past conferences
Counter-Revolution and the
Making of Conservatism(s)
Digitizing Enlightenment 2
Counter-Revolution and the
Making of Conservatism(s)
Counter-Revolution and the Making of Conservatism(s)
14-15 June 2018
Soeterbeeck conference center
Elleboogstraat 2,
5371 LL Ravenstein
If you wish to attend this conference, please email: j.reboul@let.ru.nl before Monday 11 June with the details of your presence.
Thursday, June 14
9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introduction (Matthijs Lok & Juliette Reboul)
9:30-11:00
Concepts & comparisons
Joep LEERSSEN
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Romantics on the throne: Taming the nation
Friedemann PESTEL
(Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
Une révolution contre la révolution or le contraire de la révolution?
Semantic Investigations on Counterrevolution (1789‒1830)
Carolina ARMENTEROS
(Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra Wolfson College, Cambridge)
An Epistemology for Counter-Revolution: The
Spanish Universalist School, 1773-1805
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Providence & security
Chair: Matthijs Lok
Beatrice de GRAAF
(Universiteit Utrecht)
How Conservative was the Holy Alliance Really?
European Security Programs Between Providence and Mesmerism, 1815-1818
Offer DYNES
(McGill University)
The Hebrew Epistolary Novel and the Austrian Secret Police (1815-1845)
European Security Programs Between Providence and Mesmerism, 1815-1818
12:30-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-15:00
Networks & sociability
Chair: Annelien de Dijn
Jean-Philippe LUIS
(Université Clermont-Auvergne)
The counter-revolutionary circulations between France and Spain from
the French revolution to the Spanish restauration (1789-1875)
Flavien BERTRAN DE BALANDA
(Université Paris Sorbonne)
“It is night across Europe”.
Reading Louis de Bonald and the French Revolution on the continental scale
Raphaël CAHEN
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
“Friedrich Gentz’s cosmopolitan conservative networks”
15:00-15.30 Coffee/Tea
(Counter-) Enlightenments
Chair: Joris van Eijnatten
Wyger VELEMA
(Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Enlightenment against Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Dutch Conservatism
Michiel Van DAM
(Universiteit Gent)
The many faces of St. Paul:
Pauline ethics and spiritual revolt in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760-1790
Amerigo CARUSO
(Università di Padova)
The making of modern conservatism in Germany and Italy
17:00-18:00
Round table
Network and further research collaboration
Friday, June 15
9.30-11.00
The radical Counter-revolution
Chair: Matthijs Lok
Nigel ASTON
(University of Leicester)
Survival strategies:
The duke of Ormonde, the earl of Arran, and Jacobite adaptability, 1715-60
Lien VERPOEST
(KU Leuven)
The Ancien Régime and the Jeune Premier: The
birth of Russian Conservatism in Vienna
Axel SCHNEIDER
(Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)
Modernity and the question of conservatism:
a theoretical attempt at reconciling universalism and particularism
11.00-11:30 Coffee/Tea
11:30-13:00
Counter-Revolution & religion
Chair: Juliette Reboul
Paul CHOPELIN
(Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III)
The Catholic counter-revolution, a transnational perspective (1770s-1790s)
Alexander KRUSKA
(FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)
The ‘Restauration der Staatswissenschaft’ of Karl Ludwig von Haller
as a polemic against early liberal political thought and its conception of social order
Glauco SCHETTINI
(Fordham University)
Crusading against the Revolution:
Catholic Counter-Revolutionary Thought (and Action) across National Borders, ca. 1789-1799
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15.00
Conservative modernisms
Chair: Juliette Reboul
Dongxiang XU
(EHESS Paris)
Influences of Some Western Conservative Thoughts and Politics in China
from the 1910s to the 1930s
Jean-François LANIEL
(University of Michigan)
The paradoxical modernity of Ultramontanism
15.00-15.30 Closing Remarks: Friedemann Pestel
15:30 – 16:00 Farewell by the organisers
Digitizing Enlightenment 2
Digitizing Enlightenment 2
June 15-16, 2017
Radboud University Faculty Club (Marijnenkamer), Geert Grooteplein Noord 9, Nijmegen
Thursday, June 15
9.00 – 9.30 Olivier Hekster (director HLCS Research Institute), Welcome and introduction
9.30 – 11.00 Session 1: The circulation of goods and ideas (chair: Helleke van den Braber)
Charles van den Heuvel (Huygens Institute – ING)
Golden Agents: Creative Industries and Knowledge Commodities
Victoria Thompson (Arizona State University)
Digitizing Affective Objects in a Global Framework
Simon Burrows (Western Sydney University)
Exploring the Common Reading Culture of Eighteenth-Century Europe: New Digital Methods of Understanding Enlightenment Cosmopolitanism
11.00 – 11.30 coffee / tea
11.30 – 13.00 Session 2: Intellectual networks (chair: Floris Meens)
Katherine McDonough (Western Sydney University)
Mapping the Encyclopédie to Make an Early Modern Gazetteer
Dirk van Miert (Utrecht University)
Reconceptualizing the Enlightenment Republic of Letters
Howard Hotson (University of Oxford)
Beyond EMLO: Early Modern Linked Open Data
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 15.30 Session 3: Book history and digital methods – projects (chair: Ivo Nieuwenhuis)
Marieke van Delft (Royal Library, The Hague)
The Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands: new sources for expansion
Raphaële Mouren (Warburg Institute) and Thomas Lebarbé (Université de Grenoble)
Conceiving a Platform for the Reconstruction of Dispersed Libraries: The Interdisciplinary Approach and its Consequences
Joshua Teplitsky (Stony Brook University)
Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Space
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee / tea break
16.00 – 17.30 Session 4: Book history and digital methods – sources and questions (chair: Roel Smeets)
Gary Kates (Pomona College)
The Popularization of Political Thought in Enlightenment Europe
Laure Philip (Western Sydney University)
The Illegal Book Trade Revisited – Overview, Methods, and First Findings
Lucas van der Deijl (University of Amsterdam)
Spinozist Discourse in Dutch Textual Culture (1660-1720): Limits and Opportunities of Digital Text Analysis for Enlightenment History
Friday, June 16
9.00 – 10.30 Session 5: Studying libraries and collections (chair: Johan Oosterman)
Helwi Blom, Rindert Jagersma, and Juliette Reboul (Radboud University)
MEDIATE: Digitizing Book Catalogues and (Private) Library Collections
Colin Wilder (University of South Carolina)
Studying Library Collections in Early Modern Germany with Computational Methods
Ann-Marie Hansen (Université Rennes 2)
The Universal Short Title Catalogue: Reconstructing Production from the First Age of Print
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee / tea break
11.00 – 12.00 Session 6: Digital editions and publishing (chair: Joanna Rozendaal)
Kristen Schuster (King’s College London)
Digital Editions of Antiquarian Texts: Collaboration, Innovation and Exploration
Glenn Roe (Australian National University) and Robert Morrissey (University of Chicago)
Digitizing Raynal
12.00 – 12.30 Plenary discussion: Planning a website companion to scholarly books, moderated by
Gregory Brown (University of Nevada / Oxford Studies in the Enlightenment)
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 15.30 Session 7: Collaboration, audiences and sustainability (chair: Alicia Montoya)
Elizabeth Andrews Bond (The Ohio State University)
Linked Data and the Epistolary Enlightenment
Louise Seaward (University College London)
Enlightening the Crowd? Crowdsourcing Research with ‘Transcribe Bentham’
Lieke van Deinsen (Rijksmuseum Amsterdam)
In search of a lost sensation. Reconstructing literary heritage in a digital age: possibilities and challenges
Marian Lefferts (Consortium of European Research Libraries)
Collaborating in the Consortium of European Research Libraries
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee / tea break
16.00 – 17.00 Closing Round table: Creating a Sustainable Ecosystem of DH Projects
(moderator: Jason Ensor, Western Sydney University)
– What has been achieved, what is possible and what is not
– The challenges ahead: conceptual, technical, institutional
– Possibilities for collaboration
– Working toward sustainability
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This conference has been made possible by generous financial support from the European Research Council and the Dutch-Belgian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.