The Paris Commune at 150

This conference brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore  the  political and artistic legacies of the Paris Commune.

The Royal Foundation of St Katharine

This event celebrates the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune. It brings together scholars specialising in literature, the visual arts, material culture, political theory, and more, for an interdisciplinary exploration of the Commune’s ongoing political and cultural significance. The conference also hopes to reinvigorate wider cross-disciplinary debates about the generative logic of insurrectionary events as well as about the formation of radical traditions.The event will consist of four panels and a concluding roundtable. Confirmed participants include Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan), David A. Shafer (California State), Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck), Mark Steven (Exeter), Constance Bantman (Surrey), Matthew Beaumont (UCL), Antony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam), Owen Holland (UCL), Kristin Grogan (Rutgers), Clare Pettitt (KCL), Scott McCracken (QMUL), Julia Nicholls (KCL), Terence Renaud (Yale), Patrick Bray (UCL), Ruth Kinna (Loughborough), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Adrian Rifkin (Dutch Art Institute), Kristin Ross (NYU).Organizers: Charlotte Jones (QMUL) and Benjamin Kohlmann (Regensburg)Supported by the Leverhulme Trust, the Raphael Samuel History Centre, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).Programme:Welcome 9:15 - 9:30Panel 1: Politics &amp; Aesthetics 9:30 - 11:00Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan): &#x27;The Commune: Marx&#x27;s English Utopia?&#x27; David A. Shafer (California State): &#x27;Regeneration and Degeneration: Literary and Caricatural Conceptions of the Paris Commune&#x27; Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck): ’The Aesthetic is Political: Experiments in the Community’ Refreshment break 11:00 - 11:30 Panel 2: Aftermaths/Afterlives 11:30 - 13:00Owen Holland (UCL): &#x27;James &quot;B.V.&quot; Thomson and the Melancholy of Defeat&#x27; Clare Pettitt (KCL): &#x27;&quot;That hope fulfilled for a little&quot; (William Morris The Pilgrims of Hope, 1885-1886): The Ephemeral Politics of the Idyll&#x27; Scott McCracken (QMUL): ‘Anecdotes of Defeat: Brecht and Communard Aesthetics’ Lunch break 13:00 - 14:00 Panel 3: Revolutionary Reverberations 14:00 - 15:30Mark Steven (Exeter): &#x27;Defend the City: Urbanzing Class War&#x27; Julia Nicholls (KCL): &#x27;Thinking Revolution after the Paris Commune&#x27; Terence Renaud (Yale): &#x27;The Communard Imaginary in May 1968&#x27; Refreshment break 15:30 - 15:45 Panel 4: Communard Internationalism 15:45 - 17:15Constance Bantman (Surrey): &#x27;Paris and London as Palimpsests of the Commune for the French Anarchists, 1880-90s&#x27; Matthew Beaumont (UCL): &#x27;Polyform Film: Peter Watkins and the Paris Commune&#x27; Antony Taylor (Sheffield Hallam): &#x27;Commemorating and Remembering the Paris Commune in &#x27;a world apart&#x27;: Memories of the Paris Commune in Australia and New Zealand&#x27; Refreshment break 17:15 - 17:45 Roundtable: From Mobilisation to Memory 17:45 - 19:00 Chair: Adrian Rifkin Patrick Bray (UCL) Ruth Kinna (Loughborough) Esther Leslie (Birkbeck) Kristin Ross (NYU)

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