The Price of Peace:
Modernising the AncienRégime?
Europe 1815-1848
Paris, 22-25 August 2016
University of Kent Paris, Reid Hall
4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris
The period 1815-1848 has acquired a number of awkward labels: the ‘Restoration,’ the ‘Post-Napoleonic era,’ and in Germany Vörmarz.’ Most of these descriptions reveal a historical impatience with an era that is squeezed uncomfortably between the Napoleonic Wars and the age of Nationalism. Therehas been a scholarly impatience with the so-called Restoration and in many historiographical traditions it has been depicted as an awkward interval. An époquethat needs to be bypassed in order to move onto more profound turning points and developments. This trend has been counter-acted recently by new research across Europe that seeks to progress beyond these outdated visions of the ‘Restoration.’ However, thesenew studies have tended to be pursued in isolation within national academic contexts.This conference will try to bring leading scholars from across Europe together to develop new comparative ways of understanding the political, administrative, diplomatic, cultural changes and their interconnections between 1815-1848. It is a key ambition of this conference to establish a strong dialogue between scholars of international relations and those who work from a nationalperspective.
Essentially this conference has the ambition of breaking down old myths and stereotypes about the ‘Restoration’ in order to think more broadly and openly about the key transitions and issues. After all, it should be remembered that the statesmen who emerged to govern Europe after Waterloo had no limpid crystal ball with which to glimpse future. They struggled to synthesise and master the discordant legacies of the ancienrégime, the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire. They had just survived an epic struggle to place Europe under a universal and rational administrative and political system. On the contrary, the monarchs, ministers and diplomats of the Restoration had the difficult task of managing political, administrative and cultural diversity in a world which, thanks to 1789 and Napoleon, was far more interconnected than it had been ever before. Many old & new diversities (and to a certain extent regional particularism that was redolent of the ancienrégime) confronted these newly constituted regimes, both within their borders and externally, in the realm of international relations.
This conference will revolve around the provocative historiographical issue of whether the post-Napoleonic order represented an attempt to reconcile the heritage of the ancienrégime with a deeply transformed world. The conference will also serve as a spring board for future workshops and conferences on the ‘Restoration.’
The conference is bilingual (French and English).Les communications et échanges auront lieu en français et en anglais.
Monday 22 August
09:30-10:00 Registration
Introductory Session
10:00-10:15 Welcome from the Organisers and the University of Kent Paris
10:15-10:45 Stephen Bann (University of Bristol) ‘Opening Remarks’
10:45-11:00 Break
International Order after the Congress of Vienna - Session 1
11:00-11:30 Luigi MascilliMigliorini (Universitàdeglistudi di Napoli L'Orientale), ‘Kissinger’s Metternich, How to Study The Restoration’
11:30-12:00 John Bew(King’s College, London): ‘The development of Realpolitik in post Napoleonic Europe’
12:00-12:30 Richard Langhorne (Rutgers - State University of New Jersey) ‘Managing Multi-Polarity 1814-1830: the foundations of the Concert of Europe’
12:30-13:45 Lunch
Political Reform and Social Change after 1815
13:45-14:15 Emmanuel de Waresquiel (École Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris) ‘Chute des Empires et Restauration Monarchiques’
14:15-14:45 Joanna Innes(University of Oxford) ‘Re-imagining the social order in the post Napoleonic World’
14:45:15:00 Break
International Order after the Congress of Vienna - Session 2
15:00-15:30 Stella Ghervas (University of Harvard)‘Modernizing the Machinery of Peace? From a Balance of Power to a Balance of Negotiation,’
15:30-16:00 Munro Price (University of Bradford),‘ “We will take back our Belgium,” French Foreign Policy 1815-1830’
16:00-16:30 Elise Wirtschafter(California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)‘Russia, the Grand Alliance, and the War Scare of 1821-22’
16:30-16:45 Munro Price (University of Bradford) ‘Tribute to Thomas Munch Petersen 1948-2015’
Tuesday 23 August
Constitutions and Charters
10:00-10:30 Markus J. Prutsch (European Parliament)‘Constitutional Monarchism in Post-Napoleonic Europe’
10:30-11:00 Philip Mansel(Institute of Historical Research, London) ‘Louis XVIII, the Charte and Europe’
11:00-11:30 Morten NordhagenOttosen (SyddanskUniversitet)‘The Many Faces of Liberal Constitutionalism in the Age of Reaction’
11:30-12:00 Georg Eckert(BergischeUniversität Wuppertal) ‘Royal opposition against the Ancien régime: The case of Württemberg’
12:00-13:15 Lunch
New Composite Monarchies
13:15-13:45 William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences)‘The Austrian Empire as Composite Monarchy after 1815’
13:45-14:15 Idode Haan (Universiteit Utrecht)‘A monarchical regime based on republican antecedents. The constitution of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands’
14:15-14:45 Enrico GentaTernavasio (Universitàdeglistudi Torino, Italy) ‘MonarchiaSabauda and the Restaurazione’
14:45-15:00 Break
Before and Beyond the Nation
15:00-15:30 RasmusGlenthøj(SyddanskUniversitet)‘Pan-Scandinavism and the threshold principle’
15:30-16:00 Bernard Rulof(Maastricht University)‘French Monarchism’
16:00-16:30 Ivana Pederzani(UniversitàCattolicadelSacroCuore Milano)‘TullioDandolo and liberal-catholic culture in Italy after the Restoration,’
Wednesday 24 August
Monarchies after the Revolution and Napoleon
09:45-10:30 Heidi Mehrkens & Richard Meyer Forsting(University of St Andrews)‘Heroic Heirs. Monarchical Succession and the Role of the Military in Restoration Spain and France’
10:30-11:00 Jeroen van Zanten(Universiteit van Amsterdam), ‘Mirabeau and the revolutions of 1830 & 1848’
11:00-11:30 BårdFrydenlund(University of Oslo)‘Southern influences on Nordic political culture - Bernadotte as king of Norway and Sweden’
11:30-12:00 Gonzalo ButrónPrida (Universidad de Cádiz)‘Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was a moderate representative government possible in Spain?’
12:00-13:30 Lunch
Historicising the Ancien Régime?
13:30-14:00 Bettina Frederking (IHMC-IHRF, CNRS/Université Paris 1), «L’Ancien Régimedans la France de la Restauration - Aspects de l’utilisation d’une notion dans le débat politique contemporain»
14:00-14:30 MatthijsLok (Universiteit van Amsterdam)‘The ambivalent memory of the Dutch revolt and the construction of the Dutch Restoration regime’
14:30-14:45 Break
New Border New Identities
14:45-15:15 Roald Berg(Universiteteti Stavanger)‘New borders, invented identities: Norwegian officers during Danish, Swedish and corps identity construction processes, 1814-1830’
15:15-15:45 Marco Meriggi(University of Napoli Federico II)‘The construction of the boundaries in Restoration Italy, A comparative perspective’
15:45-16:15 Michael Rowe (King’s College, London), ‘From Cooperation to Confrontation: Church-State Relations in the Prussian Rhineland, 1815-1840’
19:00-21:00 Conference Dinner for the participants
Thursday 25 August
Restoring/Renewing Europe
10:30-11:00 Gonzalo ButronPrida (Universidad de Cádiz)‘Spanish Restoration Revisited: Was a moderate representative government possible in Spain?’
11:00-11:30 JaroslawCzubaty(UniwersytetuWarzawskiego)‘Poles and their next “saviour,” Alexander I and the Kingdom of Poland’
11:30-12:00 Marco Bellabarba(UniversitàdegliStudi di Trento)‘Peace through legislation: law codes and social control in Restoration Italy’
12:00-13:45 Lunch
Transnational Publics and Ideologies after Napoleon
13:45-14:15 Ruth Hemstad (National Library Norway)‘Writing Scandinavianism, The public sphere and the Scandinavianist movement’
14:15-14:45 Ute Planert(Universität Köln) ‘Napoleon as an icon of political liberalism in Restoration Germany’
14:45-15:15 Mark Lawrence(University of Kent) ‘The Sieges of Bilbao and the international appeal of Spain's First Carlist War'?
15:00-15:15 Break
15:15-15:45 Michael Broers (University of Oxford)‘Concluding Remarks’
15:45-17:00 Roundtable
Organising Committee:
Prof. Michael Broers (University of Oxford), Dr.Ambrogio A. Caiani (Université of Kent), Bettina Frederking (IHMC-IHRF, CNRS-Paris I), Prof. Gaynor Johnson (Université of Kent, Kent), & Prof. Munro Price (University of Bradford).
Conference Website and Registration:
There is no charge for invited speakers and panel chairs. For those wishing to attend this four-day conference there a £120 registration fee (this includes a light lunch over four days).
If you wish to attend the conference for less than four days, please contact Bettina in order to register.
Practical info:
The conference will take place in the Grande Salle of the University of Kent at Paris (4 rue de Chevreuse, 75006 Paris). Please note,The University of Kent rents seminar and office space at Reid Hall, an illustrious study centre. Reid Hall is owned and managed by Columbia University; common space is shared with other eminent US institutions.
We wish to thank and acknowledge the assistance received from the University of Kent at Paris, Faculty of Humanities Research Fund and the School of History Internationalisation Fund. We are also exceedingly grateful to the British International History Group for their financial support.
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