Writing the long-term history of democracy
Workshop/webinar, 16 February 2024
10:00-12:00 Writing the history of early-modern democracy, chair: Pasi Ihalainen (HY Main building U3031 + hybrid)
- 10.00-10.20 Markku Peltonen, Studying the history of democracy in early modern Europe
- 10.20-10.40 Cesare Cuttica, What did they talk about when they talked about democracy? Reflections on early modern political thought in England
- 10.40-11.00 Ariane Fichtl (remotely), The role of customary law for (re-)defining early modern democracy in eighteenth-century Europe
- 11.00-11.20 Ere Nokkala, The concept of democracy in eighteenth-century German thought
- 11.20-12.00 Discussion
12.00-13.00 Break
13.00-14.30 (12.00 CET) Writing the history of democracy in nineteenth-century Scandinavia, chair: Ere Nokkala (HY Main building U3040)
- 13.00-13.20 Jussi ܰܲԳä쾱, 'Democracy' in two languages in nineteenth-century Finland
- 13.20-13.40 Jani Marjanen, Reacting to 1848: Censorship and political language in Finland, 1848–1863
- 13.40-14.00 Anne Engelst Norgaard, Approaching the history of democratic political culture from below
- 14.00-14.30 Discussion
14:30-15:00 Break
15.00-17.00 (13.00 GMT) Writing the history of democracy since the French Revolution, chair: Markku Peltonen (HY Main building U3040 + hybrid)
- 15.00-15.20 Zachris Haaparinne, Language of scale: Parliament, petitions, and the changing perceptions on representation (1688 - 1832)
- 15.20-15.40 Hugo Bonin, The miscarriage of “édzپ é”: Understanding the French liberal democratic moment of the 1860s
- 15.40-16.00 Robert Saunders, Writing the history of democracy in Britain (remotely, 13.40 GMT)
- 16.00-16.20 Pasi Ihalainen, Representative democracy: A history of claims, tensions and parliamentary self-definitions in Northwest Europe
- 16.20-17.00 Discussion
