Next week I’ll be heading off to Germany for a conference on Police History at the University of Cologne. You can read more about it over at Anthropoliteia, or through the clipped segment below
Conference Schedule
Thursday, July 15th 2010
2.00 pm Welcome and Introduction
Alf Lüdtke & Herbert ReinkeJens Jäger & Ralph Jessen2.30 pm, Panel I: Policing the Colonies
Chair: Alf LüdtkeNitin Varma:Privatisation of Arrest and the Construction of the Exceptional: Authority, Discipline and Labour in the 19th Century Colonial Plantations of North East IndiaMarieke Bloembergen:The Late Colonial State and the Good Policeman. Policing, Intelligence and Change in the Netherlands-Indies4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee Break
4.30 pm Open Panel
Jürgen Krasser:Have Austrians Become Allergic to their Police since the 1950s? Dimensions of Widening Circles of Identification and their Contribution to an Understanding of the Questioning of Authority7.00 pm Reception
Friday, July 16th 2010
9.30 am, Panel II: Erosion of Power
Chair: Ralph JessenHerbert Reinke:„Partners for Order?“. Observations on theHistory of Policing ‘Order’ in GermanyJohn C. Wood:Police Powers and their Limits in 1920s Britain11.00 am – 11.15 am Coffee Break
Kevin Karpiak:Police/State: What French Police Reform can tell us About Contemporary State Re-FigurationsGerd Sälter:Ermittlungen in Kriminalfällen in der Vormoderne. Private Initiative und polizeiliche Tätigkeit vor der allgemeinen Durchsetzung des Gewaltmonopols12.45 pm – 2.30 pm Lunch
2.30 pm Open Panel
Chair: Jens JägerSebastian Rojek:The Construction of the “Hoch-stapler” (Impostor) in German Criminology and Literature: 1880-1930Catherine Denys:Circulation and Construction of Police Knowledge in Europe. A Report on the CIRSAP (Construction and Circulation of European Policing Knowledge)-Network4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee Break
Imanuel Baumann & Andrej, Stephan:Reflecting its own History – A Project Concerning the Developmentof the German Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt) 1952-1981Andreas Mix:Police and the Nazi Regime. A Project of the German Historical Museum and the German Police College7.30 pm Conference Dinner
Saturday, July 17th 2010
9.30 am, Panel III: Conflicting Policing
Chair: Klaus WeinhauerJeannette Gabriel:“If we can can’t run the work relief projects without the militia then we better stop”: Shifting Degrees of Violence in Response to Public Support for the U.S. Unemployed Workers Movement – 1929 – 1939Margo de Koster:Between Myth and Tool: The Forms and Uses of the State Monopoly on Violence in Street Level Policing, 1880-194011.00 am – 11.15 am Coffee Break
Thomas Welskopp:Mission Impossible. Enforcing National Prohibition in the United States,1920-193312.00 – 12.30 pm Final Discussion