A Period of Global Revolutions (Mid-1900s until mid-1920s). Foreshadowing the 20th century or ending a long revolutionary tradition?
Vom 24.05 bis 26.05.2018 veranstalteten Prof. Dr. Stefan Berger und Prof. Dr. Klaus Weinhauer am Institut für soziale Bewegungen den Young Scholar Workshop unter dem Titel „A Period of Global Revolutions“. Bis dato wurden die Revolutionen zwischen 1905 und Mitte der 1920er Jahre in der transnationalen historischen Forschung vernachlässigt. Der Workshop ermöglichte mit Hilfe eines vergleichenden, begriffsgeschichtlichen und transnationalen Ansatzes neue Perspektiven auf die revolutionären Umwälzungen innerhalb dieser Zeitspanne zu erhalten. Der Workshop fokussierte sich auf „relevante Weltregionen“ und löste sich somit von nationalen und regionalen Narrativen.
Revolutions have traditionally been integral parts of national historical master narratives. Consequently, most research on the ‘Period of Global Revolutions’ from mid-1900s to mid-1920s has focused on regional and local aspects of revolutions. However, the transnational dimension of revolutions during that time span was neglected.
To reconsider the transnational aspects of revolutions, an international conference was held at Bielefeld University and the Institute for Social Movements in Bochum, funded by the Institute for Social Movements, the German Research Foundation and the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1288.
Vollständiger Tagungsbericht von Christopher Schulte-Schüren unter: https://www.hsozkult.de/conferencereport/id/tagungsberichte-7800.
Konferenzübersicht:
Walter Erhard (Universität Bielefeld): Welcome Address SFB 1288
Stefan Berger (Bochum), Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld): Welcome and Introduction
Shelton Stromquist (Iowa): Revolutionary Waves and Capitalist Breakwaters: the United States in a Period of Global Revolution, 1894-1925
Matt Kerry (Durham): Between Revolution and Antifascism: Asturias, October 1934
Stefan Berger (Bochum), Klaus Weinhauer (Bielefeld): The German Revolution: Social Movements, Transnational / Translocal Transfers, and Narratives of Revolution
Bedross Der Matossian (Lincoln): The Young Turks and the Eurasian Revolutions at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century
Geoffrey Swain (Glasgow): Losing the Workers, Finding the Peasants: the Russian Revolution 1905-1921
Amerigo Caruso (Padua), Romain Bonnet (Padua) et.al.: Industrial Unrest, Revolutionary Fears and Anti-Labor Mobilization in Austria-Hungary, Germany, Great-Britain and France (1905-1920s)
Marica Tolomelli (Bologna): Global vs. National Revolutionaries. The Italian Case from the ‘Great Migration’ to the ‘Fascist Revolution’
Raymond B. Craib (Cornell): Mexico Between Decolonization and Revolution
Rana Mitter (Oxford): The Legacy of 1911: China’s Revolutions in a Global Context
Ars Alp Yenen (Basel): Prologue to Decolonization. A Comparative and Connected History of Muslim Revolutionary Movements Before and After the First World War
Sean Scalmer (Melbourne) et. al.: Australia. The Age of Revolution and the Limits of Reform