Anciens appels à communication 2008 (texte intégral)

Cold War as the Periphery: New Perspectives on Global Change in the 1960s and 1970s

Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 9, 10 et 11 octobre 2008

Deadline: 7 January 2008

In his 1972 essay, The Diffusion of Power, Walt Rostow noted the shift in power in the world community away from Washington and Moscow. Particularly concerned with the developing world, he asked a question that has yet to be fully answered: "Are men capable of organizing this fragile global community of diffusing power in reasonably stable and peaceful ways, or will the diffusion of power lead to more violence and disorder than we already know"?

This conference will explore how this "diffusion of power" transformed global politics in the 1960s and beyond. Bringing together graduate students and junior faculty, it will examine the connections between three broad conceptual questions.

• First, how did the political and material terrain of the pan-European world change during this period?
• Second, how did actors inside and outside government bureaucracies interpret and value these changes?
• Third, how did geopolitical "flashpoints" in the global South rally, reflect, and reconstitute understandings of global power after 1960?

Taken together, these points aim to explore the assumptions underlying Rostow's query, as well as investigate the paradoxes of change in the postcolonial era. Space no doubt emerged for the articulation of alternative visions of world order -- visions often rooted in themes of racial justice, national sovereignty, and human rights -- but questions remain over the depth, nature, and permanence of these transformations.

Precedence will be placed on papers that offer fresh insight into one or more of these issues, accommodate multiple perspectives, and utilize multi-archival sources. It is hoped that participants will engage some of the scholarly debates now reshaping foreign relations or "international" historiography. In particular, value will be given to papers that consider the ties between new work on empire, postcolonial thought, and Cold War history. The organizers welcome contributions from multiple disciplines, and hope to facilitate fruitful conversations between practitioners of political, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history.

Proposals should include a 250-word abstract of the paper and submitted to Ursula Gurney at gurney.13@osu.edu. Electronic submissions are preferred, and attachments should be in MS Word format. Those who prefer a hard-copy submission should send abstract to:

Ursula Gurney 106 Dulles Hall 230 West 17th Ave Columbus Ohio, 43212

Participants will receive reimbursement for their transportation on the basis of economy fare, meals, as well as accommodation during their stay in Columbus for two nights.

Organizing Committee:

• Paul Chamberlin, PhD. Candidate (chamberlin.33@osu.edu)
• Ursula Gurney, PhD. Candidate (gurney.13@osu.edu)
• Ryan Irwin, PhD. Candidate (Irwin.126@osu.edu)
• Robert McMahon, Ralph D. Mershon Professor of History (mcmahon.121@osu.edu)

For further information: http://mershoncenter.osu.edu/

Lendemains de guerre. Réflexions sur l'"après", de l'Antiquité au monde contemporain. Les hommes, l'espace et le récit

Université de Cergy-Pontoise, 9, 10 et 11 octobre 2008

Date limite : 15 janvier 2008

Depuis la Grande Guerre, la question des «lendemains de guerre» demeure une thématique récurrente, en même temps qu'elle apparaît aux yeux des historiens comme un sujet de réflexion nouveau. Si la voie a naturellement été ouverte par les historiens contemporéanistes, il paraît aujourd'hui déterminant de prolonger cette réflexion sur la longue durée par une approche comparatiste. L'ambition d'un tel colloque entend précisément mettre en lumière les «lendemains de guerre» comme un objet d'histoire à part entière, transposable à l'échelle du temps long.

Si les enjeux politiques, les conditions économiques, la reformulation des relations sociales, l'empreinte de la guerre sur les hommes, sont directement tributaires d'un contexte, des résonances peuvent apparaître entre les différents moments de l'histoire. La guerre, au-delà de toutes ses diversités historiques, a constitué un élément structurel important, parfois omniprésent dans les sociétés dites anciennes ou traditionnelles. Ses conséquences ont fait l'objet d'études ponctuelles, isolées dans des tranches chronologiques spécifiques, sans être réunies dans une analyse globale, qui aurait permis de mesurer le poids de la guerre dans les périodes de l'«après». Cette Histoire par les hommes, et non par les armes, suivra plusieurs axes de recherche qui, dans un esprit transdisciplinaire, privilégieront les aspects sociaux, culturels, voire anthropologiques, mais aussi spatiaux et littéraires des lendemains de guerre. La liste n'est pas exhaustive, pas davantage que les sources sollicitées.

Les aspects proprement économiques et politiques constitueront un second volet, qui complétera ultérieurement le premier.

La démarche consiste à analyser avant tout les suites de la guerre sur les individus, la société et l'espace, plus qu'à travers l'histoire des institutions et des armes. Elle fera appel non seulement aux historiens des périodes ancienne, médiévale, moderne et contemporaine, mais plus largement aux chercheurs en sciences sociales.

Toutefois, il conviendra d'abord de s'interroger sur le contenu du concept. S'agit-il d'une simple formule commode? «L'après-guerre» ou les «lendemains de guerre» se limitent-ils à désigner une période de transition indéfinie, le temps d'une simple parenthèse temporelle? S'ils peuvent revendiquer une identité propre, celle d'un temps distinct à la fois de la guerre et de la paix, il s'agira de fixer les critères qui permettent de délimiter la singularité de cet espace-temps ; comme de s'interroger sur sa nature même : contexte ou processus?

Au-delà, trois thèmes d'étude peuvent être dégagés.

«Les Hommes», ce thème comprendra plusieurs orientations possibles : le retour des hommes de guerre avec la dialectique réinsertion-désocialisation, les problèmes de la violence et de la délinquance. Il portera également sur la question du retour des prisonniers et celle des déplacements de populations. Ce thème suggère encore l'étude des populations civiles et des héritages de la guerre, en particulier à travers une approche historique des sentiments (euphorie, tristesse, colère, insécurité, haine...). Ce thème associera enfin le rôle des femmes dans les lendemains de guerre, ainsi que la place des morts.

Le second thème «Raconter la guerre» s'attachera à la dimension mémorielle au lendemain des conflits. Ces souvenirs, qui ne se confondent pas avec la mémoire collective, ni la commémoration, se rapportent aux récits individuels du vécu de la guerre. Ils peuvent encore être associés à la douleur et à l'impossibilité de dire la guerre.

Un dernier thème, «L'espace d'après-guerre», retiendra des aspects plus matériels, qui touchent en partie aux sphères de l'économique et du politique, en l'occurrence : la prise en charge des «lieux de guerre» par les hommes, les communautés ou les autorités (réinvestissement de l'espace : espaces désertés, espaces de combats) ; les reconstructions matérielles et la mise en défense du territoire.

Comité d'organisation : Valérie Toureille (Université de Cergy-Pontoise) et François Pernot (Université de Cergy-Pontoise).

Comité scientifique : Philippe Contamine (Institut de France), Hervé Drévillon (Université de Poitiers), Jacques Frémeaux (Université de Paris IV), Yann Le Bohec (Université de Paris IV), Bertrand Schnerb (Université de Lille III), Éric Vial (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Annette Wieviorka (UMR-IRICE (Paris 1)).

Envoi de la proposition de communication : texte de 1500 signes maximum (avec coordonnées précises de l'auteur), avant le 15 janvier 2008 à : Valerie.Toureille@u-cergy.fr et Francois.Pernot@u-cergy.fr.

PhD Researchers Conference: Ruptures and Continuities in European History (16th - 20th Centuries)

Berlin, 24-27 April 2008

Deadline: 16 January 2008

The Berlin conference is the second in a series of annual Graduate Conferences in European History (GRACEH) conducted by three established historical research institutes: the BKVGE, the Central European University (CEU), and the European University Institute (EUI). Altogether, GRACEH seeks to encourage and promote innovative historical research, in particular comparative methods and investigations of entanglements, by promising young scholars in European history. We offer PhD candidates working in the broad fields of early modern and modern European history a forum to develop a methodical framework for dealing with periodisations in history.

Please send a paper proposal of no longer than 300 words with a short CV to GRACEH2008@gmail.com by 16th January 2008. No registration fee will be charged. Travel expenses up to 350 Euro will be covered, accommodation will be provided and meals are included.

For further information on the conference, please consult the website of the BKVGE at http://web.fu-berlin.de/bkvge/

GRACEH's primary focus is on theoretical and methodological questions in historiography. With regard to this issue, one of the most fundamental problems is the historiographical task of periodisation. On the basis of their particular projects, participants are expected to determine and define distinguishable periods shaped by specific political actors, socio-economic structures or cultural contexts. Moreover, the findings and propositions on new breaks and turns have to be related to the periodisations already established by the discipline and in public (political) discourse. In the last two decades, historiography itself has undergone a series of "turns". Despite these fundamental changes, however, the entrenched periodisation of European history that has been shaped by political history and based on particular events like revolutions and wars has largely persisted.

The conference will therefore deal with ruptures and continuities, and participants are expected to discuss, criticise and potentially re-evaluate historians' understanding of periodisations. GRACEH 2008 will tackle the problems mentioned above on three different analytical levels:

1. Periodisations in history - the relationship between ruptures and continuities in concrete historical transitions, focusing on the experience as well as the modes of perception and appropriation of change by historical actors. On this basis, established explanatory models for change will be evaluated and assessed.
2. Periodisations in historiography - methodological and theoretical problems related to the historiographical construction of ruptures and continuities. Paradigms like modernisation and secularisation as well as concepts like innovation, adaptation, destruction, legacy and transformation will be discussed. Another important aspect could be the potential for an overarching framework of a European historiography.
3. Periodisations in the history of historiography - ruptures and continuities in the history of the discipline itself. We will evaluate the role played by influential historians in stimulating certain changes of competing interprÉtative frameworks, the historiographical practice of skipping certain periods and the deliberations and negotiations about ruptures and continuities within and between different scientific communities and academic circles.

Participants should analytically distinguish between the three proposed analytical levels and assign their proposal to one of them. Each of these three dimensions of the topic will be introduced by an eminent keynote speaker. The selected papers will be grouped in thematic panels of 5 or 6 contributions. Paper presentations should not exceed 15 minutes. At the end of each panel a renowned scholar will comment and summarize the papers before opening the floor for discussion. The papers will be precirculated in order to improve and facilitate exchange among the participants.

The following scholars have confirmed their participation so far: Klaus Gestwa (Universität Tübingen), Heinz-Gerhard Haupt (EUI Florence), Georg G. Iggers (State University of New York Buffalo), László Kontler (CEU Budapest), Chris Lorenz (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Jeannette Madarász (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), Gabriele Metzler (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin).

Organising Committee: Prof. Dr. Arnd Bauerkämper (BKVGE), Benno Gammerl, Luminita Gatejel, Mateusz J. Hartwich, Jakob Hort and Rudolf Ku#era (doctoral students, BKVGE).

Organisers: Berliner Kolleg für Vergleichende Geschichte Europas (BKVGE) In co-operation with Central European University, Budapest, and European University Institute, Florence Supported by Gerda Henkel Stiftung & Gemeinnützige Hertie-Stiftung

Contact:

Mateusz J. Hartwich
BKVGE
Koserstr. 20
D-14195 Berlin, Germany
Email: graceh2008@gmail.com

Visit the website at http://web.fu-berlin.de/bkvge/

Reconsidering Europe: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference in European Studies

Ann Arbor (Michigan), March 15, 2008

Deadline: 18 January 2008

This conference seeks to bring together graduate students from across disciplines in the western Great Lakes region, working on topics related to the history of Europe. Organized by the University of Michigan's interdisciplinary European History Workshop, the goals of the conference, like those of the EHW, include:

1. considering the varying methodological and theoretical approaches employed by different disciplines in their efforts to better understand Europe's past;
2. facilitating greater discussion between scholars working in distinct geographic and temporal areas, such as Eastern and Western Europe, and the medieval/early modern and modern periods;
3. locating ways in which the study of Europe's past can still be relevant in a period of increasing scholarly interest in globalization and transnationalism.

We also strongly encourage paper proposals from graduate students in disciplines beyond History proper, such as History of Art, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, or any discipline concerned with historical topics related to Europe.

Possible paper topics might include, but are not limited to:

1. Nations and boundaries
2. Popular culture and everyday life
3. Material, visual, and sound cultures
4. Empire
5. Sexuality and the body
6. Religion, secularism, and the law
7. Science, medicine, and technology
8. Migration
9. Space, architecture, and the environment
10. Theory, memory, and historiography

The conference will be held at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, on March 15, 2008.

Please submit a paper abstract of no more than 250 words as an email attachment to EHWconference08@umich.edu no later than January 18, 2008.

We are also requesting a brief biographical statement, outlining your discipline, departmental/ university affiliation, stage in degree program, etc. Acceptance notifications will be emailed in late January.

Information: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/history/

Europe in Black and White

Lisbon, 12-14 May 2008

Deadline: 31 January 2008

(The conference is part of the project Dislocating Europe)

Europe in black and white intends to address conflicting definitions of what "Europe" was, is and should be. We depart from the assumption that postcolonial Europe cannot ignore colonial histories on a national and transnational level. Thus there is the need to redefine priorities and identities in an increasingly multicultural space, taking at the same time into account the virulent conflicts that permeate contemporary interactions that cannot be understood as a mere "clash of civilizations" but rather as complex sites of conviviality (Gilroy), contact zones (Pratt), in which the unevenness of former dependencies are prolonged and contested.

Such issues cannot be isolated from debates on the possibilities and limits of postcolonial theory, as recent developments in postcolonial studies show, and have been analyzed by several disciplines with different emphases and agendas. We wish to address and discuss these topics in a conference bringing together specialists from diverse disciplines and fields, located in different countries, and continents, thus hoping to promote a sustained discussion on a comparative basis in order to probe the limits and possibilities of postcolonial approaches to specific geographic and disciplinary contexts.

• What is the relevance of such concepts as identity and difference, race and ethnicity, or hybridity, when applied to precise social or geographical contexts, disciplinary fields, and issues related to the politics of representation?
• How are discourses on, and the production, of difference (Gupta, Ferguson) to be articulated with the role of universals in human rights and citizenship claims?
• How are representations of religion and secularism to be analysed according to the specificity of local contexts in contemporary Europe?
• How are the corresponding discourses to be read according to specific colonial histories?
• What about the role of emergent forms of diasporic expressive cultures in music, film, and art? How are these to be considered in regard to other narratives such as those suggested by literature, history or anthropology?
• How far are these tendencies able to contribute to an unthinking of Europe (Shohat/ Stam)?

Interested scholars should send their proposal IN ENGLISH OR PORTUGUESE, including abstract (maximum 2000 characters, with spaces), to blackandwhite@fl.ul.pt until January 31st 2008.

Organizing Committee: Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, João Ferreira Duarte, Fernando Clara.

Secretariat: Rita Maia

Conference fees: Non-Students: 50 euro. Students: free.

Contact:

Manuela Ribeiro Sanches
Centre for Comparative Studies
Faculdade de Letras
Universidade de Lisboa
P 1600 - 214 Lisboa
Portugal
Phone: (+351) 21 792 00 85
Fax: (+351) 21 792 11 60
blackandwhite@fl.ul.pt

Visit the website at http://www.comparatistas.edu.pt/en/actividades/destaque/act-19---europe-in-blac k-and-white.html

The Heart of Europe: The Power of Faith, Vision and Belonging in European Unification

Imshausen (Germany), 15-17 June 2009

Deadline: 31 January 2008

2009 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Adam von Trott. Today he is often seen as the one of the most gifted thinkers on foreign affairs to have worked within the German resistance against Nazism. A patriotic German, who was convinced that the assassination of Hitler was necessary for Germany´s future, he also possessed a strong vision of a federal and peaceful Europe. Executed after the failed attempt to kill Hitler in 1944, he did not live to see how much of his vision would become reality in the decades that followed.

Adam von Trott himself was accustomed to discussing some of the "blueprints" for the future Europe of his time. Although he and his friends of the Kreisauer Kries developed elaborated political, economic and strategic plans for the future of Post-War Germany von Trotts biography also shows that the history of the European integration is not only a matter of formal political and economic plans and structures. For European unity is a cause sustained by the head, but also nourished by the heart. It has encompassed utopian dreams and visions of the future, historical narratives and mythologies, and the emotions of belonging and attachment. When Jacques Delors called for a "Soul for Europe" he was speaking to this need, invoking the only realm which can breathe life into the dry structural bones of political and economic Europe.

The Adam von Trott Foundation wishes to call together scholars from across Europe to discuss these, and associated themes at a conference at Imshausen, the von Trott's former manor house, on 15-17 June 2009. The aim of this conference is not so much to look at the formal politics of institutions, as to explore the ideals and visions which inform the history, and future, of European integration.

Papers which explore the following themes are particularly invited:

• Adam von Trott and his legacy for Europe
• Ideas of Europe among the Resistance (especially the "Kreisauer Kreis"), the Allies and the Axis during World War Two
• The unity of all Europe as it endured as a dream behind the Iron Curtain
• Ideas of Europe in Religion, Philosophy, Scholarship and Arts
• Teleologies, mythologies and lost golden ages in historical narratives of Europe
• The place of Gender in such European thinking
• Structures of feeling and emotional economies in the history of European unification
• Minority groups and Europe
• Europe as concept against the Other (e.g. the 'Orient', Africa, America.)

The organisers will also welcome submissions in any other relevant topic area.

Please submit an abstract of no more than 500 words and a short CV no later than 31 January 2008 to: konferenz2009@stiftung-adam-von-trott.de. Please send all other questions at the same address.

Accommodation and meals will be provided to speakers without charge. Travel costs will, subject to prior approval, be reimbursed.

Contact:

PD Dr. Katharina Kunter
Stiftung Adam von Trott, Imshausen e.V.
Im Trottenpark
D - 36971 Bebra-Imshausen
Germany
Mail: konferenz2009@stiftung-adam-von-trott.de
Tel: +49 (0) 6622 42440
Fax: +49 (0) 6622 430419

Contact: http://www.stiftung-adam-von-trott.de/

Locating Europe. Ideas and Individuals in Contemporary History

6-8 June 2008, Aarhus University, Denmark

Deadline: 1st February 2008

An international conference for senior and junior scholars on the theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges of studying individuals and their ideas of "Europe" in 20th century history. Ph.D.-students are invited to participate.

Europe's turbulent twentieth century is often characterised by the struggles of grand political utopias such as communism and fascism, but it also saw the rise of non-violent utopias pledging for peace, cooperation and human rights that came to have a strong impact on the political architecture in Europe in the latter part of the century.

The aim of the conference is to propose a more systematic approach to the study of political ideas and individuals in international historical research. Hence it addresses theoretical questions that are often left out of historical research such as: What are the conditions for the emergence of political ideas? How do we study, value and theorise these ideas in contemporary history? What is the relationship between nationally based political actors and their visions about international and regional cooperation? How are these political ideas transmitted, and how and why do they vary in time and space?

The conference will also address methodological challenges that historians of such topics often face but rarely address. Specifically, the role of biographies of political personalities in historical research will be taken seriously, as well as the use of eyewitnesses and oral history as primary sources.

The conference departs empirically in the study of the ideas that grew among individual social democrats and labour unionists in the interwar period of a peaceful organisation of Europe, but its frame of reference is a broader methodological and theoretical discussions about ideas and individuals in contemporary European political history.

The event is organised to bring together an international group of senior and junior scholars. It wishes to foster dialogue between the participants, and sessions will be arranged to integrate the contributions of seniors and juniors. The participation of several senior scholars from around Europe has already been confirmed. The conference language is English.

Ph.D.-researchers working on empirical, theoretical and/or methodological aspects relevant to this conference are encouraged to apply to present papers. Paper-givers will receive 4 ECTS (participation without a paper will give 2.5 ECTS). Conference participation and meals are free of charge.

The application must include a paper abstract of 300 words, and a short CV that indicates your current university affiliation, Ph.D.-supervisor, and Ph.D-project title. Send your application by 1 February to the two organisers listed below. You will be notified by 1 March.

A programme will follow soon.

Conference organisers:

• Ann-Christina L. Knudsen, Assistant Professor, Ph.D., Department of European Studies at the Institute for History and Area Studies, AU. Email: alknudsen@hum.au.dk
• Karen Gram-Skjoldager, Ph.D.-candidate, Department of History, AU. Email: hiskgs@hum.au.dk

The conference is co-sponsored by the Graduate Research School for History in Denmark (Danmarks Forskerskole for Historie) (Aarhus University, AU), the Research Fund of Aarhus University (Aarhus Universitets Forskningsfond), and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at AU.

Nationalism and Communism

University of Amsterdam, 25 April 2008

Deadline: 15 February 2008

After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 nationalism suddenly resurfaced in Eastern Europe, or so the common wisdom goes. This implies communism and nationalism have little to do with each other. In reality, the communist regimes of Europe all flew the national flag in order to gain popular legitimacy. After 1948, the People's Republics of Central and Eastern Europe constructed the state ideology of "Socialist Patriotism", a conscious blend of national and socialist imagery. Parties presented themselves as heirs to national traditions, and as guardians of national interests. They appropriated national symbols and heroes, and pursued "national" policies whenever possible.

This was not just the case in Europe. From Cuba to Korea, communist parties and states presented themselves as patriots. A national communist self-image was not the exception, but the rule. It is surprising that the communist "invention of tradition" and the socialist "imagined community" have been studied relatively little. Though there is an extensive body of literature on the relationship between communism and nationalism, the national element in communist ideology has on the whole remained from view. This has changed in recent years. Independent of one another, several excellent studies have been published on attempts by communists in individual countries to gain national legitimacy. This informal workshop aims to be a first step towards a more comprehensive view. Students of nationalism, historians of communism, specialists on Cold War history, as well as country or regional experts, are invited to give their opinion.

Presenters of papers are welcome to concentrate on an individual state, party, national symbol or policy, but are asked to place these in a broader context. To what extent does "Socialist Patriotism" fit into existing theories of nationalism? Could communists actually be called "nationalistic" or even "nationalists"? Was the communist use of national propaganda instrumental and exploitative, or was it founded on progressive traditions of nationalism? How were national credentials of local parties squared with proletarian internationalism and the alliance with other communist countries? To what extent did communist parties construct ethnic " enemies of the people"? In what way did anti-Semitism influence the national credentials of communist parties? Was communist national propaganda ultimately successful?

These and other questions will be central to the discussions at the meeting.

A practical goal is take first steps towards the organization of a larger workshop on this topic in 2009. This is to culminate in an edited volume on nationalism and communism.

Please send proposals for papers (max 400 words) to dr. Martin Mevius before 15 February 2008 (m.mevius@uva.nl), Eastern European History and Eastern European Studies, Postbus 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, tel +31205252269, Fax: +31 20 5252086).

Organising Committee:

• Balázs Apor (EUI, Florence)
• Jan C. Behrends (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin)
• Ragnheidur Kristjánsdóttir (University of Iceland)
• Árpád von Klimo (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung, Berlin)
• Martin Mevius (University of Amsterdam)

Les enjeux des politiques environnementales de l'Union en France

Sciences po Bordeaux, 15 mai 2008

Date limite: 15 février 2008

Journée d'étude de la section des études européennes de l'AFSP coordonnée par Nathalie Berny (SPIRIT et Sciences Po Bordeaux)

Consacrées par un titre spécifique dans l'Acte unique européen en 1986, les interventions de la Communauté dans le domaine de l'environnement s'inscrivent en réalité dans un processus de long terme qui illustre la logique incrémentale de l'action publique européenne. Depuis 1973, date du premier programme d'action pour l'environnement - document programmatique dispensant des objectifs et des principes généraux d'action - plus de 800 textes, dont des révisions, ont été adoptés par la Communauté (McCormick 2001). Ils touchent à une grande variété de problèmes d'environnement (eau, air, risque industriel, biodiversité, etc.) et correspondent également à des dispositifs transversaux (consultation du public; responsabilité environnementale; principe du pollueur-payeur). Ces mesures sont désormais placées sous l'égide des objectifs de développement durable et d'intégration de l'environnement dans les autres politiques de l'Union, tous les deux mis en exergue en début de traité (CE) depuis 1997.

L'action de l'Union européenne sur les questions d'environnement emprunte pour beaucoup les principaux traits et évolutions des politiques communes. Devenue la principale source de droit interne des États membres, elle est de plus en plus confrontée à l'enjeu de consultation et de mise en oeuvre (applicabilité) auxquelles sont sommées de répondre les initiatives de la Commission depuis le milieu des années 1990 (McCormick 2001; Lenschow 2007). Considérant la variété de ce corpus juridique, les défis et critiques qu'elle doit relever, le terme même de «politique» _ et, de ce fait, les contours et la portée de l'action de la communauté - fait débat. C'est précisément cet aspect controversé qui justifie un éclairage à partir du niveau national et, en l'occurrence, de la situation en France. Les politiques environnementales de l'Union sont tout à la fois similaires à des dispositifs existants en France et complémentaires, voire parfois antagonistes.

L'action publique dans le domaine de l'environnement est marquée par un certain nombre de constantes. Les premières mesures marquantes datent des années 1970 en France et à Bruxelles. Elles répondent à des problématiques que les négociations internationales ont fait évoluer. Ce sont des politiques exemplaires en ce qui concerne les relations entre savoir et décision, offrant ainsi un terrain propice à l'adoption de mesures participatives. Elles sont, de plus, souvent contestées en raison même de la portée potentiellement transversale de leurs interventions (Lascoumes 1994). Enfin, les questions d'environnement cristallisent les innovations en politiques publiques (accords volontaires, certification, approches économiques) et les principes de droit international (principes de précaution) aux niveaux national comme européen. Les politiques d'environnement de la France et de l'Union sont complémentaires sans que pour autant les premières correspondent à une simple transposition des secondes. Le droit national a inspiré des mesures communautaires telles les études d'impact et la gestion de l'eau par bassin versant. Déterminant au niveau de la mise en oeuvre, le niveau national reste incontournable dans le processus de mise à l'agenda des mesures, plusieurs dispositifs communautaires connaissant actuellement une renationalisation. Bruxelles reste le lieu où l'on négocie ces politiques. Les scènes politiques européenne et française génèrent ainsi des dynamiques antagonistes. Le contentieux communautaire affecte l'ensemble des pays membres sur des sujets variés (Richardson 2006). La France, pays fondateur des communautés, n'en reste pas moins à l'origine de contentieux marquants (chasse, Natura 2000, directive Nitrate) que la future présidence française de l'Union européenne a promis de réduire.

Analyser la portée de ces politiques en France, c'est se confronter à un objet dont il est difficile de rendre compte avec exhaustivité. Ce constat motive le thème de la journée d'étude, résolument ouvert sur la pluralité des enjeux de ces politiques. Ces politiques visent-elles la résolution des problèmes : d'environnement? de politiques publiques? de démocratie et de participation citoyenne? L'objectif de la journée est de valoriser les perspectives qu'ouvrent différents questionnements et grilles théoriques dont le point commun est l'approche disciplinaire : la science politique. Il s'agit ainsi de contribuer à un gain de compréhension sur la dynamique de ces politiques et l'articulation France - Union européenne.

Le cadre de discussion vise à susciter une confrontation entre questions et terrains sur, par exemple, le devenir des politiques et leur portée, le changement des pratiques et les rôles des protagonistes (administration, groupes d'intérêt, autorités locales, élus), les influences mutuelles en termes de modes de gestion de ces problèmes. Les propositions feront l'objet d'une sélection au regard de l'intégration de la dimension européenne dans des questionnements et problématiques par ailleurs courants dans le traitement des enjeux d'environnement.

Propositions de communication :

Les propositions de communication (3000 signes maximum) sont à adresser par courriel avant le 15 février 2008 à l'adresse ci-après (seejournee2008@sciencespobordeaux.fr). Elles seront transmises aux responsables de la SEE (Olivier Costa, Dorota Dakowska, Sabine Saurugger) et à la coordinatrice de la journée (Nathalie Berny). Elles devront mentionner le titre, le cadre théorique choisi et les principales conclusions avancées.

Lieu : 11 allée Ausone, 33 600 Pessac

The Road Europe Travelled Along. The Evolution of the EEC/EU Institutions and Policies

Università degli Studi di Siena, 23-24 May 2008

Deadline: 29 February 2008

The Associazione Universitaria di Studi Europea (AUSE) is organising an interdisciplinary international Conference (scientific areas: History, Law, Economics, Political Sciences) on the topic "The Road Europe Travelled Along. The Evolution of the EEC/EU Institutions and Policies".

Working Languages: French and English

Proposals: papers (max 2 pages) should be sent within 29 th February 2008 to:

Prof. Daniele Pasquinucci
Secretary-General AUSE
Università degli Studi di Siena
Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
Centro di Ricerca sull"Integrazione Europea (CRIE)
Via P.A. Mattioli 10
53100 Siena
Tel.: ++39-0577-235427
Fax: ++39-0577-235292
E-mail: pasquinucci2@unisi.it

Selection procedure (within 15 March 2008): by Scientific Committe composed by professors Daniela Preda, Ariane Landuyt, Luigi Moccia, Antonio Papisca, Daniele Pasquinucci, Franco Praussello, Dario Velo.

The definitive papers should be sent within 7 May 2008 to AUSE, which will distribute them among the participants. The presentation should be limited to the main issues of the written text and should not exceed 10/15 minutes, so to leave time for the debate. Eventual modifications of the papers on the basis of the debates of the Conference should be done within 15 June 2008.

Publication of the proceedings: the publication of the proceedings will be done within 2008.

Information:

Prof. Daniela Preda
Presidente AUSE
Università degli Studi di Genova
Dipartimento di Ricerche europee
Salita San Nicolosio, 1/6-8
16124 Genova
Tel.: ++39-010-2099049-9051
Fax: ++39-010/2099099
E-mail: 55544@unige.it
http://www.ause.it/

Scientific goals of the conference

Contrarily to what affirms a well-known thesis, which is spread among some researchers of European integration, the institutional EEC/EU network cannot be considered completely subordinate to the decisions taken by the governments of the different member States. But, during the years the community institutions developed an autonomy that partly derives from the reforms of the Treaties, and partly it is produced by their skill in finding spaces independent from the national governments. The exercise of this autonomy has been made possible by a plurality of factors, among which must be considered the benevolent consent of the national governments to partial extensions of the sphere of community intervention, since in some case it has been believed that the common actions were more advantageous (above all from the economic point of view) than prejudicial.

But the institutional, political and economic dynamics cannot be forgotten; these dynamics raised by the autonomous innovative function developed by the European Commission in some historical phases; the push of the European Parliament toward the deepening of the community ties and the definition of the political identity of the EEC/EU; the activism of the Court of Justice in the strengthening of the juridical state of the common right but also in the extension of the political competences of the supranational level. Council of ministers and European Council represent the intergovernmental soul of the EEC/EU, but nevertheless they have also contributed to the general stabilization of the community institutional architecture, that " however " still represents a process in progress. The tension between the "centre" (EEC/EU) and "peripheries" (member States) is certainly a constant of the European integration and one of the spaces in which the political and decisional procedures are perceivable.

Devoting to the examination of the modalities for exercising the powers in the European Union means to face a fundamental chapter for the understanding of the nature of the EU, of its specificity, of the processes through which it operates and it manifests his/her own political wish in the sectors that are her reserved in by exclusive or in "competition" with States members. At the same time, "the unknown" character of the communitarian construction (habitually represented through the formula "tertium genus") implies the use of a dynamic interprÉtative method.

This method should adapt itself to the variations and to the changes, so to understand the possible changes of scenarios. The EU "governance" has also an economic dimension, that is the pursuit of those economic and monetary policies that are central in the community competences. From the juridical and institutional point, it could be useful a reflection on the multiplicity of the levels of government, on the concrete application of organizational principles of the "European power" and of its economic system (subsidiariety, proportionality, method of open coordination). The evolution of the European Community/Union can be measured from the gradual extension of its areas of intervention and, therefore, from the increase and from the close examination of its policies. For those policies promoted in concomitance with the start of the process of European integration (common agricultural policy, social policy) and for those policies called of "second generation", implemented after the Hague summit of December of 1969, it is possible a real historical reflection: this reflection is the centre of an analysis, which should be used to verify the influence originated by the political situation and the economic conditions of post-war Europe; the process that brings to their elaboration; the impact that they had on the national plan.

Nevertheless the study of the common policies needs also the use of the conceptual and methodological tools proper of the juridical sciences (i.e. the analysis of their constitutional bases, the juridical aspects of the "Europeanization", etc.), economic sciences (i.e. the management of the monetary policy, the economic dimension of the social cohesion, the policies of competitions and guardianship of the market, etc.) and political sciences (i.e. the phenomenon of the "Europeanization" of the political "domestic" process, the relationship between the national policy-making and that supranational, etc.). The conditioning ability of the institutions of the European Community/Union towards the national public powers and the consequences that this involves for the citizens and for the social formations (associations, enterprises, parties) that operate in member States; the progressive formulation of a tense governance, at least in the intentions, to strengthen the popular share, particularly through a more active communication with the great public on the European matters, a dialogue more structured and a more narrow interaction with the regional and local corporate body, a consultation more effective and transparent of the civil society; the increasing importance of the policies and the community actions, able by now to engrave in the daily life of the citizens; all this asks for the point of view of the public opinion, whose articulated positions (with the consequent variations of "consensus" toward the integration or toward the formalities from it assumed) often correspond to the increasing importance of the community action in the different segments of the society, of the economy, etc.

The anxiety about the recent euro-scepticism in the Central and Eastern European Countries, the recent results in France and Holland of the referenda on the approval of the constitutional Treaty show the necessity to consider the relationship between public opinion and community institutions. In this sense, the analysis of the evolution of the euro-scepticism (also through the analysis of the different referenda) and the reconstruction of the policy of information of the EEC/EU (with its "formative" objectives) represent the two poles of a same problem, that is the formation and the consolidation of a "European conscience".

On these basis, the goal of the conference is proposing an interdisciplinary reflection on the Institutions and policies of the European Community/Union, on the evolution and on the modes of the decision making of the EEC/EU and, finally, on the relations between the political/institutional dimension and the procedural/decisional one of the European Community/Union and the Communitarian citizens.

Summer School "Negotiating Europe. Jewish and Non-Jewish Spaces"

July 15-19, 2008, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena (Germany)

Deadline: 15 March 2008

Organizers:

• Jena Center 20th Century History
• Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture at Leipzig University
• Center for Teacher Development and Research on School at Leipzig University
• Jewish Museum, Frankfurt/Main

From July 15- July 19, 2008 a Summer School will be organized at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena as part of the project "Communicating Europe. Jewish Knowledge Cultures beyond the Nation-State". It will be aimed at graduate students concerned with topics about "Europe" and "Transnationality" in the 19th and 20th centuries (space, communication, mobility, cultures of knowledge). The subject matter of the workshop deals with topics of Jewish history but also aims to go beyond Jewish history and culture.

Topic and Key Questions

In the 19th and 20th centuries, multilingualism, mobility, living in different cultures and places became norm rather than the exception. The significance of clear-cut units, national and social borders as well as ideas of homogeneity is now challenged by questions of historiography. Moreover the end of the Cold War has enabled a broader perspective of Europe. Thus, new historical spaces and earlier forms of "the European", i.e. an European self-conception, which formerly seemed to be sealed in the Cold War historiography, has been attracting attention again.

Exchange, mobility, transnationality, the transfer of knowledge from place to place, and translations of knowledge from one form into another can be seen as having an inherent European dimension which permits a broader perspective on European History than a mere addition of national and territorial narratives.

The concepts of "Europe" and "Transnationality" in the broader sense will take center stage of the Summer School. Hence key questions are: How can we understand the concept of "the European"? How do we understand notions of transnational historiography, international historiography and international comparative historiography? Which topics and objects of research might benefit from a transnational perspective, and what kind of methodical problems could result from such an approach?

Organization and Application

The PhD students shall be actively involved in the summer school. All participants will get the opportunity to discuss their projects or a particular methodical problem. Those discussions should be initiated by a presentation (15 minutes max.) or by introducing a text/source text. The program also includes guest lectures and discussions with David Weinstein (Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, North Carolina) as well as reading sessions with methodical texts.

Applications should include an outline of the dissertation project and a short c.v., and should be sent per e-mail to: jena.center@uni-jena.de (subject matter: SummerSchool 2008). The deadline is March 15, 2008. Successful applicants will be informed by April 15, 2008. Travel and accomodation expenses will be reimbursed in whole. Conference languages are German and English. German reading comprehension is required.

Jena Center Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
20th Century History
Kristina Meyer M.A. (Assistant)
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Zwätzengasse 3
D-07743 Jena
Phone (+49) 03641 944 458
Fax (+49) 03641 944 452

Contact: jena.center@uni-jena.de Visit the website at http://www.JenaCenter.uni-jena.de

Secret Weapon or victims of the Cold War? Central and Eastern European political émigrés

Lublin (Poland), 13-14 November 2008

Deadline: 15 March 2008

The 20th Century, plagued by two world wars, witnessing the rivalry between the world of democracy and the world of totalitarianism, also brought the biggest migrations in modern history. Movements dictated by political reasons were an important part of those migrations. Political migrations affected especially East-Central Europe from where, firstly as a result of the Second World War, about 30 million people emigrated, and later most of them permanently stayed outside their home countries. Next waves of emigrants like those after 1956, 1968 and 1980-81 joined them before the iron curtain fell. On the other hand many emigrants did not withstand the hardships of exile and made decisions to return. Political émigrés became an important factor exploited by both sides of the Cold War conflict.

The opening of secret archives of communist security services in 1990s brought about a breakthrough in the research on the history of East-Central European political émigrés. Thus the activities of communist security services directed against political émigrés will be the central topic of an international conference organised by the Institute of National Remembrance in Lublin, Poland from 13 to 14 November 2008. The conference will be structured in 4 parts - we envisage 21 papers and a panel discussion. The conference will proceed in English and Polish with consecutive interprÉtation.

1. Soviet patterns and directives from Moscow - operations against Russian émigrés in the West or involving them (before, during and after the Second World War) - 3 papers.
2. State and security apparatus structures involved in actions against émigrés from Soviet republics (Baltic States, Belarus, Ukraine) and Eastern Europe (Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria): an overview - 9 papers.
3. Case studies on communist countries' actions against political émigrés in the West, émigré institutions and organisations (governments and other political representations in exile; centres of émigré civic and cultural life; Christian Democrat, Socialist, Agrarian and Liberal Internationals; Polish, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, etc. Radio Free Europe Desks), as well as on special operations against selected individuals - 9 papers.
4. Western intelligence and counter-intelligence vis-à-vis East-Central European émigrés - a panel discussion.

All those interested in attending the conference are invited - either as speakers, discussants or members of the audience. The conference organizers will provide the accommodation and board to authors of presentations free of charge as well as will reimburse them their travel expenses (up to the amount of 600 Euro in the case of speakers from European countries and up to the amount of 1200 Euro in the case of others). Other conference participants will have hotel rooms at the conference venue booked (the number of rooms is limited).

The deadline for submitting registration forms for those participants who want to attend the conference with a presentation is 15th March 2008. Please attach an abstract of your presentation (up to 500 words in Polish or English) to your registration form.

The registration forms from other participants will be accepted until the rooms at the conference venue run out but not later than 30th September 2008.

Please e-mail your registration form to: slawomir.lukasiewicz@ipn.gov.pl or send it to the following address:

Dr Slawomir Lukasiewicz
Institute of National Remembrance - Lublin Branch
Public Education Section
ul. Szewska 2
20-086 Lublin
fax: +48.81.53.63.462

Additional information and downloadable forms: http://www.ipn.gov.pl

1968, des sociétés en crise| : une perspective globale

3 novembre 2008, université Concordia, Québec

Date limite : 1er avril 2008

1968-2008 : 40 ans après, les crises de 1968 suscitent encore parmi leurs acteurs nostalgie, fierté ou rancune. De par leur impact et leur ampleur, elles continuent d'attirer l'attention des chercheurs. L'audience que rencontrent encore les évènements de «1968» provient de leur dimension polymorphe : moment de contestation du pouvoir politique et de l'autorité, mouvements de révolte des étudiants et des syndicats de travailleurs. Les «crises de 68» apparaissent comme le point culminant de l'aspiration à la liberté et au changement dans des sociétés exaspérées par le statu quo et le respect de codes socio-éthiques jugés obsolètes. L'écho des phénomènes de 1968 provient également de leur dimension planétaire : ces mouvements de contestation générale ont en effet traversé le Québec, les États-Unis, l'Europe, l'Afrique et l'Amérique Latine.

Dans le cadre du quarantième anniversaire des évènements de 1968, la Chaire de recherche Lucienne-Cnockaert en histoire de l'Europe et de l'Afrique (Université de Sherbrooke et Bishop's University), la Chaire Concordia d'études sur le Québec (département de Sociologie et d'Anthropologie de l'Université Concordia), le Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire sur le Québec et ses relations internationales (GRIQUERE) et le Groupement interuniversitaire sur l'histoire des relations internationales contemporaines (GIHRIC) organisent un colloque intitulé «1968, des sociétés en crise : une perspective globale».

Cette rencontre scientifique visera d'une part, à analyser les liens, influences ou particularismes entre ces différentes crises et, d'autre part, à les comparer en les replaçant dans la perspective sociopolitique des Sixties (décolonisations en Afrique, détente dans la Guerre froide, guerre du Vietnam et Révolution tranquille au Québec entre autres).

Ce colloque veut se situer dans une relecture globale, comparative et croisée des «printemps» de 1968. Il s'agira, tout d'abord, de comprendre les origines sociales, économiques et politiques des différents mouvements. Il conviendra ensuite, d'observer les enjeux, le développement et le dénouement des crises. Il importera, enfin, de déterminer la signification et la portée des évènements de 1968 et leur place dans les mémoires collectives européenne, africaine et américaine.

Pour mener cette étude analytique et comparative, et saisir la complexité mais aussi les emprunts ou influences réciproques entre les différents mouvements, nous aimerions recevoir des propositions de communication sur les thématiques suivantes :

• Origines et idéologies des crises de 68.
• Sociétés, conjonctures et contestations.
• L'économie politique de la crise.
• Crises étudiantes et revendications.
• Place et rôle des syndicats dans les évènements de 1968.
• Le pouvoir politique et la gestion de la crise.
• Leaders politiques et syndicaux face à la crise (De Gaulle, Senghor, Dubcek etc.)
• Influences et interactions entre les différentes crises de 1968.
• Significations des évènements de 1968.
• Les commémorations de 1968, entre histoire et mémoire.

Nous aimerions recevoir de la part des chercheurs et professeurs intéressés par ces problématiques, des propositions de communication d'environ 300 mots décrivant la communication envisagée, avant le 1er avril 2008.

Veuillez faire parvenir vos propositions de communication et un CV ou toute demande d'information par courriel au Professeur Patrick Dramé à l'adresse courriel suivante : patrick.drame@usherbrooke.ca

Le colloque se tiendra le lundi 3 novembre 2008 au campus de l'Université Concordia (langues de communication : français et anglais).

Comité scientifique :

Patrick Dramé, Professeur adjoint, Universités de Bishop et Sherbrooke. Jean Lamarre, Professeur agrégé, Collège militaire royal, Kingston. Jean-Philippe Warren, Professeur adjoint, Université Concordia. Robert Comeau, Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal. Michael Childs, Professeur, Bishop's University. Samir Saul, Professeur agrégé, Université de Montréal. Magali Deleuze, Professeure adjointe, Collège militaire royal, Kingston.

Comité d'organisation :

Ivan Carel, ph.D, UQAM Patrick Dramé, Professeur adjoint, Université de Sherbrooke. Jean Lamarre, Professeur agrégé, Collège militaire royal, Kingston. Sami Mesli, ph.D, Chargé de cours, UQAM. Kim Perron, Étudiant à la maîtrise, Université de Sherbrooke.

Patrick DRAMÉ
patrick.drame@usherbrooke.ca
Professeur adjoint
2500, Bd de l'Université
819-821-8000, Poste 65419

Turquie-UE : Sociologie des acteurs mobilisés et de leur contribution à l'enjeu de la candidature

Fin juin 2008, Paris

Date limite : 14 avril 2008

Ces dernières années, les travaux portant sur les relations entre la Turquie et l'Europe se sont multipliés. Le débat particulièrement passionné autour de l'adhésion explique la profusion d'essais visant avant tout à défendre ou à condamner la candidature turque. De même, les descriptions de l'histoire institutionnelle entre la Turquie et l'Europe communautaire ainsi que les analyses macro-économiques, géopolitiques ou macro-politiques sont nombreuses. Enfin, certaines études esquissent une dimension plus évaluative au regard des critères définis par l'UE ou des «défis» posés par l'adhésion. Centrés sur un bilan des relations, ces travaux privilégient une approche statique et négligent ainsi la dimension dynamique de la relation qui se construit entre l'UE et la Turquie.

C'est pourquoi nous proposons de dépasser le débat sur la candidature proprement dite pour centrer l'analyse sur les acteurs (individuels ou collectifs) qui se mobilisent, en Turquie, dans les pays européens ou autour des institutions européennes, sur la question de l'adhésion de la Turquie. Il s'agit d'appréhender la question de la candidature turque à l'UE à partir d'une «sociologie de l'espace politique européen», qui entend «étudier les individus et les organisations qui composent ce nouvel espace politique et contribuent à lui donner forme» (Culture & Conflit, 2000) en mettant l'accent sur les pratiques. La notion d'«espace politique», comprise comme l'ensemble des relations de pouvoir qui s'exercent dans un ordre institutionnel particulier (Lagroye, 1997) met l'accent sur l'enchevêtrement d'ordres internes et européen souvent envisagés comme s'ils étaient séparés, juxtaposés. Les mobilisations dans les ordres internes doivent être analysées en rapport à des enjeux à la fois nationaux et internationaux. De même, les répercussions de ces mobilisations sont en prendre en compte tout autant sur la scène européenne que sur les différentes scènes nationales. Par exemple, on ne peut saisir le raidissement d'une partie de la droite française sans prendre en compte la recomposition des clivages à droite, et l'émergence du débat sur le traité constitutionnel.

Les conséquences de ce raidissement se font ressentir aussi bien au niveau européen qu'en Turquie (renforcement des positions nationalistes vis-à-vis desquelles le parti au pouvoir va devoir s'ajuster). Loin de se soumettre passivement aux injonctions européennes, une multitude d'acteurs sociaux et politiques se mobilisent et contribuent ainsi directement ou indirectement à définir l'enjeu européen (Pasquier, Weisbein, 2004). Il importe alors de saisir comment l'enjeu de l'élargissement résulte des anticipations, des stratégies, des réappropriations de normes de la part de différents acteurs. Quelques études ont déjà esquissé une analyse des acteurs turcs mobilisés sur l'enjeu européen - avant tout des acteurs économiques (Atan, 2004; Serdaroglu, 2007), mais aussi des partis politiques (Avci, 2004), ou des intellectuels (Monceau, 2007).

C'est avant tout à partir d'un cadre conceptuel éprouvé par la sociologie politique que sera menée l'analyse des acteurs mobilisés. Il s'agira d'abord de prendre de la distance avec une lecture des processus d'élargissement, inspirée notamment du droit et des relations internationales. «En analysant l'élargissement à travers les configurations d'acteurs qui se sont constituées depuis le début des années quatre-vingt-dix, celui-ci apparaît moins comme une rupture que comme une échéance qui scelle de jure des changements ayant eu lieu de facto. Une telle perspective nuance le modèle couramment utilisé, mais souvent réducteur, de la conditionnalité et de l'exportation de la gouvernance communautaire dans les nouveaux États membres» (Dakoswka, Saurugger, 2005 : 7). L'attention sera portée sur les évolutions des pratiques qui précèdent et accompagnent les négociations d'adhésion.

Dans une perspective proche, la démarche initiée prendra également appui sur les travaux qui ont souligné les effets de traduction de ces critères d'adhésion et l'importance des contextes nationaux et locaux sur la mise en??uvre de ces politiques européennes (par exemple Tek, Massardier (2005) ou d'E. Massicard (2008) sur les questions de régionalisation). L'utilisation d'outils classiques de la sociologie politique ouvre également la voie à l'analyse comparative. Les frontières disciplinaires induites par les aera studies, de même que la constitution des European studies en véritable sous-discipline, n'ont guère favorisé le comparatisme. L'élargissement de l'UE aux pays de l'Est a pu ainsi être pensé comme renvoyant à la spécificité postulée des PECO au regard de leur passé communiste. Sans pour autant diluer la particularité de chaque pays impliqué dans le processus d'élargissement, l'utilisation d'outils conceptuels communs permet de systématiser les comparaisons entre pays candidats pour comprendre ce qui les rapproche mais aussi ce qui les différencie.

L'étude sociologique se concentrera sur trois thèmes principaux :

1. Quels sont les acteurs qui s'investissent et se mobilisent (favorablement ou défavorablement) sur les thématiques associées à l'UE, dans les espaces socio-politiques nationaux, internationaux ou transnationaux et quels sont ceux qui restent à la marge?
2. Avec quelles conséquences sur les négociations?
3. Avec quelles conséquences sur l'espace politique européen et les espaces politiques nationaux?

1. Analyse des trajectoires des acteurs mobilisés sur la question de l'adhésion

Qui sont les acteurs individuels et collectifs qui se mobilisent sur les thématiques associées à l'UE et contribuent ainsi à donner forme à l'enjeu de la candidature turque à l'UE? D'où viennent-ils? Quand et comment se sont-ils intéressés à la question des rapports Turquie-UE? On délaissera les approches méta-théoriques des identités ou de l'intérêt qui prévalent souvent dans l'analyse de la candidature turque. En Turquie, une large partie de l'élite se définit comme pro-européenne sans que cela se traduise forcément par une mobilisation sur la question de la candidature. Ce qui constituerait pour certains l'«identité européenne» de la Turquie ne permet pas de comprendre les attitudes vis-à-vis de l'UE. Par ailleurs, les analyses tendent (excepté dans le cas des hommes d'affaire) à rapporter le positionnement des organisations qui se disent pro-européennes à des calculs stratégiques. L'idée «d'agenda caché» est ainsi reprise pour qualifier l'action du gouvernement AKP. L'action de groupes minoritaires (les partis kurdes par exemple) en position de faiblesse en Turquie, est analysée en termes de «stratégie de survie» (Bozarslan, 2001). De telles analyses posent problème en ce qu'elles différencient les ressources et les stratégies d'une part et les valeurs de l'autre; un comportement stratégique n'est pas considéré comme un comportement sincère. De plus, elles considèrent les représentations et les attitudes vis-à-vis de l'UE comme stables; elles dénient alors toute sincérité à l'évolution des perceptions. L'analyse portera sur les trajectoires des acteurs et les processus de leur socialisation à l'Europe (Georgakakis, 2002). On insistera sur les facteurs et les acteurs de la socialisation : de quels savoirs et conceptions de l'UE sont porteurs les acteurs qui se mobilisent? Comment et dans quels contextes ont-ils construits ces représentations? Quel a été le rôle joué par des agents socialisateurs (groupes professionnels transnationaux, membres de l'organisation ayant un parcours scolaire ou professionnel en rapport avec les institutions européennes, etc.). Pour insister sur la dimension dynamique du processus, on tentera de mettre à jour comment la définition de la situation par les acteurs évolue, et comment les choix des acteurs sont opérés à la lumière des dispositions acquises au cours de phases antérieures de leur parcours. Les expériences hors du pays d'origine semblent être un élément important (parmi de nombreux autres) pour mieux saisir les évolutions des positionnements par rapport à lUE ou/et la Turquie.

À travers l'étude des trajectoires, on pourra notamment s'intéresser aux ressources sociales mobilisées autour de l'enjeu de la candidature. À partir de la notion de rôle, on s'interrogera sur l'émergence (ou non) de rôle «pro-européens» ou «anti-européens», «pro-Turquie» ou «anti-Turquie», compris comme. Quelles que soient les logiques qui ont présidé à leur investissement dans les problématiques européennes, on tentera de repérer si la mobilisation entraîne une transformation, voire une redéfinition des intérêts et des préférences des acteurs. Il s'agira également de mettre l'accent sur les relations entre l'investissement européen et les identités constituées des acteurs. Comment l'investissement européen interfère-t-il avec les identités professionnelles, partisanes, idéologiques, minoritaires (etc.)? Comment, par exemple, concilier la promotion à l'étranger de la candidature de la Turquie tout en revendiquant sur la scène interne une attitude très critique à l'égard du pouvoir en place (lui même pro-européen) et plus généralement de l'État turc?

2. Mobilisation et négociations

Une sociologie de la candidature à l'UE invite également à revisiter le processus des négociations en se focalisant sur les interactions qui le sous-tendent. Si le degré d'influence des groupes mobilisés sur les négociations est difficile à évaluer, on peut toutefois mettre à jour les cibles des groupes, les espaces qu'ils tentent d'investir (locaux, nationaux, transnationaux) de même que les ressources et les répertoires d'action collective qu'ils mobilisent pour chercher à façonner le processus de négociation en cours (Offerlé, 1998) Ces questions dessinent une appréhension plus large de la notion de négociation, au-delà des rencontres institutionnelles entre les acteurs gouvernementaux nationaux et les «institutions» européennes. Elles invitent ainsi à ouvrir la boîte noire de l'État et des institutions européennes pour analyser de façon détaillée le processus de négociation, et interroger les interactions entre acteurs politiques et sociaux mobilisés d'une part, les États ou les institutions européennes de l'autre (Polo, Visier, 2005). L'étude des registres utilisés par les différents acteurs et de la variation de leurs répertoires par rapport à ceux préexistants peut également donner matière à réflexion sur comment se construit l'espace politique européen à partir de l'enchevêtrement des espaces nationaux, internationaux et transnationaux.

3) Les effets de la mobilisation : configuration d'acteurs et rapports de pouvoir

Enfin, l'analyse de l'espace politique européen ne peut se faire sans prendre en compte les espaces socio-politiques nationaux. Quels que soient les lieux investis et les ressources utilisées autour de la candidature turque à l'UE, la constitution de l'enjeu Turquie/UE et les mobilisations auxquelles elle donne lieu ont des conséquences au sein des espaces nationaux telles que la modification de certains clivages, la redistribution d'un certain nombre de ressources politiques, la contribution à l'émergence de nouvelles catégories d'acteurs (Baisnée, Pasquier, 2007; Michel, 2002). L'étude des configurations socio-politiques nationales, de leur recomposition éventuelle ou de leur permanence permet de saisir la diversité des effets de l'émergence de l'Europe comme nouvel horizon politique (Massicard, 2004). Les acteurs mobilisés occupent différentes positions dans leurs espaces sociopolitiques d'origine et sont engagés dans des luttes de positions, structurant ainsi des configurations au niveau national ou européen. Leur mobilisation sur la question de la candidature de la Turquie peut potentiellement perturber ces configurations (via des rapprochements contre-nature par exemple entre acteurs traditionnellement en opposition : syndicats/milieux d'affaires; islamistes/milieux d'affaire de droite libérale). Il s'agira alors, de repérer à partir des jeux des acteurs les potentielles redistributions de pouvoir occasionné par l'investissement dans la thématique Turquie/UE. On peut également se demander si et pourquoi «les nouvelles opportunités politiques européennes fournissent à certains acteurs la faculté de changer leur rôle et leur positions sociales au niveau national?» (Favell, 2000: 153). On tentera enfin de repérer si l'évolution des configurations entraîne l'esquisse de nouvelles identités collectives. Comment ces nouvelles identités collectives sont-elles assumées, gérées?

Contact : Claire Visier (claire.visier@univ-rennes1.fr)/>

Les propositions (2-3 pages) sont à envoyer avant le 10 avril 2008 à Claire Visier.

East-Central Europe in the Cold War, 1945-1989

16-18 October 2008, Warsaw (Poland)

Deadline: 15 April 2008

International scholarly conference organised by:

• Institute of National Remembrance, Poland
• Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Cold War International History Project, Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, D.C.

For almost half a century the Cold War conflict shaped international relations and to a large extent influenced the history of individual nations. The Cold War was a global conflict, but in a particular manner was also a European conflict. The beginning and end of the Cold War (at least the beginning of its end) took place in Central Europe. For several dozen years Europeans on either side of the Iron Curtain prepared themselves for a potential apocalyptic conflict, or sought to prevent one from occurring. These preparations and preventative measures, to a hitherto insufficiently recognized degree, influenced their histories.

Thanks to the "archival revolution", which began in the 1990s in the wake of the opening of communist-era archives, our knowledge about the Cold War, and its influence on the countries of East-Central Europe and their roles in this conflict in particular, has greatly increased. Numerous topics, once the domain of pure speculation, can today be presented as grounded in primary sources. The aim of the conference is to present the newest studies and enable discussion among leading specialists from different countries.

The conference agenda includes six thematic blocks:

1. Activities of European Soviet Bloc countries towards the West during the Cold War.
2. Western European countries towards East-Central Europe during the Cold War.
3. Rifts between the European countries of the Communist Bloc and their exploitation by the West.
4. Countries of East-Central Europe and the Sino-Soviet conflict and other Communist Bloc tensions.
5. The role of East-Central Europe in Soviet policy towards the Third World.
6. Military aspects of the Cold War - the role of East-Central European countries in the Warsaw Pact and their place in the military plans of the East and West.

Conference languages: English and Polish.

Participants not presenting papers are also cordially invited to register for the conference. For full CFP, registration forms, and further organisational details, please see: http://ipn.gov.pl/portal/pl/618/6781/

Anna Piekarska
Institute of National Remembrance
Public Education Office
ul. Towarowa 28
00-839 Warszawa
Phone: (+48-22)4318370
Fax: (+48-22) 4318380
Email: anna.piekarska@ipn.gov.pl

Comparative and Trans-National History: Theories, Methodology and Case Studies European University Institute

14-18 September 2008, European University Institute, Florence

Deadline: 30 April 2008

Conveners: Prof. Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, Prof. Bartolomé Yun-Casalilla and Prof. Antonella Romano

Venue: Florence, Italy - Villa Schifanoia, Sala Europa

Are you convinced that national history and its approaches are limited? Do you want to look beyond the nation you are living in? In this case, you might be interested in HEC 2008 Summer School which will take place in one of the most evocative places in Florence: Villa Schifanoia.

The Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute is a major centre of comparative and transnational European history. The courses will allow you to continue and to broaden your research interests in this field. Well known specialists from the European University Institute and from other European outstanding Institutions will present interesting ways of writing the history of Europe as well as raising important questions on its development.

At the same time, you will have the opportunity to meet our researchers, who are preparing their Ph.D. in this European institution, participate in a seminar in this centre of excellence, visit the library and have time to get all information about how to apply to the European University Institute.

In the evening, you will have also the opportunity to visit Florence, one of the most beautiful towns of the world!

Main topics:

• Possibility of writing a new European History
• Comparative history and Trans-national History of Europe, state of the art, main problematics, perspectives of research
• Varieties of historical comparison: transfer history and "histoire croisée"
• Trans-national history
• Comparative approaches to the history of Early Modern Europe: views from the North, the South and the East of Europe
• Approaches to a comparative and cultural history of Europe
• Approaches to a comparative cultural history of Europe in a World Perspective

Invited Speakers:

• Prof. António Manuel Hespanha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
• Prof. Bénédicte Zimmermann (EHESS, Paris)
• Prof. Alberto Mario Banti (Università di Pisa)
• Prof. Jean Boutier (EHESS, Paris)

Contact: hec.summerschool@eui.eu
Website: http://www.eui.eu/HEC/ResearchTeaching/20082009-Autumn/SS-readmore.shtml

Transatlantic Perspectives on Security in the 21st Century

Groningen (Netherlands), June 23-July 4 2008

Deadline: 1st May 2008

How should the West anticipate the rise of China as a superpower? How should it deal with the forces of radicalization that are spreading both domestically as well as internationally? What is the best way to reconstruct a country that has just been ravaged by conflict? Our two-week summer course on global security, national security and conflict management viewed from a transatlantic perspective addresses these questions. Through an investigative, interactive and interdisciplinary approach, students will examine the myriad of challenges faced by the transatlantic community at the start of the 21st century. This programme is an international initiative hosted by the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, and supported by representatives of European, Canadian and American institutions.

Introduction

Despite being oceans apart, Western Europe and North America go way back. The legacy of their partnership on the security and prosperity on both sides of the Atlantic can be traced up till today. However, ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, what actually divides the two areas has increasingly come into the spotlights. Leading academics and politicians have argued that below the continuing veil of fluffy NATO talk, there are fundamental differences in the perspectives of Europe and North America on the way modern day security threats should be dealt with. The most obvious example is of course the Iraq crisis in 2003. Such internal erosion of the transatlantic security community, if it would indeed be the case, does not come at a very convenient time. Both sides of the Atlantic have suffered on an unprecedented scale from terrorist attacks inspired by religious fanaticism and a deep resentment against the West; paralleled in the Islamic world by a further deterioration of political stability through the external toppling of two regimes, and an increasingly vigilant and provocative Iranian one.

Moreover, after a decade of political hibernation, Russia is once again reasserting itself as one of the major powers in international politics. And what to think of the unstoppable growth of the populous India and China? Besides, the terrorist attacks in notably London and Madrid have shown that there are also new threats coming from within. A tiny, disgruntled group within the West has taken up arms to create havoc in their society under the banner of (mostly) religious, fundamentalist ideas. Similarly, with no end in sight in the occurrence of local conflicts on the basis of i.e. ethnic or religious differences, external military assistance is likely to be increasingly called upon.

These challenges demand effective responses from the Western countries. Difficult choices will have to be taken, whether they are about pre-emptive strikes, the securing of energy independence, intelligence sharing or post-conflict reconstruction and peace building. For a true understanding of the character of the transatlantic security community in the 21st century we therefore require a much better understanding of these particular challenges as well as of the convergence and divergence that may exist between the approaches favoured by the different parts of the transatlantic community. This is where the summer school Transatlantic Perspectives on Security in the 21st century, to take place in Groningen in June 2008, takes off.

Approach

The aim of the summer school is to provide students with a firm understanding of the challenges confronted by the transatlantic security community at the beginning of the 21st century, as well as of the convergence and divergence that may exist between the approaches favoured by the different parts of the transatlantic community. During the summer school, lectures and panel sessions with experts will be complemented by a variety of non-formal, interactive methods. Workshops, group work and simulations will be used in order to stimulate the students to approach the themes from different perspectives and in a more proactive fashion.

In addition, several excursions are scheduled, among which to the International Court of Justice, the International Tribunal, and a military base. If students submit a paper after the summer school, they are eligible for 5 ECTS from the University of Groningen, which will be mentioned on their certificate.

Overview modules

Module 1: Transatlantic perspectives on global security: common interests and diverging solutions Leading questions: What are the characteristics of the transatlantic security community? Which are the external challenges that it will have to cope with? What are the internal differences within the transatlantic security community in terms of (i.e.) threat perceptions and strategic culture? Main concepts: collective security, security community, international order and stability, security threats, strategic culture.

Module 2: National security: identity, interests and policies Leading questions: How does the transatlantic security community cope with the challenges to national security after 9/11 and the terrorist attacks in Madrid and London? Which sources of radicalization led to the recent increase in terrorism? How do both sides of the Atlantic cooperate in matters of terrorism? To which extent are civil liberties being compromised for security assurances? How can differences between the different approaches be explained? Main concepts: national/domestic security, radicalization, terrorism, intelligence, civil liberties.

Module 3: Conflict management: analysis, intervention and reconstruction Leading questions: What are the main priorities and challenges for conflict management at the beginning of the 21st century? How does conflict management fit into the transatlantic security agenda? How do both sides cooperate in matters of conflict management, and are there any significant differences in their respective approaches? Which lessons can be learned from previous experiences in conflict management? Main concepts: conflict management, conflict prevention, post-conflict reconstruction, civil-military cooperation.

Profile and selection requirements

Participants to the summer school are expected to be generally interested in security issues and transatlantic security in particular. They have to be currently enrolled in an undergraduate programme or have just graduated from an undergraduate programme. Finally, they should have advanced English writing and speaking skills. Due to the transatlantic perspective of the summer school, we heartily welcome students from both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Applicants will be required to submit a 400-word motivation letter in order to be accepted to the selection process. The motivation letter should clearly state why the applicant wants to participate in the summer school and the expectations he/she has with regards to the content of the summer school. Participants will be selected on the basis of their profile and their motivation letter.

Practical issues

The Programme will be housed at the University of Groningen (Faculty of Arts), in the heart of the city of Groningen, from 23 June-4 July. The fee for non-EU/EER participants is 1,250 EUR. The fee for EU/EER participants is 500 EUR. The fee includes manuals, accommodation, social and cultural activities and excursions for the full duration of the summer school, as well as a few dinners. In case participants will be in need of visa assistance, this can be provided by the International Office of the Faculty of Arts (international.office.let@rug.nl).

Information and application

Students can send their application by email to: summerschool.transantlantic.security@rug.nl

For further information: http://www.rug.nl/let/onderwijs/summerschool2008/index

Transatlantic Studies Association Annual Conference

Dundee University (West Park Conference Centre), 7-10 July 2008 (United Kingdom)

Deadline: 1st May 2008

Plenaries:

• Serge Ricard (University of Paris III): "Theodore Roosevelt: Imperialist or Global Strategist in the New Expansionist Age?"
• Bruce Jentleson, (Duke University): "The Atlantic Alliance in a Post-American World"
• Kathleen Burk (University College London): tba

We welcome proposals by individuals, full panels of three speakers or a series of related panels focusing on a particular theme or topic. Please direct any initial questions to Alan Dobson (a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk) or the relevant panel co-ordinator. We would welcome early submission of proposals and panels.

We would also like to invite proposals for well-structured inter-disciplinary Roundtables on particular events, themes, regions / countries amongst others ideas.

Panels:

1. History, Diplomacy, Security Studies and International Relations: David Ryan (david.ryan@ucc.ie) and Alan Dobson (a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk)
2. Literature/Culture: Chuck Gannon (cgannon@sbu.edu)
3. Economics: Joe McKinney (joe_mckinney@baylor.edu), Fiona Venn (vennf@essex.ac.uk) and Jeffrey Engel (jengel@bushschool.tamu.edu)
4. Planning Regeneration and the Environment: Anthony Jackson (a.a.jackson@dundee.ac.uk)
5. Race, Migration Alan Dobson (a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk). Please note email change: annick.cizel@univ-paris3.fr)

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1. Panel US, EU AND MULTILATERALISM - Carla Monteleone (University of Palermo) and Steve Marsh (University of Cardiff)

While the EU in the European Security Strategy has included amongst its strategic goals the support to an international order based on effective multilateralism, the US, that built its hegemony on multilateral institutions, is now struggling not to be perceived as a unilateral actor. The panel aims at examining the US and the EU as multilateral actors and to verify, in various functional and regional areas, if and how much for the two actors multilateralism represents a strategic goal, and if American and European multilateralism should really be interpreted as two different models.

Papers examining the following aspects (in relation to both actors, but also to each actor individually taken) will be particularly welcome:

1. relations with other international organisations (UN, NATO, WTO, IMF, OSCE, ASEAN, AU, etc.);
2. the approach to the solution of issues of global impact (trade, security, human rights, environment, terrorism, democracy promotion, nuclear proliferation, etc.) or regional character (Balkans, Middle East, Caucasus, Mediterranean, Africa, etc.);
3. impact of internal actors on the formulation of uni/multilateral policies in the US and in the EU.

Proposals (no more than 400 words) should be sent to Carla Monteleone (cmonteleone@unipa.it).

2. Panel TRANSATLANTIC PERSPECTIVES ON GLOBAL MIGRATION - Dr. Jérôme Elie and Prof. Jussi Hanhimäki. Programme for the Study of Global Migration (PSGM) at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Since 1945, in the context of increasing globalization, migration phenomena have played an important role in national as well as international politics. Immigration and emigration have obviously reshaped many regions of the world, influencing the history of most countries. This panel proposes to address the transatlantic connection as regards the impact of migration on national history but also as regards the development of international and/or regional norms and policies designed to address these issues.

Ideally, papers should bring or allow for comparative approaches and emphasise cooperation and/or conflicts between Europe and America in developing policies or in dealing with particular migration issues such as illegal migration; forced migration and refugees; the migration/security nexus; and policies towards international organizations such as IOM and UNHCR. Population movements across the Atlantic and their impact on transatlantic relations are also topics of interest for this panel. Papers can address these themes from a historical and/or legal perspective, as well as from the standpoint of Political Science.

Proposals in a 300 word abstract and a brief CV should be submitted to Jerome Elie (elie8@hei.unige.ch) or to Alan Dobson (a.p.dobson@dundee.ac.uk).

3. Panel LATIN AMERICA IN THE TRANSATLANTIC FRAMEWORK - Thomas Mills (thomas.mills@brunel.ac.uk).

This panel will consider the place of Latin America in relations between the great transatlantic powers. The panel will not be limited to any particular chronological period, but rather will seek to compare the changing place of Latin America in transatlantic relations in different periods. Papers might consider competition / cooperation between the transatlantic powers in military, economic, or ideological terms with regard to Latin America. Papers can focus either on transatlantic relations concerning a particular country in Latin America, or on the region as a whole.

4. Panel NATO: BETWEEN OLD AND NEW RESPONSIBILITIES - Ellen Williams (d.e.williams@reading.ac.uk) andl Luca Ratti (ratti@uniroma3.it).

The broad theme of this year's NATO panel will be "NATO: between old and new responsibilities". As NATO approaches its 60th anniversary, it faces many ongoing challenges, both old and new. In light of this, we welcome proposals on NATO's expanding global agenda, including current missions and operations, Afghanistan, global partnerships, energy security, transformation, and future enlargement. We also welcome proposals on more traditional concerns, including NATO's relations with Russia and the EU, as well as regional perspectives on NATO, to include US, UK and other individual member state perspectives.

Some of the papers should be 60-year historical retrospectives, with panellists invited to derive lessons learned, as well as to offer thoughts on NATO's future.

Some of the papers will be nominated for publication in a special issue of the International Journal (Canadian Institute of International Affairs) guest-edited by Dr. Steve Marsh of Cardiff University and Professor Alan Dobson, Dundee University. All such nominations will have to be refereed in the normal way and the selection will have to meet the broad requirements of balance between themes and individual state perspectives. The deadline for consideration of final versions of such articles will be 1 October 2008. The special issue will be published in 2009.

Challenges to democratic governance in new democracies in CEE and the Balkans

October 10-11, 2008, Budapest

Deadline: 15 May 2008

Organiser: Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracy (DISC) at Central European University, Freedom House Europe

The organizers welcome papers that make a comparison of countries of CEE and the Balkans along any of the following dimension(s):

• National Democratic Governance: Considers the democratic character and stability of the governmental system; the independence, effectiveness, and accountability of legislative and executive branches; and the democratic oversight of military and security services;
• Electoral Process: Examines national executive and legislative elections, electoral processes, the development of multiparty systems, and popular participation in the political process;
• Civil Society: Assesses the growth of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), their organizational capacity and financial sustainability, and the legal and political environment in which they function; the development of free trade unions; and interest group participation in the policy process;
• Independent Media: Addresses the current state of press freedom, including libel laws, harassment of journalists, editorial independence, the emergence of a financially viable private press, and Internet access for private citizens;
• Local Democratic Governance: Considers the decentralization of power; the responsibilities, election, and capacity of local governmental bodies; and the transparency and accountability of local authorities;
• Judicial Framework and Independence: Highlights constitutional reform, human rights protections, criminal code reform, judicial independence, the status of ethnic minority rights, guarantees of equality before the law, treatment of suspects and prisoners, and compliance with judicial decisions;
• Corruption: Looks at public perceptions of corruption, the business interests of top policy makers, laws on financial disclosure and conflict of interest, and the efficacy of anticorruption initiatives.

Language: English

Contact: Stefan Cibian, PhD Candidate, International Relations and European Studies Department, Central European University, Nador u. 9, 1051 Budapest, Hungary (disc@ceu.hu)

Website: http://www.disc-ceu.org/events/october-conference/

EU's role in the world - what priorities? Revisiting the European Security Strategy

29 July-5 August 2008, Brussels

Deadline: 25 May 2008

The THESEUS Summer Schools bring together young and excellent professionals and researchers, address global challenges and European answers and promote transnational interdisciplinary networks With the incoming French presidency the future of EU's role on the international scene figures high on the agenda.

The topic is controversially discussed among political actors. The negotiations leading to the Lisbon Treaty highlighted this once again. Simultaneously, demands on the EU have increased both from European actors and from the outside world to take up more responsibility for the security of its own citizens and for security and stability in the world. Applying both an analytical and a normative approach, the THESEUS Summer School will ask what the current role of the EU in the world is and what it should be in the future. Analysis and debate will focus especially on the European Security Strategy of 2003 and the examination of its implementation decided in December 2007.

The THESEUS Summer School will analyse the EU's role as a "global actor" and start by asking main political decisionmakers, civil servants and experts about their view on current and future priorities for EU external action. During the week participants and experts will assess the European Security Strategy and the potential impact of the new institutional parameters of the Lisbon Treaty on further common action. Together they will try to elaborate first advice for the future of the Security Strategy and EU external action.

The school will feature speakers and high level experts from international organisations, research, business, politics and NGOs such as Gianni Bonvicini (Istituto Affari Internazionali), Geoffrey Edwards (Cambridge University), Gunilla Herolf (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) or Elfriede Regelsberger (Institut für Europäische Politik, Berlin). Jolyon Howorth (Yale University) will accompany the school as THESEUS Resident Researcher. Beyond his own teaching he will animate the debate and advise students on group and individual basis.

The summer school addresses primarily PhD students and young professionals working in public administrations, diplomatic services, NGOs, national ministries, interest groups, the media, etc. Excellent undergraduate students can be accepted exceptionally. Teaching language is English.

The 20 participants will be selected on the basis of a motivation letter explaining their interest in the topic against the background of their CV and their professional career. The tuition fee is 550 euros for professionals (450 euros without accommodation) and 250 euros (150 euros without accommodation) for PhD students. Please indicate on your application if you need accommodation! Travel costs are not reimbursed. On the basis of merit and need there is a limited amount of scholarships available.

Please send your cover letter, CV and certificates by 25/05/2007 via e-mail to Wiebke Dreger M.A. (wiebke.dreger@uni-koeln.de).

Contact and further information: http://www.theseus-europa.net/

Convergence et divergence des systèmes financiers nationaux au temps des étalons-or, 1871-1971/Convergence and divergence of national financial systems during the gold standards, 1871-1971

25-27 september 2008, Villa Clythia, Fréjus (France)

Deadline: 1st June 2008

CALL FOR PAPERS -- ARGUMENT

In the litterature financial convergence appears as the process that draws together different national economies towards common institutions (rules) and organizations. The existence of one common rule is thus supposed to encourage the convergence process. But, notwithstanding the existence of an agreed upon basic rule between 1871 and 1971 - i.e. gold as the international and national monetary anchor - the monetary and financial practices varied considerably during the period and between countries.

The comparative history and economics of financial systems stumble over many difficulties. First, to compare a system with another means most of the times to compare a nation with another, disregarding the internal and local varieties. Second, diachronic dimensions tend to be overlooked, freezing the characteristics of a given financial system in a coherent and long-lasting framework. Third, the term "financial system" is implying a high degree of coordination and mutual dependence between the elements of this system that may in reality not exist. Fourth, the "financial system" is sometimes simultaneously used in two different and incompatible ways in research, one as a description of a kind of financial organization and one as an "ideal type" used to test and characterize different national financial systems. In short, the notion is used both in a descriptive and in an explanatory way. Fifth, access to archives and strategic records is limited.

The use of different disciplinary approaches and of historical perspective, spanning from the 1870s to the 1970s, allow us to tackle these difficulties. Our ambition is empirical as well as methodological: we intend to build an analytical framework for the understanding of financial systems through a collection of cases. Shocks, crises, distribution of power, politics, local agents, interest groups, competing financial centers and microstructures shed different and complementary lights on what defines and transforms financial systems. Combining different approaches certainly mitigates the idea of one single dominant explanatory variable behind the structure and/or evolution of financial systems. It also exemplifies shifts in the most significant variables between different periods. As a first hypothesis we define a financial system as an architecture of rules, practices, organizations and power balances, which constantly adapts and evolves.

In order to analyze convergence and divergence of national financial systems, we concentrate on four related but distinct questions:

• Financial crises as an instrument for exploring the structure of financial systems.
• The link between short-term credit organization and financial systems structure.
• Financial systems analyzed as networks of financial centers.
• From savings to investments? The interweaving roles of the financial and monetary systems

Session 1: Financial Centers and Financial Crises (Session organization: Anders ögren)

A study by Eichengreen and Flandreau (The Geography of the Gold Standard, 1994) shows that not even the classical gold standard revolved around one financial center, i.e. London. Instead there were several economic zones with different regional financial centers for different peripheries. In the 2001 paper "Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes and Globalization" Bordo and Flandreau further pointed to the differences between core and periphery countries as some peripheral countries have their foreign debt denominated in foreign currencies; which of course makes them more vulnerable for financial crises and floating or depreciating exchange rates.

Thus, all countries have not through history been able to mitigate financial crises in the same manner. A too generous support of financial agents in times of crises may for instance lead to a currency crisis in more peripheral economies (see for instance "Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: A Canonical Model" by Chang & Velasco (1998) and "Lender of Last Resort in a Peripheral Economy with a Fixed Exchange Rate: Financial Crises and Monetary Policy in Sweden under the Silver and Gold Standards, 1834-1913" by Ögren (2007)).

On the other hand, as summarized by Bagehot, a too passive acting of the monetary and financial authorities may also spur the crisis (see also "The Lender of Last Resort: Some Historical Insights" by Bordo (1989) and "A European Lender of Last Resort? Some Lessons from History" by Capie and Wood (1995)). In this session we ask if the effects of the actions of the monetary and financial authorities in times of crises are different depending on the position of the financial center. And if the way the financial crisis can be met provides information about the importance of the financial center as such in relation to other financial centers and which periphery the financial center is connected to. We are of course also interested in the historical dynamics regarding these issues; i.e. how has this changed over time?

Session 2: Short-term credits and financial systems: norms, practices and path dependency (Session organization: Patrice Baubeau)

Short term credit plays a central role in the making and coherence of financial systems. It does so through the global turnover of most financial intermediaries as well as through money issuance rules and practices. The linkage between monetary assets and financial activities at large can be established and managed by organizations and/or markets, but in both cases it is based on a specific kind of assets: short term credits and rely heavily on one specific kind of institution: Central banks.

Financial systems themselves are characterized by different types of short-term credits. Building a typology is nevertheless complex, because it should encompass a) quantitative dynamics; b) basic legal characteristics of short term bills; c) the channels through which they are funneled to money issuance or to long term finance. This means it is necessary to include practices and institutions into the typology.

Consequently, one can discriminates among financial systems through legal traditions, practices of emissions, rules governing monetization and the way in which short-term credits are traded. But this does not lead necessarily to dispersion, since there is a common issue to the different ways of articulating monetization and finance: avoiding and managing liquidity crises. The goal of this session is to investigate how much theses differences are structurally significant and whether they create path dependent systems. It is also assumed that major crises, because they reveal the underneath structural weaknesses of the linkage between finance and money, help to understand both monetization processes and financial systems structures. To identify who creates short-term credits, who accepts, endorses, guarantees or circulates them, and how, would help us to precise the design of financial systems as well as build comparison bases with the "balance sheet" approach in Session 4.

Session 3: Financial systems as networks of financial centers (Session organization: Angelo Riva)

National financial systems can be considered as networks of infra-national financial centers, which can develop local practices that sometimes diverge radically from national standards (i.e. legal rules). These local approaches to finance can, on one hand, raise frictions that segment the national markets and decrease its efficiency. On the other hand, they can be particularly adapted to satisfy the financial needs of a region, thus to boost local growth, or to deserve the interests of local or external incumbents. Although resilient, these practices are often broken down by financial integration and/or challengers, with contradictory consequences on both local finance and growth.

On the one hand, these local practices may imply the specialization of the financial center (or of specific institutions of the financial center) in either particular activities or business, often related to local industry. On the other hand, a financial center, even if not the dominant one, can offer a wide range of services to deserve diversified local/national financial needs. Within the framework of the political and legal national environment, these dynamics can shape a hierarchy of financial centers (national, regional and local centers), which is characterized by high levels of financial centralization. The output of these interactions could also be a more horizontal financial centers" network, in which financial activity is relatively decentralized. The form of the national network could be also shaped by its interactions with the international financial network and its position towards its hierarchical structure.

All these scenarios present relative advantages and limits. Moreover, concerning all these issues, the links between financial centers (flows of information, capital, services and people) are crucial to insure the well functioning and the perpetuity of both the single financial center and the national financial system. In this session, we discuss in depth the topics sketched above. Organizers specially welcome papers based on social sciences, institutional and organizational economics, and geographical approaches in historical perspective.

Session 4: From savings to investments? The interweaving roles of the financial and monetary systems (Session organization: Luca Fantacci and Carlo Brambilla)

This session addresses the connection between savings and investments through the articulation of the credit and financial system with the monetary system. Contributions may focus on specific aspects in specific European countries. However, a comparative approach is welcome, and will be, in any case, the purpose of discussion during the workshop. The balance sheets of intermediaries and central banks provides significant sources in the tracking of systemic relations between assets and liabilities, and hence the distribution of risk, amongst the various actors within the credit system.

Thus, contributions will address issues such as: How is money creation by central banks related to gold reserves, foreign exchange and public debt? How is this money transferred and multiplied by the banking system and by the stock market (e.g. through the creation of liquidity for securities used as collateral)? How do the rules of the international monetary system, from the classical gold standard to the gold exchange standard to the Bretton Woods system, affect the mechanics of money creation, the dynamics of the credit cycle and the relations between money and credit? What are, in more general terms, the effects of banking and market regulation on the functioning of the multiplier (e.g. through reserve requirements, capital adequacy ratios, information disclosure policies)?

Application and Organization

Participants should send a summary of their proposed paper (400 words, Word or PDF), their preferred session and a brief CV including their academic affiliation-(s) before June 1st, 2008. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than July 1st, 2008 and if accepted, will have to send the complete paper before September 1, 2008.

Accepted participants will be refunded for travel expenses and other accommodation costs.

The conference will be held in four half-day sessions. The third day will be devoted to the examination of the points of convergence between the papers, so as to prepare the final publication.

Organization: Patrice Baubeau - Carlo Brambilla - Luca Fantacci - Anders Ögren - Angelo Riva (Université Paris 10 Nanterre and IDHE, Università Bocconi, Stockholm School of Economics)

Scientific Committee: Youssef Cassis - Marc Flandreau - Richard Sylla - Bruno Théret

This conference is supported by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France).

Website: http://homepage.mac.com/patrice14/

Contacts: Patrice Baubeau (patrice.baubeau@orange.fr), Luca Fantacci (luca.fantacci@unibocconi.it), Anders Ögren (Anders.Ogren@hhs.se), Angelo Riva (angelo.riva@unimi.it).

Vivre et construire l'Europe à l'échelle territoriale de 1945 à nos jours

19-20 mars 2009, Maison des sciences humaines, Angers

Date limite : 31 mai 2008

«L'Europe des régions» désigne à la fois une revendication des peuples et un objectif politique de l'Union européenne. Mais quelle réalité concrète et quelle épaisseur historique cette expression recouvre-t-elle pour les populations européennes? Dans quelle mesure les relations européennes initiées à l'échelle territoriale ont-elles joué un rôle dans l'appropriation par les Européens d'une conscience européenne?

L'objectif général de ce colloque est de faire le point sur l'histoire des liens tissés entre les collectivités territoriales des États européens. Des jumelages de communes aux grandes opérations régionales européennes (arc atlantique, arc méditerranéen) en passant par des relations fondées sur l'histoire et toutes sortes d'initiatives associatives dans les domaines scolaire, sportif, culturel, est-il possible d'établir une typologie et une chronologie de tous ces partenariats? En quoi ces relations résultant d'initiatives de terrain ont-elles permis aux Européens de mieux se connaître, de se rencontrer, de vivre l'Europe au quotidien et de faire avancer la construction européenne en faisant se rapprocher les sociétés?

Il s'agit ici d'aborder l'histoire de la construction européenne non du point de vue institutionnel, mais dans sa dimension socioculturelle et pratique en la croisant avec l'histoire locale et régionale et en mobilisant les autres sciences humaines, principalement la géographie, la sociologie et la science politique. En réfléchissant à un niveau infra-national relativement peu étudié, où collaborent société civile et collectivités territoriales, l'objectif est de se rapprocher des acteurs pour interroger le sens concret qu'ils donnent à l'idée d'Europe. On étudiera donc le contenu des initiatives européennes menées par les citoyens au niveau local, leur réception par les populations et leur éventuel encouragement et prolongement par les politiques territoriales.

L'horizon de cette enquête est la question difficile du sentiment d'appartenance à l'Europe et de son évolution depuis 1945. Ce faisant, on rejoint le chantier de recherche sur les identités européennes qui s'interroge sur ce qui fait et modifie l'identification des citoyens à l'Europe, en interaction avec le contexte international et les grandes étapes de la construction européenne. Les liens complexes entre identité régionale et identité européenne seront naturellement au c\234ur de la réflexion. L'aire géographique envisagée pour l'analyse de ces échanges est large : si elle englobe de manière privilégiée les pays des Communautés puis de l'Union européenne, elle ne s'y réduit pas et inclut des coopérations avec les autres pays européens, notamment à l'Est.

Les angles d'approche possibles étant multiples, nous les regroupons ici en quatre grands ensembles :

1. Axe 1 : Les initiatives. Ce premier axe entend prendre la mesure de la diversité des initiatives d'échanges européens prises au niveau local. Les jumelages de communes européennes sont sans doute l'un des aspects les plus connus. Aujourd'hui, il en existe 30 000 que le CCRE (Conseil des Communes et Régions d'Europe) considère comme «un moyen vital d'amener l'Europe aux citoyens». Mais les jumelages ne constituent pas les seules initiatives d'amitié internationale. On pourra s'interroger sur les autres formes de coopérations européennes menées localement, que ce soit dans les domaines de l'éducation (échanges scolaires, universitaires), de la culture (le cinéma par exemple avec le réseau européen des cinémas d'art et d'essai), du sport ou des coopérations économiques. L'objectif est non pas de multiplier les exemples locaux, mais de dresser une typologie des échanges, en lien avec les grandes phases d'une chronologie à établir en interaction avec le contexte international. La problématique portant sur les effets anticipateurs ou accompagnateurs des initiatives locales par rapport à la construction européenne pourra être abordée.
2. Axe 2 : Les acteurs. Ce deuxième axe s'intéresse aux acteurs locaux issus de la société civile qui sont à l'origine de ces échanges européens. On envisage autant les acteurs individuels que les acteurs collectifs agissant à l'échelle territoriale (associations, Églises, institutions culturelles, dépôts d'archives), parfois en lien avec les organes élus de la décentralisation. En effet, si les acteurs porteurs de l'idée européenne au plan national commencent à être mieux connus des historiens (grâce notamment aux travaux sur les élites ou les experts politiques, administratifs, économiques ou militaires), il n'en va pas de même pour les acteurs locaux. Pour comprendre les raisons de leur engagement européen et leur influence au sein de la Cité, on pourra mobiliser différents outils méthodologiques comme la sociologie des réseaux, la prosopographie ou l'histoire orale. Les archives administratives comme associatives peuvent être mises à contribution. Il est envisagé d'organiser une table ronde de témoins : «retours d'expériences».
3. Axe 3 : L'Europe comme enjeu et objet de politique locale. Cet axe souhaite interroger les liens entre l'idée européenne et la vie politique locale et régionale. Pour ce faire, on peut s'intéresser à la manière dont l'Europe a pu constituer un enjeu politique, par exemple lors des campagnes électorales. On pense également à la dimension européenne des politiques territoriales : ainsi on pourra étudier entre autres la construction de maisons de l'Europe financées par les collectivités, les formes de coopération régionale décentralisée ou la promotion des capitales culturelles européennes induisant une dynamique économique et culturelle. Il s'agit de développer à partir de l'analyse locale une réflexion sur la dimension politique de l'Europe. Les propositions de communication devront prendre en compte les échelles territoriales propres au pays concerné.
4. Axe 4 : La réception de ces politiques et de ces initiatives dans la population : la question de l'identité européenne. La question de la réception de ces initiatives et de ces politiques européennes diverses par les populations locales est centrale pour comprendre les voies complexes et sinueuses de l'identification des Européens à l'Europe et la démocratisation de celle-ci. Ce dernier axe a donc pour ambition une étude des représentations de l'Europe et de l'appropriation de l'idée européenne à l'échelle territoriale. À cet égard, on pourra mobiliser la presse locale et régionale comme indicateur de l'opinion, mais aussi les résultats régionaux des différents sondages, référendums et scrutins européens en les mettant en regard avec les dynamismes régionaux en matière d'échanges européens. L'objectif sera d'esquisser une typologie des régions sensibilisées par leurs pratiques d'échanges à l'idée européenne.

De manière générale, le colloque s'efforcera de déterminer si ces pratiques locales ont eu une incidence sur la dynamique de la construction européenne.

Organisateurs : Yves Denéchère, Université d'Angers, HIRES, CERHIO UMR 6258; Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, Université d'Angers, HIRES, CERHIO UMR 6258.

Comité scientifique : Marie-Thérèse Bitsch (Université de Strasbourg III), Corinne Defrance (UMR IRICE), Anne Dulphy (Ecole polytechnique et IEP Paris), Robert Frank (Université Paris I), Jean-Baptiste Humeau (Université d'Angers), Hartmut Kaelble (Université Humboldt, Berlin), Florin Platon (Université de Iasi, Roumanie), Éric Remacle (Université Libre de Bruxelles).

Propositions : Les propositions de communication comportant un titre et un résumé d'une vingtaine de lignes sont à envoyer accompagnées d'un court CV avant le 31 mai 2008 aux deux adresses suivantes : yves.denechere@univ-angers.fr et mariebvincent@yahoo.fr. La décision du comité de sélection des communications sera indiquée par courriel avant fin juin 2008.

Contact :

Yves Denéchère
yves.denechere@univ-angers.fr
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, boulevard Lavoisier
49045 ANGERS cedex 01

Marie-Bénédicte Vincent
mariebvincent@yahoo.fr
Maison des Sciences Humaines
11, boulevard Lavoisier
49045 ANGERS cedex 01

The First World War and the End of Neutrality

7 March 2009, The Hague (The Netherlands)

Deadline: 31st May 2008

In his seminal The Decline of Neutrality, first published in 1950, Nils Ørvik stated that the First World War spelled the beginning of the end for neutrality. During this Great War, both belligerent blocs expected the neutrals to realign their neutrality in their favour. Some neutrals, such as the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland, engaged in a daring balancing act between the economic demands placed on them by the Germans and British. Others, such as Belgium, could not maintain their neutrality (or even their sovereignty) in the face of military demands placed on them by the Central Powers or the Allies. Moreover, in a "total war" cast in terms of a battle between good and evil, traditional neutral morality quickly evaporated. The moral high ground was no longer theirs; instead, they were increasingly seen as cowards, war-profiteers or enemy collaborators. Finally, the legal framework that had been established during the nineteenth century to safeguard neutral rights against belligerent action in war was slowly, but decisively, demolished in wartime.

To date Ørviks views are still prevalent in international literature on the First World War. The small neutrals' role in international events is deemed to be minimal. Their war history is most often reduced as one of steadily encroaching demands on their sovereignty, which they were powerless to resist. Only the neutral United States was able to stand up to belligerents, but the distance between her and warring Europe, her size and might, and her disposition towards the Allied case made her, according to most historians of the First World War, an exempt case.

In recent historiography neutrality in Europe and the United States moved between the often frightening possibility of an involuntary violation of neutrality (viz. Belgium and Greece) and the prospect of a voluntary abandonment of neutrality when it was deemed incompatible with the national interest (viz. the United States, Italy and Romania). Moreover, as traditional legal and moral conceptions of neutrality lost their meaning, others supplanted them.

The question of the decline or transformation of neutrality will form the subject of a conference to be held at The Hague, March 7th, 2009. The conference will be organized by M. de Keizer and I. Tames (Netherlands Institute for War Documentation), J.P. den Hertog (Leiden University) and S. Kruizinga (The University of Amsterdam) in cooperation with the Royal Dutch Historical Society (KNHG).

During the conference, we will focus on the question of how both the concept and the practice of neutrality were changed by the First World War. In order to do so, will focus on studying the following themes, in a comparative fashion:

• In what way and in what direction did neutrality change during the First World War?
• How did changes in the concept of neutrality impact on a "neutral" society?
• How and why did these changing concepts influence "neutral" countries in the economic, military, political and cultural sphere?

We invite scholars to contribute to this conference. Please send a one page proposal, detailing the outline of an article which deals with these themes, plus a short c.v. of the author (or authors) to the organizers before May 31st, 2008 to the following address: s.f.kruizinga@uva.nl or m.de.keizer@niod.nl.

The organizing committee will select the most promising papers on their scholarly merits. The selected authors will be invited to give a lecture at The Hague. Naturally, we invite all those interested in this subject to attend and participate in discussions as well.

A collection of the papers will be published in the autumn of 2009 by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD). Details of the conference will be published on the website of the NIOD by January 2008: http://www.niod.nl/conferences/

Does the past matter? Renegotiating the past, communal identity, and multiculturalism in Europe

Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway

13-14th of November 2008

Deadline: 31st May 2008

In our liquid second modernity, as Zygmunt Bauman declared, amnesia has seemingly reached epidemic proportions. Sociologists, cultural critics and historians warn us that our modern society has severed the ties with the past in order to inhabit the present and the future, and has embraced a hodgepodge of ready-made identities, whilst rejecting more traditional forms of identification. However, it is not necessarily so. The past matters.

The question remains: how should we relate to national and cultural histories while striving to create a new multicultural Europe? Should we be advocates of Nietzschean antiquarian or critical modes of relating to history? Or is there a need for a more transgressive approach to history that would allow creating a civic European platform?

The aim of this seminar is twofold. First, it aims to address the issue of negotiating between past and present at both local and national levels in Europe; secondly, to investigate the influence of this enterprise on the formation of progressive communal identities. The wide scope of the conference is intended to be informed by a variety of perspectives (cultural, political, ethical, religious and social) from which the relationship between the past, identity, and our perception of the 'Other' can be viewed.

Contributions from a variety of disciplines are welcome: women and gender studies, literary and film studies, political science, philosophy, sociology and history. Proposals for interdisciplinary and comparative papers are especially welcome. The main questions of the seminar are:

• Does the re-examination of the past contribute to the cohesion or fragmentation of a community?
• How important is the recovery of the past for postcolonial and post-totalitarian societies?
• Is reckoning with the past conducive to cultural pluralism?
• Can renegotiation of the past contribute to the inclusion of cultural, racial and political Others in Europe?
• What ethical considerations does this enterprise raise for the project of multicultural Europe?
• In what ways does immigration influence our relationship with the national past?

Keynote Speakers: Dr Ronit Lentin (TCD, Ireland), second speaker to be confirmed

Proposals of up to 250 words for 20 minute duration papers should be sent to Dr Kinga Olszewska at kinga.olszewska@nuigalway.ie. Accepted formats are Word and PDF. Please include also the following information: name, affiliation, contact details, and technical requirements. Abstract submission deadline is 31st of May 2008. Paper acceptance notification will be sent out by the 20th of June 2008.

Contact:

Dr Kinga Olszewska
Moore Institute
National University of Ireland, Galway
Fax: (00353) 91-495507
Email: kinga.olszewska@nuigalway.ie

The Impact of the European Union on Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

25-29 August 2008, Freiburg

Deadline: 15 June 2008

Partners: Institut für politische Bildung Wiesneck Baden-Würtemberg, Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Arnold Bergstraesser Institut.

The aim of this conference is to encourage interdisciplinary academic debate and an exchange of ideas between young researchers in the fields of politics, economics, European studies and sociology on the role of the EU in Eastern Europe. Furthermore we want to build an international network of young researchers from Eastern Europe and researchers from central EU countries.

We encourage graduate students and researchers from across Europe, especially researchers from Eastern Europe and graduates with alternative perspectives towards the EU, to contribute papers and to participate in the discussion panels. Each panel will include approximately 3 to 4 papers.

Discussion topics include, but are not limited to:

• The impact of the EU on democratic consolidation in new or emerging developing countries in the process of democratic consolidation
• Negotiations, strategies and instruments used by the EU
• Fields and areas of democratisation
• Rule of law and justice
• Economy
• Institution-building
• Rights of minorities
• Internal structures relevant for the democratisation process
• Parties
• Civil society
• Political culture
• Perception and legitimacy of the EU
• Critical voices of European integration
• Migration policies
• Environmental issues

One of the panels concerns the EU critical view on the EU from within: Switzerland and Norway. This panel is connected to an academic study trip to Basel.

Key speakers will be announced shortly.

The working language of the conference is English.

The revised conference papers are to be published in an edited volume.

Fee: 220.70 Euro (including food, accommodation and insurance). To encourage young graduates and research students to participate, we are doing our best to raise additional funding in order to further reduce the expenses for travel. Financial support will be considered on an individual basis. Please contact us for additional information.

Important dates:

• For registration is June 15, 2008.
• Applicants will be notified by June 30, 2008.

Participants: To establish an atmosphere more open to dialogue, we will limit the number of participants to 20. Due to the high interest and the limited number of participants we recommend you to register as soon as possible.

To register, please send an e-mail to the academic coordinator, Anita Orzan (anitta.orzan@politik.uni-freiburg.de), with an abstract (max. 250 words) and a short CV (max. 1 page). If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us.

3rd Future Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH) Meeting

14 November 2008, Strasbourg

Deadline: 15 June 2008

FRESH meetings are aimed at researchers in any field of economic and social history. The meetings build on the concept that scholars present their ongoing research at an early stage, i.e. normally before it becomes published as a working paper or the like, and certainly before it is published in books or journals. The main aim of the meetings is to gather researchers in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive criticism from their peers.

The FRESH meeting organisers strive to accommodate as many speakers as possible. Accepted papers will normally receive 30 minutes each (20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion). However, in the interest of avoiding parallel sessions, the presentation time may be shortened. In the event of space constraints, please note that FRESH members and members of the hosting faculty (or geographically close institutions) will be given preference.

Cliometrica (http://www.springer.com/journal/11698) would like to publish a selection of the papers presented at the meeting, provided that they meet the standard of the journal. The journal commits to a very fast refereeing procedure. If you would your paper to be considered for publication in Cliometrica, then please indicate this in your e-mail when you submit your proposal.

The organizers offer meals (lunch and dinner) to participants, but travel and accommodation must be covered by participants themselves. The cost of accommodation is about 60-70 euros per night for a single room (breakfast included).

Prospective speakers should submit a one-page abstract and a short CV to Paul Sharp (paul.sharp@econ.ku.dk) no later than June 15 2008. Notification of acceptance will be given by July 2008.

The 3rd FRESH meeting is organized by Claude Diebolt (local organizer), Paul Sharp and Jacob Weisdorf. The meeting is sponsored by the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, UMR 7522, http://cournot2.u-strasbg.fr/users/beta/) and the Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC, http://www.cliometrie.org). For more information about FRESH meetings and FRESH membership, please visit the FRESH website at http://www.keynes.dk/FRESH.

Migration to, from, and in Southeastern Europe: Intercultural Communication, Social Change and Transnational Ties

May 21-24, 2009, Ankara

Deadline: 15 June 2008

Organiser: The International Association for Southeast European Anthropology (InASEA)

Topics: The conference will be organized around a number of major problems:

• Historical aspects of emigration and seasonal migration in Southeast Europe in the modern period;
• Gender and migration;
• Migration and intercultural communication;
• Media, new technologies and (post)modern migrant communities;
• Migrant experiences of and reactions to (cultural, economic and social) inclusion and exclusion;
• Making a new home: 'adaptation' and 'tradition' between constraints and opportunities;
• Perception and representation of Balkan migrants in the West;
• Diaspora nationalism and political mobilization of migrants; Transnational (cultural, social, economic and political) links in the past and the present;
• Return migrants as cultural innovators or modernizers?;
• Social and cultural dimensions of domestic migration; Forced migration and its cultural dimensions;
• Regimes and policies of emigration and immigration in Southeastern Europe;
• 'New' immigrants in Southeastern Europe (diplomats, managers, consultants, academics, pensioners, Third World refugees, etc.);
• Migration as a process: decision-making, family strategies
• 'Illegal' or undocumented migration (sans-papers, boat people of the Mediterranean);
• Individual, collective, and cultural memories of migration; Concepts, methodologies and controversies of current migration research.

Language: English, French, German

Fees: 15 euros (participants from the Southeast European countries) and 30 euros (other participants, including those from the SEE countries that joined the European Union before 2006).

Contact:

Dr. Ulf Brunnbauer
Institute of East European Studies
Free University of Berlin
Garystr. 55
D-14195 Berlin
Germany
ulf@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Dr. Asker Kartari
Hacettepe University
Faculty of Communication TU-6800
Beytepe Ankara
Republic of Turkey
kartari@hacettepe.edu.tr

Website: http://www-gewi.kfunigraz.ac.at/inasea/conference5.html

L'Europe : objet, agent et enjeu de socialisation

9-11 octobre 2008, ENS LSH (Lyon)

Date limite: 20 juin 2008

Colloque organisé par les laboratoires TRIANGLE (CNRS/ENS-LSH, Université Lyon 2, IEP de Lyon) et CERAPS (CNRS/Université Lille). Responsables scientifiques : Hélène Michel (Ceraps, Université Lille 2) et Cécile Robert (Triangle, ENS LSH ; IEP de Lyon).

Depuis l'étude séminale d'Ernst B. Haas [1], le thème de la socialisation a régulièrement suscité l'intérêt des spécialistes de la construction européenne. L'usage spécifique qu'en fait Haas dans sa thèse sur la genèse de la CECA confère en effet à cette notion des enjeux scientifiques et politiques essentiels en même temps qu'un sens particulier. Expérimentée notamment par les acteurs politiques et administratifs nationaux, la socialisation européenne s'apparenterait ainsi à un processus de convergence des représentations nationales, voire de conversion de ces acteurs à l'Europe, sous l'effet d'une co-fréquentation intensive dans les lieux de la négociation européenne. Dans le champ des études européennes, la plupart des travaux sur la socialisation portent encore la trace de cette problématisation originelle : la question de la socialisation à l'Europe est associée, voire confondue avec celle de l'attitude déclarée à l'égard des institutions communautaires. ([1] Haas Ernst B., The Uniting of Europe. Political, Social and Economic Forces, 1950-1957, Notre Dame (Indiana), University of Notre Dame Press).

Elle est en particulier utilisée pour décrire les transformations qui affecteraient les attitudes et comportements des représentants des États membres au sein des instances européennes. Reproduisant le clivage théorique entre néofonctionnalistes et intergouvernementalistes, les débats se focalisent notamment sur l'existence, ou non, d'un transfert de loyauté du «national» vers «l'européen», et sur la mesure de l'attachement de ces acteurs au processus de construction européenne.

Ce colloque propose de décaler et d'élargir le regard habituellement porté sur la socialisation à l'Europe. S'intéressant aux modes de faire et de penser l'Europe partagés par un ensemble d'acteurs en lien avec les institutions européennes, il s'inspire également d'une définition plus sociologique de la socialisation qui l'envisage comme «l'ensemble des processus par lesquels l'individu est construit par la société globale et locale dans laquelle il vit, [et] au cours desquels [il] acquiert des façons de faire, de penser et d'être qui sont situées socialement [2]». Dans cette perspective, ce colloque se donne pour objectif d'interroger conjointement les mécanismes de production et de transmission, comme les enjeux liés à l'apprentissage, de savoirs et savoir-faire spécifiques à cet espace politique et institutionnel. ([2] Darmon Muriel (2007), La socialisation, Paris, Armand Colin, coll. «128», p. 6).

Une telle perspective invite d'une part à ne pas définir a priori ces modes de penser et de faire l'Europe mais à prendre pour objet les différentes conceptions de la construction européenne qui peuvent s'actualiser dans les pratiques d'acteurs divers : hauts fonctionnaires et hommes politiques mais aussi «intermédiaires» (journalistes, lobbyistes, syndicalistes, etc.).

L'approche de la socialisation adoptée dans ce colloque consiste d'autre part à l'envisager comme le produit de processus multiples. Il s'agit en effet de considérer l'ensemble des mécanismes par lesquels des acteurs sociaux vont avoir accès à l'espace européen ou, tout au moins, réduire la distance qui les en séparent. Ces derniers peuvent aussi bien prendre place au coeur des institutions communautaires que renvoyer à des formations - académiques ou militantes -, ou encore être le fait d'expériences professionnelles préalables, notamment mais pas exclusivement dans les administrations des États membres. On s'interrogera ainsi sur les contributions respectives et éventuellement concurrentes, voire contradictoires de ces différents vecteurs institutionnels, professionnels ou militants - à la construction de modes de penser et de faire l'Europe potentiellement variés.

À partir de cette perspective, cet appel à communications invite à plusieurs pistes indicatives de questionnements :

1. La première est liées aux apprentissages qui précèdent une entrée dans l'espace communautaire. Comment des agents d'horizons nationaux et sociaux divers peuvent-ils se conformer aux attentes supposées de l'Europe, entendue à la fois comme ensemble d'institutions et de pratiques de gouvernement ? Cette question renvoie d'abord aux formations à l'Europe (dans des trajectoires universitaires et militantes) et à ce qui s'y enseigne. Mais elle invite aussi à questionner conjointement les différents modes de sélection d'acteurs européens : concours des eurofonctionnaires, désignation «au niveau national» (administrations des États membres, syndicats, etc.) de représentants dans les instances européennes.
2. Une deuxième interrogation concerne davantage les transformations - affectant les pratiques et les représentations - et susceptibles d'être liées à une immersion dans un «milieu européen», désignant ici aussi bien des arènes de négociation, des institutions que l'environnement social et urbain de Bruxelles. Il s'agit notamment d'examiner les effets que produit la fréquentation, plus ou moins intense et plus ou moins durable, de ces « enceintes européennes» sur des agents dont les dispositions nationales, sociales et/ou professionnelles seraient variées. On s'interrogera conjointement sur les poids et contributions respectifs de ces dispositions dans la fabrication de «l'européen». En d'autres termes, si une attention particulière pourra être portée aux différences nationales, la prise en compte de celles-ci ne devra pas occulter les éléments sociaux et professionnels susceptibles de les transcender, ou au contraire de les accentuer. En se focalisant sur de tels lieux, l'objectif est d'identifier des dispositions favorables à des formes internationales de gouvernement, et des pratiques y afférant. Mais il s'agit aussi de se donner les moyens de distinguer, le cas échéant, des conceptions différentes de ce que doivent être ces modes de gouverner l'Europe comme des savoirs et attributs nécessaires à leur exercice.
3. Une troisième question renvoie à la durabilité et la portée de ces transformations et de ces adaptations à l'Europe, lorsque les acteurs n'y effectuent qu'un passage. Que deviennent par exemple les acteurs politiques et associatifs, les représentants syndicaux ou encore les fonctionnaires de retour dans «leurs» espaces nationaux? Quelles sont les modalités de reconversion de leurs expériences européennes? On s'intéressera notamment aux conceptions de l'Europe mais aussi plus généralement aux pratiques et représentations acquises par ou pour ces expériences européennes, et à la manière dont ces acteurs cherchent ou non à les promouvoir, et les valoriser.

Pour ces différentes orientations problématiques, les organisateurs du colloque attendent des propositions empiriquement fondées. Celles-ci doivent impérativement s'appuyer sur des données quantitatives et/ou qualitatives issues d'enquêtes récentes ou en cours. Des éléments de discussion méthodologique relatifs aux processus de socialisation seront également les bienvenus.

Les propositions d'une page précisant les questions traitées et les terrains mobilisés doivent être envoyées par mail au plus tard avant le 20 juin aux deux organisatrices (helene.michel@univ-lille2.fr; cecile.robert@univ-lyon2.fr). Une réponse d'acceptation ou non au colloque sera donnée avant le 10 juillet.

Renseignements : http://triangle.ens-lsh.fr/spip.php?article1043

Les collectivités locales et l'Union européenne : facteur de fédération?

4-5 décembre 2008, Institut de Sciences Politiques, Aix-en-Provence

Date limite : 11 juillet 2008

Colloque international organisé par le CHERPA (Croyance, Histoire, Espaces, Régulation Politique et Administrative), l'Institut d'Études Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, l'Université d'Aix-Marseille III, le CRDEI (Centre de Recherche et de Documentation Européennes et Internationales), la Faculté de droit de l'Université de Bordeaux IV, l'IRA (Institut Régional d'Aménagement) de Bastia, et la société CODE (Conseil en Développement Européen), Bordeaux.

Si vous souhaitez présenter une communication, veuillez adresser un résumé d'une ou deux pages de votre contribution, en français ou en anglais, avant le 11 juillet 2008, à :

Institut d'Études Politiques
Service de la Recherche
Colloque international «Les collectivités locales et l'Union européenne : facteur de fédération?»
25, rue Gaston de Saporta
13625 Aix-en-Provence cedex 1

Contact et renseignements : recherche@iep-aix.fr

The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe

10-12 September 2009, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Deadline: 31 july 2008

Organisers: Dr Kevin McDermott (k.f.mcdermott@shu.ac.uk) and Dr Matthew Stibbe (m.stibbe@shu.ac.uk), both in the Department of History, Sheffield Hallam University.

Keynote Speakers: Robin Okey (University of Warwick) and Pavel Seifter (Former Czech ambassador to London)

The aim of this conference is to take a fresh look at the 1989 revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe to mark the occasion of the twentieth anniversary in the autumn of 2009. The approach is broadly historical, but we would welcome proposals from a range of different disciplines, such as Cultural and Gender/Women's Studies, Sociology, Modern Languages and of course History. By bringing together scholars working on the 1989 revolutions in national and transnational contexts, we hope to make a distinctive and worthwhile contribution to this area.

Key themes considered could include:

• Protest movements and crowds
• Strategies and responses of regimes
• The origin and role of civic groups
• The external context (Gorbachev's Soviet Union, Bush, Kohl, Thatcher and Mitterand in the West)
• Round-table discussions, elections and the end of revolutionary protests
• 1989 in popular and official memory
• Comparisons with earlier uprisings against communist rule (1953, 1956, 1968, 1980-81)
• Sources and archives

We invite contributions from scholars working on all Soviet-bloc Eastern European countries which saw the overthrow of communist rule in 1989/90, including the GDR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. We are also looking for contributions on the role and significance of external players, particularly Gorbachev's Soviet Union and the leading western nations (USA, Britain, West Germany, France).

A key element of this conference is the planned publication of a selection of papers in an edited volume (projected publication date 2011). The organisers have published two previous collections of essays on post-1945 Eastern Europe: Revolution and Resistance in Eastern Europe: Challenges to Communist Rule (Oxford: Berg, 2006); and Stalinist Terror in Eastern Europe: Elite Purges and Mass Repression (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming in 2009).

Contributors should seek funding from their own institution in the first instance, but it is anticipated that some support might become available through potential sponsors.

Please send us proposals, including working title and brief description of your paper (max. 350 words), by 31 July 2008.

Dr Kevin McDermott and Dr Matthew Stibbe
Department of History
Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus
Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
UK

European societies of work in transformation: comparative and transnational perspectives on Great Britain, Sweden and West Germany during the seventies

26-28 November 2009, German Historical Institute London

Deadline: 1st August 2008

During the Seventies, many European countries experienced profound structural transformations that affected their character as industrial societies. In particular, the fundamental changes that reshaped the world of work galvanized public attention as much as they puzzled policy makers and social scientists. Moreover, countless people directly affected by the downturn made their grievances known in public.

Focusing on Great Britain, Sweden and West Germany, this conference compares how three European industrial societies struggled to deal with challenges of economic change in a broad range of economic, social, and cultural settings. While the Seventies signalled the end of West Germany's much-vaunted "economic miracle," Britain experienced the difficulties in front of a backdrop of several decades of patchy economic performance. In Sweden, meanwhile, the Seventies brought new challenges after a sustained era of growth but mass unemployment did not manifest itself until the Eighties. Our conference explores to what extent these different economic trajectories shaped public debates and private reactions as well as expectations in each country.

Conference organisers: Dr Kerstin Brückweh, Professor Andreas Gestrich, Dr Bernhard Rieger

Venue: German Historical Institute London, in collaboration with University College London

Contact:

Kerstin Brückweh (kbrueckweh@ghil.ac.uk)
German Historical Institute London
Bloomsbury Square
London WC1A 2NJ

Shaping Europe in a Globalized World? Protest Movements and the Rise of a Transnational Civil Society?

June 23-26, 2009, Department of German, University of Zurich

Deadline: 15 August 2008

With the support of the European Commission

Conveners: Roland Axtmann (Centre for the Study of Culture and Politics, University of Swansea), Kathrin Fahlenbrach (University of Halle), Martin Klimke (University of Heidelberg), Joachim Scharloth (University of Zurich)

Recent research into the development and implications of transnational modes of political organization has tended to concentrate on the growth of institutions involved with international political and economic governance. This has been counter-balanced by growing research into international protest movements that appears to paint a picture of an emerging transnational civil society; one that includes formalized Non-Governmental Organisations such as OXFAM, Amnesty International and international labour movements as well as the seemingly more spontaneous movements associated with anti-globalization and anti-capitalist activism. The study of transnational social movements is, then, central to the development of our understanding of the internationalization of politics as such and in particular to attempts to conceptualize a global civil society.

However, such research is problematic and in need of expansion and realignment in both the conceptual and empirical dimensions. There are three central issues that need to be addressed:

1. Firstly, research into transnational social movements often presupposes a series of normative claims regarding the desirability of particular forms of democratic activity. It then relies on these norms to both explain and justify research findings. But the movement from centralized and state-led national politics to a global politics of multiple actors in a multi-polar context precisely calls such norms into question: they are a source of the conflictual dynamics of global politics not its outcome and still less a governing explanatory principle. Research needs to conceptualize the way in which an irreducible tension between a demand for universal norms and the reality of a global pluriverse is constitutive of the terrain traversed by transnational movements.
2. Secondly, research into social movements tends overwhelmingly to concentrate on movements of the left. This leads not only to the minimizing of the attention paid to social movements of the right. It also simply generalizes a particular dimension of political differentiation while suppressing others. This may have been sufficient for the study of the first wave of post-war transnational movements in 1960s Europe. It is not sufficient for today. For instance, an increasingly significant political phenomenon consists of transnational nationalisms: movements organized for national 'liberation' that operate across borders, connected to and sustained by networks of migrant co-nationals and other sympathizers. Movements organized to oppose trade liberalization may be motivated by nationalist and particularist sentiments as well as social democratic nostalgia. Religious movements cannot easily be contained within a left-right spectrum. Research into transnational social movements must undertake empirical examination of the multiple dimensions along which groups are dispersed and also to conceptualise this distribution.
3. Thirdly, to date research has concentrated on European-style social movements and has identified similar variants in other regions. But this might mean that religious movements such as Falun Gong in China are not properly attended to.

The goal of this conference is to address these issues; to consolidate present research and to begin developing new empirical findings and new conceptual frameworks.

We especially encourage applications referring to the following topics:

• Globalization of Politics - Globalization of Protest?
• Transnationalism within Right Wing Protest Movements
• Filling the Gap: European Protest Movements as a Result of a Lack of Democracy within the EU
• EU Polity and Europeanization of Protest
• Applying the Concepts of "Civil Society" and "Social Movements" in Eastern Europe and non-European Countries - Potential and Limits
• Even Newer Social Movements - Creating new Public Spheres?
• Building Transnational Protest Identities - Languages, Images and Actions
• European Anti-Corporate Campaigns in a Globalized Economy
• Migration and Ethnicity as a Source of Protest
• Professionalizing Protest
• The Future of Political Participation: Social Movements, Lobbying or Party Politics
• Taming Protest: The Rituals of Violence

Applications from postgraduate students, early stage researchers (PhD-students), postdocs and young scholars from all disciplinary and national backgrounds are strongly encouraged and form the main target group for this event.

All travel and accommodation costs within reasonable boundaries will be covered by the European Union.

Although the conference language will mainly be English, we also invite proposals in French, Spanish, Dutch, German and Polish, if a short summary (2 pages) in English is provided.

Deadline for applications: August 15, 2008 (abstracts no longer than 500 words). Selections will be made by October 1, 2008.

Please use online application at http://www.protest-research.eu

Further questions: mail@protest-research.eu

Signs, colours and images of Europe/Signes, couleurs et images de l'Europe

8-10 janvier 2009, Poitiers

Date limite : 15 septembre 2008

L'histoire n'est pas vérité révélée, réalité épuisée; elle est d'abord un point de vue qu'une culture prend sur les événements passés afin d'interpréter son présent et de féconder son avenir (Jean-Marie Domenach, 1990). Publications, colloques et discours abondent sur l'Europe des cathédrales, des humanistes, des utopistes et des savants. L'histoire plus récente de la construction européenne fait également l'objet d'un regain d'intérêt historique depuis les manifestations autour de la célébration du cinquantenaire de la naissance de l'Europe politique.

Vaste communauté à géométrie variable, ensemble disparate et multiforme dont certains historiens se plaisent à souligner l'indétermination des frontières, l'Europe ne cesse d'interroger acteurs et observateurs. Alors que «la nouvelle Europe» de Donald Rumsfeld (2003), celle du Bloc de l'Est d'hier, semble vouloir s'émanciper du Vieux Continent au sein de l'Alliance atlantique, la construction européenne apparaît plus que jamais en devenir.

Or si l'Europe a longtemps souffert de la tradition historiographique nationaliste qui empêche - selon l'expression de l'historien Charles-Olivier Carbonell - de «dégager le tronc commun des mémoires européennes»,cinquante ans après la signature des Traités de Rome et à l'heure où se poursuit l'élargissement de l'Europe de 1957, il semble plus important que jamais de chercher à dégager ce «tronc commun des mémoires européennes» qui constitue peut-être aujourd'hui l'origine et l'originalité de l'identité européenne.

Les images d'Europe ne manquent pas, en dépit du fait que l'Europe souffre manifestement d'un «déficit iconographique», qui est surtout un déficit d'ordre emblématique, voire symbolique, probablement engendré par l'orientation d'abord politique et institutionnelle, ensuite plutôt économique et financière, des étapes de la construction de l'Union européenne. Aussi diverses et variées que les acteurs de la construction européenne, ces multiples «points de vue» rendent compte d'une réalité européenne, qui n'est certes pas unique, mais plurielle - à l'image des nombreuses entités qui forment l'Union. Malgré les tentatives du graveur Roger-Louis Chavanon auprès des instances de Bruxelles, il est encore difficile de représenter l'Europe de manière allégorique (selon la légende, une princesse enlevée par un taureau).

Les démocraties ont des monuments/symboles : on pense à la statue de la liberté, à Big Ben et à la maison du Parlement, ou bien encore à la Tour Eiffel. Au-delà des repères européens officiels que sont le drapeau, l'hymne, la devise «unie dans la diversité» et la journée du 9 mai, il existe un «imaginaire européen», mélange de traditions séculaires et d'expériences plus récentes. Reste l'absence de lieux de mémoire significatifs de l'Europe, qui fait dire à Pierre Nora que l'identité européenne est «ce qu'il y a de moins charnel et de moins incarné». Il existe aussi des photos qui ont fait l'Europe (Mitterrand et Kohl à Verdun), des manifestations qui cristallisent un sentiment d'appartenance à l'Union européenne (le Tour de France est-il un moment d'identité européenne?), des projets qui reflètent l'émergence d'une identité en création et qui semble de ce fait encore se dérober (pourquoi si peu de films sur l'idée européenne' que disent les co-productions européennes sur l'Europe?)

Explorer cet «imaginaire européen» à partir de la notion de point de vue semble une manière nouvelle d'interroger l'histoire de la construction européenne en se fondant sur la représentation qu'en ont donnée et qu'en forgent sans cesse les différents protagonistes. C'est pourquoi nous proposons une réflexion sur le thème «images de l'Europe - Europe des images» : quelles sont donc les représentations concrètes, imaginaires ou symboliques qui ont marqué l'histoire de la construction européenne et quelles sont celles qui prévalent aujourd'hui? Que représente l'Europe pour les Européens? A quels signes, quelles couleurs et quelles images est associée la construction européenne dans le monde contemporain?

Dans une perspective imagologique (au sens historique et sociologique du terme) destinée à cerner l'image de l'Europe et au-delà les images conceptuelles que chacun se forge de soi à travers l'autre, on s'interrogera sur la forme, la nature et l'impact réel de ces «images d'Europe», aussi bien du point de vue de la représentation iconographique (cartographie des territoires et des populations, dessin de presse, affiches politiques - à commencer par celles des élections européennes, campagnes publicitaires, photographie, cinéma, peinture) que sur le plan des signes et de la symbolique culturelle (signes linguistiques et racines culturelles communes, Europe vs identité nationale : retour paradoxal des «communautarismes», «localismes», «régionalismes», regain des nationalismes, émergence de nouveaux espaces identitaires...).

Afin de mieux cerner ces multiples visions d'Europe, nous sollicitons des approches pluridisciplinaires et croisées du processus initié par les Traités de Rome. Historiens, historiens des idées et des arts, philosophes, sociologues, géographes, linguistes, spécialistes de la littérature et de la civilisation issus des différentes aires linguistiques sont invités à participer au débat. Les interventions ne devront pas excéder 30 minutes.

Colloque organisé par le laboratoire MIMMOC (Poitiers) en collaboration avec le GERHICO (Poitiers), le CERHILIM (Limoges) et Sciences-Po Paris (contacts en cours).

Merci d'adresser votre proposition, assortie d'une courte présentation individuelle, au comité d'organisation dont les adresses figurent ci-dessous avant le 15 septembre 2008.

Contact : Hélène YÈCHE (hyech@univ-poitiers.fr) et Guillaume BOURGEOIS (guillaume.bourgeois@univ-poitiers.fr)

Secrétariat Mimmoc :

Bureau 0.51
Tél.: 05.49.45.46.51
mcmerine@univ-poitiers.fr

Université de Poitiers
MSHS
99 Avenue du recteur Pineau
86000 POITIERS cedex

Les jeunes, l'Europe, la Méditerranée. Territoires, identités, politiques

26-28 mars 2009, Forlì (Italie)

Date limite : 15 septembre 2008

Quatrièmes rencontres jeunes & sociétés en Europe et autour de la Méditerranée

Les rencontres Jeunes & Sociétés en Europe et autour de la Méditerranée sont nées de la collaboration entre diverses institutions de recherche en France (Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - Céreq, Laboratoire d'économie et de sociologie du travail - Lest-Cnrs, Institut national de la Jeunesse et de l'éducation populaire - Injep, Institut universitaire de formation des maîtres - Iufm d'Aix-Marseille). Les quatrièmes rencontres sont organisées par l'antenne de l'Université de Bologne à Forlì - Pôle Scientifique d'enseignement de Forlì - et la Faculté des Sciences politiques "R. Ruffilli" de l'Université de Bologne. L'initiative bénéficie du soutien de l'Association italienne de Sociologie et du Département de Sociologie de l'Université de Bologne.

Appel à communications :

Dans l'espace politique, culturel et économique d'une Europe qui, alors qu'elle s'élargit vers l'Est, entretient de multiples échanges et interactions avec les pays de l'autre côté de la Méditerranée, les jeunes s'avèrent à la fois porteurs d'inquiétudes et promoteurs d'innovations ou de transformations.

L'hétérogénéité de cet espace - de l'espace intra-européen en particulier mais aussi du monde plus large qu'il constitue avec sa périphérie - et les tensions qui en résultent les confrontent à des difficultés diverses :

• d'une part, la crise des mécanismes traditionnels d'intégration et/ou les inégalités qui traversent le monde euro-méditerranéen les poussent à rechercher de nouvelles voies vers l'autonomie ou l'indépendance, à la mesure de leurs difficultés pour accéder à la formation, au travail, au logement, à la parentalité et, plus largement, à la citoyenneté.
• d'autre part, les jeunes manifestent leurs distances vis-à-vis des représentations construites par les adultes, souvent enclins à une vision problématique de la jeunesse ou peu disposés à assumer les critiques des rôles d'adultes que leur adressent les jeunes.

Autrement dit, les jeunes ne se contentent pas de subir ou de refléter les évolutions à l'oeuvre dans la société; il en sont aussi des protagonistes. À travers leurs affiliations, les savoirs, les modes de communication, les systèmes de valeurs ou de croyance, leur rapport au travail ou à la famille, ils pèsent sur les institutions par lesquelles une société organise sa propre reproduction.

Dans ce contexte brièvement décrit, des interrogations se posent avec force :

• quel est le rapport des jeunes avec des sociétés traversées par des processus de transformation inédits, notamment les migrations ou la mobilité croissante de la force de travail et des étudiants?
• que signifie pour les jeunes la nécessité de se mesurer au processus d'européanisation? Quel sens prend, dans leur biographies personnelles, l'interdépendance entre les économies, les sociétés et les cultures qui caractérise non seulement l'espace euro-méditerranéen mais aussi le monde global?
• quels espaces d'innovation peuvent-ils construire, en interaction avec les institutions sociales? Quels sont, notamment, les fractures et les recompositions qui caractérisent les parcours biographiques des jeunes?
• peut-on, désormais, parler d'une jeunesse européenne? D'une jeunesse méditerranéenne? Voire d'une jeunesse euro-méditerranéenne?
• quels sont les aspects - subjectifs et objectifs - qui définissent le passage à la vie active, entre l'école, la formation et le travail?
• quelle est, aujourd'hui, l'importance du lien avec le territoire et, plus précisément, de l'appartenance à une entité socioculturelle ou nationale particulière?
• quel pouvoir exerce l'idée d'une liberté de mouvement de plus en plus grande?
• qu'en est-il des politiques locales, régionales ou nationales à l'intention des jeunes? Dans quelle mesure contribuent-elles à construire la jeunesse? Quelle jeunesse?
• quelles formes prend l'accès à la citoyenneté? Quelles participations à la vie publique et quels conflits suppose-t-elle?
• quels sont les lieux, les situations ou les processus qui permettent aujourd'hui de mieux observer les jeunes en action?

Les chercheurs de toutes disciplines, les spécialistes et les opérateurs intéressés par les thèmes évoqués sont invités à se pencher sur ces problématiques de manière à permettre une large confrontation des objets et des points de vues. Une attention particulière sera accordée aux contributions qui porteront sur les systèmes de contraintes et les ressources spécifiques mobilisés par les groupes ou qui aborderont les inégalités qui structurent les espaces locaux, nationaux, européens ou transnationaux. Le but est de favoriser l'ouverture d'un réseau de réflexion susceptible de nourrir une perspective à la fois internationale et comparative.

Les rencontres auront lieu les 26, 27 et 28 mars 2009 à Forlì, Faculté de Sciences Politiques «R. Ruffilli» - Université de Bologne (Forlì campus). Les sessions plénières (une traduction simultanée sera assurée en italien, anglais et français) seront suivies d'ateliers thématiques, en langue italienne, anglaise et française.

Les sujets suivants pourraient faire l'objet d'ateliers thématiques (liste non limitative) :

• l'âge et les modalités du passage à la vie adulte;
• le passage à l'âge adulte chez les jeunes issus de l'immigration;
• les politiques en faveur de l'autonomie des jeunes;
• l'école, les savoirs institués et les savoirs diffus;
• les jeunes et la socialisation au travail;
• les jeunes, l'entreprise artisanale et la transmission des entreprises;
• les jeunes, le travail salarié et l'installation à son compte;
• l'appartenance de genre et les relations entre les sexes chez les jeunes;
• les parcours et les pratiques d'une citoyenneté active;
• engagement social, engagement politique, engagement humanitaire;
• les jeunes et les normes sociales;
• l'imaginaire des jeunes et leurs projections dans le futur;
• les jeunes et les médias, les jeunes vus par les médias;
• le sens du lieu, entre enracinement et mobilité;
• les jeunes, la ville, ses périphéries.

Détails pratiques :

Tous ceux qui souhaitent présenter une communication lors d'un atelier thématique sont invités à soumettre une proposition de communication - d'un volume maximum de 3000 signes espaces compris - avant le 15 septembre 2008, délai de rigueur. Ne seront acceptées que des propositions dans l'une des trois langues des rencontres : italien, anglais et français. Elles devront mentionner les nom et prénom des auteurs, organisme de rattachement, fonction et adresse électronique.

L'envoi des propositions devra se conformer à la procédure suivante :

• aller sur le site : http://www.giovaniesocieta.unibo.it/
• cliquer sur «presentazione di una proposta di communicazione (abstract)»
• remplir le formulaire et envoyer le message
• la réception de votre proposition vous sera confirmée par un message électronique

Le conseil scientifique des rencontres déterminera les propositions retenues et avisera les intéressés par voie électronique, le 15 octobre 2008 au plus tard. Le texte de la contribution (30 000 signes maximum, espaces compris) devra être transmis pour le 15 février 2009, délai de rigueur, selon la même procédure que pour la proposition de communication, en cliquant cette fois sur «invio paper».

Pour l'inscription aux rencontres (obligatoire pour tous), procéder de même, en cliquant sur "iscrizione".

Contacts :

Pour nous contacter : giovaniesocieta@unibo.it Pour plus d'information, se rendre sur les sites : http://www.giovaniesocieta.unibo.it et http://www.jeunes-et-societes.cereq.fr

Contact : Nicola de Luigi (giovaniesocieta@unibo.it)

Détails : http://jeunes-et-societes.cereq.fr/RJS4/Rjs4-AppelComm_def.pdf

Quelles architectures pour quelle Europe? Des pères fondateurs à l'Union européenne (1945-1992)

Novembre 2009, Metz/Scy-Chazelles

Date limite : 15 septembre 2008

La Maison de Robert Schuman organise en novembre 2009 un colloque au cours duquel il s'agira de présenter les visions et les architectures européennes d'acteurs politiques (hommes d'État, responsables de partis politiques, personnalités de premier plan des institutions communautaires) et d'analyser leurs initiatives en faveur de la réalisation de leur projet. Les architectures dont il est question peuvent être globales ou sectorielles. Importante également, la mise en valeur de la dimension géopolitique des différents projets européens contribuera à inscrire le projet européen à la fois dans une perspective historique et spatiale.

Si les projets européens des Pères de l'Europe ou de certaines personnalités européennes de premier plan sont assez connus, on peut en revanche s'intéresser aux projets de la génération suivante, celle qui exerce des responsabilités gouvernementales de la seconde moitié des années soixante à la chute du mur de Berlin, ou qui est présente au sein de la Commission européenne pendant la même période. Le comité scientifique souhaite se limiter à des figures incontournables et couvrir un maximum d'espaces nationaux.

Les visions présentées peuvent être globales ou sectorielles : il nous semble important de pouvoir débattre de perspectives d'ensemble d'organisation du continent (visions confédérales, fédérales, communauté d'États nations, architectures institutionnelles pertinentes) et de projets plus sectoriels (projet d'Europe sociale, d'Europe de la défense, etc.). Les auteurs mettront également en valeur les formes et modalités d'action des différents «concepteurs d'Europe».

Ces différentes architectures méritent enfin d'être mises en perspective historique, en n'omettant pas de faire référence aux antécédents, aux racines du projet européen présenté, ce qui permettra de relever l'originalité de la vision.

Les organisateurs souhaitent que l'accent soit mis sur des personnalités de premier plan. Ils insistent sur le fait que la contribution aborde la problématique de façon originale et novatrice.

Les propositions devront faire l'objet d'une présentation d'une à deux pages, accompagnée d'une bibliographie sommaire sur le sujet.

Le Comité scientifique de la Maison de Robert Schuman arrêtera pour le mois d'octobre 2008 la liste des contributions retenues. Il se réserve le droit de demander éventuellement des modifications aux auteurs dont les propositions auront été sélectionnées. Le colloque donnera lieu à publication en 2010.

Contact :

Nadège MOUGEL (nadege.mougel@cg57.fr)
Maison de Robert Schuman
8-12 rue Robert Schuman
57160 Scy-Chazelles

Economic History Society Annual Conference

3-5 April 2009, Warwick (United Kingdom)

Deadline : 19 September 2008

The 2009 annual conference of the Economic History Society will be hosted by the University of Warwick from 3 to 5 April 2009. The conference programme committee welcomes proposals in all aspects of economic and social history covering a wide range of periods and countries, and particularly welcomes papers of an interdisciplinary nature. Preference may be given to scholars who did not present a paper at the previous year's conference. Those currently studying for, or who have recently received, a PhD should submit a proposal to the New Researcher session; please contact Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk) for further information.

The committee invites proposals for individual papers, as well as for entire sessions (3 speakers, 1.5 hours duration). The latter should include proposals and synopses for each paper in the session, although the committee reserves the right to determine which papers will be presented in the session if it is accepted. If a session is not accepted, the committee may incorporate one or more of the proposed papers into other panels.

For full consideration, proposals must be received by 19 September 2008. Notices of acceptance will be sent to individual paper givers by 17 November 2008.

It is the normal expectation that speakers who submit a proposal for a paper to the Conference Committee should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist overseas speakers who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Details of this fund and an application form can be obtained from the Society's administrative secretary, Maureen Galbraith (ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk).

It is important that a completed application form is included with the paper proposal and the brief c.v. which are submitted to the conference committee for the September deadline. Only in exceptional circumstances will later applications for support be considered.

For each proposed paper, please send (by e-mail or via the website) a brief c.v. and a short abstract (including name, postal and e-mail addresses) of 400-500 words to:

Maureen Galbraith
Economic History Society
Dept of Economic & Social History
University of Glasgow
Lilybank House
Bute Gardens
Glasgow G12 8RT
Scotland
United Kingdom
E-mail: ehsocsec@arts.gla.ac.uk

For further information: http://www.ehs.org.uk/

Seminario di Storia Internazionale dell'Età Contemporanea

27 e 28 febbraio 2009, Università di Padova

Deadline: 30 settembre 2008

Il Seminario di Storia Internazionale dell'Età Contemporanea, uno dei Seminari nazionali di ricerca promossi dalla SISSCO, inizierà le sue attività il 27 e 28 febbraio 2009 con un Seminario ed un Workshop per giovani ricercatori presso l'Università di Padova.

Il Seminario - dedicato allo stato dell'arte, i grandi nodi interprÉtativi, le tendenze metodologiche e le connessioni interdisciplinari - avrà quest'anno per tema L'Europa tra globalizzazione e guerra fredda: dinamiche, tensioni e vincoli, e sarà condotto dai membri del Comitato scientifico del SSIEC Carlo Fumian (Unipd), Giovanni Gozzini (Unisi), Silvio Pons (Uniroma2), Federico Romero (Unifi) e Antonio Varsori (Unipd).

Il Workshop vedrà invece la presentazione di 8 papers di ricerca da parte di altrettanti giovani studiosi, commentati dai membri del Comitato scientifico e altri studiosi. I papers dovranno illustrare ricerche di livello dottorale o successivo, nei diversi ambiti della storia internazionale dell'età contemporanea, che siano in uno stato avanzato di sviluppo e quindi già capaci di argomentate solide ipotesi interprÉtative.

Si invitano perciò tutti i giovani studiosi interessati a presentare la propria domanda di partecipazione che dovrà essere così articolata:

• Una biografia scientifica (200 parole).
• Un sommario delle ricerche già svolte o in corso (200 parole)
• un abstract (400 parole) della ricerca che si intende illustrare al Workshop.

Le domande vanno indirizzate per email, con un unico attachment in formato DOC o RTF, a: david.burigana@unipd.it, al quale dovranno pervenire entro il 30 settembre 2008.

Il Comitato scientifico vaglierà le domande selezionando le 8 che a suo parere abbiano maggiori potenzialità di innovazione interprÉtativa e metodologica e possano presentare utili sinergie per la discussione nel workshop. Entro tali parametri fondamentali, il Comitato intende anche accogliere la varietà di tematiche e approcci presenti nel panorama della ricerca.

I giovani studiosi selezionati saranno avvisati entro il 30 novembre 2008, e s'impegnano a sottoporre il testo del proprio paper entro il 15 gennaio 2009. Il Comitato scientifico renderà subito disponibili tali testi a tutti i partecipanti su una propria pagina web, in modo che al Workshop ciascun relatore debba solo riassumere brevemente la propria argomentazione, lasciando ampio spazio per il commento e la discussione.

Le spese di soggiorno al Workshop e al Seminario saranno coperte dal SSIEC e dall'Università di Padova per tutti i partecipanti, ma questi dovranno provvedere in proprio al costo del viaggio.

Il comitato scientifico del SSIEC: Carlo Fumian, Giovanni Gozzini, Silvio Pons, Federico Romero, Antonio Varsori

Informazione: http://www.sissco.it/

Regards croisés entre l'Italie et les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale

Nancy (France), mai 2009

Date limite : 30 septembre 2008

Une partie des frontières de l'Italie du Nord touche encore aujourd'hui des pays germaniques ou slaves, et des liens historiques très forts ont uni les régions italiennes du Nord à l'Europe centrale et orientale. Mais il y a réciprocité : l'Italie, comme berceau de la latinité, exerça un pouvoir d'attraction très fort sur différentes nations et sur de nombreux ressortissants de l'Europe centrale et orientale.

On se propose donc de s'interroger sur les regards croisés entre l'Italie et les pays d'Europe centrale et orientale. Cet appel à communications s'adresse à des littéraires, à des historiens et à des comparatistes.

Il sera organisé selon quatre axes chronologiques :

1. Renaissance et Lumières
2. Romantismes, révolutions, exil
3. Fascismes et stalinisme
4. Guerre froide

Équipes de Recherche :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur la Culture et la Littérature Européennes
• Romania (Culture et Société dans les Lettres Italiennes)

Les propositions de communications sont à envoyer avant le 30 septembre 2008 à Oreste Sacchelli (oreste.sacchelli@orange.fr), Didier Francfort (arrivefrancfort@aol.com) et Elsa Chaarani (Elsa.Chaarani@univ-nancy2.fr).

Veuillez préciser si vous avez déjà des indisponibilités au mois de mai 2009, afin que nous puissions en tenir compte le plus tôt possible.

Enracinement, déracinement : Le politique en Contexte / Rooting, Uprooting: Politics in Context

Université d'Ottawa, 12-13 février 2009

Date limite : 1er octobre 2008

Appel à communication (en français)

Le Colloque de la Recherche Étudiante en Science Politique (CRESP) lance un appel de communications pour sa dixième édition intitulée «Enracinement, déracinement : Le politique en Contexte», qui se déroulera les 12 et 13 février 2009 à l'Université d'Ottawa. La date limite pour soumettre une proposition de communication est le 1er octobre (adresse : cresp2k9@uottawa.ca).

Organisée par les étudiantes et étudiants des cycles supérieurs en études politiques de l'Université d'Ottawa et parrainée par la Société québécoise de science politique, la 10e édition du CRESP a pour objectif de réunir sur un thème commun les étudiantes et étudiants des divers sous-champs et des diverses perspectives animant la discipline. Il se donne également pour mission de mettre en scène un colloque sinon écologiste, du moins conscient et critique de sa propre empreinte écologique.

Reconnaître l'enracinement du politique dans le contexte signifie que la pratique politique et son étude ne peuvent faire fi - sans s'y réduire non plus - de ce qui a été et de ce qui est. Elles ne peuvent s'extraire de la trame qui les précède et les suit. Le mot contexte, venant du latin contexere - c'est-à-dire tisser ensemble - représente la toile de fond : le tissu spatial et temporel; langagier, textuel et social; historique, symbolique et événementiel; naturel et construit sur lequel et dans lequel s'inscrit le politique et son étude. Le contexte est une conjoncture, un ensemble de conditions spécifiques avec lesquelles il faut composer puisqu'elles aiguillonnent, limitent ou propulsent l'expérience politique. Il englobe aussi bien les manifestations culturelles, les institutions et les pratiques, l'organisation et la construction de l'espace et de l'environnement que l'Histoire et les histoires.

• Jusqu'à quel point le politique, dans son énonciation et sa pratique, est-il conditionné par le contexte?
• Est-il possible de transcender, de dépasser ces conditions?
• En quoi la théorie, l'action et l'organisation politiques influencent-elles et modifient-elles le contexte?
• De quelle manière la théorie, l'action et l'organisation politiques encouragent-elles ou découragent-elles pour l'avenir les différentes manifestations politiques?
• Au niveau théorique, prendre le contexte comme objet, est-ce tomber dans le piège du relativisme?
• Est-ce risquer plutôt de verser dans le déterminisme?

Les détails et l'appel complet sont disponibles sur http://www.cresp2k9.org/

Call for papers: Rooting, Uprooting: Politics in Context

The Political Science Graduate Student Conference (CRESP) is calling for papers for its 10th Edition entitled "Rooting and Uprooting: Politics in Context" that will be held February 12th and 13th 2009. Contact: cresp2k9@uottawa.ca

The conference is organized by the graduate students of the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa and is sponsored by the Quebec Society of Political Science. It has two main objectives: encouraging discussions in the various fields of study in political science and in a plurality of approaches, and also to put in place a conference conscientious and critical of its own ecological footprint.

To acknowledge that politics are embedded in a context means that political practices and studies cannot dismiss - nor reduce themselves to - past and present experiences. Nor can they extract themselves from the sequence of past and future events. The word context, from the Latin contextere: "weaving together", is the canvas on which politics and its study can be painted with all the nuances of language, space and time, as well as the social, historical, symbolic, textual, natural, and constructed factors which contribute to the way we live and understand politics. The context is a juncture, a set of specific conditions with which we must cope, that may propel or limit the scope of our actions. Context takes into account cultural manifestations, institutions and practices, the organization and construction of space, the environment, as well as History and its discontents.

• To what extent is the political conditioned by the context?
• Is it possible to transcend these conditions?
• To what extent do political theory, action and organization influence the context, encourage or discourage future political manifestations?
• When speaking of context from a theoretical perspective, are we at risk of falling into the traps of relativism or determinism?

Further details and the complete call for papers are available at http://www.cresp2k9.org/

World Economic History Congress

3-7 August 2009, Utrecht

Deadline: 1st October 2008

The International Economic History Association (IEHA) will hold its fifteenth World Economic History Congress in Utrecht, the Netherlands, from the 3rd to the 7th of August 2009. The scientific programme of the congress will comprise approximately 100 sessions. Following the first call for session proposals the Executive Committee of the IEHA has so far approved of 51 sessions to be included; a preliminary programme is available.

This is the second call for session proposals. From submissions received before the 1st of October 2008, the Executive Committee of the IEHA will fill all but five of the remaining session slots. The five remaining slots will be filled by the Executive Committee with sessions on topics the committee feels should be on the programme.

There will be no distinction between sessions submitted in reply to the first or second call for papers. However scholars who are already in the preliminary programme as organizer of two sessions, cannot be accepted as organizer of a third session.

The Congress will last for five days. Each day will be divided into four time blocks of 90 minutes each (two before lunch and two after lunch). Each session organizer will be given two consecutive time blocks. No extra time blocks will be allocated; organizers wishing to extend their session have to submit a proposal for a second session.

The IEHA welcomes sessions on all topics in economic history, history of economics, demographic history, social history, urban history, cultural history, gender studies, methodological aspects of historical research, and related fields. The IEHA has a particularly strong desire to attract sessions on the period before 1800 and sessions that include countries other than those of Western Europe and North America. Organizers will be given wide discretion to shape the format of sessions to be the most attractive and efficient given the topic and the participants invited.

As the guidelines for session organizers explain in more detail, organizers are expected to present a preliminary list of participants in their proposal, but are also encouraged to publish an open call for papers for their session once it has been selected for the programme.

For all sessions a final list of participants and paper titles, a time schedule for the session, and the congress papers or abstracts must be submitted before the 31st of May 2009, for publication on the Congress website. Scholars and the general public will have access to the website and will be able to search, read, and download papers of interest in advance of the Congress.

Submission of proposals
Proposals can be submitted via the session registration form. You will be requested to enter the name(s), title(s), and institutional affiliation(s) of the organizer(s), your contact information, the proposed title for the session, a session abstract explaining the aim and relevance of the session, the number of papers expected and the names and affiliations of those who have agreed in principle to participate. The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2008.

Reception of session proposals will be acknowledged by e-mail. Organizers will be informed of the acceptance or rejection of their proposal in November 2008.

Website: http://www.wehc2009.org/

L'Europe sans constitution : quelle communauté politique en construction?

Grenoble, 7-9 septembre 2009

Date limite : 10 octobre 2008

Le processus constitutionnel européen visait à doter l'Union européenne d'une charte fondamentale qui ne s'avérait pas nécessaire sur le plan du droit. L'objectif s'énonçait avant tout en termes de légitimation de l'ordre politique communautaire. Il s'agissait d'intensifier les interactions politiques et intellectuelles de nature à cimenter une communauté politique et à développer un espace public européen, tout en faisant émerger des valeurs communes et en produisant un texte fort qui puisse devenir un point d'identification pour les citoyens.

Finalement, la «constitution européenne» a été refusée, tant pour des raisons conjoncturelles que par opposition au spectre d'une fédéralisation de l'UE, au transfert d'allégeances du national au supranational qu'elle postulait ou à son contenu en matière de politique économique et sociale. Le retour de balancier a même conduit à revenir sur tout ce qui pouvait faire ressembler l'UE à un État en gestation.

Les questions qui ont présidé à l'ouverture de cette phase particulièrement vive du débat sur la nature, les modalités et le devenir de l'intégration européenne restent plus que jamais d'actualité après son échec. En cette année 2009 qui est celle d'élections européennes, de la désignation de nouvelles figures d'incarnation (présidents du conseil européen et de la commission, haut représentant pour les affaires étrangères et la politique de sécurité) et de l'entrée en vigueur programmée du traité de Lisbonne, quelle communauté politique voit-on se construire à l'échelle de cette Europe sans constitution?

Les réponses peuvent être cherchées par l'analyse de différents terrains sur lesquels la science politique francophone a livré des travaux originaux ces dernières années, centrés notamment sur la question de la légitimation : les dynamiques communicationnelles autour de l'Europe; l'actualisation conflictuelle des registres de justification de la domination; l'articulation de la nation et de l'Europe sur le plan du rapport au passé et à la religion.

1. Les dynamiques communicationnelles autour de l'Europe

L'hypothèse d'une intensification de la circulation des personnes, des idées et des modes d'action peut être défendue avec une certaine vraisemblance, mais les résultats en termes de production d'un sentiment d'appartenance et d'une allégeance à l'UE restent à déterminer. Les études portant sur les médias (analyse de contenu ou des modes de production et de réception de l'information) ou la sociabilité transnationale dans les réseaux sociaux (professionnels, scolaires, associatifs, culturels, familiaux') peuvent apporter des éclairages utiles. Il faut aussi prendre en compte l'incorporation de références empruntées à Bruxelles ou aux autres États membres dans les processus domestiques de construction du sens : le discours politique; la mise en scène des rôles politiques et sociaux; l'usage des symboles (notamment de l'euro).

2. L'actualisation conflictuelle des registres de justification de la domination

L'européanisation de l'action publique ne renvoie pas seulement à des transferts de compétences vers Bruxelles et à l'évolution des référentiels par coopération et mimétisme entre États membres jusque dans les politiques les plus régaliennes. On assiste aussi à la production d'une image du «tout européen», simultanément à la défense des spécificités nationales, à travers les idiomes de pouvoir contemporains : le discours d'expertise; la codification de la norme juridique; la statistique. Au-delà du postulat de rationalisation de la domination, de nombreux exemples peuvent être donnés de la permanence des conflits d'intérêts et d'identités à l'oeuvre dans les techniques de la « gouvernance européenne» que sont le «nouveau management public», la comitologie, le «benchmarking», les enquêtes d'opinion et de valeurs, etc.

3. L'articulation de la nation et de l'Europe sur le plan du rapport au passé et à la religion

Le processus constitutionnel et les élargissements de 2004 et 2007 ont relancé la réflexion sur les notions d'histoire et de mémoire européennes, leurs instrumentalisations politiques et leurs articulations avec les histoires/mémoires nationales. La confrontation au vécu des pays ayant expérimenté le communisme a ramené l'UE aux difficultés de raconter et d'assumer son passé, notamment lors de commémorations officielles (comme lors du cinquantenaire du traité de Rome). La dimension religieuse a été particulièrement saillante du fait de différents facteurs qui constituent autant d'axes à explorer :

• l'intégration de nouveaux États membres moins sécularisées;
• la candidature turque;
• la controverse sur l'héritage chrétien de l'Europe;
• la formulation d'une alternative supposée en matière de politique extérieure entre «choc des civilisations» et «dialogue entre les cultures»;
• l'opposition entre les visions américaine et européenne de l'ordre mondial selon l'importance donnée aux lignes de fracture confessionnelles.

Les propositions (une à deux pages, incluant les coordonnées et une brève présentation de l'auteur) sont à envoyer aux deux organisateurs avant le 10 octobre 2008 :

• Olivier COSTA, SPIRIT, Institut d'Études Politiques de Bordeaux (o.costa@sciencespobordeaux.fr)
• François FORET, Université Libre de Bruxelles (fforet@ulb.ac.be)

The Transformation of the International System in the 1970s

27-28 February 2009, Bologna (Italy)

Deadline: 15 October 2008

The 1970s are widely recognized by historians as a crucial period of change and transformation. Several processes interacted to produce radical changes impervious to modern recipes and categories: the crisis of territoriality; the rejection of Keynesian fiscal policies and economic models; the gradual transition to a post-industrial age; the contestation, and delegitimization, of traditional sources of power and authority; the crisis of the bipolar international structure and its growing inability to contain and discipline a complex and pluralistic world.

The papers will cover the theme of the impact that these transformations had and still have on the international system, from either structural or agency standpoints. The conference will deal with the impact of such transformations on the international system, on its structure as well as on the relations among its members. The conference will consist of three panels (with 3/4 presentations each) and a final roundtable. The sessions will deal with the following general issues:

• the impact of the transformation of the international system on Europe and on the relationship within the two blocs;
• the new role of the global South, in light of the last wave of decolonization and the emergence of new Cold War battlegrounds;
• the theoretical reflection on the nature of the international system and its main changes.

The participation to the panels is limited to junior scholars working on new and original researches (i.e.: participants must be 40 years and younger or have received their doctoral degree within the past seven years).

Each paper will be commented by a senior scholar. Draft papers will have to be submitted at least one month before the date of the conference.

Procedure:

Proposals must be sent via e-mail to Ms. Paola Malattia (paola.malattia@unibo.it, e-mail subject "1970s Conference"). The deadline for proposals is October 15th, 2008. Proposals must include a title, a one-page outline and a two-page cv. Proposals and papers can be in Italian and in English.

Following the acceptance of the proposals (end of October), participants will receive editorial guidelines.

The conveners will cover travel expenses and accommodation in Bologna for two nights.

The languages of the conference will be Italian and English. Simultaneous translation will be provided.

The peer-review Italian journal of contemporary History Ricerche di Storia Politica (http://www.arsp.it/) will consider the possibility to publish a selection of the papers presented at the conference. The organizers intend to successively publish a collection of the papers as an edited volume, in Italian and in English.

Contact:

Ms. Paola Malattia
Dipartimento Politica, Istituzioni, Storia
Università di Bologna
Strada Maggiore 45
40125 Bologna
Italy
Email: paola.malattia@unibo.it

L'européanisation des systèmes partisans en Europe

Grenoble, 7-9 septembre 2009

Date limite : 15 octobre 2008

Présentation scientifique du projet

Depuis le milieu des années 1990, le terme d'«européanisation» est utilisé de manière croissante au sein de la littérature internationale comme un outil permettant de conceptualiser les réponses sociales et institutionnelles aux effets de l'intégration européenne. L'essor de ce concept et l'opérationnalisation d'approches empiriques cherchant à comprendre les mécanismes d'adaptation, de résistance ou de «traduction» des normes et des contraintes européennes au niveau national soulignent en fait une évolution de l'agenda de recherche relatif à l'intégration européenne[1].

En termes d'objet, les partis politiques et les systèmes partisans n'ont obtenu qu'une attention récente au sein de la littérature internationale, de telle sorte qu'il est assez simple de dresser un panorama. Pendant longtemps, depuis les premières élections européennes en 1979, il s'agissait de comprendre dans quelles conditions des partis et un système de partis étaient en voies d'émergence au niveau communautaire[2]. Établir le lien entre partis politiques et intégration européenne revenait à s'intéresser aux modes organisationnels des «Euro-partis», à la dynamique des coalitions Euro-parlementaires ou au rôle décisionnel du Parlement Européen au sein du système politique de l'UE[3]. Le second courant de la littérature s'intéressa aux positions des partis sur l'enjeu européen, le plus souvent conceptualisés sur une ligne unidimensionnelle démarquant les pro-fédéralistes des eurosceptiques[4].

Cependant, plus récemment, Peter Mair a formulé plusieurs hypothèses relatives à l'impact limité de l'Europe sur la restructuration des systèmes partisans, tout en défendant que les effets du niveau européen peuvent aussi être indirects en limitant le répertoire d'action, les instruments et l'espace de la compétition politique au niveau national[5]. Robert Ladrech a tenté de construire un cadre théorique systématique afin d'ouvrir un nouvel agenda de recherche relatif à l'«européanisation des partis politiques» en testant empiriquement les effets de l'intégration européenne sur l'organisation interne des partis, les divisions factionnelles, les changements programmatiques, la restructuration des systèmes partisans ou encore les relations entre partis nationaux et Euro-partis[6]. La première réelle étude empirique comparative portant sur l'européanisation des partis au niveau national s'est focalisée sur la dimension du changement organisationnelle, soulignant notamment que l'intégration européenne tend à renforcer l'autonomie des exécutifs partisans une fois au gouvernement[7].

Au sein de la littérature francophone, aucune étude systématique comparée n'existe à ce jour sur l'européanisation des systèmes partisans. De récentes études empiriques, notamment celles dirigées par Bruno Palier et Yves Surel d'une part, et Romain Pasquier et Olivier Baisnée d'autre part, ont utilisé de manière judicieuse une approche en termes d'européanisation en se focalisant sur les institutions politiques ou les sociétés nationales[8]. Céline Belot et Bruno Cautrès ont initialement posé les «premiers sillons sur un terrain en friche» en 2005, mais là encore le numéro spécial de Politique Européenne concerné comprenait des contributions portant sur les «différents facettes» des partis politiques, représentation communautaire, positionnement des partis, attitudes à l'égard de l'Europe et étude de cas[9]. L'ouvrage récent dirigé par Yohann Aucante et Alexandre Dézé portant sur la cartellisation des partis en Europe est un exemple de ce que la science politique francophone comparative peut produire de mieux[10].

Dans ce sens, ce projet à pour but de contribuer à ce champ de recherche comparatif et novateur en attirant des contributions se focalisant exclusivement sur l'européanisation des systèmes partisans et non sur les partis politiques en eux-mêmes. Il s'agira de s'intéresser strictement aux mutations contemporaines des structures de la compétition partisane au travers d'études de cas explorant les réalignements potentiels résultants de l'intégration européenne.

De nombreux facteurs liés à la date d'entrée dans l'UE, au degré de politisation de l'enjeu européen ou encore à l'institutionnalisation du système partisan peuvent permettre d'expliquer les différents degrés de restructuration de ces derniers. Comment l'enjeu européen contribue-t-il à réorganiser la compétition politique? Comment différents types de partis s'adaptent-ils au développement de l'intégration européenne? L'enjeu européen s'insère-t-il de manière indifférenciée au sein des systèmes bipartisans et multi-partisans? Comment la politisation de l'enjeu européen, le degré de «consensus permissif» au sein d'un système partisan donné influence-t-il les mutations des structures de la compétition partisane?

Projet d'appel à communication

La section thématique propose de développer un projet de comparaison internationale, mutualisant sur les connaissances de différents systèmes partisans des membres des associations francophones de science politique. Dans cette perspective, sont invités des propositions de contribution portant tant sur l'élaboration théorique et conceptuelle de l'européanisation des systèmes partisans que des propositions empiriques visant, dans une perspective nationale ou comparée, à rendre compte des effets de l'intégration communautaire sur l'organisation des partis et sur la structure de la compétition politique (les approches pouvant être développées au niveau de partis pris individuellement ou des propriétés du système partisan).

Ces études de cas pourront par exemple explorer l'insertion de l'enjeu européen au sein des structures de la compétition partisane, les réalignements, la naissance de nouveaux partis, les modifications ou au contraire l'absence de changement pouvant en résulter. Les responsables de la section thématique seront particulièrement intéressés par la dimension longitudinale des propositions, dans le sens où étudier la restructuration des systèmes partisans requiert une approche en termes de processus et des travaux explorant donc la dimension diachronique.

Les propositions de contribution préciseront l'approche générale qu'elles entendent emprunter et plus particulièrement leur acception du concept d'européanisation. Elles décriront également les méthodes d'analyse employées ainsi que, le cas échéant, les corpus de données mis en oeuvre. Chaque proposition devra expliciter la période de référence retenue pour l'analyse.

Contacts et informations : Mathieu Petithomme (IUE Florence; Mathieu.Petithomme@eui.eu) et Nicolas Sauger (CEVIPOF Sciences Po Paris; nicolas.sauger@sciences-po.fr).

3e congès international des associations francophones de science politique (AFSP) : http://www.congresafsp2009.fr/

1. Mair, P. (2004), 'The Europeanization dimension', Journal of European Public Policy, 11(2), p. 337-348.
2. Bardi, L. (1994), 'Transnational party federations, European parliamentary party groups, and the building of Europarties', in Katz, R. S. and Mair, P. (eds.), How Parties Organize, London: Sage, p. 357-372; Hix, S. (1996), 'The Transnational Party Federations', in Gaffney, J. (ed.), Political Parties and the European Union, London: Routledge, p. 123-146.
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6. Ladrech, R. (2002), 'Europeanization and Political Parties: Towards a Framework for Analysis', Party Politics, 8(4), p. 389-403.
7. Poguntke, T., Aylott, N., Ladrech, R. & Luther, K. R. (2007a), 'The Europeanization of National Party Organizations: A Conceptual Analysis', European Journal of Political Research, 46, p. 747-771; Poguntke, T. Aylott, N., Carter, E., Ladrech, R. & Luther, K. R. (2007b), The Europeanization of National Political Parties. Power and Organizational Adaptation, London: Routledge.
8. Bruno Palier, Yves Surel et al. (2007), L'Europe en action. L'européanisation en perspective comparée, Paris, L'Harmattan; Pasquier, R. & Baisnée, O. (2007), op. cit.
9. Voir Belot, C. et Cautrès, B. (2005), Vers une européanisation des partis politiques?, Politique Européenne, n° 16.
10. Aucante, Y. et Dezé, A. (2008), Les systèmes de partis dans les démocraties occidentales. Le modèle du parti-cartel en question, Paris : Presses de Sciences Po. Voir aussi récemment, Haegel, F. (2007), Partis politiques et systèmes partisans en France, Paris : Presses de Sciences Po.

Ideas of Europe / Ideas for Europ

6-7 May 2009, Technische Universität Chemnitz (Germany

Deadline: 31 october 2008

The conference will take place in Chemnitz, 6-8 May 2009, under the patronage of the President of the European Commission, Mr José Manuel Barroso. Mr Barroso will officially close this conference.

The notion of Europe is associated with a vast range of intellectual, cultural, and political possibilities. Research on Europe tends to invoke biases and a high degree of ideological reductionism that undermines efforts to pursue nuanced and productive forms of reflection.

The conference organisers ask whether there is a way of approaching the essence of the European character without reducing the discussion to essentialism. Is there a way of navigating the mazes that separate questions from answers when we think about Europe?

The aim of the international conference, «Ideas of Europe / Ideas for Europe», is precisely to map a better and deeper understanding of Europe, without relinquishing reasoned discourse and ethical dialogue.

The conference will address the double meaning of its title, bearing in mind that the object of reflection intersects with multiple fields of theoretical representation. We thus ask the speakers to centre their analyses on the following five panel topics:

1. Europe before Europe. What was the conceptual status of "Europe" prior to modernity - i.e. during Antiquity and the Middle Ages? How were ideas about Europe shaped and what was the geographical understanding of Europe's place on the globe?
2. Early modern Europe. How did the thinkers of modernity conceive of their own European identity and of the historical and spiritual implications of such a profound shift in the European mentality?
3. Europe between Enlightenment and the Holocaust. What were the implications for European identity and for the future during the period that stretched from the hopeful Enlightenment and the twilight of rationality to the planned hubris of the Holocaust?
4. Europe as seen by others. For centuries, Europe was dominated by an internalised law of expansion, aiming to replicate itself in vast areas of the world. How has Europe tended to be seen by peoples on other continents?
5. Europe and its future prospects. Vacillating between constitutional designs, along the lines of long envisioned European Federalism, and demands for devolution and national identity - what are the prospects for the European future in a world subject to global hopes and even more widespread fears and imminent dangers?

You are invited to submit abstracts of your presentation at "Ideas of/for Europe". Papers will be allocated a maximum of 20 minutes of presentation time. Candidates should submit abstracts by email to: europe@phil.tu-chemnitz.de

Homepage: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/ideaseurope/

Anti-européens, eurosceptiques, souverainistes : Une histoire des mouvements de résistance à l'Europe (1929-1999)

6 février 2009, Paris

Date limite : 15 novembre 2008

«Il faut soulever la question dans des discours et dans des écrits, la présenter à l'opinion publique comme une question vitale pour des millions d'hommes jusqu'à ce que chaque Européen se voit contraint de prendre position. Il faut qu'une séparation nette se fasse entre Paneuropéens et Antieuropéens, partisans et adversaires d'une fédération. Dès que les Paneuropéens auront la majorité dans tous les parlements, la réalisation de la Paneurope sera assurée.» (Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, Paneurope, 1923)

«Je suis européen. Ma mère est catalane, mon père, lorrain, était russe par sa grand-mère et s'est battu pour l'Europe libre. J'ai des cousins anglais, une belle-soeur polonaise, ma femme a du sang italien. Je suis né en Vendée, sur une terre française qui, au siècle dernier, a donné à l'Europe deux vainqueurs de guerre mondiale.» (Philippe de Villiers, La 51e étoile du drapeau américain, Paris, Albin Michel, 2003, p. 7)

Au delà des idées du général De Gaulle et de l'épisode de l'échec de la CED, il n'y a pas une histoire globale, sur tout le XXe siècle, des mouvements d'opposition à la construction européenne. De fait seule l'histoire immédiate (postérieure à 1992) a traité de l'euroscepticisme. Il s'agit donc de faire du phénomène eurosceptique un objet de l'histoire de la construction européenne et, de manière plus générale d'en faire un objet de l'histoire contemporaine.

Quatre axes de recherche sont définis:

• Le militantisme contre l'Europe (associations comme l'Alliance pour la Souveraineté de la France, le Bruges Group; les partis politiques : RPF, UKIP...);
• Les moments (approche historique de l'euroscepticisme : oppositions au plan Briand, à la CECA, CED, CEE, jusq'au élections européennes de 1999 avec les listes Villers-Pasqua);
• Les cultures politiques (le clivage droite/gauche; naissance d'une culture politique souverainiste);
• Images de l'Europe et rhétorique anti-européenne (études du vocabulaire politique, des discours, des mots : souverainiste, altereuropéiste, euroréaliste, euroconstructif, etc.)

Seront particulièrement privilégiées les communications présentant une approche historique, abordant un thème peu traité, ne se limitant pas à la France, s'appuyant sur des recherches en cours.

Propositions à envoyer, avant le 15 novembre 2008, avec un bref CV, à Christophe Le Dréau : ledreauchristophe@yahoo.fr

Europe's Expansions and Contractions

6-9 July 2009, Adelaide

Deadline: 28 November 2008

XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (AAEH) Adelaide, 6-9 July 2009

Speakers: Norbert Frei, Jennifer Pitts Richard Bosworth, Hubertus Knabe, Judith Keene, Jacques Rupnik, Jürgen Förster, Dick Geary

2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of yet another round in the ceaseless process of redefining the physical, cultural, political and psychological borders of Europe.

Europe's expansions and contractions, whether achieved through politics, trade or warfare, raise issues of sovereignty, identity, power and agency within Europe. The history of European interaction with the extra-European world also raises deep questions about the nature of the legacy of Europe in global history. Along with other aspects of modern European history, this conference will concern itself with the dynamics and effects of the expansions and contractions of Europe in modern times.

Proposals for papers and panels dealing with modern European history (broadly defined), including papers dealing with the theme of the conference, are now being sought by the AAEH. Postgraduates are welcome to submit proposals. Papers or panels might engage with such issues as:

• Beginning, Sustaining and Ending Empires
• The Historical Limits of Europe
• European Warfare: Aims and Effects
• Legacies of the Soviet Empire
• Europe's Diasporas
• Gendered Expansion / Reproductive Anxieties
• The Cultures of European Expansions
• Commemoration of Europe's Empires
• Nationalism and Imperialism
• Competitive / Co-operative Nationalism
• Continuity and Change in European Geopolitics
• The European and the Global in History

Queries and offers of papers or panels should be directed to:

The Conference Organizers
AAEH Conference
History Department
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide SA 5001
Email: matthew.fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au and peter.monteath@flinders.edu.au

Website: http://www.theaaeh.org

Contact:

Associate Professor Peter Monteath / Dr Matt Fitzpatrick
Department of History
Faculty of Social Sciences
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide
South Australia 5001
Australia
Email: matthew.fitzpatrick@flinders.edu.au

Euro-Pop: The Consumption and Production of a European Popular Culture in the 20th Century

June, 8-11, 2009, Deutsch-Italienisches Zentrum Villa Vigoni, Como, Italy

Deadline: 30 November 2008

Whereas Europe as a political, economic, and social project has received much scholarly attention, the European dimension of popular culture - the movies, books and sport events, the music, theatre and television, the fashion, food and tourism which are all aimed at a mass market and are meant to entertain - has been neglected. This is somewhat surprising as popular culture is generally perceived as a prime medium of social integration and the construction of identity.

Moreover, there are some phenomena of popular culture that are produced and marketed as specifically European and appeal to a European audience. One may think of European club football under the head of the UEFA, musical styles such as "Euro-Disco" or "Euro-Dance", or the "European Cinema" that is, at least from an American perspective, characterised by a common style and production mode. Against this backdrop, the planned conference suggests to scrutinise the consumption and production of a European popular culture and its socialising effects. It wants to assess its historical developments in the 20th century, explore its potential for European social integration and identify factors that have facilitated or impeded its Europeanization.

To this end we invite researchers at post-doc stage or near completion of their doctoral thesis to present studies that deal with the consumption and/or production of popular culture in one area from music, food, tourism, sport, fashion and news/fiction in mass media. We are interested in presentations that compare patterns of consumption in different European countries, follow the transfer of culture or trace networks and constraints of cultural production within the EU, all in the light of the question whether and how this may contribute to Europe's integration.

Aspects to be covered might be:

• Encounters of consumers (Europeans on vacation, event tourism)
• Similarities and differences in taste (European high street fashion, popular music)
• Non transferable and transferable genres in Europe (The German "Heimatfilm", reality television)
• Appropriation and adoption of cultural products (translation and dubbing, the NFL Europe)
• The inscription of local or European meaning into global products (coffee as an "Italian" product, English humour)
• The role of the media in the transfer and adaptation of cultural imports (European news agencies, publishers and broadcasting networks)
• Networks of producers, creative hubs and transfer routes (pop and art fairs, the education and the labour market for cultural workers in Europe)
• Specifics of European cultural industries (the music industry in Europe and the US compared)
• The impact of cultural policy on popular culture (Eurovision, European film awards)

Subject to financing, the conference is going to take place June, 8-11, 2009, at the German-Italian Centre Villa Vigoni (Lake Como).

Applicants may send an exposé of their paper of no more than 600 words until November, 30th, to Patrick Merziger (p.merziger@fu-berlin.de) or Klaus Nathaus (klaus.nathaus@uni-bielefeld.de) who coordinate the conference. Please add a brief CV and a list of publications.

he Decline of the West? The Fate of the Atlantic Community after the Cold War

Philadelphia, October 15-17, 2009

Deadline: 30 November 2008

Call for Papers for a conference sponsored by German Historical Institute and the University of Pennsylvania, at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, October 15-17, 2009.

Organized by Philipp Gassert (GHI), Ronald Granieri (Penn), Eric Jarosinski (Penn), and Frank Trommler (Penn)

Two decades after the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War it is timely and necessary to assess the historical impact of these momentous developments on the West. Victory can be as unsettling in its own way as defeat, and recent events have shown that the West's "victory" in the Cold War has raised important questions about the nature and future of the West as a political, cultural, and economic space in a world where older divisions have passed away.

This conference aims to consider those questions and to contribute to the historicizing of the European and German re-unification process by mapping the North American, European, and global intellectual responses to the events of the past three decades. It will ask how the end of the Cold War changed European and North American as well as non-Western perceptions of the West. By attempting to place the end of the Cold War and European unification within a larger historical context, the conference will examine the extent to which the tectonic shifts that have occurred since the 1970s contributed to rethinking of the West and to what extent the events of 1989/90 advanced and transformed that rethinking. This should help to historically contextualize more recent transatlantic rifts, and contemporary discussions about the relationship between "the West and the Rest".

Throughout the twentieth century European and North American, as well as non-European intellectuals struggled over what exactly constituted "The West." As an ideological construct, the idea was continuously revised even before it became enshrined as an intellectual orthodoxy underpinning the Cold War Atlantic community. In recent years political scientists and historians have made considerable progress in understanding how the idea of a Western community of shared values and a shared political culture emerged during and after World War II. This recent historical research argues that the modern idea of the West is a relatively recent phenomenon. In part it re-appropriated older European concepts of otherness that seemed to go back to antiquity (such as a supposed age-old East/West divide). As a political term, the modern West first came into existence after 1914, used both to highlight the antagonistic goals of the warring European parties and to help overcome the deep divisions between the allied and associated powers of Britain, France, and the United States.

It was after World War II and the defeat of Fascism, National Socialism, and Japanese Imperialism that this concept of the modern West reached its zenith. In the 1950s European and North American "consensus" intellectuals further refined "the West" by contrasting it with competing Fascist and Communist modernities. This also meant that as an intellectual concept, the West was now more narrowly defined. It was frequently used synonymously with the Western alliance (NATO). At the same time the anti-Communist version of the West helped to wed sceptical, post-fascist continental European intellectuals and politicians to the notion of an Atlantic community. In the United States it undercut long-standing claims of exceptionalism. Liberal America (to which anti-Nazi European émigrés had made important contributions) redefined itself as Western, whereas the exceptionalist tradition became now more pronounced on the right, mostly among non-traditional conservatives. In the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and other former colonial powers, notions of the West helped overcome imperial self-definitions.

This (liberal) Cold War narrative of an Atlantic or Western community was often constructed around universalizing social science notions, such as modernization and secularization, that were grounded in the works of Max Weber and others. In the postwar period this refined idea of a single (liberal) West gradually overwhelmed and pushed aside older competing models such as Anglo-Saxon (ethnic or racial) solidarity, (Catholic) continental European Occidentalism, Protestant ideas of religious mission, secular European civilizing colonialism, Socialist and Communist internationalism, Fascist autarchy, and national isolationism.

Although competing "Western" visions never totally vanished after World War II, the West was being cast in highly monolithic terms. It denoted the liberal capitalist democratic order, whose emergence was retroactively tied to the eighteenth century Atlantic revolutions. During the 1960s this idea of the West came under pressure from strong intellectual counter-currents. In the U.S., the old isolationist cultural streak gained new currency with the rise of a new Right, which fused anticommunism with a preference for unilateral American action. In Western Europe, neutralism and anti-Americanism remained a concern for pro-American intellectuals and decision-makers. Within the context of the decolonization of European empires and the American civil rights movement, a powerful anti-imperialist critique emerged on both sides of the Atlantic. It was soon picked up by the 1960s student movement, which developed one of the most successful intellectual critiques of the West as a modernizing project. Pointing to perceived injustices and inconsistencies (most prominently the US intervention in Vietnam), the New Left questioned the ideological underpinnings of the Atlantic alliance and radically challenged the idea of a Western ideological unity.

Against this historical background of Western cohesion and consent, the conference attempts to pick up the story in the 1970s and 1980s and take it to the present. It will examine how hegemonic ideas of a liberal West lost their attractiveness during the second half of the 1970s, and to what extent they could be maintained and revived.

Some of the questions conference presentations should address could include:

• How did detente and the deflation of the East-West antagonism influence ideas about the West in the 1970s?
• To what extent did the shifting domestic paradigms in the late 1970s, such as concerns about the future of the welfare state, prepare the ground for competing Western visions? In both North America and Western Europe the Keynesian growth model was strained, although it was only in Britain and the US that the libertarian critique gained considerable political ground.
• How did Western concerns with human rights and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan lead to different reactions on both sides of the Atlantic?
• How did the peace movements of the 1970s and 1980s, or their precursors in the student protest movements of the 1960s, encourage competing visions of how the West should deal with its antagonists?
• How did non-political networks-business connections, academic and cultural exchanges, tourism-reinforce or challenge notions of a coherent West?
• How and for how long did the revolutions of 1989/90 reinforce the idea of a Western community? What other developments worked against the unity of the West?
• Where do regional concerns, such as American impulses toward the Pacific Rim or European attempts to establish an ever-closer supra-national European Union, fit into larger conceptions of the West?

To keep the conference focused, paper proposals (2 pages maximum, plus CV) are invited that concentrate on intellectual efforts to make sense of "The West". Contributions may cover parts or all of the period from the mid-1970s onwards, with the high tide of detente and the oil price crisis as chronological and conceptual points of departure. Proposals are welcome which address developments after 9/11, when the soul-searching about what distinguished the West from "The Rest" became more urgent. Contributors should make an effort to frame their questions within a longue-dureé context and locate them within transnational contexts. Papers should focus on intellectual debates, which are by definition distinct from specific policy initiatives but often intersect with debates within government circles. For the purpose of this conference, the "intellectual" is being used as an analytical concept, and does not necessarily mean "outsiders" or "critical voices" (as older definitions of "the intellectual" often had it). Contributions may focus on a wide range of members of cultural elites, who see their purpose in creating meaning through public discourse.

Please send paper proposals (2 pages, plus CV) by November 30, 2008 to Bryan Hart at hart@ghi-dc.org

The German historical institute online: http://www.ghi-dc.org/

East European versus West European Mentalities: Can We Hope to Understand One Another?

March 19-22, 2009, Vienna

Deadline: 1 December 2008

Organiser: Sigmund Freud University, Vienna

The goal of this conference is to host an international forum for the discussion of an increasingly important topic in contemporary European society: the differences in East European versus West European mentalities. Vienna provides the perfect location and opportunity to host such a discussion because of its unique and crucial position as a gateway between Eastern and Western Europe.

The abstracts for papers addressing the following topics are welcome:

• Homo Soveticus.;
• New Perspectives;
• Collective Memory;
• Self Image;
• Emotion;
• Behaviour and Social Norms;
• Individual and Society;
• Current Approaches to Psychology and Psychotherapy;
• Trends in Symptoms, Disorders and Mental Health Needs;
• Developmental and Child Psychology;
• Gender: Perceptions, Attitudes and Roles;
• Family and Spousal Issues.

Language: English, German, Russian

Contact: Ekaterina Makarova, Sigmund Freud University, Eastern European Institute, Schnirchgasse 9a, A-1030, Vienna, Austria

Tel.: +43 1 798 4098 Fax: +43 1 798 409820 E-mail: ekaterina.makarova@sfu.ac.at

Website: http://www.sfu.ac.at/english/

The Role of Transnational Experts in European Integration: Recharging the Debate

April 14-19, 2009, Lisbon

Deadline: 1 December 2008

Topics: The workshop invites researchers working on topics linked to the politics of expertise in EU policy making and governance. It seeks to engage scholars from a variety of sub-disciplines (such as European Union studies with a focus on regulatory governance, international relations, comparative politics, political sociology, critical political economy, political psychology), who have conducted in-depth empirical research on this topic.

Papers combining empirical research on the politics of expertise with a thorough theoretical perspective are most welcome, as well as papers dealing with methodological issues. The following research issues would seem particularly relevant to the workshop:

• Empirically: Case studies of expert committees on the EU and/or Member State level;
• Methodologically: Research methodologies and issues in qualitative research (e.g. network analysis, expert interviews, discourse analysis, etc);
• Theoretically: Ontological and epistemological questions on how we should/can understand the role of expert knowledge, and how to conceptualise the role of expert actors;
• Normatively: Considerations about implications of the politics of expertise on democratic legitimacy and accountability, and more generally, on modes of governance in the EU.

Prospective participants should contact the directors of the workshop, bearing in mind that they will be expected to present a paper and should, therefore, be conducting advanced research in that particular area.

Language: English

Organiser: ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research)

Contact: Angela Wigger

Department of Political Science
Radboud University Nijmegen
Thomas van Aquinostraat 5.1.34
PO.Box 9108
6500 HK Nijmegen
the Netherlands
Tel.: + 31(0) 24 3611978
Fax: +31(0) 24 3612379
E-mail: a.wigger@fm.ru.nl

Website: http://www.ecpr.org.uk/lisbon/documents/ws9_000.pdf

Paper Money in Theory and Practice in History

April 17-19, 2009, Barnard College, Columbia University, New York

Deadline: 15 December 2008

Monetary systems based on paper money are standard in most parts of the world today. Yet despite its prevalence, economic theory has not succeeded in providing an explanation for the emergence and continued acceptance of paper money. While the existence of paper money, credit money, and fiat money systems have not been at the center of modern economic research, there is a long history of prominent thinkers who carefully theorized the emergence and dynamics of such monetary systems. In Europe, thinkers like John Law, Richard Cantillon, David Hume, and Henry Thornton developed elaborate theoretical frameworks, while in the American colonies, Benjamin Franklin famously explored the use of paper money. In addition to the western tradition of using and thinking about paper money, the Chinese economy was based on paper money for many centuries.

The fact that paper money existed in so many different economies and political systems, suggests that a comparative approach to the theory and practice of paper money might be advantageous. By exploring the common features of various paper money systems, the aim of this conference is to provide a deeper understanding of the nature, function, and dynamics of fiduciary coins, paper money, credit money, and fiat money.

Questions can be divided into three interlinked categories:

1. Theoretical - such as how is paper money defined, how does paper money differ from what is regarded as "real" or "proper" money (defined as carrying an "intrinsic value"), how is paper money endowed with value, what makes paper money accepted in transactions, and more broadly how do money in general and paper money in particular affect the economy (inflation, balance of trade etc) according to these theories.
2. Practical: What was used as paper money; why was paper money used; who issued paper money, on what basis were money emitted, and again what made paper money accepted in transactions, and how did money in general and paper money in particular affect the economy (inflation, balance of trade etc)?
3. How did practice and theory relate to each other?

Application deadlines: to apply please send your abstract (not exceeding 500 words) to any of the members of the organizing committee by e-mail no later than December 15, 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent out before January 15, 2009. We expect a full conference paper to be submitted no later than March 30, 2009.

Organizing Committee:

• Anders Ögren, EHFF Stockholm School of Economics and EconomiX Université de Paris X Nanterre. E-mail: anders.ogren@hhs.se
• David F. Weiman, Department of Economics, Barnard College, Columbia University. E-mail: dweiman@barnard.edu
• Carl Wennerlind, Department of History, Barnard College, Columbia University. E-mail: cwennerl@barnard.edu

"The Cultural LENS": Innovative Approaches and Methodologies on the History of European Integration

European University Institute (EUI), Florence, 6-7 March 2009

Deadline: 15 December 2008

The approaches and methodologies associated with a turn towards the so-called "New Cultural History" are rapidly increasing their presence in different areas of historical research. However, the study of the History of European Integration through this cultural lens has not, apparently, been so dynamic.

Therefore, our interest for this call for papers lies in outlining concrete cases of the use of cultural history approaches and methodologies concerning any period (hence also including analysis related to European integration projects before the foundation of the European Communities, e.g. the interwar period, etc.) and any research area related to the History of European Integration.

These precise cases can relate, but not exclusively, to the following theories and methods:

• History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte).
• Intellectual History and the historical construction of the European unity idea.
• History of Images, in which the task of the historian is seen as the means "to recuperate a culturally specific way of seeing".
• History of Perceptions.
• A subject-based history and fiction as another way of reality.
• Theories and methodologies based on the notion of representation; useful to approach history as a construction of fictions (opposed to idea of fiction as another way of reality).
• Myth, perception and memory and their mutual interactions.
• Discourse Analysis, the construction of political and institutional narratives, the diachronical circulation of ideas and the discursive "use and abuse" of historical arguments.
• Rhetoric as "the ability to see, in any given case, the available means of persuasion" and as "the way of adjusting ideas to people and people to ideas".
• Identity building, "otherisation" and inclusion-exclusion dynamics in European integration discourses.
• Consumer history, in the sense of consumption of ideas as well as consumption of media and political communication messages.
• Philosophy of time and the study of time perception, etc.

We welcome papers from postgraduate researchers at all stages of their career, including first year PhD. researchers. Abstracts of 500 words maximum should be sent to: heirs-eu@uk2.net

For any question related to the conference, contact Cristina Blanco Sío-López (European University Institute of Florence) at: Cristina.Blanco.Sio-Lopez@eui.eu

For further information on HEIRS, please, refer to our website: http://www.heirs-eu.org/

EU enlargement and institutional reforms in Southeast Europe: The Transformative Power of Europe

5-6 February 2009, Berlin

Deadline: 22 December 2009

Research Topic and Focus

At the turn of more than one decade of violent and uncertain transitions, the EU has envisaged a new vision for the Balkans -it promises to transform those countries into stable, self-sufficient democracies, at peace with themselves and each other, with market economies and the rule of law, and which will be either members of the EU or on the road to membership. This ambitious project builds on a new strategy -the Stabilization and Association Process (SAP) - which for the first time comprises the prospect of European membership and outlines the tools of achieving that for all the countries in the Western Balkans (WB). The SAP is largely modelled on the EU enlargement framework in other Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC).

Yet, it reflects the widespread conviction that the Western Balkans face different challenges and hence must be treated under a particular framework tailored to their situation. As such, the SAP borrows from, but also invents against the pool of instruments used to make candidate countries fit for membership -most notably assistance, political dialogue, and conditionality. Those instruments are employed via a gradual frame of contractual relations up to the final goal of membership.

All target countries in the Balkans are now involved at different stages of the process. The SAP has progressively turned into a major strategy around which other policy initiatives are thought and elaborated. Moreover, it has become a word of faith among both political actors and people in the region, who have long opted to integrate into the EU structures. The SAP has, thus, created high expectations for change, which are further nourished by the strong assumption on the EU transformative power in the previous wave of enlargement in the post-communist area. The workshop aims to explore whether and to what extent the SAP has fostered the promised transformation in the target countries, focusing on institutional change in different areas of democratisation processes.

Studying the EU impact on institutional reform in the WB will draw the discussion to the already bourgeoning literature on the effects of EU enlargement in the CEEC. This fact bears, on the one hand, the ease of walking on already elaborated grounds and, on the other, the challenge of exploring the idiosyncrasies of the SAP countries. The abundant research on the EU enlargement in the CEEC has tried to resolve the epistemological and ontological aspects of the phenomena. The theoretical approaches employed thus far engage a wide range of perspectives from methodological individualism to structuralism to social constructivism to attempts of bridgebuilding among them. In addition, different scholars have studied the problem from both the domestic as well as Brussels' perspectives. More recent accounts that build on institutionalist frameworks, come with the promise of, first, bridging the gap between the rational choice approach and social constructivism; and second, bringing domestic politics back in. The empirical research has also benefited from a wide range of methods including case studies, crosscountry qualitative analysis, time-series statistical analysis and game theory.

In the Balkans context, the discussion of EU enlargement needs to be tackled in a bifurcated manner.

First, there is the need for research on SAP to be embedded in and make better use of the existing literature on EU enlargement and the mechanisms that might have a bearing on institutional reform. This is more so as studies on the Balkans lack both comparative analysis and depth of research, when compared to the bourgeoning literature on the EU relations with the CEEC. Few studies, so far, have explored the distinguished features of this new policy framework tailored to the region and its overall potential for realizing the promised pathbreaking transformation.

Second, case studies from the Balkans would enrich the literature on EU enlargement itself. They might help in elucidating some of its lingering dark spots with regard to domestic impact - how do we measure the effect of EU mechanisms on the EU membership aspiring countries? What are the areas where the EU was successful or not? Which of the instruments were more effective to foster democratisation? And, how has this worked in the Balkans where the EU faced particularly challenging conditions? Various case studies would help us to look for the effects of EU mechanisms in the right places, time and areas.

Paper Submissions

By combining theoretical propositions and empirical tests, our workshop will represent an effort to answer some of the above questions. Our main focus is comparative and/or case studies from the Western Balkans and the wider Balkan region. While interested in wider issues of enlargement, we explicitly seek papers that address theoretical debates and/offer comparative perspectives to questions of EU enlargement driven institutional change in the Balkans.

The call for abstracts is addressed to academics of various sub-disciplines such as comparative politics, international relations, law, political theory, and public policy. Yet, we also welcome submissions from practitioners and policy-makers, whose work can bring rich empirical insights and increase our understanding of institutional reforms in the region.

We invite submission of proposals for papers on any of the following themes:

1. Conceptual papers on EU conditionality and other enlargement instruments
2. The content and application of EU enlargement instruments in the Balkan region;
3. Implementation and impact on various areas of institutional change

Short Guidelines for the abstract:

A 300 word abstract in English which outlines the research question, argument, methodology, and expected findings.

Deadline for sending the abstract: 22 December, 2008

Notification of Accepted Papers: 9 January, 2009

Date of the Workshop: 5-6 February, 2009

Send your abstracts and direct inquires to Arolda Elbasani (arolda.elbasani@eui.eu).

The Organization and Outcomes of the Workshop

In addition to the call for proposals we will invite scholars from the region or with academic interests on the region to participate in the debate with either conceptual or empirical research. We intend to have around 15 papers. All participants will have their expenses covered including a two round trip to Berlin, accommodation as well as meals for all the duration of the workshop. Afterwards, we plan to coauthor a conclusive draft highlighting the achievements of the workshop and the avenues it helped to open for further research. Finally, we plan to publish the research presented in the workshop as an edited book.

Academic Symposium of the Society for Business History: Nationalization and Privatization

8-9 October 2009, Vienna

Deadline: 30 December 2009

"Property" has been the object of fundamental debates in business history not only since the studies of Berle/Means and Alfred Chandler Jr. Rather, the discussion on public and private ownership dates back to political and pragmatic disputes in the nineteenth century and earlier. The interwar period witnessed experiments with nationalization, and under the Nazi regime some state-owned enterprises (e.g., Hermann Göring Werke) grew to considerable size. After 1945, the trend in Europe went towards the nationalization of enterprises that so far had been the domain of private ownership, such as banks and industrial companies. Only in the 1970s, European countries began to follow in the wake of the USA and Britain and adopted a policy of privatization for economic as well as ideological reasons.

With a certain delay, this "final victory of capitalism" also took hold of sectors that until that point had been the undisputed domain of public ownership, such as railways and postal services. The ongoing process of privatization adds relevance for today's discussion to our historical topic.

The conference is to provide a broad framework for contributions on nationalization and privatization. Possible topics include debates on economic policy, problems of business management, social history (employees, business culture), and case studies of individual enterprises. The time frame is limited mostly to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, that is, "modern" business history since the beginning of industrialization. Assuming that there is a certain uniformity of business cultures in the German-speaking parts of Europe, the spatial focus is on Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Contributions should address three essential themes:

1. The causes of original nationalization, since virtually all state-owned enterprises had been founded as private firms. These causes are manifold and could consist in losses of enterprises that nevertheless possessed great importance for the political economy (market failure), but also in their profitability and thus a possibly substantial contribution to the state revenue. Historical problems (e.g., German property in Austria) played a role as well as basic political considerations.
2. The development of enterprises owned by the state. Nationalized banks and industrial companies after 1945 kept the form of ownership they had had as private enterprises (e.g., stock companies), and the state only was the major or single shareholder. From the nineteenth century on, railways and mail services, however, often were organized as enterprises governed by public law. The state determined business policy (staff, prices, services etc.), and if necessary accepted heavy losses for economic or social reasons. This "negative capital" could amount to hefty sums that had to be paid for by the public. The transformation to state-owned enterprises also lead to previously dynamic joint stock companies being made into parts of the civil service. Staff policy therefore partly followed the logic of the civil service, with all consequences.
3. As late as the 1950s and the 1960s, state-owned enterprises still were regarded as indispensable and valuable parts of the political economy. Then, privatisation was associated with the loss of services that were of great economic importance, with narrowing down business activities to a few profitable divisions, with lay-offs and a reduction of employees' social status, and a sell-out to foreign countries. In this part of the conference, the political discussion as well as the concepts and factual realization of privatization in the 1970s shall be addressed. Also, sales, acquisitions, and re-organizations of subsidiaries should be taken into consideration.

The Society for Business History (Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte) asks for proposals that should be sent (together with a draft of 2-3 pages) not later than 30 December 2008 to:

Dr. Andrea H. Schneider
Managing Director
Gesellschaft für Unternehmensgeschichte e.V.
Sophienstraße 44
60487 Frankfurt am Main
Tel.: 069 / 97 20 33 14
Email: gug@unternehmensgeschichte.de

The symposium will take place on 8 und 9 October 2009 in Vienna.

Please direct all enquiries to: Prof. Dr. Dieter Stiefel, University of Vienna (dieter.stiefel@univie.ac.at) or Prof. Dr. Peter Hertner, University of Halle-Wittenberg (peter.hertner@geschichte.unihalle.de)

Contre l'Europe - Antieuropéanisme, euroscepticisme et altereuropéanisme dans la construction européenne de 1945 à nos jours

Quatre journées d'études, de février 2009 à février 2010 (Strasbourg)

Date limite : 31 décembre 2008

Le projet «Contre l'Europe - Antieuropéanisme, euroscepticisme et altereuropéanisme dans la construction européenne de 1945 à nos jours» a été retenu par la Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme-Alsace (MISHA) dans le cadre de son programme junior 2008. Ce projet de recherche est également soutenu par l'Institut des Hautes Études Européennes (Strasbourg), l'Institut d'Études Politiques de Strasbourg, le Centre de recherche et d'étude en sciences sociales (Strasbourg), le Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l'Europe (Luxembourg), le réseau RICHIE et le groupe de recherche des historiens de l'Université Robert Schuman FARE (Frontières, acteurs et représentations).

Fondé sur une approche interdisciplinaire, ce projet de recherche vise à mieux connaître les phénomènes de refus, de résistance et d'opposition à la construction européenne sur le long terme, de 1945 à nos jours. En croisant les méthodes spécifiques aux historiens, aux sociologues, aux politistes, aux juristes et aux géographes, venant de plusieurs pays européens, il s'agira d'analyser les raisons des oppositions à l'Europe, d'en décrypter les finalités, de mettre au jour les temps forts de ces résistances et de faire apparaître les changements progressifs de leur nature.

Pour autant, la complexité des dynamiques d'opposition ne saurait être escamotée. Aussi le projet s'attachera-t-il à dégager les particularités des oppositions en fonction des acteurs, des espaces et des périodes. Les diverses formes de résistance seront également replacées dans le cadre des spécificités nationales et envisagées par rapport aux évolutions des relations internationales et au degré de développement des institutions européennes. En définitive, ce programme vise à établir une sorte de panorama raisonné des oppositions à l'Europe communautaire depuis 1945, de façon à en dégager les lignes de force, les articulations et les grandes évolutions.

Quatre journées d'études thématiques seront organisées :

• La première, «Les concepts» (mars 2009), explorera l'origine, le sens, la fonction et l'usage des termes utilisés pour qualifier les résistances à l'Europe dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire et typologique.
• La deuxième, «Espaces, régions et frontières» (juin 2009), abordera la notion de spatialité dans son acception géographique (frontières et élargissements de l'Europe, espaces frontaliers et régionaux) et l'appréhendera également au sens figuré (espace démocratique, espace public, espace social, espace symbolique et espace culturel).
• La troisième, «Le rôle des acteurs institutionnels» (octobre 2009), analysera les raisons et les formes que prennent les oppositions à l'Europe au sein des États membres, des institutions européennes ainsi que dans certains pays ne faisant pas partie de l'UE ou ayant refusé d'y adhérer.
• La dernière, «Partis politiques et société civile» (février 2010), explorera les logiques sous-tendant l'opposition des partis politiques à l'Europe, les motivations et l'expression des résistances des milieux d'affaires, de la société civile et des opinions publiques.

Les langues de travail seront le français, l'anglais et l'allemand. Pour la publication des actes, les contributions pourront être rédigées dans l'une ou l'autre de ces trois langues. Le logement et les déplacements seront pris en charge en fonction des possibilités financières.

Modalités de candidature :

Ces journées d'études s'adressent en premier lieu aux doctorants et jeunes docteurs en histoire, science politique, sociologie, droit, géographie et économie. Les candidats enverront une proposition de communication de 500 mots maximum, accompagnée d'un curriculum vitae d'une page et d'un résumé de la thèse ou de la recherche en cours de 200 mots.

Les propositions concernant les deux premières journées d'études («concepts» et «espaces, régions et frontières») auront priorité. Les propositions portant sur les termes (origines, évolution, emploi), sur les mouvements alter-européanistes, sur l'euroscepticisme britannique, sur l'Europe du sud et du sud-est (anciens et nouveaux États membres), les pays candidats à l'adhésion tels la Turquie, les «non» aux divers referendums (Maastricht, Nice, Lisbonne) sont particulièrement bienvenues.

Les propositions peuvent être rédigées en français, en anglais ou en allemand.

Les candidatures, constituées des trois documents, devront être envoyées au plus tard le 31 décembre 2008, à Martial Libera (martial.libera@urs.u-strasbg.fr) et Carine Germond (carine.germond@eturs.u-strasbg.fr). Les réponses aux propositions seront envoyées à la mi-janvier 2009.