Conference
Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
- Date
- Friday 2 September 2022 - Saturday 3 September 2022
- Location
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Johan Huizinga
Doelensteeg 16
2311 VL Leiden - Room
- Conference room (2.60) and Lipsius room 1.19
The conference organizers would like to thank Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF), the Institute for History at Leiden University, and Brill Press for their generous funding that has made this international conference possible.
| Friday 2 September 2022 (Conference Room 2.60, Huizinga Building) | ||
| 13:00-13:15 13:15-13:30 |
Welcome
|
Anne Heyer, Jacopo Perazzoli and Brian Shaev |
| Politics 13:30-15:00 |
1) Separated for Good? German Social Democrats and their Connection to Liberalism, 1860-1880 2) Italian Socialism’s Liberal Turn: From United Front to Coalitional Partner 3) In Defence of Modernity: On the Cooperation between the PvdA and VVD in the Development of the Dutch Minorities Policy (1977-1983) Discussant: Paul van Trigt |
Anne Heyer
Gianluca Scroccu
Daan Musters |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee | |
| Economics 15:30-17:00 |
1) The Early Austrian Economists and the Swedish Left (1889-1931) 2) ‘The Plan’: Hendrik de Man, the Collapse of Interwar Liberalism and Reflationary, early Keynesian economics 3) Reconsidering Bad Godesberg: Rhetoric versus Substance in the Postwar Modernization of German Social Democracy Discussant: Dennie Oude Nijhuis |
Mats Andrén
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| 17:00-17:15 | Break | |
| 17:15-18:30 | Keynote | Annelien de Dijn |
| 19:00 | Conference Dinner | |
| Saturday 3 September 2022 (Room 119, Lipsius Building) | ||
| Culture 10:15-12:00 |
1) Free Speech for Fascists and Communists? Entangled Perspectives on Social Democratic and Liberal Conceptions of Democratic Culture, 1920s-1930s 2) Socialism and Freedom and Faith: How the Socialist International and 1950s revisionism wrote liberalism and Christianity into their history 3) Social Democracy’s 1968 in Social and Cultural Perspectives |
Kasper Braskén
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| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00-14:30 Internationalism |
1) International Socialism and International Arbitration, 1889-1914 2) Wilsonianism and its Influences on European Socialism between World War One and First Post-War Period: The Case of French Socialism 3) Socialist Internationalism and the League of Nations Discussant: Robin de Bruin |
Elisa Marcobelli
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| 14:30-14:45 | Coffee | |
| 14:45-16:00 The ‘Turn’: Social Democracy in the 1970s-1990s |
1) The Relationship of the Spanish Socialist Party (PSOE) with Liberalism in the 20th Century: from Republican Socialism to Liberal Social-Democracy (1974-1990) 2) The Neoliberalisation of Swedish and Finnish Social Democracy in the 1970s-1990s 3) The UK Labour Party’s Schism and Labour Liberalism, 1970s-1990s Discussant: Matt Broad |
Sigfrido Ramírez Pérez
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| 16:15-16:30 | Break | |
| 16:30-17:00 | Concluding Remarks | Jonathan Polk |
| 17:00-17:15 | Conference Conclusion | Jacopo Perazzoli and Brian Shaev |