Popular History 1800-1900-2000
An International and Interdisciplinary Conference
University of Freiburg, 22-24 July 2010
The present boom of history was preceded by peaks in popular historical interest during the 19th and 20th centuries. The conference aims to explore these earlier waves in overviews and case studies within an interdisciplinary perspective.
Thursday, 22 July | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Barbara Korte/Sylvia Paletschek (Freiburg) Introduction |
| 15:30-16:30 | Billie Melman (Tel Aviv, History) The Bull of Nineveh: Empires, Antiquity and Modernity in British Popular Culture, circa 1840-1900 |
| Break | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Stefan Berger (Manchester, Modern History) Academic and Popular Historiography 1800 - 1900 - 2000 |
| 18:00-18:45 | Philipp Müller (London, Modern History) "The Opening of the Archives": Historical Interest and the Administering of State Archives |
Friday, 23 July | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Susan Crane (Tucson/AZ, Modern History) The Presence of the Past as Visual Experience 1800 - 1900 - 2000 |
| 10:00-10:45 | Anja Butenschön (Munich, Art History) In Quest of Authentic History: The Eyewitness of the French Revolution |
| Break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Birte Förster (Darmstadt, Modern History) Unruly Historical Knowledge: Popular Versions of a Pious Queen, 1860-1960 |
| 12:00-12:45 | Brigitte Braun (Trier, History) and Wolfgang Koller (Berlin, Media Studies) Reflections on One's Own Present: Remembering the Napoleonic Wars in German Films, 1895-1945 |
| Break | |
| 15:00-16:00 | Leslie Howsam (Windsor/ON, History) Growing Up with History in the Victorian Periodical Press |
| 16:00-16:45 | Stefanie Lethbridge (Freiburg, English Studies) Wars and Heroes: Historical Topics in Popular Poetry Anthologies since the 19th Century |
| Break | |
| 17:15-18:00 | Antonie Wiedemann (Genoa, Italian Studies) Popular Historical Magazines in Italy in the 1960s |
| 18:00-18:45 | Regina Schleicher (Frankfurt, French Studies) A French Popular History during the Third Republic |
Saturday, 24 July | |
| 09:00-10:00 | Jerome de Groot (Manchester, English and American Studies) Is There Such a Thing as a Cosmopolitan Popular History? |
| 10:00-10:45 | Till Förster (Basel, Social Anthropology) Iterations of Suffering and Emancipation: Popular Media and the Experience of Violence in Northern Côte d'Ivoire |
| Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Meret Fehrmann (Zurich, Popular Literatures and Media) Prehistoric Fiction and Visionary Narrative |
| 11:45-12:30 | Frédéric Döhl (Berlin, Musicology) The Barbershop Harmony Revival: The Creation of a Faulty Historically Informed Performance Practice in the United States around 1940 |
| Break | |
| 14:00-14:45 | Fernando Sánchez Marcos (Barcelona, Modern History) Don Juan of Austria (1547-1578) in European Historical Culture: The 20th-Century Metamorphoses of a Hero of the People |
| 14:45-15:30 | Round-Up |
Thorsten Leiendecker thorsten.leiendecker@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de
Convener:
Research Group Historische Lebenswelten / History in Popular Culture of Knowledge
http://portal.uni-freiburg.de/historische-lebenswelten