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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
"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/
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.
,dd>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