Counter-Revolution and the Making of (s)

14-15 June 2018 Soeterbeeck conference center Elleboogstraat 2, 5371 LL Ravenstein

If you wish to attend this conference, please email: [email protected] before Monday 11 June with the details of your presence.

Thursday, June 14

9:00-9:30 Welcome & Introduction (Matthijs Lok & Juliette Reboul)

9:30-11:00 Concepts & comparisons Chair: Alicia Montoya

Joep LEERSSEN (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Romantics on the throne: Taming the nation

Friedemann PESTEL (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) Une révolution contre la révolution or le contraire de la révolution? Semantic Investigations on Counterrevolution (1789‒1830)

Carolina ARMENTEROS (Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra Wolfson College, Cambridge) An Epistemology for Counter-Revolution: The Spanish Universalist School, 1773-1805

11:00-11:30 Coffee break 11:30-12:30 Providence & security Chair: Matthijs Lok

Beatrice de GRAAF (Universiteit Utrecht) How Conservative was the Holy Alliance Really? European Security Programs Between Providence and Mesmerism, 1815-1818

Offer DYNES (McGill University) The Hebrew Epistolary Novel and the Austrian Secret Police (1815-1845) European Security Programs Between Providence and Mesmerism, 1815-1818

12:30-13:30 Lunch break

13:30-15:00 Networks & sociability Chair: Annelien de Dijn

Jean-Philippe LUIS (Université Clermont-Auvergne) The counter-revolutionary circulations between France and Spain from the French revolution to the Spanish restauration (1789-1875)

Flavien BERTRAN DE BALANDA (Université Paris Sorbonne) "It is night across Europe". Reading and the French Revolution on the continental scale Raphaël CAHEN (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) “Friedrich Gentz’s cosmopolitan conservative networks”

15:00-15.30 Coffee/Tea 15.30-17.00 (Counter-) Enlightenments Chair: Joris van Eijnatten

Wyger VELEMA (Universiteit van Amsterdam) Enlightenment against Revolution: The Intellectual Origins of Dutch Conservatism Michiel Van DAM

(Universiteit Gent) The many faces of St. Paul: Pauline ethics and spiritual revolt in the Austrian Netherlands, 1760-1790 Amerigo CARUSO (Università di Padova) The making of modern and Italy

17:00-18:00 Round table Network and further research collaboration

Friday, June 15

9.30-11.00 The radical Counter-revolution Chair: Matthijs Lok

Nigel ASTON (University of Leicester) Survival strategies: The duke of Ormonde, the earl of Arran, and Jacobite adaptability, 1715-60 Lien VERPOEST (KU Leuven) The Ancien Régime and the Jeune Premier: The birth of Russian Conservatism in Vienna Axel SCHNEIDER (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Modernity and the question of conservatism: a theoretical attempt at reconciling universalism and particularism

11.00-11:30 Coffee/Tea 11:30-13:00 Counter-Revolution & religion Chair: Juliette Reboul

Paul CHOPELIN (Université Jean Moulin, Lyon III) The Catholic counter-revolution, a transnational perspective (1770s-1790s) Alexander KRUSKA (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg) The ‘Restauration der Staatswissenschaft’ of Karl Ludwig von Haller as a polemic against early liberal political thought and its conception of social order Glauco SCHETTINI (Fordham University) Crusading against the Revolution: Catholic Counter-Revolutionary Thought (and Action) across National Borders, ca. 1789-1799

13:00-14:00 Lunch 14:00-15.00

Conservative modernisms Chair: Juliette Reboul

Dongxiang XU (EHESS Paris) Influences of Some Western Conservative Thoughts and Politics in China from the 1910s to the 1930s Jean-François LANIEL (University of Michigan) The paradoxical modernity of Ultramontanism

15.00-15.30 Closing Remarks: Friedemann Pestel

15:30 – 16:00 Farewell by the organisers