Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) His Lives and Afterlives
Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast
Thursday 25 January 2023
9-9.30am: Welcoming coffee/tea
9.30-9.40am: Welcoming word by Prof. Laurence Roussillon-Constanty, President of the SFEVE
9.40-10am: Introduction by Emily Jones, Catherine Marshall, Seamus Perry & Miles Taylor
10-12.30am – Session 1: Disraeli as Founding Father
Chair: Catherine Marshall (CY Cergy Paris University)
- Emily Jones (University of Manchester) – Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism
- David Jeffery (University of Liverpool) – Interpreting Disraeli: Competing understandings of ‘Disraeli-ism’ within the Conservative Party
Short break
- Balkis Mougou (CY Cergy Paris Université) – The Past as Disraeli’s “Sacred Flame”: Exploring the Populist Feature of Glorifying the Past
- Stephane Porion (Université de Tours) – The Disraelian ideas that framed Enoch Powell’s conception of Toryism and that of the nation
12.30-2pm – Lunch
2-4pm – Session 2: Responses to Political Economy and ‘Tory radicalism’
Chair: Miles Taylor (Humboldt Universität, Zu Berlin)
- Thomas Pritchard – Benjamin Disraeli and the Art of Political Collaboration
- Mike Sanders (University of Manchester) – Some passages in the life of a (Tory) radical: Disraeli amongst the Chartists
- Anthony Howe (University of East Anglia) – Disraeli and Cobden: ‘The Manchester School’ in fact and fiction”
4-4.30pm – Tea Break
4.30-6.15pm – Session 3: Political Life
Chair: Agnès Alexandre (Université de Bourgogne)
- Iain McLean (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli, heresthetics and the 1867 Reform Act
- Frank Rynne (CY Cergy Paris Université) – Disraeli, Gladstone and the Irish question
- Alex Middleton (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and South America
6.15pm end of day 1
7.45pm – Conference dinner at Restaurant Anco – 108 rue de Bercy, Paris 12 (https://www.ancoparisbercy.fr)
Friday 26 January 2023
9.30-12am – Session 4: Cultural and Religious Lives
Chair: Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago)
- Jonathan Parry (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) – Disraeli, Lothair, and Tory political sociology
- Daisy Hay (University of Exeter) – Disraeli the Romantic
Short break
- Megan Dent (Associate Member, Keble SCR, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and the Bible
- Jerome Grosclaude (Université Clermont Auvergne) – ‘[A] mere mystery-man’: Disraeli and the Church of England’s episcopate
12-1.30pm – Lunch
1.30-4.30pm – Session 5: Literary Lives and Afterlives
Chair: Seamus Perry (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
- David Womersley (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford) – Vivian Grey
- Freya Johnston (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and Peacock
Short break
- Bysshe Coffey (Balliol College, University of Oxford) – ‘Permanent Currency’: Benjamin Disraeli and the Leavises
- Baptiste Danel (University of Westminster) – A ‘poetical politician, and a political poet’: Political Synthesis in The Revolutionary Epick (1834)
4.30pm/5pm – End of the conference
The conference is taking place at:
The University of Chicago Center, 6 Rue Thomas Mann, 75013 Paris
