LXV Study Week - (Dangerous) Crowds in Pre-Modern and Modern History

The conference involves scholars from different disciplines to offer new perspectives on crowd research in history. It is divided into five sessions, dedicated to different aspects of the crowd: Images and Representations, Law and Regulations, Emotions and Experience, Politics, and Performance.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento/FBK-ISIG)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG)

PROGRAMME

12.09.2024

10.00-10.30
Introduction
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento/FBK-ISIG)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
Massimo Rospocher (FBK-ISIG) 

IMAGES AND REPRESENTATIONS

Chairs:
Maria Adamopoulou (European University Institute, Firenze)
José Araneda Riquelme (Università degli Studi Roma Tre)

10.30-11.00
Images of Crowds in Early Modern Europe 
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)

11.00-11.30
“What London Saw”: Gawkers, Sensation and Zepp Sunday
Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)

11.30-12.00
A Journey Through Soviet and Post-Soviet Cinema. The Crowd in the Cinema of Sergei Loznitsa
Maurizio Cau (FBK-ISIG)

12.00-12.30 Discussion

14.30-15.30
Keynote:
Dangerous Crowds and the Invention of Civil Society in Early Modern Europe
Stuart Carroll (University of York)

LAW AND REGULATION

Chairs:
Marina Dal Cin (Università di Padova / Ca’ Foscari, Venezia)
Rémi Demoen (Université de Tours / CESR de Tours)

15.30-16.00
Regulating Dangerous Crowds in Early Modern Venice
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento)

16.00-16.30
Controlling Crowds in the Weimar and Nazi Eras
Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University)

16.30-17.00
Crowds and Criminal Law – A Complicated Relationship
Paolo Caroli (Università di Torino)

17.00-17.30 Discussion

17.30-17.45
FBK Library and Book Exhibition

13.09.2024

9.30-10.30
Keynote:
Collective Emotions, Lost and Found
Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal)

EXPERIENCE AND EMOTIONS

Chairs:
Thomas Roth (Technical University of Darmstadt)
Eva Van Kemenade (University of Amsterdam)

10.30-11.00
The Poet in the Crowd: Crowds and Subjectivity in Eleventh-Century China
Christian de Pee (University of Michigan) ONLINE

11.00-11.30
Emotions and the Early Modern Crowd
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)

11.30-12.00
Ressentiment in the US Capitol Attack on Jan 6, 2021
Mikko Salmela (University of Copenhagen)

12.00-12.30 Discussion

14.30-15.30
Keynote:
The Mobility of Nations: Refugees & Polarization in the Long 20th Century
Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Berlin)

POLITICS

Chairs:
Panagiotis Georgakakis (St. Andrews University)
Julià Gómez Reig (European University Institute, Firenze)

15.30-16.00
Thinking Crowds. Early Modern Collective Wisdom
Sandro Landi (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)

16.00-16.30
The People’s Revolution of 1789
Micah Alpaugh (University of Central Missouri) ONLINE

16.30-17.00
The “Unwashed Multitude”: Comparing Colonial Crowds in Post-Emancipation Jamaica and Early Twentieth-Century Cape Town
Ruth Watson (University of Cambridge)

17.00-17.30 Discussion

18.00-19.00
Keynote:
Theatricality and Violence in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Robert Darnton (University of Harvard)

14.09.2024

PERFORMANCE

Chairs:
Sophie Hartles (University of Warwick)
Neelakshi Khatri (University of Hertfordshire)

10.30-11.00
Crowds Rioting Against Law Enforcement in Late Medieval Italy: A Form of Public Opinion?
Lidia Zanetti Domingues (University of Sheffield)

11.00-11.30
Sex, Violence, and the Early Modern Theatrical Audience
Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham)

11.30-12.00
Riotous Assemblies: Theatrical Crowds and the Astor Place Riot
Nicole Sheriko (Yale University)

12.00-12.45 Discussion and conclusive remarks

SPEAKERS

Keynotes:
Stuart Carroll (University of York)
Robert Darnton (Harvard University)
Theocharis Grigoriadis (Freie Universität Berlin)
Piroska Nagy (Université du Québec à Montréal)

Speakers, Pre-Modern Era:
Micah Alpaugh (University of Central Missouri)
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)
Umberto Cecchinato (Università di Trento)
Christian de Pee (University of Michigan)
Sandro Landi (University of Bordeaux Montaigne)
Una McIlvenna (Australian National University, Canberra)
Tiffany Stern (University of Birmingham)
Lidia Zanetti Domingues (University of Sheffield)

Speakers, Modern Era:
Paolo Caroli (Università di Torino)
Maurizio Cau (FBK-ISIG)
Molly Loberg (California Polytechnic State University)
Mikko Salmela (University of Copenhagen)
Nicole Sheriko (Yale University)
Ruth Watson (University of Cambridge)
Donna West Brett (University of Sydney)

ORGANIZERS

This event is funded by the European Union – Next Generation EU, Azione 247 MUR Young Researchers – MSCA/SoE lines” (SOE_0000021) – CUP E63C22002940006.