish Studies, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Dr Jacques-Henri Coste, Associate Professor, American Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Christos Efstathiou, PhD student, Department of History, Classics & Archaeology, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Dr David Fée, Senior Lecturer, British Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Scott T. Fitzgerald, Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Dr Daniel Foliard, Lecturer in British Studies, Université Paris Ouest La Défense, France
Professor Gary Gerstle, Political Sciences and Political History, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee, USA
Professor Pierre Guerlain, American Studies, Université Paris Ouest La Défense, (CREA - EA370), France
Dr Peter Gurney, Senior Lecturer, Department of History, University of Essex, UK
Dr Romain Huret, Associate Professor, American Studies, University of Lyon 2 / Institut Universitaire de France, (Cena, IUF), France
Dr Reeve Huston, Associate Professor, Department of History, Duke University, USA
Joanna Innes, MA, Fellow and Tutor in Modern History, Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Senior lecturer in Political Sciences, University of Auckland, NZ
Dr Guillaume Marche, Associate Professor, American Studies, Université Paris-Est Créteil, (IMAGER - EA 3958), France
Dr Houari Mired, Teaching Fellow, British Studies, Université Paris Est Créteil, France
Dr Cristiana Olcese, Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK
Dr Pauline Peretz, Assistant Professor, History, Université de Nantes, Researcher, Centre d'études nord-américaines (Cena / EHESS), France
Dr Andrew J. Perrin, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Professor Valérie Peyronel, British and Irish Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Mark Philp, Fellow and Tutor in Politics, Oriel College, University of Oxford, UK
Dr Sarah Pickard, Senior Lecturer, British Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Geoffrey Pleyers, Research Associate, Sociology, FNRS and UCL, (CADIS-EHESS), Belgium
Dr Daniel O. Prosterman, Assistant Professor, History, Salem College, USA
Dr Coralie Raffenne, Senior Lecturer, British Studies Université d'Orléans, France
Sheena Raja, PhD student, Media Studies, Rutgers University, USA, Intern, UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, USA.
Professor Andrew W. Robertson, Deputy Executive Officer, History Ph.D. Program, The CUNY Graduate Center , USA
Dr Isabelle Sinic-Bouhaouala, American Studies, Researcher, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Dr Sandrine Tolazzi, Associate Professor, Anglophone Studies, Université Stendhal-Grenoble 3, (CEMRA - EA 3016), France
Dr Jean-Baptiste Velut, Associate Professor, American Studies, Université Paris Est Marne La Vallée, (IMAGER - EA 3958), France
Dr Jean-Christian Vinel, Associate Professor, American Studies, Université Paris Diderot, France
Dr Gillian Whiteley, Senior Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies, Loughborough University, UK
Dr Christine Zumello, Professor, American Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, (CREW - EA 4399), France
Yohanna Alimi (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - OPA), Emmanuelle Avril (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 1), Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 3), Jacques-Henri Coste (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CERVEPAS), Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 2), Romain Garbaye (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 3), Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CRAN), Anne-Claire Lévy (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - OPA), Valérie Peyronel (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CERVEPAS), Sarah Pickard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CREC), Naomi Wulf (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - OPA).
Scientific Committee / Comité scientifique
Emmanuelle Avril (Sorbonne-Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 1), Paul Bagguley (Leeds University, UK), Yann Béliard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 3), Jacques-Henri Coste (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CERVEPAS), Divina Frau-Meigs (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 2), Romain Garbaye (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - Axe 3), Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CRAN), Johann Neem (Western Washington University, USA), Valérie Peyronel (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CERVEPAS), Sarah Pickard (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - CREC), Andrew Robertson (Graduate Center, CUNY, USA), Naomi Wulf (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CREW - OPA).
CREW gratefully acknowledges the generous support from
"Contested Democracy"
mise à jour le 24 septembre 2012