CRASSH

9.00 - 9.30

Registration

9.30 - 9.45

Welcome and Introduction to the Conference

9.45 - 11.15

Panel 1: Liminality, Political Crises, and War
Chair: Bjorn Thomassen (American University of Rome) 

Revolution, Democracy, and the Empty Place of Power
Harald Wydra (Department of Politics, University of Cambridge)

Extraordinary Situations and Radical Policy Changes
Izabela Kisilowska (Department of Politics, University of Cambridge)

Discussion 

11.15 - 11.45

Tea/coffee break

11.45 - 13.15

Theorising Political Crises
Michel Dobry (Department of Political Science, Sorbonne University) 

Power, Liminality, and War. The twenty-first century as the subject of history
Richard Sakwa (Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent)

Discussion

13.15 - 14.15

Lunch

14.15 - 15.45

Panel 2:  Liminality, Leadership, and Order
Chair: Roberto Farneti (University of Bolzano) 

On the Margins of the public and the private: Louis XIV at Versailles
Peter Burke (Department of History, University of Cambridge)

Liminal crises as Origins of Cultural Order
Pierpaolo Antonello (Department of Italian, University of Cambridge)

Discussion 

16.15 - 17.00

Liminality, Charisma, and the Trickster
Agnes Horvath (Political Anthropology, Catholic University Milan)

17.00 - 18.00

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Keynote address:
Liminality and experience: Structuring transitory situations and transformative events
Arpad Szakolczai (Department of Sociology, University College Cork)

18.00 - 18.45 

Reception at CRASSH 

9.00 - 10.30

Panel 3: Liminality and the Challenges of Globalisation
Chair: Kieran Keohane

Liminality and Contested Europeanness
Maria Mälksoo (International Centre for Defence Studies, Tallin)

“Should I stay or Should I go?”  Liminal spaces and split allegiances in international development assistance
Lisa Smirl (Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge)

Discussion

10.30-11.00

Tea/coffee break

11.00-12.30 

Chair: Maria Malksoo

Haunted Houses and Liminality: from the Deserted Homes of the 'Faithful? Departed' to the Social Desert of Schizmogenesis"
(Kieran Keohane, University of Cork)

The Frontier Myth, Destiny, and the Building of American Empire
Stephen Mennell (Department of Sociology, University College, Dublin)

12.30-13.30

Lunch 

13.30- 14.15

The concept of liminality revisited: from anthropology to politics
Bjørn Thomassen (Department of Politics and International Relations, American University of Rome)

Discussion 

14.15 - 15.30

Final Discussion:
Crossing Disciplinary Boundaries: Chances and limits of the liminality Paradigm

End of conference