Political Space (University of Warwick, 3-6 November 2005)
Political Space in Preindustrial Europe
Workshop I of the Leverhulme Trust Academic Network
‘Social Sites – Öffentliche Räume – Lieux d’Echange’
(University of Warwick, 3-6 November 2005)
Programme
THURSDAY AFTERNOON (3 November 2005), 5 - 6.30 pm
Humanities Building: Room H051
Introduction (Chair: Beat Kümin, History, Warwick)
5pm ‘Welcome and introduction’
Beat Kümin, History, Warwick
5.15pm
Public keynote address
Proceedings will be opened by James C. Scott - whose concept of "social sites" inspired the name of the Network - with a lecture on insights and implications of work on "political space" in another regional and chronological context.
‘Fleeing the state in South-East Asia’
James C. Scott, Political Science and Anthropology, Yale
Discussion
FRIDAY (4 November 2005)
Session 1) Political Sites (Chair: Susanne Rau, History, Dresden)
Morning
9.30am ‘Politics, clubs and social space’
Peter Clark, History, Helsinki [see abstract]
10.15am ‘Political spaces of Parliamentary Enclosure in an upland environment: Cumbria c1760-1800’
Ian D. Whyte, Geography, Lancaster [see abstract]
11am Coffee
11.30am ‘Representing political space at a political site: the diets of the Holy Roman Empire in the sixteenth century’ Henry Cohn, Emeritus Reader, History, Warwick [see abstract]
12.15am Lunch
Afternoon
2pm ‘The princely court and political space in early modern Europe’
Ronald Asch, History, Freiburg i.B. [see abstract]
2.45pm ‘Comment’
Christopher Dyer, Local History, Leicester
3.15pm Tea
3.45-5.30pm Panel discussion
Network activities and perspectives
SATURDAY (5 November 2005)
Session 2) Spatial Politics (Chair: Gerd Schwerhoff, History, Dresden)
Morning
9.30am ‘Political and geographical space: The geopolitics of late medieval England’
Christine Carpenter, History, Cambridge [see abstract]
10.15am ‘Boundary work and reason: Building the public sphere in early modern England’
David Zaret, Sociology, Indiana [see abstract]
11am - 4pm Fieldtrip: ‘Spatial politics in the English parish c. 1300-1700’ – St Mary Warwick and St John the Baptist Berkswell.
Steve Hindle and Beat Kümin, History, Warwick [see abstract]
Afternoon
4pm ‘Which Switzerland? Contrasting conceptions of the early modern Swiss Confederation in minds and maps’
Andreas Würgler, History, Bern [see abstract]
4.45pm ‘Political terminology in Europe and Islam’
Antony Black, Politics, Dundee [see abstract]
5.30-630pm Panel discussion, with an introductory comment by Gerd Schwerhoff, History, Dresden
SUNDAY MORNING (6 November 2005)
General Discussion (Chair: Wolfgang Kaiser, History, Paris)
9.30am ‘Comment from a non-historical perspective’
Michael Crang, Geography, Durham
10am ‘Implications for historical research’
Bernard Capp, History, Warwick
10.30-12.30am General discussion
Lunch