The Future of French Revolutionary Studies
Programme
Faculty of Arts Building (FAB) 2.25
10.00 Opening Remarks
10:10-10:55 Visual Culture
Colin Jones (University of Chicago), ‘Time and the Duchess’
Richard Taws (UCL), ‘Revolutionary Afterimages’
10:55-11:10 Coffee break
11:10-11:55 Channel Crossings
Kate Astbury (Warwick), ‘The Directory and the Connections between London and Paris Theatres’
Simon MacDonald (UCL), ‘Enemies of the Republic: Policing the British in Revolutionary Paris’
11:55-12:40 Rethinking Politics and Justice
Munro Price (Bradford), ‘Revisiting the Aristocratic Reaction’
Julian Swann (Birkbeck), ‘From Revolution to Revolution: France, 1771 and 1787-89’
12:40-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:15 Atlantic Reverberations
David Lambert (Warwick), ‘Campaigning and Counter-insurgency in the Revolutionary Caribbean’
Tom Cutterham (Birmingham), ‘Culture, Empire, and Democracy in the Atlantic World’
Julia Prest (St Andrews), ‘Was Theatre Responsible for the Haitian Revolution?’
14:15-15:00 Revolution and Finance
Ronan Love (Warwick), ‘Revolutionary Finance: Past, Present, and Future’
Niccolò Valmori (European University Institute), ‘History of Capitalism and the French Revolution: The Path Ahead’
15:00-15:15 Coffee break
15:15-16:00 New Perspectives on the Terror
Marisa Linton (Kingston University), ‘1793 in 2023: Beyond the Myths of Terror’
Alex Fairfax-Cholmeley (Exeter), ‘Archives, Networks, Geographies, Time: New Ways to Present the Terror?’
16:00-17:00 Conceptual and Methodological Frameworks
David Andress (Portsmouth), ‘Trust: Something That's 'Good to Think with' about the French Revolution?’
Charles Walton (Warwick), ‘Redistribution or Capitalism? Towards a State-centred View of Economic Politics’
Timothy Tackett (UC Irvine), 'Micro-biography and the French Revolution'
17:00-17:15 Concluding Remarks
This event is supported by
Humanity Research Centre
Department of History
Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre
Global History and Culture Centre
School of Modern Languages and Culture
