International Conference | 8-9 June 2023 | 9.30am – 5pm | University of Stirling, Cottrell Building, Room 2V1, Stirlingshire FK9 4LA
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Programme – Thursday 8 June
9.30 – Registration
9.45 – Introduction and Welcome
10.00 – Keynote Address: Corruption equals periphery? Analyzing debates about corruption around 1900, Dr Ronald Kroeze (Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen)
11.00 – Panel 1: Varieties of Anti-corruption approaches in Central Europe.
Paper 1 – Clerics Confront Corruption: The Cathedral Chapter of Eichstätt v. Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt, 1718 – 1725, Peter Roethke (University of Pennsylvania)
Paper 2 – Corruption, Reform, Enlightened Absolutism: Electoral Saxony’s Rétablissement after the Seven Years War, Professor Andre Wakefield (Pitzer College, California)
Paper 3 – Electoral Manipulation, Government Intervention and Political Culture in the Habsburg Monarchy: The 1872 ‘Chabrus’ Elections to the Bohemian Landtag, Dr Jonathan Kwan (University of Nottingham)
12.30 – Lunch
1.30 – Panel 2: How to ‘Get to Sweden’ – or Norway – or Germany
Paper 1 – From financial fraud to a Weberian bureaucracy? The development of the Norwegian state administration in the 19th century with a few Scandinavian comparisons, Dr Harald Espeli (Norwegian Business School)
Paper 2 – Concepts of Loyalty and Performance in the 19th century German civil service, Dr Marianne Czisnik
Paper 3 – Swedish exceptionalism? Why endemic corruption never took hold in Sweden during the 19th century, Dr Andreas Bagenholm (University of Gothenburg)
3.00 Break
3.30 – Panel 3: In Search of Public Service Excellence: Histories of Systems and Practices of Training and Education for Public Service
Paper 1 – The Dutch Experience, Dr Toon Kerkhoff (University of Leiden)
Paper 2 – The German Experience, Professor Stefan Fisch (University of Speyer)
Paper 3 – The British Experience, Dr Ian Cawood (University of Stirling)
5.00 – End of Day
17.00 – Conference Dinner – University Court Hotel
Programme – Friday 9 June
9.30 – Keynote address: Transformations of Corruption in 19th century: debates and practices, Professor Jens Ivo Engels (Technische Universitat, Darmstadt)
10.30 – Forum: Corruption Studies – Historical and Political approaches – competing or complementary?, Chair –Dr Sean Kippin (University of Stirling)
11.15 – Break
11.30 – Panel 4: A Relentless Obsession: Political and Administrative Immorality in Modern Spain
Paper 1 – Dr Maria Gemma Rubí Casals (Universitat Autònoma Barcelona)
Paper 2 – Dr Lluís Ferran Toledano Gonzàlez (Universitat Autònoma Barcelona)
Paper 3 – Joan Torrents Juncà (Universitat Autònoma Barcelona)
12.30 – Lunch
1.30 – Panel 5: Key moments in the Transformation of 19th Century British Administration
Paper 1 – Competence, candour and corruption: Changing values?, Hugh Gault
Paper 2 – Colonial Corruption and Public Office: Arthur Crawford’s Controversy in Late Nineteenth Century British India, Anubha Anushree (Stanford University)
Paper 3 – Conflicts of interest in public life: the reform and reinvention of a regulatory ideal in Britain, c. 1850–1914, Dr Tom Crook (Oxford Brookes University)
3.00 – Break
3.30 – Plenary: Did Western Europe experience a ‘revolution’ in administrative standards in 19th Century, Chair – Dr Ian Cawood (University of Stirling)
4.30 Close of Conference