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PresentationDuring the last decades, political historians have increasingly focused on the evolution of political consciousness among the &#8220;common people&#8221; during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In that process they have often made use of all-encompassing notions such as politicization, democratization and nationalization. The conference &#8220;Subaltern political knowledges&#8221; intends to take one step back and ask a question which should precede all discussion of politicization, democratization and nationalization of the masses: what did people actually know about politics?Conference venueFelixArchief (reception room and auditorium) Oude Leeuwenrui 29 2000 Antwerp Belgium&#160;ProgrammeOctober 18th: 16.30h &#8211; 18h&#160;16.30h &#8211; 17h:&#160;Registration, welcome17h &#8211; 17.40h:&#160;Prof. Dr. Dana Nelson, Vanderbilt University Opening lecture: Democracy Without Sovereignty17.40h &#8211; 18h:&#160;Discussion&#160;October 19th: 9h &#8211; 17h&#160;Group 1: Subaltern views on citizenship during colonial rule&#160;9h &#8211; 9.40h:&#160;Prof. Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, UCDavis. Keynotespeech: We Will Remain M&#233;tis: Racecraft, Citizenship, and Political Subjectivities in Late Colonial Francophone Africa9.40h &#8211; 10h:&#160;Christophe Ralite (MA), University of Lyon, The ways to politics in Cameroon: men and networks (1944-1962)&#160;10h &#8211; 10.20h:&#160;Dr. Aparna Balachandran, University of Delhi. Politics, Subalterns and the Early Modern Public in South India10.20h &#8211; 10.35h: Coffee break 10.35h &#8211; 10.55h:&#160;(Video-conferencing)&#160;Neha Chatterji (MA), Jawaharlal Nehru University Subaltern Caste Concepts of the &#8216;Political&#8217;, Bengal, 1900-1930 10.55h &#8211; 11.15h:&#160;Dr. Vijay Kumar Nawarija, University of Delhi, The Politics of Representation and Self-representation in Colonial India: Tradition, Caste, Dalit in the Colonial Lexicography11.15h &#8211; 11.35h:&#160;Discussion&#160;Group 2: Subaltern views on state-formation and sovereignty&#160;11.35h. &#8211; 12.15h:&#160;Dr. Harm Kaal, Radboud University Nijmegen. Keynote speech: The Voice of the People. Popular politics and political representation in the postwar years12.15h &#8211; 12.35h:&#160;Dr. Joris Oddens, Leiden University, Insular subalternity. Dutch state formation around 1800 as seen from the island of Ameland12.35h &#8211; 13.25h Lunch 13.25h &#8211; 13.45h:&#160;Dr. Matti La Mela (European University Institute) and Dr. Onni Pekonen (Leiden University), National representative politics viewed by local communities and their first-term members in the Grand Duchy of Finland in the late nineteenth century13.45h &#8211; 14.05h:&#160;Divyani (MA), Jawaharlal Nehru University, Post-colonial &#8216;Khalistan&#8217; and the people14.05h &#8211; 14.25h:&#160;Discussion&#160;Group 3: Transmission of political knowledge: between &#8216;pre-political&#8217; and &#8216;political&#8217; (19th century)&#160;14.25h &#8211; 15.05h:&#160;Dr. Maartje Janse, Leiden University, Keynote speech: &#8216;Everything was possible with this organization&#8217;: Inventing the pressure group, reimagining politics, c. 1820-187015.05h &#8211; 15.25h:&#160;Dr. Pierre-Marie Delpu, Aix-Marseille Universit&#233;, Subaltern Martyrs and Liberal Politics : Knowledge Transmission and Policisation (Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, 1848-1860)15.25h &#8211; 15.40h Coffee break 15.40h &#8211; 16h&#160;Dr. David Hopkin, Hertford College, University of Oxford, Remembering Feudalism in Nineteenth-Century Rural France: Legends of Shepherdess Saints and Murderous Seigneurs16h &#8211; 16.20h:&#160;Dr. Manjeet Baruah, Jawaharlal Nehru University (Cannot be present. Video-conferencing instead?) Locating the Peasant between British and Burmese Imperialisms: Narratives and 19th century Empire Making in the Borderlands of Assam 16.20h &#8211; 16.40h&#160;Andrei Sorescu (MA), UCL School of Slavonic &#38; East European Studies (University College London) History from Below and Incomplete Memory? (De)Politicizing Folk Beliefs in Nineteenth Century Romania 16.40h &#8211; 17hDiscussion&#160;October 20th: 9h &#8211; 15.50h&#160;Group 4: Clientelism and patronage in relation to democracy and politicization&#160;9h &#8211; 9.40h:&#160;Prof. Dr. Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Monier, University of Avignon, Keynote: Outsiders? Democratic patronage and subalterns (France, Spain, Italy, ca. 1875- ca. 1935)9.40h &#8211; 10h:&#160;Prof. Dr. Marnix Beyen, University of Antwerp. Sources of political knowledge in interactions between deputies and &#8216;ordinary citizens&#8217; Paris, ca. 1890 &#8211; ca. 1930.10h &#8211; 10.20h:&#160;Dr. Sami Suodenjoki, University of Helsinki. A leap towards local democracy? Lower-class conceptions of the municipal council system in Finland, 1865&#8211;191710.20h &#8211; 10.35h Coffee break 10.35h &#8211; 10.55h:&#160;Aditya Kiran Kakati (MA), Princeton University. Leveraging Loyalty: ambivalence and information in reading political agency during the Second World War in the Indo-Myanmar (Burma) frontier10.55h &#8211; 11.15h&#160;Dr. Fabian Braendle, independent researcher, Z&#252;rich, Swiss Popular Autobiography and the Micro-politics of Direct Democracy in the late 19th Century&#160;Group 5: National politics and the people: petitioning from below&#160;Part 1: Sources and interpretive problems11.15h &#8211; 11.55h:&#160;Prof. Dr. Eduardo Elena, University of Miami, Keynote: Politics and the People: Interpretive Problems and Research Trends in Modern Latin American History (especially Argentina, 1860s-1970s)&#160;11.55h &#8211; 12.15h&#160;Dr. Anne Petterson, Leiden University, The political horizon of the Dutch &#8216;ordinary&#8217; citizen: petitions, 1870-192012.15h &#8211; 13.15h Lunch Part 2: Gender and class/caste13.15h &#8211; 13.35h:&#160;Ayse Zeren-Enis (MA), SUNY Binghamton University, Petitioning to the Hamidian State: Poor Ottoman Muslim Women and Their Requests for Aid13.35h &#8211; 13.55h:&#160;Karen Lauwers (MA), University of Antwerp, Political participation and knowledges of French women in a Republic that still failed to recognize them as citizens, ca.1900-1930s13.55h &#8211; 14.15h:&#160;Ashoka Vardhan (BA), University of Delhi, Locating the Subaltern in the No Tax Campaign at Bardoli, 192814.15h &#8211; 14.30h Coffee break 14.30h &#8211; 14.50h&#160;Discussion&#160;Closing session&#160;14.50h &#8211; 15.30h&#160;Prof. Dr. Michaela Fenske, University of W&#252;rzburg Keynote / closing lecture15.30h &#8211; 15.50h&#160;Concluding discussion&#160;