Paris Symposium

The political, economic and cultural changes of the nineteenth century redrew geographical and mental maps across the globe. New lines - in the form of national borders, colonial frontiers, racial hierarchies, social classes, gender codes, and sexual classifications – divided people, framing their relationships to each other, and the rapidly-changing world around them. These new lines of engagement, however, also structured new forms of community, to be embraced, rejected or strategically mobilised by people around the world. Navigating their way through shifting political and cultural landscapes, historical actors built new alliances and cultivated new solidarities, along or across the lines of the nineteenth-century map.

Against a contemporary backdrop of shifting alliances and the search for new solidarities and modes of resistance, the Society for Global Nineteenth-Century Studies international symposium invites participants to reflect on the political, social and cultural reconfigurations of the period between 1750 and 1914. How did the changing political alliances of the period constitute or provoke new solidarities? How did people come together and support each other within or across increasingly marked borders of nation, empire, race, class and gender? How was solidarity expressed, and to what extent did it disrupt and shape the global order?

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Read the initial announcement here