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University of Manchester

Cultures of Politics Research Group, History Division

Symposium

Transnational Cultures of Petitioning

from 1750 to the Present

Manchester

29-30 juin 2015 / 2015, june 29-30

Organized by the Cultures of Politics Research Group, History Division.

The organiser gratefully acknowledge the support of the Social History Society, theManchester Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and theHistory division, University of Manchester. This event is organised by the Cultures of Politics research group, History division, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures.

Présentation

Petitioning was and is a universal phenomenon that transcends place and time. In pre-democratic periods it was frequently the most accessible form of popular political participation, but it has long been neglected by historians and political scientists pre-occupied with voting, elections and parties. The recent rise of e-petitioning and the crisis of traditional representative democracy across the Western world makes the study of alternative forms of popular representation and participation not only timely but urgent. This two day symposium brings together historians and social scientists to highlight future directions for research in this exciting emerging field.

The symposium will identify key questions for the study of petitioning in North America, Britain and Europe from 1750 to the present, specifically focusing on the changing relationship between petitioning and participation, representation and democratic development. In particular, the symposium seeks to promote the study of the transnational and comparative study of petitioning and place national and local studies in global perspective.

Participants include:

• Dr. Benoit Agnes (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• Prof. Daniel Carpenter (Harvard)

• Prof. Malcolm Chase (Leeds)

• Dr. Yann-Arzel Durelle-Marc (Université Paris 13)

• Dr. Richard Huzzey (Liverpool)

• Prof. James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)

• Dr. Maartje Janse (Leiden)

• Prof. Mark Knights (Warwick)

• Dr. Henry Miller (Manchester)

• Dr. Michelle Orihel (Southern Utah University)

• Dr. Diego Palacios Cerezales (Stirling)

• Sami Pinabarsi (Manchester)

• Dr. Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire)

• Prof. David Zaret (Indiana)

Programme

Monday, 29 June

Roscoe Building, 1.001

Registration and welcome

11-11.30am Registration and welcome

11.30-1pm Panel 1: Petitions in Transnational and National Contexts

• Prof. Daniel Carpenter (Harvard) : Recruitment by Petition: American Antislavery, French Protestantism, English Suppression

• Dr. Maartje Janse (Leiden) : “The King had Never Received a Petition Like this One”: Dutch 19^th Century Petitioning Practices in Transnational Perspective

• Dr. Henry Miller (Manchester) : Democracy, Representation and Petitioning in the Long 19^th Century

1-1.45pm Lunch

1.45-3.15pm Panel 2: Local Cultures of Petitioning

• Dr. Richard Huzzey (Liverpool) : Abolition, Petitioning and Prosopography in Plymouth

• Sami Pinabarsi (Manchester) : Manchester and its Anti-Slavery Petitions, 1787-1806

• Dr. Robert Poole (University of Central Lancashire) : The Lancashire petitions for parliamentary reform, 1816-17

3.15-45pm: Refreshments

3.45-5.15pm Panel 3: Petitioning in the Age of Revolutions

• Dr. Diego Palacios Cerezales (Stirling) : Petitioning and Revolution in Spain, 1808-68

• Dr. Michelle Orihel (Southern Utah University) : Kentucky Jacobins?: Transatlantic Republicanism and Western Remonstrances to the Washington Administration, c. 1793-94

• Dr. Yann-Arzel Durelle-Marc ( Université Paris 13):Constancy and Difference in Petitioning in Revolutions in the Atlantic World, 17-19th Century

5.15-6.15pm - Keynote, room tbc

• Prof. David Zaret (Indiana) : Petition and Response in Pre-Modern Eurasia

7.30pm Dinner, Evuna, Deansgate

Tuesday, 30 June

Simon Building, 4A/4.63 (subject to change)

9.45am Refreshments

10-11.30am Panel 4: Petitioning and the Languages of Identity

• Prof. James Jaffe (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) : The Languages of Petitioning in Colonial India

• Prof. Mark Knights (Warwick) : Was There a Right to Petition?

• Dr. Benoit Agnes ( Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne):Shaping Feminine Identity through Female Petitions: An Anglo-French Comparison, 1814-48

11.30-12 Refreshments

12-1pm Panel 5: Roundtable: Future Directions for Research

• Prof. Daniel Carpenter (Harvard)

• Prof. Malcolm Chase (Leeds)

• Prof. Mark Knights (Warwick)

• Prof. David Zaret (Indiana)

  • Chair: Dr. Henry Miller (Manchester)

1-2pm Lunch

End

• Any queries please email Henry Miller athenry.miller@manchester.ac.uk

Accès

• http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/maps/interactive-map/?id=57

Register via this link (£10 fee for catering - waived for postgraduates; optional dinner @ £20)

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Website: https://transnationalpetitioning.wordpress.com