Over the past year members of the Histories of Activism group have worked alongside members of the
Integrity Project at the Universities of York and Durham to host a
series of events which explore the relationship between activism, reform
and integrity. Two events have so far been held:
Activism and Integrity. Workshop at Northumbria University, 16 December 2013
This
workshop, which was run in conjunction with the Integrity Project (but
which was fully funded by the Histories of Activism group), explored the
ways in which concepts of integrity have
shaped debates among activists from across the political spectrum; how
it has governed action as well as intention; and how forms of
organization and collective action are negotiated to preserve the
integrity of the actors. Two guest speakers – James Gregory
of the University of Plymouth and Mark Pitchford of KCL – and two
internal speakers – Charlotte Alston and Joe Street – delivered papers
at the event. Podcasts of some of the papers can be found on the
Project website.
Integrity
Lost/Integrity Regained: Social Conditions and Institutional Pressures.
Two-Day Conference held at the Literary and Philosophical Society,
Newcastle, 11-12 April 2014
For
this conference, Joe Hardwick organised a panel, entitled ‘Integrity
and the Reform of Public Life in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic
World’, which considered the ways in which discourses
of integrity informed debates about the reform of institutions and
public life during the transatlantic ‘age of reform’ of the early
nineteenth century. The speakers were Heath Bowen (St. Thomas Aquinas
College, New York), James Gregory (Plymouth) and Aashish Velkar (Manchester). Details on the event – which featured three
research papers and an introduction – can be found
here.
Joe Hardwick and James Gregory are currently developing this panel into an edited collection, entitled
Cultures of Integrity, c. 1775-1851. The call for papers for the edited collection will be disseminated shortly.
