Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat

Dynamics of Social Change and Perceptions of Threat

Veranstalter
DHI London; SFB 923 "Bedrohte Ordnungen"
Veranstaltungsort
DHI London
Ort
London
Land
United Kingdom
Vom - Bis
29.09.2014 - 01.10.2014
Deadline
23.09.2014
Von
Kohl, Thomas; Stahlhut, Philipp

The conference will inquire into the possibilities and the processes of political and social change in situations in which societies or parts of society perceive substantial threats – uprisings and revolts, disasters, accelerating phases in otherwise lengthy transformation processes or violent encounters between rival models of order, each claiming validity for society as a whole.
Drawing on examples spanning from Antiquity to the present, from several parts of the world and different fields of research (history, philology, political science, anthropology), the conference asks under what conditions and in what manner threats may lead to a reconfiguration of values, structures of authority, responsibilities and resources. Under which circumstances and in which way will an initially short-term reconfiguration of values, competencies and resources cause in wake of a perceived threat accelerate social change – or: under what conditions and in which manner will the old order be re-affirmed and restored, assuming that this is possible? Here we are thinking change in a broad sense. It may refer, for instance, to changes in basic social orders as well as to changes in sub-orders.

This will open up the possibility of correlating reciprocities between changes or continuities of order on a multiplicity of levels, and this will afford, in turn, a differentiated insight into the processes at work.

Programm

Monday, September 29th 2014

15.30 Andreas Gestrich, GHI , London Welcome

15.40 Ewald Frie, CRC 923, Tübingen Introduction

Panel 1: Urban unrest, power and the internal dynamic of threatened orders and social change
Chair: Steffen Patzold

16.15 Thomas Kohl, CRC 923, Tübingen
Violence, Power, and Social Change: European cities c. 1050-1120

16.45 Hannah Skoda, St. John’s College, Oxford
Threats and violence: town-gown conflicts in later medieval Oxford, Paris and Heidelberg

17.15 Discussion
17.45 Coffee

18.15 Beatrice von Lüpke, CRC 923, Tübingen
The Nuremberg Shrovetide Plays as a Reflection of Social (Dis-) Order

18.45 Discussion
19.30 Dinner

Tuesday, September 30th 2014

Panel 2: Framing Situations of Social Change - Between Threat and Promise
Chair: Andreas Hasenclever

9.00 Arne Hordt, CRC 923, Tübingen
‘Framing’ a Riot – Contested Meanings of Social Conflict in the Miners’ Strike and Rheinhausen Protests

9.30 Camilla Schofield, University of East Anglia
Enoch Powell and the rhetoric of social disaster, 1968‑1978

10.00 Discussion
10.30 Coffee

11.00 Jan Sändig, CRC 923, Tübingen
Framing Protest and Insurgency: Boko Haram and MASSOB in Nigeria

11.30 Holger Stritzel, St Andrews
The Travelling Concept of Organized Crime as a Threat to Political and Social Orders: A Tale of Multiple Translations

12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch

Panel 3: Making sense of threat – systems of belief under threat
Chair: Irmgard Männlein-Robert

14.30 Philipp Stahlhut, CRC 923, Tübingen
Emperors, Holy Men, and Experiences of Threat: Construction of Meaning in the Life of Daniel Stylites and the Life of Peter the Iberian

15.00 Philip Booth, Trinity College, Oxford
Imperial Rhetoric and Its Discontents in the Crisis of the Eastern Roman Empire (6th-7thC)

15.30 Discussion
16.00 Coffee

16.30 Matthias Becker, CRC 923, Tübingen
New Enemies with Old Faces – The Christians as Sophists in Porphyry’s Contra Christianos

17.00 Karla Pollmann, University of Kent
Augustine as a Global Thinker: Confronting the Threat of Pluralism and Change to Societal Order

17.30 Discussion
18.30 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, October 1st 2014

Panel 4: Disasters and social change
Chair: Reinhard Johler

9.00 Sabine Sauter, CRC 923, Tübingen
Australian Dust Storms as a Trigger of Social Change

9.30 Rebecca Jones, ANU Canberra
Slow catastrophes: responding to drought in Australia

10.00 Discussion
10.30 Coffee

11.00 Anna Ananieva/Rolf Haaser, University of Tübingen
The Flood Disaster of 1838 in Buda and Pest

11.30 Anthony Oliver-Smith, University of Florida
Hazards, Disasters, and the Threat of Change

12.00 Discussion
12.30 Lunch

Panel 5: The End of Threat: Diverging Perspectives on Social Change During the “Sattelzeit”
Chair: Renate Dürr

14.00 Dennis Schmidt, CRC 923, Tübingen
„Daß alles beym Alten bleibet“ - Josephinism and Religious Orders in Inner Austria

14.30 Joachim Whaley, Christ‘s College, Cambridge
Sattelzeit as Endzeit? The Trauma of Societal Stress, and Learning to Live With It in the Nineteenth Century

15.00 Discussion
15.30 Coffee

16.00 Fernando Esposito, Tübingen University
The Two Ends of History and Historical Temporality as a Threatened Order

16.30 Discussion

16.45 Mischa Meier, CRC 923, Tübingen
Concluding Remarks

Kontakt

Thomas Kohl

SFB 923 "Bedrohte Ordnungen", Keplerstraße 2, 72074 Tübingen

social.change@sfb923.uni-tuebingen.de

www.sfb923.uni-tuebingen.de
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