European Traditions of Revolt: The Memory of Social Conflict in Oral Culture
Wednesday 25 JUNE
14h - 18h30 Opening and Introduction
Jan DUMOLYN (Ghent University) & Jelle HAEMERS (University of Leuven): “Songs and subversion. Sixteenth-century ballads and poetry on urban revolts in the late medieval southern Low Countries”
Éva GUILLOREL (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie):
“La mémoire chantée des guerres de religion en France”
Judith POLLMANN (Leiden University):
“Remembering image breaking after the Dutch Revolt”
Discussants: Guy BEINER (Ben-Gurion University of Negev/University of Oxford), Alain HUGON (Université de Caen Basse-Normandie), Erika KUIJPERS (University of Amsterdam)
Thursday 26 JUNE
9h - 12h30 Kersti LUST (National Archives of Estonia):
“Memories of early modern peasant revolts in post-emancipation Estonia”
David HOPKIN (University of Oxford): “Reconstructing a peasant history of feudalism and emancipation from supernatural legends“
Philippe RAXHON (Université de Liège): “La mémoire de la Révolution française dans le mouvement ouvrier en Wallonie au XIXe siècle”
Discussants: Marc LERNER (University of Mississippi), Youenn LE PRAT (Lycée Kerichen, Brest)