| THURSDAY, APRIL 7 |
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| Parliaments: |
Parliaments and Analogous Institutions;
Aspects of the Institution;
Theory and Practice |
| Session I: |
Beinecke Library
Chair: Maija Jansson, Director, Yale Center for Parliamentary History |
| 9:00-9:35 |
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Maija Jansson |
| 9:40-10:15 |
The Unrepresentable French
David Bell, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University |
| 10:20-10:55 |
Parliament and the Idea of Accountability in Post-Restoration England
Paul Seaward, Director, History of Parliament Trust, London |
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| 10:55-11:20 |
Coffee break
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| 11:25-12:00 |
Exclusiveness, Traditionalism, and Aristocratic Magnificence: Noble Corporations and Estates in German Ecclesiastical Principalities in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Ronald G. Asch, Professor of History, University of Freiburg |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Commentator: Olga Dimitrieva, Senior Lecturer in the History of the Middle Ages, Moscow State University
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| Session II: |
Beinecke Library
Chair: Frank Turner, Director, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University |
| 2:15-2:50 |
Traditions of Consensual Governance in the Construction of Authority in the Early Modern European Empires in the Americas
Jack P. Greene, Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
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| 2:55-3:30 |
Politics, Representation, and the Estates in Early Modern Scotland
Keith M. Brown, Professor of Scottish History and Director of the Scottish Editions of Parliamentary Papers, University of St. Andrews |
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| 3:35-4:00 |
Coffee break |
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| 4:00-4:35 |
Repression and Representation: Political Culture in Early Modern Scandinavia
Knud J. V. Jesperson, University of Southern Denmark, Odense |
| 4:40-5:00 |
Commentator: Robert Zaller, Professor of History, Drexel University |
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| FRIDAY, APRIL 8 |
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| Free day for conference attendees to explore Yale University, its collections, and New Haven; closed discussion sessions for the conference speakers and commentators. |
| Peoples: |
Images—Public and Private, Pictorial and Verbal—of English, French, and Scottish Parliamentary Institutions and Social Responses to Them |
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| Session I: |
Because of Constraints of Space, This Session is Limited to Conference Speakers and Commentators Only:
The Lewis Walpole Library, Farmington
Chair, Margaret K. Powell, Librarian, The Lewis Walpole Library
Boroughmongering and Biography: James Boswell and the Earl of Lonsdale
Gordon Turnbull, General Editor, Yale Boswell Edition
The Representation of the People in Eighteenth-Century Britain
H.T. Dickinson, Professor of History, University of Edinburgh |
| Session II: |
Because of Constraints of Space, This Session is Limited to Conference Speakers and Commentators Only:
Yale Center for British Art
YCBA staff |
| 5:30-6:30 |
Open to All Conference Attendees:
Public Keynote Lecture: Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
Art Claims Liberty: Democracy and the Greek Ideal in the Later Enlightenment
William Vaughan, Professor of the History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London |
| 6:30-7:30 |
Open to All Conference Attendees:
Public Reception at the Yale Center for British Art |
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| SATURDAY, APRIL 9 |
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| Power: |
Sovereignty and the Place of Parliament
(Cortes, Assembly) within the State;
The Nature and Social Aspects of its Business;
Implications of Power in Location, Architecture, and Design |
| Session I: |
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
Chair: Frank Prochaska, Senior Research Scientist and Lecturer in History, Yale University |
| 9:30-10:05 |
Power, Politics, and Parliament in Seventeenth-Century Ireland
Jane Ohlmeyer, Professor of Modern History, Trinity College,
University of Dublin �� |
| 10:10-10:45 |
Governing a Colony pas comme les autres: the Dilemmas of Unplanned Conquest
Ramsay Cook, General Editor, Dictionary of Canadian Biography, University of Toronto |
| 10:45-11:10 |
Coffee break
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| 11:15-11:50 |
Monarchy, Cities, and Cortes in Castile (15901664)
José Ignacio Fortea, Professor of Modern History, University of Cantabria |
| 12:00-12:20 |
Commentator: Ian Gentles, Professor of History, York University, Toronto
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| Session II: |
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
Chair: Keith Wrightson, Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History, Yale University
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| 1:45-2:20 |
The Places of Government in Habsburg Madrid: Architecture and Urbanism
Jesús R. Escobar, Associate Professor of Art History, Fairfield University� |
2:25-3:00 |
Summation and Conclusion
Steven Pincus, Associate Professor of British History, University of Chicago |