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Thursday 4 & Friday 5 June

Political Rituals

International Conference

Thursday 4 June, Maison Française d'Oxford

9.30 : Welcome address by Luc Borot, Director of the Maison Française d'Oxford

9:45 : Introduction by Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, Oxford.

Morning session Chair: Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, University of Oxford

• Jeroen Duindam, University of Gröningen, Ceremonies and Dynastic Power in Vienna and Istanbul
• Luc Borot, MFO, Republican Virtue and Utopian Rituals in James Harrington's Oceana (1656)
• Marine Roussillon, MFO, Court Feast: A way of domesticating the nobility?

Afternoon session Chair: Luc Borot, MFO

• Marc Stears, University College, Oxford, Festivals of Freedom: Citizenship, character and the rhythm of democratic life
• Emmanuel Fureix, Université Paris XII, Rites et conflits politiques: deuils publics à Paris à l'âge romantique, 1814-1840
• Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College, University of Oxford, Gaullist rituals in France since 1945
• Pierre-Yves Baudot, Université Paris X, The Meanings of a Formula: To Grant « National Funeral » - Uncertain categorisations and the institution of Republican funeral honours (France, 1877-2008)

Friday 5 June,

Department of Politics and International Relations, Seminar Room C, Manor Road Building

• Harald Wydra, St Catherine's College, Cambridge, Ritual Initiations of Democracy
• Antoine Mandret-Degeuilh, Sciences Po, Paris, Political Rites as an Operational Concept
• François Foret, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Symbols and Rituals of the European Union
• Denis Fleurdorge, Université de Montpellier, Les rituels du président de la République française: Sociogenèse et fonctionnalité des formes de représentation du Pouvoir

Convenors:

• Jean-Pascal Daloz, CNRS/MFO & Department of Politics & International Relations
• Sudhir Hazareesingh, Balliol College & Department of Politics & International Relations

With the support of Oxford-Sciences Po Research Group in Social Sciences (OXPO)
and the Department of Politics and International Relations.

To register please contact Annabelle Allouch at annabelle.allouch@sciences-po.org

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Source: http://www.mfo.ac.uk/en/node/779