LXV Settimana di Studi | (Dangerous) Crowds in Pre-Modern and Modern History
12 Settembre 2024 — 14 Settembre 2024
FBK Aula Grande
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Polo delle Scienze Umane e sociali
La conferenza coinvolge studiosi di diverse discipline per offrire nuove prospettive sulla ricerca della folla nella storia. È suddivisa in cinque sessioni, dedicate a diversi aspetti della folla: Immagini e rappresentazioni, Legge e regolamenti, Emozioni ed esperienza, Politica e Performance.
COMITATO ORGANIZZATIVO
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento/FBK-ISIG)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG)
PROGRAMMA
12.09.2024
10.00-10.30
Introduction
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento/FBK-ISIG); Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG);
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS
Chairs:
Maria Adamopoulou (European University Institute, Firenze)
José Araneda Riquelme (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)
10.30-11.00
Images of Crowds in Early Modern Europe (TBA)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
11.00-11.30
“What London Saw”: Gawkers, Sensation and Zepp Sunday
Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
11.30-12.00
A Journey Through Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. The Crowd in the Cinema of Sergei Loznitsa
Maurizio Cau (FBK-ISIG)
12.00-12.30 Discussion
14.30-15.30
Keynote:
Dangerous Crowds and the Invention of Civil Society in Early Modern Europe
Stuart Carroll (University of York)
LAW AND REGULATION
Chairs:
Marina Dal Cin (Università di Padova / Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Rémi Demoen (Université de Tours / CESR de Tours)
15.30-16.00
Regulating Dangerous Crowds in Early Modern Venice
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento)
16.00-16.30
Controlling Crowds in the Weimar and Nazi Eras
Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University)
16.30-17.00
Crowds and Criminal Law – A Complicated Relationship
Paolo Caroli (Università di Torino)
17.00-17.30 Discussion
17.30-17.45
FBK Library and Book Exhibition
13.09.2024
9.30-10.30
Keynote:
Collective Emotions, Lost and Found
Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal)
EXPERIENCE AND EMOTIONS
Chairs:
Thomas Roth (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Eva Kemenade (University of Amsterdam)
10.30-11.00
The Poet in the Crowd: Crowds and Subjectivity in Eleventh-Century China
Christian de Pee (University of Michigan) ONLINE
11.00-11.30
Emotions and the Early Modern Crowd
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)
11.30-12.00
Ressentiment in the US Capitol Attack on Jan 6, 2021
Mikko Salmela (University of Copenhagen)
12.00-12.30 Discussion
14.30-15.30
Keynote:
The Mobility of Nations: Refugees & Polarization in the Long 20th Century
Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Berlin)
POLITICS
Chairs:
Panagiotis Georgakakis (St. Andrews University)
Julià Gómez Reig (European University Institute, Firenze)
15.30-16.00
Thinking Crowds. Early Modern Collective Wisdom
Sandro Landi (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)
16.00-16.30
The People’s Revolution of 1789
Micah Alpaugh (University of Central Missouri) ONLINE
16.30-17.00
The “Unwashed Multitude”: Comparing Colonial Crowds in Post-Emancipation Jamaica and Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town
Ruth Watson (University of Cambridge)
17.00-17.30 Discussion
18.00-19.00
Keynote:
Theatricality and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Robert Darnton (University of Harvard)
14.09.2024
PERFORMANCE
Chairs:
Sophie Hartles (University of Warwick)
Neelakshi Khatri (University of Hertfordshire)
10.30-11.00
Crowds Rioting Against Law Enforcement in Late Medieval Italy: A Form of Public Opinion?
Lidia Zanetti Domingues (University of Sheffield)
11.00-11.30
Sex, Violence, and the Early Modern Theatrical Audience
Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham)
11.30-12.00
Riotous Assemblies: Theatrical Crowds and the Astor Place Riot
Nicole Sheriko (Yale University)
12.00-12.45 Discussion and conclusive remarks
RELATORI
Keynotes:
Stuart Carroll (University of York)
Robert Darnton (Harvard University)
Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Berlin)
Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Speakers, Pre-Modern Era:
Micah Alpaugh (University of Central Missouri)
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento)
Christian de Pee (University of Michigan)
Sandro Landi (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham)
Lidia Zanetti Domingues (University of Sheffield)
Speakers, Modern Era:
Paolo Caroli (Università di Torino)
Maurizio Cau (FBK-ISIG)
Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University)
Mikko Salmela (University of Copenhagen)
Nicole Sheriko (Yale University)
Ruth Watson (University of Cambridge)
Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)
