Conference: People’s History? Radical Historiography and the Left in the Twentieth Century
Na konferenciji o radikalnoj historiografiji i ljevici u 20. stoljeću koja će se održati 15. i 16. veljače 2020. u Norwichu izlagat će među ostalima i Ankica Čakardić i Tijana Okić.
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Saturday 15 February 2020
09.30 – 10.00 Registration, welcome
10.00 – 11.30 Session 1
Liam Ryan, History and the British Left: The Case of the Right to Work, 1900-1940
Christian Hogsbjerg, Arthur Leslie Morton and the Poetics of People’s History
Tony Taylor, ‘A Literature of Protest and Aspiration’: Literary Culture and the Radical Platform in Britain, c.1890-1930
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.30 Session 2
Yiannos Katsourides, The history of the struggle of fractions and the making of the Cypriot Left
Tijana Okic, Analogy, politics, history: the Yugoslav Women’s Antifascist Front
Sofia Mali, Neo-national(ist) Histories: The product of European national museums’ alienated labour
Anastasia Kutuzova, “Les Enragés” – the harbingers of left-wing radical movements of the 20th century? (scientific heritage of the Soviet historian J. M. Zakher)
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.00 Session 3
Hanno Balz, Hostile Take-Over: A Political History of the Red Flag
Paula Bartley, Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the 20th century
Alan Hooper, Perspectives on the People: the (new) left before neo-liberalism
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 18.00 Session 4
Logie Barrow, Ascription: No mere Effect
Pushpa Kumbhat, ‘Education for Democracy’, ‘Education for Emancipation’ Historical Narratives of the Workers’ Educational Association and the Labour Colleges 1900 – 1920
Ankica Čakardić, Class history of gender and agrarian capitalism
Sunday 16 February 2020
10.00 – 11.30 Session 5
Brendan Campisi, “The Discovery of the Ancestors”: the ‘New History of American Communism’ and the US Far Left after the ’60s
Julien Reiman, The Radical Radical: Humor and Similarity in the Historiography of Abbie Hoffman
Steve Cushion, A Practical Application of Howard Zinn’s Conception of People’s History in Three Pamphlets
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee
12.00 – 13.30 Session 6
Sophie Scott-Brown, Intellectual Lives, Performance and Persona: The Making of the People’s Historian
Sina Talachian, Maurice Dobb’s Domestication of Historical Materialism in the 1920s and 1930s
Rhys Williams, The Communist Party Historians Group and the study of Biography
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch break
14.30 – 16.15 Session 7
George Souvlis, Perry Anderson as practitioner of Intellectual history: From an anatomist of Marxism to an Olympian Savant of the World of Ideas
Brigitta Bernet, After Gramsci: The Politics of Microhistory
Axel Fair-Schulz, “Merely ‘Tons of Wasted Paper’? East German Historians Between Innovative Scholarship and Party Discipline: The Cases of Helga and Manfred Nussbaum”
16.15 – 16.30 Closing remarks
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