Program:
Thursday, October 23
6:00 pm
Welcome: Sam Ramer (Tulane University)
Introduction: Carola Dietze and Claudia Verhoeven:
Terrorism and Modernity: Global Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Violence.
6:30 pm
Keynote-Lectures:
Alexander Demandt (Freie Universität Berlin)
Terrorism: A Timeless Topic
David Rapoport (UCLA)
The Distinctive Features of Modern Terrorism from the 1880s to the 2020s(?)
Friday, October 24
9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel I.: PREMODERN
Chair: Barbara B. Diefendorf (Boston University)
Johannes Dillinger (Oxford Brookes University)
Forerunners of Terrorism and Nineteenth-Century Historians
Patrick Bahners (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)
The World Church of Terror: The Papacy after Lord Acton
Dan Edelstein (Stanford University)
Law and Terror: Toward a Theory of Totalitarian Justice
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel II: INTELLECTUAL HISTORY
Chair: Oleg Budnitzkii (Academy of Science, Moscow)
Joshua D. Goldstein and Gavin Cameron (University of Calgary)
What is so Terrible about the Terror? Hegel, the French Revolution, and Contemporary Terrorism as Reenactment of Modernity
Klaus Ries (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)
Philosophy of the Act
Lynn Patyk (University of Florida)
Modern Terrorism and the Sensitive Heart
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Panel III.: WARS & THE TECHNOLOGY OF THE BOMB
Chair: Martin A. Miller (Duke University)
Andrew Zimmerman (George Washington University)
Barricade Warfare and the Origins of Revolutionary and Military Modernity
Ann Larabee (Michigan State University)
USA and International Distribution
Niall Whelehan (European University Institute)
End to Insurrection? Fenian Violence in the Late Nineteenth Century
4:30 – 6:30 pm
Panel IV: BIG DEVELOPMENTS
Chair: David Blackbourn (Harvard University)
Christopher Ely (Florida Atlantic University)
Urban Space and Populist Terror in Russia, 1878-1881
Frithjof Benjamin Schenk (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität)
Attacking the Empire’s Achilles Heels: Railroads and Terrorism in Czarist Russia
Mareike König (GHI Paris)
Terrorism, Migration and the fear of an International Complot: The Example of Germans in Paris, 1871-1895
Richard Bach Jensen (Louisiana Scholar’s College)
Worldwide Anarchist Terrorism and its Repression, 1881-1914
Saturday, October 25
9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel V: COLONIAL & ANTI-COLONIAL ASSASSINATIONS
Chair: Benedikt Stuchtey (GHI London)
Michal Targowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University)
Against Colonialism or Social Inequities? Polish Terrorists in the Long Nineteenth Century
Timothy H. Parsons (Washington University)
Pacification or Terrorism? The Assassination of Koitalel arap Samoei
Neeti Nair (University of Virginia)
Gandhian "satyagraha" as terrorism: the limits to non-violence in late colonial India
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel VI: COMPARISONS
Chair: Adrian Guelke (Queen’s University of Belfast))
Moshe Zimmermann (Hebrew University Jerusalem)
Palestine/Israel
Gotelind Müller-Saini (Universität Heidelberg)
China and the “Anarchist Wave of Assassinations”: Politics, Violence and Modernity in East Asia Around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Peter Waldmann (Universität Augsburg)
Lack of Terrorism in Argentina in the late Nineteenth Century
2:30 – 4:30 pm
Panel VII: 19th c. INTERPRETATIONS & REACTIONS
Chair: Isaac Land (Indiana State University)
George Williamson (University of Alabama)
Creating Meaning through the State: Germany
Ulrich Sieg (Universität Marburg)
The Increasing Importance of Values: Reactions in German Philosophy after the Assassination Attempts Against Wilhelm I
Beverly Gage (Yale University)
Terrorism and the American Left, 1877-1920
Melanie Bailey (Centenary College of Louisiana)
Civilization or Barbarism? Violence and Terror in the French Revolutionary Tradition
Sunday, October 26
9:00 – 10:30 am
Panel VIII: LEGACIES
Chair: Hugh Roberts (LSE London/Intern. Crisis Group, Cairo
Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina)
Tokyo, 1923: Terror, Spectacle and the Origins of Modern Japan
Paul Miller (McDaniel College)
Compromising Memory: The Site of the Sarajevo Assassination
James L. Gelvin (UCLA)
Nationalism, Anarchism, Reform: Understanding Political Islam from the Inside-Out
11:00 am – 12:30 pm
Panel IX: Final Discussion
Chair: Roni Dorot (European University Institute)
Friedrich Lenger (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Opening Commentary
Extra:
1:30 pm
Jeffry M. Diefendorf (University of New Hampshire)
Marline Otte (Tulane University)
The Reconstruction of New Orleans in Comparative Perspective
2:30 pm
Bus-tour: New Orleans after Katrina