\u2018Treason\u2019 is a ubiquitous concept in human history, stretching from the ancient world through to the present day. While often thought of as an anachronistic term associated with past despotic governments, it is in fact very much alive in our contemporary world, not least through violent political rhetoric employed by populist leaders around the globe. It is also the ultimate political crime in any state, requiring always the most severe penalties due to the threat to the state community. Yet despite this importance, treason has been surprisingly ignored in the academic scholarship of any discipline. For some periods of history there are indeed some case studies, for others there are none; conceptual or theoretical studies are few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This online international conference aims to bridge these gaps by aiming ambitiously to create a global history of treason across the centuries. Our themes cover the cultural representation of treason; treason in law; the practice and prosecution of the crime; and the impact and heritage of the subject. While our case studies hail from the ancient and modern eras and from all parts of the world, our purpose will be to make links and to assess \u2018treason\u2019 conceptually, teasing out the similarities or differences which have been created by a variety of regimes and political contexts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Programm<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Thursday, 23 September<\/p>\n\n\n\n 09.00\u201309.30 – Welcome and introduction 09.30\u201311.00 – Panel 1: Ancient history “Lycurgus and the Religious Dimension of Treason in Ancient Athens” “The Arbitrariness of Treason Accusations in Democratic Athens” “Are there any Traitors (\u00bbproditores\u00ab) in Rome?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cynthia Couhade-Beyneix (Bordeaux)<\/p>\n\n\n\n 11.15\u201312.45 – Panel 2: Medieval history “The Concept of Treason in Einhard’s Vita Karoli” “Traditores in Tradition: Betrayal and Treason in late Medieval England” “In League with Sultans. Discourses of Conspiracy and Treason in the later Middle Ages” 12.45\u201313.45 – Lunch break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13.45\u201314.45 – Panel 3: Imperial transitions “Hanjian in the Qing Empire during the Opium War (1839\u20131842)” “Ottoman Arab Agents and the Collapse of Trust at the End of Empire” “Walking the line in Ottoman Diplomacy: On Treason, Extravagance, and Confiscation in early modern Istanbul” 15.00-16.30 – Panel 4: Treason and citizenship “Neither friend nor foe. A Political Theory of Treason and Democracy” “The Politics of Liminality \u2013 Treason as a Site for the Formation of Stratified Citizenship” “Christianity and the Concept of Betrayal in Modern Hebrew Literature: The Case of Judas Iscariot” 16.45 – Keynote talk: “Treason and the Tower of London” Friday, 24 September<\/p>\n\n\n\n 09.00\u201310.30 – Panel 5: Early modern history “Early Modern Ballads about Executions for Treason” “\u00bbLeur trahison & trop desloyalle felonnie\u00ab. Concepts of Treason, State Building and Political Conflict in 16th and 17th Century France” “Betraying the King? The Hungarian-Croatian Aristocracy and their Treason against Emperor Leopold I (1670\u20131671)” 10.45\u201312.15 – Panel 6: Fascism and Cold War “Treason as the cause of the fall of Fascism. 25 July and 8 September in Neo-fascist Rhetoric” “Cold War Home Fronts, Third Reich Legacies, and Building Democracy: Treason in Cold War West Germany” “Technological Competition and the Reassessment of the Espionage Act in Early Cold War America” 12.15\u201313.15 – Lunch break<\/p>\n\n\n\n 13.15\u201314.15 – Panel 7: Treason Trials in 1920s “Treason and the rule of law: Reflections on the Irish Civil War 1922\u201323” “How Treason Makes the Traitor: Show Trials from Stalin\u2019s to Putin\u2019s Russia” 14.30\u201316.00 – Panel 8: Revolutionary periods “The Enlightenment State and Treason: Britain and France in the Age of Revolution” “Treason and the American Revolution: Directions for Comparative Approaches” “Targowica \u2013 an Evil Site of Polish Memory. The Role of Treason in Forging Identity” 16.00 – Conclusions<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kontakt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Zoom codes can be requested from one of the organisers: https:\/\/www.hsozkult.de\/event\/id\/event-112603<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Andr\u00e9 Krischer \/ Mark Cornwall<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Bernadette Descharmes, Braunschweig<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Christoph Michels (M\u00fcnster)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dorothea Rohde (Bielefeld)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: R\u00e9my Amb\u00fchl (Southampton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Philipp Frey (Kiel)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Matthias B\u00fcttner (G\u00f6ttingen)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marcel Bubert (M\u00fcnster)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Tanja B\u00fchrer (Bern)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Gary Luk (Hong Kong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chloe Bordewich (Harvard)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marloes Cornelissen (Istanbul)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Hanna Pulpanek (M\u00fcnster)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Martin Oppelt (Munich)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hadas Cohen (Jerusalem)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yitzhak Mor (Jerusalem)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Anthony Musson (London)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Tom Hamilton (Durham)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Una McIlvenna (Melbourne)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tilman Haug (M\u00fcnster)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sabrina Rospert (Paris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Malte Zierenberg (Berlin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlo de Nuzzo (Paris)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sebastian Gehrig (Roehampton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mario Daniels (Amsterdam)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Mark Cornwall (Southampton)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Se\u00e1n Enright (Peterborough)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Julie Cassiday (Williamstown)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chair: Beatrice de Graaf (Leiden)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emma Macleod (Stirling) \/ Mike Rapport (Glasgow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Carlton F.W. Larson (Davis, CA)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Artur Kula (Warsaw)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
J.M.Cornwall@soton.ac.uk
krischer@wwu.de<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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