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Centre for Cultural History at the University of Aberdeen

‘Self, Society and History’: A Cultural History Workshop

Saturday 19 June 2010

Edward Wright Building F61

9.00-10.00

Keynote I John Bone (Aberdeen) ‘The Social Map, Selfhood and the Regulation of Everyday Life’.

10.00-11.30

Session I: Theories of Self, Society, & History

Emilians Acosta (Ghent): Toward a Critique of Today’s Reductionism of the Enlightenment’s Conception of ‘Recognition’ to Hegel’s Philosophy

Natasha Mauthner (Aberdeen): ‘Reflexive Subjectivities’ Under Neo-Liberal Regimes: On Being a 21st Century Academic

Tom Allbeson (Durham): Building Shared Identities: The Social Function of Urban Photography in European Postwar Reconstruction

11.30-11.45 coffee

11.45-1.15

Session II: The Self & Society in European Contexts

Enric J. Novella (CSIC, Madrid): The Politics of Experience: Self and Society in the Spanish Liberal revolution, 1750-1850

Michael Auwers (Antwerp): Reinventing the Diplomatic Self in Times of Democratization: a Study of Belgian Diplomatic Memoirs in the Twentieth Century

David Hesse (Edinburgh): Re-Enacting the Jacobites in Germany

1.15-2.00 lunch

2.00-3.30

Session III: Historical Perspectives on the Self & Society

Fiona Paisley (Griffith): South Asian, and Aboriginal? Anthony Martin Fernando, Internationalist and Activist in Early Twentieth Century Australia and Europe

Nathalie Rosset (Dundee): On Acting ‘the Part of a Reformer’: George Combe and the Privacy of a Self-Fashioner

Katharina Worch (Frankfurt): Structural Pessimism as Key to Self, Society & History of the American South

3.30-3.45 tea

3.45-5.15

Keynote II Gillian Swanson (University of the West of England): Human Happiness and Social Feeling

Please direct all enquiries and proposals to Dr Gregory Smithers at: g.smithers@abdn.ac.uk