VIOLENCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION FRIDAY AND SATURDAY OCTOBER 26-27, 2001 A conference exploring the phenomenon of violence in its broadest manifestations during the 1790s. Paper topics include war, various forms of government repress

VIOLENCE AND THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
OCTOBER 26-27, 2001

A conference exploring the phenomenon of violence in its broadest manifestations during the 1790s. Paper topics include war, various forms of government repression, violence by women, memories of violence, low level insurgency, and revolutionary tribunals.

Participants:

Philippe Bourdin, Université de Blaise-Pascal (Clermont Ferrand)
Révolution et transgression: autour de la mort du roi

Howard G. Brown, SUNY Binghamton
Echoes of the Terror

Haim Burstin, University of Milan
Pour une phénoménologie de la violence révolutionnaire: réfléxions autour du cas parisien

Dominique Godineau, Université de Haute-Bretagne, Rennes II
Femmes et violence dans l'espace politique revolutionnaire

Patrice Gueniffey, Centre Raymond Aron
Un mythe moderne: l'avènement de la démocratie et le déclin de la guerre

Carla Hesse, University of California, Berkeley
Determining Counter-revolutionary Culpability: Theories and Practices of the Juridical Terror

Colin Lucas, Oxford University

Ted Margadant, University of California, Davis
Summary Justice and the Municipal Revolutions of 1789

Jean-Clément Martin, Paris I-Sorbonne
A la recherche de la spécificité de la violence de la révolution

Timothy Tackett, University of California, Irvine
The Flight to Varennes and the Terror

Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Contentious Politics and Collective Violence in 18th Century France

Rapporteurs:

Colin Jones, University of Warwick
Michel Vovelle, Paris I-Sorbonne


The conference is free and open to the public. For further information contact Professor Donald M. G. Sutherland (ds79@umail.umd.edu) or The Center for Historical Studies, phone (301) 405-8739 or visit the conference web site for updates.