Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives | Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast

Thursday 25 January 2024 & Friday 26 January 2024
The University of Chicago Center in Paris

Program

Thursday 25 January 2024

9-9.30am: Welcoming coffee/tea

9.30-9.40am: Welcoming word by Prof. Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, President of the SFEVE

9.40-10am: Introduction by Emily Jones, Catherine Marshall, Seamus Perry & Miles Taylor

10-12.30am – Session 1: Disraeli as Founding Father

Chair: Catherine Marshall (CY Cergy Paris University)

1. Emily Jones (University of Manchester) – Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism

2. David Jeffery (University of Liverpool) – Interpreting Disraeli: Competing understandings of ‘Disraeli-ism’ within the Conservative Party

Short break

3. Balkis Mougou (CY Cergy Paris Université) - The Past as Disraeli’s “Sacred Flame”: Exploring the Populist Feature of Glorifying the Past

4. Stephane Porion (Université de Tours) - The Disraelian ideas that framed Enoch Powell's conception of Toryism and that of the nation

12.30-2pm – Lunch

2-4pm – Session 2: Responses to Political Economy and ‘Tory radicalism’

Chair: Miles Taylor (Humboldt Universität, Zu Berlin)

5. Thomas Pritchard – Benjamin Disraeli and the Art of Political Collaboration

6. Mike Sanders (University of Manchester) – Some passages in the life of a (Tory) radical: Disraeli amongst the Chartists

7. Anthony Howe (University of East Anglia) – Disraeli and Cobden: ‘The Manchester School’ in fact and fiction”

4-4.30pm - Tea Break

4.30-6.15pm – Session 3: Political Life

Chair: Agnès Alexandre (Université de Bourgogne)

8. Iain McLean (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli, heresthetics and the 1867 Reform Act

9. Frank Rynne (CY Cergy Paris Université) - Disraeli, Gladstone and the Irish question

10. Alex Middleton (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and South America

6.15 pm end of day 1

Friday 26 January 2024

9.30-12am – Session 4: Cultural and Religious Lives

Chair: Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago)

11. Jonathan Parry (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) - Disraeli, Lothair, and Tory

political sociology

12. Daisy Hay (University of Exeter) – Disraeli the Romantic

Short break

13. Megan Dent (Associate Member, Keble SCR, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and the Bible

14. Jerome Grosclaude (Université Clermont Auvergne) – ‘[A] mere mystery-man’: Disraeli and the Church of England’s episcopate

12-1.30pm – Lunch

1.30-4.30pm – Session 5: Literary Lives and Afterlives

Chair: Seamus Perry (Balliol College, University of Oxford)

15. David Womersley (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford) – Vivian Grey

16. Freya Johnston (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and Peacock

Short break

17. Bysshe Coffey (Balliol College, University of Oxford) – ‘Permanent Currency’: Benjamin Disraeli and the Leavises

18. Baptiste Danel (University of Westminster) – A ‘poetical politician, and a political poet’: Political Synthesis in The Revolutionary Epick (1834)

4.30pm/5pm – End of the conference

All information at: https://sfeve.hypotheses.org/colloque-sfeve