"Layers and Connections of the Political"

International Conference of the Association for Political History

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

For its 2020-2021 conference (14-25 June 2021), the Association for Political History (www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org) in collaboration with the Luiss School of Government (https://sog.luiss.it) presents a program that considers, in a historical perspective, examples of how the multiple layers of the political have connected and interacted with each other during the last three centuries.

Despite the difficulties of organizing events and travels related to the COVID-19 pandemic, over the past few months dozens of submissions have encouraged us to keep this commitment and move the event online. As a result, we can now present a conference with more than 70 scholars from 19 countries around the world, senior as well as young researchers and PhD candidates.

We have devised a format that runs in 16 sessions from June 14-25, 2021. This includes an opening roundtable on “Layers and Connections of the Political”; nine thematic panels to be  held in the morning sessions; three forums to discuss individual papers on current research presented by young scholars; a speed-date session dedicated to brief discussions (5 minutes) between PhD candidates and senior researchers; a final key note speech by Prof. Vladislav Zubok on his latest book "Collapse" (forthcoming in 2021 with Yale UP).

In this online format, we are constrained to tight timelines and we recommend limiting presentations to 10-15 minutes maximum so that we can devote time to discussion. Unfortunately, we cannot be together for coffee, but we still want to encourage the creation of a space for the exchange of ideas, interconnections and networking. For this, virtual classrooms will be open for those who want to virtually meet and discuss their research in closed sessions.

To discuss your research project at the speed date session, please send an email to aph2020@luiss.it by June 18.

More information is available at: www.sog.luiss.it and www.associationforpoliticalhistory.org

For any further info please contact aph2020@luiss.it

APH 2020-2021 Organizing committee: Giovanni Orsina (Luiss Guido Carli), Henk te Velde (Leiden University), Margit van der Steen (Huygens Institute for Dutch History), Gaia Di Martino (Luiss Guido Carli), Riccardo Mario Cucciolla (Università degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale)

APH Forum for young scholars on Concepts

• Towards a “bourgeois” ethics. Liberalism, conservatism and communitarianism in Deirdre McCloskey’s work - Alessandra Antonella Rita Maglie, Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
• Globalization as process and foreign policy as agency? The agent-structure debate and ‘policy’ versus ‘process’ approaches to the history-globalization nexus - Cíntia Martins & Pedro Ponte e Sousa, FCSH-UNL, Lisbon, Portugal
  
• 'Frenmity' as a Political Concept - Luka Nikolić, Charles University, Prague, Czechia and Igor Milić, University of Trento, Italy
  

APH Forum for young scholars on Identities

• The Politics of Peripheral Incorporation: Italy’s Mezzogiorno and Turkey’s Kurdistan - Nicola Degli Esposti and Angelo Rinaldi, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
  
• The Political Ideology of the Risorgimento and the Serbian national movement in XIX century: the similarities and differences of the two political concepts and their heritage - Konstantin Dragaš, Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade, Serbia
  
• Locality and Ethnicity in the Periphery Border Region as the Separate Political Layer - Myroslava Lendel, Uzhhorod National University, Ukraine
  
• Reshaped Borders Redefined Identities? Poland, Hungary and the Uncertain Central Europe - Andrea Schmidt, University of Pecs, Hungary
  

APH Forum for young scholars on Institutions

• The expansion of judicial independence in Italy (1948-1978) - Ermes Antonucci, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
  
• Alberto Beneduce, a technocrat in the Fascist era - Lorenzo Castellani, Luiss Guido Carli, Rome, Italy
  
• Jeremy Bentham in the early nineteenth century English law reform politics - Cheng Li, University of York, UK
  
• ‘The Shadows of Staraya Square’: The Central Committee Apparatus as a Soviet ‘Deep State’ - Michael Loader, University of Glasgow, UK
  
• Explaining depoliticization: local civil society as an alternative to politics in the post-revolutionary Netherlands, 1800-1848 - Adriejan van Veen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  

Beyond traditional Cold War Understanding

• International policy in its cultural dimension: from Lenin to Putin - Olga Dubrovina, Università degli studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
• Soviet Public Diplomacy Campaign of Influencing Indian Politics in the 1960s - Severyan Dyakonov, The Graduate Institute of International andDevelopment Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
• Politics through economics: The G7 approach to East-West economic relations, 1975-1989 - Mattia Ravano, The Graduate Institute of International andDevelopment Studies, Geneva, Switzerland
  

Delegitimizing party democracy

• Sawing off the branch they were sitting on: the Radicals and the antipartitocracy stance - Lucia Bonfreschi, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy
• The Italian Communist Party and the Denouement of the Party System in the Early 1990s - Martin J. Bull, University of Salford, UK
  
• The PSI and the crisis of party democracy. Transformation, deideologization and delegitimation with the Italian socialists, 1978-1992 - Pepijn Corduwener, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  
• The PLI and the crisis of the First Republic. A long-term analysis (1968-1994) - Gerardo Nicolosi, Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy
  

Environmental Policies as a Multi-Layered Discursive Phenomenon

• Disasters in the Making: Intermingled Nature of Human and Non-human Agencies in U.S. Disaster Discourses - Atte Arffman, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
• Dutch environmental debates and the concept of ‘selective growth’: Greening the economy in the 1970s - Jonne Harmsma, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  
• From companionship with nature to green consumerism: A conceptual analysis of competing beliefs on human nature in Finnish and German green parties 1980-2002 - Risto-Matti Matero, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
  
• Environmentalist policy-making between compromise and confrontation: Different understandings in the Dutch context in the 1970s - Kristian Mennen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  

Places of politics in the Kazakh steppes

• Management apparatus of Kazakh volosts (1824-1868): from traditional institutions to imperial forms - Tenlik Dalayeva,Abai Kazakh National Pedagogical University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
  
• The evolution of Kazakh political structures and practices under Tsarist colonization: studies around the elections in the Semireč’e region (Turkestan, 1868-1917) - Xavier Hallez, EHESS, Paris, France
  
• The 1822 Statute of Siberian Kirgiz and the Beginning of Russian administrative system in the Kazakh Steppe - Shi Yue, Peking University, People's Republic of China
  
• Kazakh nobility of the Russian Empire: civil service, scientific and political life - Gulmira Sultangalieva, Al Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan

Political Participation in Democracy History

• The University Work Service. A politicizing experience under Francoism, 1950-1970 - Carlos Domper Lasús, University of Zaragoza, Spain
• When did the Masses become Political? - Anne Heyer, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• Battling with Words or Fists? Changing Modes of Participation in Political Meetings in Britain and Germany (1867-1914) - Theo Jung, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Is electoral abstention also a form of democratic participation? Rethinking the value of voting in the young V Republic (1960s-1980s) - Zoé Kergomard, German Historical Institute of Paris, France

Revolution and the language of feelings in Italy

• Collateral Effects. Emotional and Material Costs for Political Engagement in Mazzini’s and Garibaldi’s Followers - Arianna Arisi Rota, Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy
  

• Becoming “sovversivi”: how personal suffering and compassion inspire the choice to be a revolutionary - Elena Papadia, Università degli studi La Sapienza, Italy
• “A class struggle fought within ourselves”. War and revolution in the moral world of Italian communists during the early years of the Cold War - Andrea Guiso, Università degli studi La Sapienza, Italy

• The “True Believers” of the Revolution: Italian Left-wing Terrorists during the Seventies - Giovanni Mario Ceci, Università degli studi Roma Tre, Italy

The Conservative Party, Conservative Ideology and the Chanllenge of Change

• The Rhetorical Construction of Brexit on the Right - Andrew Crines, University of Liverpool, UK
• Ideology, Leadership and the Conservative Party - Tim Heppell, University of Leeds, UK
• Analysing patterns of ideological change amongst Conservative MPs and the response of voters: A study of Liverpool - David Jeffery, University of Liverpool, UK
• Cradle of Conservatism? Lancashire, Toryism, and the modern British Conservative Party - Adam Waddingham, University of Manchester, UK

The Culture of Debate in and beyond Parliament

• Democracy on Air: The Radio Show “Prominente Zu Gast” and Political Discussion Culture Beyond Parliament, West Germany 1950s-1980 - Malte Fischer, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
  
• Giving New Meaning to the Rules of the Game? New Political Parties and Parliamentary Debate, 1870-1940 - Anne Heyer, Leiden University, The Netherlands
• A “Mirror” up to Society? Popular Expectations of Democracy in the Daily Mirror, 1945-1979 - Jamie Lee Jenkins, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• The people’s platform? The voice of the people and its debut on Dutch television, 1960s-1970s -Solange Ploeg, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

The Political Life of Things

• The second life of patriotic objects. Memories and politics from private heritage to the Nation on display - Silvia Cavicchioli,University of Turin, Torino, Italy
• Return to order and material culture. Missing objects, anti-republican narratives and police practices in Rome after 1849 - Alessio Petrizzo, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
• Materiality and the history of politics - Carlotta Sorba, University of Padua, Padova, Italy
• Two popes. Pius IX, religion and the power of objects in Nineteenth-century politics - Ignazio Veca, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

Keynote Speech

• Collapse:The Fall of the Soviet Union - Vladislav M. Zubok, London School of Economics and Political Science