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 XIX^e siècle”

Discussants: Marc LERNER (University of Mississippi), Youenn LE PRAT (Lycée Kerichen, Brest)

14h30 - 16h30 Malte GRIESSE (Harvard University/Konstanz University):

“Soundtracks of the 1626 Peasant War in Upper Austria: Verses and Music as Weapons in a Struggle for Legitimacy”

Éamonn Ó CIARDHA (University of Ulster):

“An Chaoimhniadh Chomhachtaigh agus Séamus an Chaca: Worthy Knight / Worthless Shite: James II and his war in Irish Literature and Folklore“

Discussant: Gerald PORTER (University of Vaasa)

18h Concert by the duet ALVA (Vivien ELLIS et Giles LEWIN), songs of revolts (Hertford College’s Chapel, free)

Friday 27 JUNE

9h - 12h30 Andy WOOD (Durham University): “Social memory or political repression? The 1549 rebellions seen through comparative history”

Philippe JOUTARD (Université de Provence/EHESS):

“Oralité et révoltes populaires : le cas des Camisards est-il transposable?”

Peter BURKE (Cambridge University):

“Traditions of Revolt: some comparative reflections”

Discussant: David HOPKIN (University of Oxford)

Place: Maison Française d'Oxford