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Scripting Revolution
Inactive Research Group
This conference will look at modern revolution as a historical script invented in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and then elaborated and improvised upon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather than asking which is the first modern revolution, or what stages all revolutions may (have to) go through, we will examine revolution as a way of defining and acting upon a particular situation, a narrative frame that political actors explicitly adopted and extended as giving meaning to their goals and strategic choices. To call oneself a revolutionary after the eighteenth century, in other words (or a counter-revolutionary too, for that matter), was to embrace a genealogy and script for action that could be changed or improvised upon, but was necessarily accepted before it could be adjusted or extended in a new context. The aim of the conference will be to see the extent to which modern revolutions can be analyzed and interpreted in this way as so many variations on a common theme. From this perspective, "scripting revolution" would also be about modes of historical writing and narration.
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Panelists
Pierre Serna (keynote speaker) - IHRF/Sorbonne
J.P. Daughton (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Tim Harris (panelist) - Brown University
David Como (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Jack Rakove (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
David Armitage (panelist) - Harvard University
Caroline Winterer (commentator) - èצӰÏñ
Katherine McDonough (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Keith Baker (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Joseph Zizek (panelist) - University of Auckland
Dan Edelstein (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
David A. Bell (commentator) - Princeton University
Kelly Summers (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Carla Hesse (panelist) - UC Berkeley
Guillaume Mazeau (panelist) - IHRF/Sorbonne
Mary Ashburn Miller (commentator) - Reed College
Derek Vanderpool (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Gareth Stedman Jones (panelist) - Queen Mary, University of London
Dominica Chang (panelist) - Lawrence University
Kent Wright (commentator) - Arizona State University
Nancy Kollmann (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Lynn Patyk (panelist) - Dartmouth College
Claudia Verhoeven (panelist) - Cornell University
Amir Weiner (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Jonathan Beecher (commentator) - UC Santa Cruz
Tom Mullaney (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Alex Cook (panelist) - UC Berkeley
David Strand (panelist) - Dickinson College
Elizabeth McGuire (panelist) - Harvard University
Andrew G. Walder (commentator) - èצӰÏñ
Edith Sheffer (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Lillian Guerra (panelist) - University of Florida
Jean-Marie Apostolidès (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Abbas Milani (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Silvana Toska (commentator) - Cornell University
J.P. Daughton (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Tim Harris (panelist) - Brown University
David Como (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Jack Rakove (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
David Armitage (panelist) - Harvard University
Caroline Winterer (commentator) - èצӰÏñ
Katherine McDonough (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Keith Baker (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Joseph Zizek (panelist) - University of Auckland
Dan Edelstein (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
David A. Bell (commentator) - Princeton University
Kelly Summers (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Carla Hesse (panelist) - UC Berkeley
Guillaume Mazeau (panelist) - IHRF/Sorbonne
Mary Ashburn Miller (commentator) - Reed College
Derek Vanderpool (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Gareth Stedman Jones (panelist) - Queen Mary, University of London
Dominica Chang (panelist) - Lawrence University
Kent Wright (commentator) - Arizona State University
Nancy Kollmann (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Lynn Patyk (panelist) - Dartmouth College
Claudia Verhoeven (panelist) - Cornell University
Amir Weiner (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Jonathan Beecher (commentator) - UC Santa Cruz
Tom Mullaney (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Alex Cook (panelist) - UC Berkeley
David Strand (panelist) - Dickinson College
Elizabeth McGuire (panelist) - Harvard University
Andrew G. Walder (commentator) - èצӰÏñ
Edith Sheffer (moderator) - èצӰÏñ
Lillian Guerra (panelist) - University of Florida
Jean-Marie Apostolidès (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Abbas Milani (panelist) - èצӰÏñ
Silvana Toska (commentator) - Cornell University
