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