Reimagining Politics and Society, 1750-Present: A Symposium in Honour of Mark Philp

Registration is essential. Colleagues are welcome to attend either the whole day or the wine reception after the event. Please contact Naomi Pullin (naomi.pullin@warwick.ac.uk).

Friday 8 November 2024

Scarman Conference Centre

Guest of Honour: Mark Philp

Organiser: Naomi Pullin

Special thanks: Tim Lockley and Matthew Clayton, the Warwick History Department and Politics and International Studies

Delegates: Mark Philp's colleagues, collaborators, former graduate and undergraduate students.

Programme

10.00-10.30. Arrival and refreshments (Scarman Lounge Area)

10.30-10.45. Welcome

10.45-11.45. Social and Intergenerational Networks

Chair: Naomi Pullin

Kate Davison (University of Sheffield) – Social Networks: Going Down a Rabbit Hole

Jon Mee (University of York) – Sticky Networks

Adam Swift (UCL) – Ageing and the Family

11.45-12.15. Coffee break

12.15-13.15. Constitutional Debates and Literary Memory

Chair: Mark Knights

Elad Carmel (University of Jyväskylä) - Hobbes, Deism, and Paine

Elias Buchetmann (University of Rostock) – Spreading the Revolution: Paine's Rights of Man in Germany

Maria Roca-Lizarazu (University of Cambridge) - Literature and/as Cultural Memory

13.15-14.15. Lunch

14.15-15.15. Accountability and Political Conduct

Chair: Matthew Clayton

Johannes Roessler (University of Warwick) - Timoleon’s Tears

Nikolas Kirby (University of Glasgow) - Why Public Standards? Theorising Horizontal Accountability

Elizabeth David-Barrett (University of Sussex) – State Capture: Corruption at its Most Pernicious

15.15-15.45.Coffee break

15.45-16.45. Music, Gender and Citizenship

Chair: Kate Astbury

Natalie Hanley-Smith (University of Warwick) – The Dynamics of Heterosocial Friendships

Anne Verjus (ENS Lyon) – Something Interesting for Mark? A French but Feminist Point of View

Oskar Cox-Jensen (Newcastle University) - Millions Be Free, A New Song

History Early Modern and Eighteenth Century Centre