Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives | Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast
- When:
- Thursday, January 25, 2024 9:00 am - Friday, January 26, 2024 5:00 pm
- Where:
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Thursday 25 January 2024 & Friday 26 January 2024
The University of Chicago Center in Paris - Description:
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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