Program
Thursday 15 November
Session I, 14.00–15.45
Jussi Kurunmäki and Jani Marjanen: Welcome
Morten Nordhagen Ottosen: Publicity and Representation in Baden and Bavaria in the Shadow of the Carlsbad Decrees
Diederik Smit: Questions of Regional Representation in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands 1815–1839
Session II, 16.00–17.00
Alvin Jackson: Practicing Political Representation in Early Nineteenth Century Ireland: Radicals, Repealers and Loyalists
Taru Haapala: Parliamentary-style Debates outside Parliament: Oxford and Cambridge Unions in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Session III, 17.15 -
Wrap-up discussion with coffee and tea
Friday 16 November
Session IV, 9.30–11.00
Margrét Gunnarsdóttir: The Althing and Voluntary Association in Iceland 1794–1843
Ruth Hemstad: Scandinavian Visions for Pan-National Representation in 1830s and 1840s
Session V, 11.00–12.00
Susanna Rabow-Edling: Russian Visions of Representation and Citizenship. The Decembrist Constitutional Projects
Piotr Kuligowski and Wiktor Marzec: Who May Represent a Nation in Upheaval? The Concept of Representation during the Polish November Uprising, 1830–1831
Session VI, 14.00–
Onni Pekonen and Jani Marjanen: Introducing Ideas of Representation: Foreign Models and Naming the Diet in Finland, 1809–1863
Maren Jonasson: Agricultural Meetings as a Supplementary Forum for Political Debate in Finland, 1847–1863
Session VII, 15.15–16.00
Wrap-up discussion
Next steps and timeline
The seminar is part of the activities of the research project Political Night in New Light 1809-1863 (Statsnatten i ny belysning 1809-1863 / Valtioyö uudessa valossa 1809-1863).