The Pursuit of Legitimacy. Power and its Manifestations in Political History
25-26 October 2018, Leiden University, the Netherlands
Thursday, Oct. 25 2018
location: Huizinga building, Doelensteeg 16, Leiden
13:15 – 13:45 Registration (room 026)
13:45 – 14:00 Words of welcome
14:00 – 16:00 Parallel session I
Panel 1. The crafts of power. Observing, stratifying and condemning populations
room 023C
Chair: Remzi Çağatay Çakırlar (Leiden)
Joonas Tammela (Jyväskylä): Legitimation of Heavenly and Earthly Power: Local Sermons as a Mediator of the Societal Values in Swedish Realm, 1790–1820
Cristiana Plamadeala (Paris): On Dossierveillance and Collaboration with the Securitate, Romania’s Secret Police in the Communist Period (1945-89)
Sandrine Maulini (Geneva): The demands of former administrative inmates and children in out-of-home care: a crisis of legitimacy in Switzerland?
Panel 2. Signs of the times. Questions of legitimacy in periods of change
Room 025
Chair: Iva Vukusic (Utrecht)
Raisa Blommestijn (Leiden): The step-in-the-back myth. Reconceiving Weimar’s legitimacy
Maja Lukanc (Ljubljana): The legitimation of communist power: Comparative cases of post-war Poland and Yugoslavia (1944-1948)
Pierre Botcherby (Warwick): Seeking continuity in a period of change: resisting industrial decline and postindustrial regeneration in St. Helens, Merseyside
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break (room 026)
16:30 – 18:00 Key note panel: The question of legitimacy
Room 025
Maartje Janse, Anne Petterson & Elisabeth Dieterman (Leiden)
19:00 Dinner (Malle Jan)
app. 21:00 Social programme
Friday, Oct. 26 2018
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee (room 026)
10:00 – 12:00 Parallel session II
Panel 3. Thinking (il)legitimately. Contrarian, demonical and provocative ideas
room 023C
Chair: Dirk Alkemade (Leiden)
Thomas Ashby (Florence/Leiden): Resisting Satan: Algernon Sidney contra the House of Stuart, the invasion plot of 1664-1666
Catherine Hulse (London): Legitimising representative popular power: the ‘paradox’ of Sieyès and Roederer?
Arthur Ghins (Cambridge): A liberal view on democracy: Benjamin Constant on sovereignty, representative government and political liberty
Shane Little (Loughborough): The anarchism of Josiah Warren: Sovereignty of the individual and experiments in utopian living
Panel 4. The imaginary dominium. Identity constructs and aesthetic representations as sources of legitimacy
room 025
Chair: Wouter Linmans (Leiden)
Fons Meijer (Nijmegen): Establishing a Dutch consensus culture: Representations of Dutch monarchs in times of disaster, c.1807-1861
Nathalia Schomerus (Potsdam): Viewpoints of National Liberals on legitimacy in 19th century Germany
Rohit Dutta Roy (Cambridge): Right to govern and the construction of epistemic authority: History as a source of Political Legitimacy in late-nineteenth and twentieth-century India
Marvin Menniken (Berlin): War veteran morality and the nation: The American Legion in twentieth-century U.S. politics
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
13:00 – 15:00 Parallel session III
Panel 5. Reading revolts against the grain. The legitimation of dissent
room 023C
Chair: Larissa Schulte Nordholt (Leiden)
Ivan Gracia (Barcelona): Legitimacy and popular violence in a catholic city: Barcelona during the Reapers’ Revolt (1640)
Oscar Broughton (Berlin): Redefining construction: Legitimacy and the National Guilds League
Juho Saksholm (Jyväskylä): The Nordic 1968: Transnational discourses on the legitimacy of dissent
Panel 6. Communicative challenges. Or how to mediate legitimacy
room 025
Chair: Alp Yenen
Jonas Stephan (Münster): Security, authority and legitimacy. The art of doing politics in the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Westphalia
Zachris Haaparinne (Jyväskylä): The virtues and ideals of parliamentary representation and political participation
Chris Monnox (Australia): Legitimising party: Public meetings and party politics in Australia, 1910-1929
Sara Mirahmadi (Leiden): Ideological usage of poetry in the Jāmi’ al-Tavārīkh
15:00 – 16:00 Plenary closing (room 025)