Friday 25 February 2005

14:00-14:15 Welcome
Hagen Schulze, Director GHIL
Matthias Reiss

14:15-15:00 Keynote Speech
Clifford Stott (Liverpool): Overcoming the historical legacy of Gustave LeBon: Identity and the social dynamics of the crowd

15:00-17:45
Panel 1: The Long 19th Century
Chair: Dr. Jon Lawrence (Liverpool)
- Pia Nordblom (Mainz): Resistance, protest and demonstrations in Europe in the early 19th Century: the “Hambacher Fest” 1832

- Hugh L. Agnew (Washington, DC): Demonstrating the nation: Symbol, ritual and political protest in Bohemia, 1867-1875

- Birgitta Bader-Zaar (Vienna), A comparative view of women‘s suffrage demonstrations 1907- 1914

17:45- 19:15
Panel 2: Protest between the World Wars
Chair: Richard Bessel (York)
- Adam R. Seipp (Chapel Hill): Between peace and order: Demobilization and the politics of the street in Britain and Germany, 1917-1921

- Matthias Reiss (London), Marching on the capital: National protest marches of the unemployed in interwar Great Britain

Saturday, 26 February 2005

10:00-12:45
Panel 3: Protest in the City
Chair: David Gilbert (London)
- Christian Koller (Zurich): Demonstrating in Zurich between 1830 and 1940: From bourgeois protest to proletarian street politics

- Dominic Bryan (Belfast): Public space and public disorder in Belfast, 1960-2000

- Nikola D. Dimitrov (Weimar): Street of anger: Opposition protests in Belgrade and Sofia during the winter months of 1996 – 1997

14:00-16:45
Panel 4: New Models of Demonstrations
Chair: Irina Novikova (Riga)
- Holger Nehring (Oxford): Symbolising "Peace" in the Cold War: the British and West German Easter Marches, 1958-1964

- Fabian Virchow (Kiel): Towards a typology of demonstration marches: The case of the Far Right in Germany

- Danielle Tartakowsky (Paris): Is the French ‘manif’ still specific? Mutations of French street demonstrations

17:00-18:30 Panel Discussion: Protest in the 21st Century: Old Traditions, New Developments
Chair: Dominik Geppert (London)
Dieter Rucht (WZ Berlin)
Bertold Baur (IG Metall)
Felix Kolb (Attac)
N.N. (Stop the War Coalition)