Appels à communication en cours (texte intégral)
- 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:
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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?
- 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:
- 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.
- 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)?
- 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