International Research Network of Young Historians
of European Integration (RICHIE)

Third RICHIE Conference
Naples, 14-15 December 2007

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I session. Friday, December 14, 9:00 pm

The Two Europes: continuity and changes in the 19th and 20th century

Università Suor Orsola Benincasa - via Suor Orsola, 10 - Sala degli Angeli

Welcome: Francesco De Sanctis (Chancellor, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa), and Roberto Esposito (Vice Director, SUM-Istituto Italiano Scienze Umane)

Openings: Piero Craveri (Dean of the Literature Faculty, Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa)

Chair: Karl Christian Lammers (Københavns Universitet)

Discussant: Jürgen Elvert (Universität zu Köln)

• Monika Baár (Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, research fellow): "The Two Europes: Definitions of "East" and "West" in the 19th and 20th century"
• Natalia Burlinova (State University-Higher School of Economics Moscow, Ph.D. candidate): "Russia and Europe: common civilization or two different worlds?"
• Valentine Lomellini (IMT Alti Studi Lucca, Ph.D. candidate): "The two Europes: continuity and breaks. 1968 and 1981, Eastern crises, Italian outcomes"
• Karolina Pietras (Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, Ph.D. candidate): "L'Europe de l'Ouest face aux tensions dans le bloc communiste -- la crise polonaise des années 1980"
• Maria Coros (Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV, Ph.D. candidate): "L'image de l'Occident dans les manuels scolaires roumains pendant le régime de Ceausescu (1965-1989)"
• Christian Domnitz (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) / Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Ph.D. candidate): "A Re-Emergence of the Other Europe? The Framing of Europe in the Eastern bloc constitutes a demanding legacy for E.U. Integration"

II session. Friday, December 14, 3:00 pm

Europe AS A DREAM - Europe AS A REALITY

Chair: Maurice Vaïsse (Sciences Po Paris)

Discussant: Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics)

• Carol Bergami (Université Paris 1--Panthéon-Sorbonne / Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Ph.D. candidate): "L'Europe est ailleurs: la double altérité du Projet européen face à l'Etat- Nation"
• Morgane Le Boulay (Université Paris-Dauphine / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Ph.D. candidate): "L'«Unité dans la diversité». Les conflits entre l'Europe politique, à la recherche d'une unité et d'une identité, et l'Europe historique plurielle mis en lumière par le rapport des historiens à l'objet `Europe'"
• Mauve Carbonell (Institut pour l'histoire de l'aluminium, Ph.D.): "Vainqueurs et vaincus de la Seconde Guerre mondiale : l'Europe en commun?"
• Maria Elena Cavallaro (IMT Alti Studi Lucca, post-doctoral fellow): "The Spanish European integration: the first steps of a long journey (1975- 1979)"
• Matthieu Trouvé (Université Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux 3, Ph.D.): "De l'enthousiasme à la banalisation: l'opinion publique espagnole et l'Europe (1975-2005)"
• Thomas Derungs (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Ph.D. candidate): "The integration of a different Europe: the second wave of expansion and its impact on the European Community"

III session. Saturday, December 15 (9.00 am)

Political Europe(s) - economic Europe(s)

SUM-Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane - via Toledo, 348 - Palazzo Cavalcanti

Openings: Antonio Varsori (Università di Padova)

Chair: Wilfried Loth (Universität Duisburg-Essen)

Discussant: Éric Bussière (Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV)

• Matthieu Osmont (Sciences Po Paris / Université d'Artois, Ph.D. candidate): "Europe politique versus Europe économique? Rivalités et répartition des rôles dans le dossier européen entre la Direction d'Europe et la Direction des Affaires Economiques et Financières au Quai d'Orsay (1955-1974)"
• Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (European University Institute, Firenze, Ph.D. candidate): "Monetary or institutional? France's choices to relaunch European integration in 1974"
• Marloes Beers (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, Ph.D. candidate): "Smaller and larger states: a dichotomy in European politics?"
• Gabriele D'Ottavio (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna, Ph.D. candidate): "Germany and the dichotomy between "political Europe" and "economic Europe": from the treaties of Rome to Maastricht"
• Federico Niglia (Luiss Guido Carli Roma, post-doctoral fellow): "Italy and the German hegemony in Europe in the Cold War"
• Giuseppe Mancini (SUM-Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Ph.D. candidate): "Enrico Mattei's Two Europes"

IV session. Saturday, December 15 (3.00 pm)

Europe as a power - Europe as a tool of power

Chair: Jean-Marie Palayret (European University Institute, Firenze)

Discussant: Johnny Laursen (Aarhus Universitet)

• Jenny Raflik (Université de Cergy-Pontoise, research fellow): "L'Europe en quête de puissance: les décideurs français entre européisme et atlantisme depuis 1945"
• Giulia Bentivoglio (Università del Salento, Lecce, Ph.D. candidate): "Britain, the EEC and the special relationship during the Heath's Government"
• Mauro Elli (Università degli Studi di Milano, research fellow): "The UK role in the European Community: EEC energy policy at the eve of the oil crisis"
• Lucia Coppolaro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, visiting fellow): "The European Economic Community as a tool of power: the Western alliance, the economic division of Europe and the accession of the socialist countries to GATT (1959-1973)"
• Anikó Macher (Sciences Po Paris, Ph.D. candidate): "A cooperation between the Western powers during the Cold War: informal meetings on East-West cultural relations 1960-66"
• Sara Banchi (SUM-Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, Ph.D. candidate): "Intergovernmental confrontation in the UN framework: how many "Europes"?"

Conclusions: Piero Craveri, Antonio Varsori

Final remarks: Michele Affinito, Guia Migani, Christian Wenkel (RICHIE Association)

Scientific Committee

• Piero Craveri (Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa-Napoli)
• Antonio Varsori (Università di Padova)
• Éric Bussière (Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV)
• Pier Virgilio Dastoli (Commissione europea, Rappresentanza in Italia)
• Jürgen Elvert (Universität zu Köln)
• Karl Christian Lammers (Københavns Universitet)
• Johnny Laursen (Aarhus Universitet)
• Wilfried Loth (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
• Piers Ludlow (London School of Economics)
• Paolo Macry (Università degli Studi Federico II-Napoli)
• Jean-Marie Palayret (European University Institute, Firenze)
• Maurice Vaïsse (Sciences Po Paris)

Partners

• Ministry of Youth Policies and Sport
• Municipality of Naples
• Commissione Europea - Rappresentanza in Italia
• Università degli Studi Suor Orsola Benincasa
• Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane
• Università degli Studi di Padova - Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
• RICHIE - Réseau International des jeunes Chercheurs en Histoire d'Intégration Européenne