Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881): His Lives and Afterlives. Celebrating the 220th anniversary of the birth of a Victorian iconoclast

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)  
1. Emily Jones (University of Manchester) – Disraeli and One Nation Conservatism  
2. David Jeffery (University of Liverpool) – Interpreting Disraeli: Competing understandings of ‘Disraeli-ism’ within the Conservative Party  
 
3. Balkis Mougou (CY Cergy Paris Université) - The Past as Disraeli’s “Sacred Flame”: Exploring the Populist Feature of Glorifying the Past
4. Stephane Porion (Université de Tours) - The Disraelian ideas that framed Enoch Powell's conception of Toryism and that of the nation    
   
 2-4pm – Session 2: Responses to Political Economy and ‘Tory radicalism’  
Chair: Miles Taylor (Humboldt Universität, Zu Berlin) 5. Thomas Pritchard – Benjamin Disraeli and the Art of Political Collaboration

6. Mike Sanders (University of Manchester) – Some passages in the life of a (Tory) radical: Disraeli amongst the Chartists
7. Anthony Howe (University of East Anglia) – Disraeli and Cobden: ‘The Manchester School’ in fact and fiction”  
 
4.30-6.15pm – Session 3: Political Life  
Chair: Agnès Alexandre (Université de Bourgogne)  
8. Iain McLean (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli, heresthetics and the 1867 Reform Act
9. Frank Rynne (CY Cergy Paris Université) - Disraeli, Gladstone and the Irish question
0. Alex Middleton (St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and South America    
  9.30-12am – Session 4: Cultural and Religious Lives
Chair: Jennifer Pitts (University of Chicago)  
11. Jonathan Parry (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge) - Disraeli, Lothair, and Tory political sociology
12. Daisy Hay (University of Exeter) – Disraeli the Romantic  Short break  
13. Megan Dent (Associate Member, Keble SCR, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and the Bible
14. Jerome Grosclaude (Université Clermont Auvergne) – ‘[A] mere mystery-man’: Disraeli and the Church of England’s episcopate  
  Chair: Seamus Perry (Balliol College, University of Oxford)
15. David Womersley (St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford) – Vivian Grey
16. Freya Johnston (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford) – Disraeli and Peacock  
17. Bysshe Coffey (Balliol College, University of Oxford) – ‘Permanent Currency’: Benjamin Disraeli and the Leavises
18. Baptiste Danel (University of Westminster) – A ‘poetical politician, and a political poet’: Political Synthesis in The Revolutionary Epick (1834)