"Layers and Connections of the Political"

International Conference of the Association for Political History

14-25 June 2021 - Luiss Guido Carli University Rome, Italy

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Monday, 21st June

Session 9 - 9.00-10.30 CET (Webex)

Panel - ‘Political Participation’ in Democracy History: A Contested and Ever-Changing Concept and Practice?

Chair:

• Ido de Haan (Utrecht University)

Discussant:

• Harm Kaal (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Participants:

• Anne Heyer (Leiden University)

When did the Masses become Political?

• Theo Jung (University of Freiburg)

Battling with Words or Fists? Changing Modes of Participation in Political Meetings in Britain and Germany (1867-1914)

• Carlos Domper Lasús (Universidad de Zaragoza)

The University Work Service. A politicizing experience under Francoism, 1950-1970

• Zoé Kergomard (German Historical Institute of Paris)

Is electoral abstention also a form of democratic participation? Rethinking the value of voting in the young Vth Republic (1960s-1980s)

Session 10 - 10.30-12.00 CET (Webex)

Panel - Environmental Policies as a Multi-Layered Discursive Phenomenon

Chair:

• Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä)

Discussant:

• Hagen Schulz-Forberg (University of Aarhus)

Participants:

• Kristian Mennen (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Environmentalist policy-making between compromise and confrontation: Different understandings in the Dutch context in the 1970s

• Jonne Harmsma (Radboud University, Nijmegen)

Dutch environmental debates and the concept of ‘selective growth’: Greening the economy in the 1970s

• Risto-Matti Matero (University of Jyväskylä)

From companionship with nature to green consumerism: A conceptual analysis of competing beliefs on human nature in Finnish and German green parties 1980-2002

• Atte Arffman (University of Jyväskylä)

Disasters in the Making: Intermingled Nature of Human and Non-human Agencies in U.S. Disaster Discourses

Session 11 - 17.30-19.00 CET (Webex)

Panel – Speed date discussion on ongoing research

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Discussants:

• Giovanni Orsina (Luiss)
• Hagen Schulz-Forberg (Aarhus University)
• Henk te Velde (Leiden University)
• Pasi Ihalainen (University of Jyväskylä)
• Norbert Götz (Södertörn University Stockholm)