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Europeanisations from the Bottom and from the Margins. Actors, Representations, and Experiences (late 19th-early 21st centuries)

International conference organised by the History Department and the Sports Sciences Institute (ISSUL) of the University of Lausanne, 27-29 November 2024

The aim of this conference is to contribute to the current renewal of the history of European integration in the 19th and 20th centuries. Following on from the important congress about Europeanisation in the social sciences held ten years ago at the German Historical Institute (IHA) and inspired by it, the organisers want to contribute to a dialogue on the European scale through different lenses, and benefit from recent contributions to historiography, whether in terms of gender, postcolonial or environmental approaches. On the basis of recent empirical research, the contributors will seek to clarify the very concept of Europeanisation. The aim is to examine two major historiographical issues: the origins, motivations and temporalities of Europeanisation beyond the history of the political and institutional development of the European Union and its territorial borders, as well as local receptions, alternative visions, opposing currents, such as anti-Europeanism, and phenomena of de-Europeanisation. Therefore the congress will include specialists of European history who focus on a variety of fields: history, media sociology, sport, the environment, technology, art, education, etc. Last but not least, through this conference, we want to encourage studies on European integration in the field of human and social sciences in Switzerland.

The conference will be held in person at the University of Lausanne from Wednesday afternoon (27.11) to Friday afternoon (29.11). The entire event will also be on zoom for people interested but who are not able to attend, and the working languages are English and French. It will be composed of 7 sessions each containing between 3 and 4 papers. Each panel also includes a chair (a specialist in the topics presented) who will comment on each contribution, ask a few questions as well as lead the following discussion with the audience.

Prof. Kiran Klaus Patel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich), who has worked extensively on the concept of Europeanisation from a historical perspective, will give the opening lecture “Europeanisation is dead! Long live Europeanisation!” to set the frame for the discussions.

A public lecture will be held on Thursday evening by Prof. Emeritus Christophe Charle (University Paris 1 Panthéon–Sorbonne), who has been working on the transnational history of European culture for nearly three decades. He will be talking about his latest book: L’Europe des intellectuels. Figures et configurations XIXe-XXe siècles, CNRS Editions 2024.

Finally, a presentation and guided tours of the Archives of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe on the campus of the University of Lausanne are scheduled on Thursday evening. This extremely rich collection of documents is a valuable resource for researchers working on the history of European cooperation.

Organisers: Raphaëlle Ruppen Coutaz (History Department, Faculty of Arts), Philippe Vonnard (ISSUL, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences) et Carmen Crozier (History Department, Faculty of Arts).

With the support of the History Department, Faculty of Arts (UNIL), Sports Sciences Institute (ISSUL), Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (UNIL), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Atelier des Histoires (UNIL), Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization (CRHIM) (UNIL), Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe, International Association for Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE).

Find out more here: https://agenda.unil.ch/display/1725438534108

CFP: Europe in the 20th century – An Asymmetric Europe International Association for the Contemporary History of Europe

For its forthcoming participation to the International Committee of Historical Sciences (ICHS) congress in Poznan in 2020, the International Association for Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE) is organising three conferences on the theme ‘Europe in the 20th century – an asymmetric Europe.’

European history of the twentieth century has been characterised by an alternation between common European projects and a questioning of such projects, often vehemently, through alternative visions. To borrow an expression from an American president, the vicissitudes of the European continent’s history have led to a significant difference between the « Old Europe » and that which took shape at the end of the First World War, referred to either as « Central Europe » for some, « Eastern Europe » for others, even sometimes « East-Central » or « Danubian » Europe. The divergences between these « two Europes », as Francis Delaisi first pointed out in the inter-war years, are striking and manifest themselves throughout the twentieth century. They are present in the Versailles system, and throughout the Hitlerian project for Europe. They are still present during the Cold War.

The conferences that will take place leading up to the 2020 International Congress of Historical Sciences intend to explore this asymmetry. Have these projects influenced interpretations of European history ? Did they present Europe as a homogeneous entity? Or as a differentiated entity? Which interpretation is most current in Western Europe ? And Eastern Europe ? The idea will be to cross-compare these different currents.

A first conference took place in Moscow in December 2019, focusing on the ideologies during the Second World War. A second conference is being organised in Paris focusing on asymmetric Europe after the Treaty of Versailles. The third conference will take place in Luxembourg on 11 December 2019.

This third conference will be focusing on the cold war. The organisers are particularly interested in proposals looking at the following asymmetries:

  • Asymmetry Council for Mutual Economic Assistance / European Economic Community
  • Asymmetry Relations US/Western Europe on the one hand; USSR/Eastern Europe on the other
  • Asymmetry in the types of cooperation put in place in the field of energy, and transport
  • Asymmetry in the political and economic organisation of the European continent
  • Calls into question of these asymmetries (de Gaulle, Ostpolitik) and their outcomes
  • Intellectual and scientific exchanges between East and West
  • The development and evolution of bilateral cooperations
  • European integration and cold war dynamics

Applicants should submit an abstract of no more than 500 words, and a short CV, by 30 June 2019, to Frédéric Clavert (Université du Luxembourg, frederic.clavert at uni.lu) and Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (University of Glasgow, emmanuel.mourlon-druol at glasgow.ac.uk). Proposals can be written in English or in French. Selected applicants will be informed by mid-July 2019.


This conference is organised with the support of the International Association for Contemporary History of Europe (IACHE), the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH, University of Luxembourg, the ERC-funded research project EURECON: The Making of a Lopsided Union: Economic Integration in the European Economic Community, 1957-1992 (grant agreement No 716849) and the Centre d’Excellence Jean Monnet Franco-Allemand (Université de Strasbourg).

Call for Papers : The International Echoes of the Commemorations of the October Revolution (1918-1990)

Organisation

Location & date

Switzerland, University of Lausanne, Géopolis (Room: 2227), 14-16 September 2016.

Organising Committee

J-F Fayet (Univ. of Lausanne) – Stéfanie Prezioso (Univ. of Lausanne) – Kevin Morgan (Univ. of Manchester) – Norman Laporte (Univ. of South Wales)

Scientific Committee

Dr. Marco Albeltaro (Univ. of Torino, Historia Magistrae. Rivista di storia critica), Prof. Korine Amacher (Univ. of Geneva), Dr. Bernhard Bayerlein (Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, dir. The International Newsletter of Communist Studies), Prof. Sophie Coeuré (Univ. Paris-Diderot), Prof. Angelo d’Orsi (Univ. of Torino, Historia Magistrae. Rivista di storia critica), Prof. Sabine Dullin (IEP Paris), Prof. Jose Maria Faraldo Farillo (Complutense Univ. of Madrid), Prof. José Gotovitch (Univ. Libre of Brussels), Prof. Gianni Haver (Univ. of Lausanne), Prof. Catherine Gousseff (dir. of Marc Bloch Center, Berlin), Dr. Alexander Hobel (Fondazione Istituto Gramsci), Dr. William A. Pelz (dir. Institute of Working Class History, Chicago), Prof. Silvio Pons (Univ. of Roma II, dir. of Gramsci Foundation), Dr. Tauno Saarela (Univ. of Helsinki), Prof. Emer. William H. Sewell Jr. (Univ. of Chicago), Prof. Brigitte Studer (Univ. of Bern), Prof. Emer. Ronald G. Suny (Univ. of Chicago), Prof. Alexandre Vatlin (Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.), Prof. Jean Vigreux (Univ. of Bourgogne, dir. ANR Paprik@2F).

Sponsors

Swiss National Science Foundation, University of Lausanne, Manchester University, the journal Twentieth Century Communism: a Journal of International History.

Publication

Publication of the Lausanne international conference proceedings in a special volume of the journal Twentieth Century Communism: a Journal of International History.

Publication Date: during 2017 (deadline for submitting papers November 2016). Additional publication could be considered depending on the number and quality of the papers presented.

Synopsis

It is necessary (for purely political reasons) to demonstrate to the diplomats and to members of the Communist International the strength of the Republic and the faith the masses of workers have in Soviet power.

Telegram from Trotsky to the CC of the PCR, 1920 F.17/60/163, RGASPI

My only consolation is that as celebrations are bourgeois institutions at which nobody tells the truth it perhaps just as well that I shall be at a safe distance

Letter from G. B. Shaw (who could not attend) to Polovtseva, 18.10.1927, F.5283/8/47, GARF

Commemorations express a political will to remember, a process that relies on establishing a mythologised historical referent. The Russian Communists were aware of the importance of this instrument for the implantation of a regime whose legitimacy was contested both domestically and abroad, and proceeded therefore to construct a new collective memory through the reordering of time around the regime’s founding act: the great socialist revolution of October. From 1918 on, 7 November was a day of celebrations: speeches, military parades, orderly marches, inaugurations of public monuments commemorative plaques, political carnivals, mass spectacles, and popular parties that united the peoples and territories of the Soviet Union in celebration of October. In addition to their domestic role in fostering unity, providing legitimacy, and facilitating internal mobilisations, the practices of commemorations also supported the regime’s international eminence, especially when it presented itself as a model for world revolution.

Inviting foreign dignitaries to celebrations of sovereignty is a tradition as old as diplomacy itself. However, assisted by their numerous political (the communist parties), trade-unionist, and above all associative conduits, in terms of both quantity (the number of persons invited) and quality (the methods of selecting candidates and their handling during the visit), the Soviets took this tradition to a whole new level. While in the first few years celebrations were a modest affair, a thousand foreign delegates are invited to the Soviet Union for the tenth anniversary of the revolution, celebrated in 1927. Unlike the ambassadors, these representatives of the international working class and progressive social forces are far from being passive spectators. Their status, however, is ambiguous. Invited as observers, they are expected to take sides, and then to commit themselves. They have a role in the October spectacle and its political usages. The Soviets intend to show the world that the USSR is not isolated, and that its international legitimacy extends beyond the limited gamut of its diplomatic relations. During this period, except for the duration of the “Great Patriotic War”, foreigners attend the celebrations every year, although at greatly varying numbers. After 1945, it becomes standard to invite the ambassadors posted to Moscow, the heads of friendly states (from Europe, Asia, and soon from Latin America), and the leaders of Communist parties. The circle of invitees traces the contours of, and the fluctuations in, Soviet foreign policy. Let us also highlight the return of youth and women delegations, as well as the presence of intellectuals. In the 1960s, the Red Square becomes an almost obligatory passageway for the representatives of the “progressive” movements of the Third World (the Vietnamese are the most regular, but one finds also Ethiopians, Somalians, and others). In 1977, the sixtieth anniversary parade is watched from the tribunes by over a hundred foreign delegations from left-wing formations, joined by the head of states of communist countries and by the president of Finland (U. Kekkonen). The number of attendees remains high for the seventieth anniversary a decade later and until the last commemoration, in 1990.

Commemorative events were also held outside the Soviet Union, constituting another aspect of the international reach of the October Revolution. Initially, they were small events, organised spontaneously—in Zurich in 1918, Turin 1919, Beijing 1923, but also in Prague, London, Paris, etc.— small street processions, lectures, discussions in factories, an evening at a community centre, evidence of the hopes the Revolution inspired beyond its borders. But in 1927, gigantic meetings take place in Berlin, Paris, London, New York, with workers’ banquets and the projection of Soviet films. An exhibition with fifteen pictures travels across Europe and the Americas under the title “ten years of socialist edification”. In many countries, workers organize strikes in solidarity with the Soviet working class. The internationalisation of the celebrations becomes progressively enmeshed in a very structured context that includes Soviet institutions (embassies, commercial services, and cultural missions), the Communist International, and the many mass organisation that orbit the Communist Parties—in the manner of, for example, the Friends of the Soviet Union. A similar development takes place in Russia: the chaotic, political and artistic carnival of the early commemorations is transformed with time into a very conventional, repetitive, and scripted display of militarism and patriotism. The commemorative date is fixed, but it is part of a changing commemorative calendar. At the beginning, 1 May remains the other great ‘proletarian commemoration day’. A focus on leaders and martyrs – the ‘3 Ls’ of Lenin, Luxemburg and Liebknecht – then shifts under Stalin to the leader’s birthday and a form of commemorative competition.

The military victories of the Soviet Union in the “Great Patriotic War” will lead to the further key commemoration day of 9 May. There is also the exportation of the soviet culture of commemoration, initially to the newly “liberated” areas, with celebrations of 7 November taking place across a Russia that extends from Kaliningrad to Sakhalin, as well as in the Baltic countries and in Moldavia. Next it is the turn of the people’s democracies to integrate the date of the October Revolution in their official calendar, and also to reproduce the Soviet commemorative model in the scope of their own national days, albeit with efforts to mark it with certain national variations. In the capitalist countries, the small communist organisations take advantage of the new prestige of the USSR, victor of the Great War, in order to hold modest commemorative events: concerts, theatre shows, lectures series, etc.

Finally, the spectacle of the celebrations is broadcast around the world, first by radio and news reels, and later by television. This was evidently the case with countries in the Soviet orbit. Like in many other people’s democracies, the television services of East Germany and Hungary broadcasted the ritual processions. But this mediated commemoration reached also into Western democracies. Every year in the US, regularly in France and Italy, less often in Switzerland, the October parades were rebroadcast on the national channels. The broadcasting of the military procession was incorporated into the setting of the Cold War, providing fodder for Western military experts and Kremlinologists. While the latter offered theories about the balance of power at the top of the hierarchy deduced from the seating arrangements on the Mausoleum’s balcony, the viewer could see the aging of the leaders, a metaphor for the regime itself, and the growing standardisation of the festivities, symbol of its advancing bureaucratisation. Everywhere, the commemorations represented a pertinent index of the political culture of the country that produces them.

Keywords for proposals (two primary axes)

1. The Participations of foreigners in the 7 November commemorations in the USSR

I. Foreigners invited to the USSR for the October celebrations

a. Workers delegations, by country, political and occupational categories, function, organizational type (sports, Esperanto-related, pacifist, women, youth, etc.)
b. Intellectuals, scientists, and progressive artists
c. Leaders of allied states: the Mongol Republic, European people’s democracies, North Korea, China, Cuba, African states, etc.
d. Military attachés, diplomats, government officers
e. Journalists
f. Undercover
g. Absentees (those who could not come, those who rejected the invitation)
h. Personal consequences of the visit: joining the party, promotion/exclusion in the trade union, job loss, etc.

II. The Soviet side: the inviting structure and the handling in situ

a. Organising committees
b. Welcome desk for the foreigners of the VOKS
c. The foreign relations committee of the trade unions
d. Communist International, Sportintern, KIM…
e. Culture Ministry
f. NKID-MID…
g. Translator-guides
h. Intourist
i. The political police (INO-Tcheka)

III. Activities – key moments – mandatory stations for the foreigners

a. The warm welcome: cheering crowds everywhere
b. The learning trip: the itineraries in the different republics
c. The organised tours:
d. Questions time: “tell us the truth comrades…”
e. The commemorative vigils: the stories of veterans, the shows put by worker clubs
f. The military parade, the marching columns and the popular holiday of 7
November
g. Activities upon return: written and oral testimonies

2. Celebrations of 7 November abroad: by country, type of place, and type of event

I. Commemorations in different territories

a. The big cities: Berlin in 1927, London, Paris, Rome, in the US, Beijing (from 1923 at the university)
b. Allied states: people’s democracies in Europe; in Asia: China, North Korea,
Vietnam; in Latin America: Cuba…
c. Africa:Ethiopia

II. Commemorations in Soviet spaces outside the USSR

a. Embassies
b. Cultural centres
c. Friend circles (Friends of the USSR)
d. The Communists Parties
e. Factories

III. Delegations and tours abroad: political, artists…

a. Official Soviet delegations
b. Lecture tours
c. Cultural events : exhibitions, concerts, and commemorative shows

IV. Opposition events

a. Takeoverorboycottofevents,dissidentevents
b. Anti-Soviet events
c. Competing events (Mensheviks, Trotskyist, etc.)

V. The commemorations in foreign medias

a. The foreign press
b. The foreign radio
c. The newsreels
d. The foreign television broadcasts
e. Films of October as international commemorative medium

VI. October in the communist calendar

a. Proletarian commemoration days
b. Heroes and martyrs as a focus for commemoration
c. Commemorative competition: 1 May, 9 May and the leader’s birthday

Paper Proposals

We invite submissions of proposals for papers on issues pertaining to the international echoes of the commemorations of the October revolution.

Priority will be given to proposals that emphasise long timeframes, use a comparative approach, involve the prosopography of attending delegates, or deal with the international circulation of commemorative practices.

Proposals should include the title of the presentation, an abstract, and a description of the sources. Length should be about 2500 signs. Proposal should be sent to: october17commemoration@unil.ch by 30 November 2015, together with a brief CV including the most important (maximum five) publications.

Financial Matters

In case of a proposal’s acceptation, the costs of the stay and the hotel will be covered. We kindly ask to use own funds for the travel costs. Only in case this should not be possible, coverage of the travel costs can be held in prospect.

CFP (French / German): Defis internationaux et emergence d’un espace public en Europe depuis les annees 1970

Journées d’études de l’Institut historique allemand Paris en coopération avec le laboratoire d’excellence « Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe » et le réseau franco-allemand « Saisir l’Europe »18−19 juin 2015, Paris Date limite de candidature : 27 avril 2015.

L’historiographie des relations internationales en Europe après 1945 reste dominée par une focalisation sur les relations bilatérales et sur l’histoire politique. La création progressive d’un espace européen de communication depuis les années 1970 invite cependant à un changement de perspective, qui consiste à revoir l’étude du processus décisionnel, en mettant la société civile comme point de départ. Dans cet espace de communication émergent, on peut en effet constater des convergences dans les débats qui ont eu lieu dans différents pays européens sur des questions à caractère transnational. Il semble par conséquent utile de s’intéresser à ces convergences et de s’interroger sur l’impact qu’elles ont pu avoir sur les décisions politiques tant au niveau national qu’au niveau européen. Les problèmes environnementaux constituent une question à caractère transnational par excellence. En effet, la protection de la nature voire de l’héritage naturel ou bien l’approvisionnement en énergie, notamment l’utilisation de l’énergie nucléaire, ont suscité et suscitent toujours un vif intérêt dans l’opinion publique partout en Europe. Bien que ces questions aient, depuis les années 1970, fortement gagné en importance dans l’espace public, il semble important de ne pas négliger la dimension de longue durée, inhérente à ces questions. Les contributions devraient s’intéresser à un ou plusieurs des points mentionnés ci-dessous :

  • la perception des questions transnationales dans les différents espaces nationaux de communication (p.ex. études comparatives de discours et de sémantique)
  • la circulation d’idées, de concepts et de schémas de perception entre les différents espaces nationaux de communication
  • les activités des associations ou des ONG qui se sont engagées en faveur de problèmes environnementaux ou d’autres problèmes à caractère transnational dans un ou plusieurs pays européens
  • les institutions et les personnes qui ont servi d’intermédiaire, de manière délibérée ou nonconsciente, entre les différents espaces nationaux de communication
  • le travail parlementaire, tant au niveau national qu’au niveau européen, qui s’est emparé de tels problèmes et qui a réagi à l’opinion publique et/ou aux activités des ONG, faisant entrer de cette manière des sujets et des revendications concrètes dans le circuit de la décision politique
  • les conséquences de telles convergences sur l’agenda politique des différents gouvernements et chefs d’État ainsi que sur celle des institutions européennes
  • les conditions et les délais dans lesquels les questions d’intérêt public, comme par exemple les problèmes environnementaux, peuvent devenir des objets de la politique européenne
  • les sujets en lien avec l’Allemagne et/ou la France sont appréciés, mais pas obligatoires.

Ce workshop se situe dans le cadre d’un nouveau projet de recherche de l’Institut historique allemand Paris en coopération avec le laboratoire d’excellence « Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe ». Pour en savoir plus sur ce projet, consulter la rubrique « Recherche » sur le site web de l’institut, www.dhiparis.fr . Font partie du comité scientifique pour ce workshop : Éric Bussière (univ. ParisSorbonne/LabEx EHNE), Anahita Grisoni (« Saisir l’Europe »), Hélène Miard-Delacroix (univ. ParisSorbonne/LabEx EHNE) et Christian Wenkel (IHA). Cet appel à contribution s’adresse prioritairement à des jeunes chercheurs (étudiants avancés en Master 2, doctorants et post-doc). Les frais de voyage et d’hébergement seront pris en charge par l’IHA. La langue de travail sera le français, des communications en anglais seront toutefois acceptées. Merci de bien vouloir envoyer votre candidature (une page A4 environ) en français, en allemand ou en anglais avec un court C.V. (merci d’indiquer vos compétences linguistiques) dans un seul fichier PDF d’ici le 27 avril 2015 à cwenkel@dhi-paris.fr. Les candidats sélectionnés seront invités à envoyer leur communication d’ici le 8 juin 2015 au plus tard.

In memoriam: Jacques Bariéty

Auteur: Chantal METZGER (Professeur émérite des Universités)

Notre association vient de perdre en la personne de Jacques Bariéty son président honoraire. Il fut surtout, de 1982 à 2010, le dynamique président de l’Association internationale d’histoire contemporaine de l’Europe, fondée en 1969 par Fernand L’Huillier après le printemps de Prague pour permettre aux historiens de l’Europe de l’Est de maintenir et de développer les contacts avec leurs collègues occidentaux. Grâce à son action, l’AIHCE est devenue un lieu scientifique privilégié de rencontres et d’informations entre professeurs et chercheurs de haut niveau travaillant sur l’histoire des relations internationales en Europe de 1815 à nos jours. Grâce à son action également, notre association s’est ouverte davantage aux pays de l’Est de l’Europe après 1989/1990. Il a toujours continué après avoir quitté la présidence de l’AICE à s’intéresser à ses activités.

Né à Paris le 11 janvier 1930, Jacques Bariéty nous a quittés le 20 novembre 2014, à la veille de son 85ème anniversaire. Fils d’un célèbre médecin pneumologue, il a fréquenté les Lycées Condorcet et Henri IV avant de se consacrer à sa passion, l’histoire, et de commencer ses études à la Faculté des Lettres de Paris.

Agrégé d’histoire, il a entamé une longue carrière d’enseignant dans l’Est de la France (lycée de Nancy en 1954) tout en débutant ses recherches sur les relations franco-allemandes et l’histoire de l’Allemagne. Ses premiers écrits portent sur Franz von Papen et l’accession de Hitler au pouvoir. Dès 1957, il participe aux travaux de la Commission interalliée d’étude des archives allemandes séquestrées à Whaddon Hall (Grande-Bretagne) aux côtés d’historiens américains et britanniques. Il se rend ensuite en Allemagne où il enseigne à l’Institut français de Bonn (1959) et devient, l’année suivante, membre de la Commission internationale de publication des archives diplomatiques allemandes. De 1968 à 1971, il dirige l’Institut français de Francfort-sur-le-Main.

Il entre dans la carrière universitaire en occupant, à son retour d’Allemagne en 1971, le poste de Maître assistant à la faculté des Lettres de Metz, avant de rejoindre l’université de Strasbourg où il occupera les fonctions de Directeur de l’Institut d’histoire contemporaine à partir de 1975. Il est nommé en 1979, Professeur d’histoire contemporaine à l’université de Paris IV-Sorbonne et y restera jusqu’à son départ en retraite en 1996. Il était Professeur émérite.

Ses travaux portent tous sur les relations franco-allemandes. Sa thèse d’Etat sur Les relations franco-allemandes après la première guerre mondiale fut couronnée par le prix Gobert de l’Académie française en 1977. Il publie de nombreux livres avec ses collègues, Raymond Poidevin, Les relations franco-allemandes de 1875 à 1977, Jacques Droz, République de Weimar et régime hitlérien, Jean-Marie Valentin et Alfred Guth, La France et l’Allemagne entre les deux-guerres mondiales ; Pierre Miquel, Journal de Raymond Poincaré de 1919 ; René Pillorget, France-Bavière, allers-retours, 100 ans de relations franco-bavaroises. La plupart d’entre eux sont utilisés par des générations d’étudiants et prouvent aussi qu’il était très apprécié de ses collègues, spécialistes des relations franco-allemandes.

Il a aussi contribué à la publication de nombreux colloques de l’AIHCE et notamment à celui consacré à Aristide Briand, la Société des nations et l’Europe (1919-1932) en 2007. En 2011 paraissait son dernier livre, A la recherche de la paix France-Allemagne un commentaire des cahiers d’Oswald Hesnard, conseiller et ami d’Aristide Briand. Tous ces travaux illustrent l’importance et l’impact de son œuvre scientifique.

Reconnu au niveau national et international comme un grand spécialiste de l’Allemagne, J. Bariéty fut responsable de la publication des Documents diplomatiques français (années 1920), membre de la commission des archives du ministère des Affaires étrangères (1975-2011) et de 1981 à 2004, conseiller historique auprès du ministère des Affaires étrangères.

Son autorité scientifique le conduisit également à assumer diverses responsabilités au niveau universitaire puisqu’il fut membre élu du Comité consultatif des universités (1973-82) et du Comité national du CNRS (1976-82), et auditeur à l’Institut des hautes études de défense nationale (IHEDN) (1980-1981).

Il était très apprécié de ses collègues et entretenait des relations notamment au sein de l’AIHCE avec des chercheurs de tous les pays d’Europe, mais aussi des Etats-Unis, du Canada et du Japon.

Par son enseignement, ses ouvrages, ses activités auprès de nombreuses instances, sa présence au sein du Comité scientifique de nombreuses revues, il a contribué à la formation de plusieurs générations d’historiens. Ils n’oublieront pas sa direction de recherche, ses interventions dans les soutenances, dans les débats, la fidélité de sa participation aux réunions organisées par les jeunes chercheurs. Cet historien, d’une immense culture, toujours clair et précis dans ses communications et ses interventions, a grandement contribué à faire connaître l’histoire des relations internationales à travers l’exemple franco-allemand dans le monde entier. Tous ses collègues, dont de ses nombreux anciens élèves, comme moi, sont infiniment touchés par cette perte.

Call for papers – RICHIE Conference: Networks, Practices and Dynamics of Socialization in European diplomacy from 1919 to today

RICHIE
In cooperation with RICHIE and
Académie royale de Belgique the Académie royale de Belgique

Brussels, Royal Academy of Belgium
19-21 March 2015

1. Disciplines involved

Trans-disciplinary conference favouring an historical perspective. Contributions in History and all social sciences are welcomed (Political Science, Anthropology, Sociology).

2. Working languages

Debates will be conducted mainly in French, but we welcome contributions in English.

3. Main Themes / Research Questions

After the First World War, diplomats became the key-figures of a new International order that was meant to be founded on new principles: transparency, cooperation, arbitrage and international law. However, it meant an erosion of their monopoly over foreign affairs as new “technical” experts would now play a major role along the traditional actors of diplomacy: international lawyers, academics, journalists, senior officials seconded to multilateral organisations, or international bankers. These actors were more and more organized in international networks: their activities were impacted by technological revolutions in transport and communication, and by the rising influence of mass media. The timing of the negotiator’s job was accelerating, while diplomats were increasingly monitored by public opinion and by their political masters.

The new diplomacy was mainly taking place in the European capitals and in Geneva. The League of Nations became a prominent forum for diplomatic encounters and socialization at the time of the attempted “Collective Security”, and a fertile ground for the first projects of European Union. Those professional and personal connections between foreign policy actors witnessed a new momentum after 1945 when Western European stated started to organize their close cooperation. From the 1970s onwards, the European Political Cooperation (EPC) provided an official framework, but diplomatic socialization existed informally between individuals, via various forms of connection (family, financial, intellectual or artistic).

Exploring those formal and informal networks will set a new light on the diplomatic machine in general, and on decision-making in particular. To what extent did the recourse to those networks contribute to the settlement of some crises? Did national Ministries for Foreign Affairs contribute to accelerate or to resist that process of networking among diplomatic agents? Do the latter usually share common representations of Europe? To what extent did the rise of multilateral, public and economic diplomacy impact diplomatic practices?

This call for papers requests contributions that will resort to new approaches to analyse activities of foreign policy actors from 1919 to today, favouring a transnational and pan-European focus. Different (and non-exclusive) research questions may be followed:

1. How diplomatic jobs changed in the European context?

Sociology, training, competences, definition of bilateral and multilateral diplomatic positions in Europe, transformation of national Foreign Ministries (structure, management, respective position towards home departments, impact of the unification process of Europe), transfer of training between national foreign services in Europe, exportation of a “European diplomatic model” to non-European areas.

2. Perceptions/Visions of a United Europe for Foreign policy actors:

Effects of generations, political involvement, national or transnational divisions over the European project; resistance to the integration process; confronting principles with reality: the issues/difficulties of diplomatic cooperation at the European level.

3. Formal and informal transnational networks among Foreign policy agents:

Personal and family connections between European diplomats, including the periods of war (how contacts were maintained – or not- in belligerent countries – via third or neutral countries during the two World Wars; diplomatic connections within the Soviet bloc during the Cold War); the role of contact groups in the settlement of local/regional conflict, such as the Balkans); the role of informal forums in the networking of Foreign policy actors (associations, journals, European movements).

4. New diplomatic practices in the 1970? Convergence and mutualisation of national diplomacies:

development of a European diplomatic milieu within the institutions of the ECC/EU and in their delegations abroad. The rise of public diplomacy and new proactive forms of commercial and economic diplomacy; new division of labour and mutualisation between bilateral embassies and the ECC/EU delegations; the advent of the High Representative for the CFSP as a new diplomatic figure; sharing of diplomatic practices with European countries of the ex-Soviet bloc; development of the European External Action Service (EEAS)

4. Participating institutions

Université catholique de Louvain (UCL) et Université de Liège (Centre d’étude d’histoire de l’Europe contemporaine – CEHEC and Contact group FRS-FNRS « Belgique et mondes contemporains »)

Paris I / Paris IV (Labex EHNE et Centre d’histoire des relations internationales contemporaines/IRICE)

Association « Diplomatie et stratégie »

5. Scientific Committee

  • Laurence Badel (Paris I)
  • Eric Bussière (Paris IV)
  • Björn-Olav Dozo (FNRS/ULg)
  • Michel Dumoulin (UCL)
  • Vincent Genin (ULg)
  • Johannes Grossmann (Tübingen)
  • John Keiger (Cambridge)
  • Catherine Lanneau (ULg)
  • Christian Lequesne (Sciences Po)
  • Thomas Raineau (Paris IV)
  • Philippe Raxhon (ULg)
  • Pierre Tilly (UCL)
  • Matthieu Osmont (ICFA Tübingen)
  • Maurice Vaïsse (Sciences Po)

6. Submission process and deadlines

  1. Applicants are expected to submit abstract of papers by Tuesday 30 September 2014 at email address: colldiplo2015@gmail.com
  2. Abstracts should not exceed 500 words and should be accompanied by a short biographical note, a CV and a list of publications
  3. Notifications to successful applicants will be sent by 1 December 2014. Final papers are expected to be produced by 15 February 2015.
  4. The accommodation costs in Brussels are paid.Requests for financial grants covering a partial or total amount of travelling expenses can be submitted and will be considered on a case-by-case basis

7. Organizing Committee

  • Vincent Genin (Phd Candidate, Université de Liège)
  • Dr Matthieu Osmont (Director of Institut culturel franco-allemand de Tübingen)
  • Thomas Raineau (Phd Candidate, Université Paris IV Sorbonne)

Contrats doctoraux : « Défis internationaux et émergence d’un espace public en Europe depuis les années 1970 » (Institut historique allemand)

Durée : 01/10/2014–30/09/2017
Date limite de candidature : 22/06/2014

Version allemande.

Descriptif

Logo de l'Institut Historique Allemand à ParisInstitution : Institut historique allemandDans le cadre d’un nouvel axe de recherche, l’Institut historique allemand (IHA) à Paris offre pour l’automne 2014 des contrats doctoraux sur le thème «Défis internationaux et émergence d’un espace public en Europe depuis les années 1970». Les recherches porteront sur la question des convergences dans la perception des défis internationaux en Europe, ainsi que sur la définition d’une politique européenne qui en résulte. Il s’agira de mettre à l’épreuve la pertinence de cette approche pour décrire l’histoire européenne récente, en prenant pour exemple les questions environnementales. Les candidats traitant d’un point de vue historique l’émergence d’un espace public en Europe dans d’autres domaines sont également les bienvenus. Les sujets en lien avec l’Allemagne et/ou la France sont appréciés, mais pas obligatoires.

Le contrat doctoral vise à l’élaboration d’une thèse dans le cadre d’un projet de recherche lancé au printemps 2014 sous la direction de Christian Wenkel à l’IHA, en coopération avec les professeurs Éric Bussière et Hélène Miard-Delacroix, du laboratoire d’excellence Écrire une histoire nouvelle de l’Europe. Le présent appel à candidatures s’adresse au premier chef aux doctorants qui se trouvent au début de leur travail. Le poste est à pourvoir si possible au 1er octobre 2014. Avec Christian Wenkel, les doctorants constitueront un groupe de recherche auquel peuvent participer également des personnes dont les travaux sont financés par une autre structure. L’inscription en doctorat doit être faite dans un établissement d’enseignement supérieur en France ou en Allemagne et ne peut pas être réalisée à l’IHA. Tout accord de cotutelle entre un établissement allemand et établissement français est bienvenue.

Le contrat doctoral de droit français est conclu pour une durée de trois ans. La rémunération mensuelle s’établit à 1 818 € brut (assurances maladie, vieillesse et chômage françaises incluses). L’IHA met à disposition un poste de travail dans ses locaux, ainsi que les infrastructures de l’institut.

Les doctorants s’engagent à participer activement aux travaux et manifestations de l’IHA et notamment du groupe de recherche. Les candidats doivent maîtriser l’allemand ou le français et posséder de solides notions dans l’autre langue.

Pour en savoir plus sur le projet «Défis internationaux et émergence d’un espace public en Europe depuis les années 1970», consulter la rubrique «Recherche» sur le site Web de l’institut. Pour toute question de fond sur le projet de recherche, contacter Christian Wenkel (cwenkel [at] dhi-paris [point] fr). Les requêtes administratives doivent être adressées à Stefan Martens, directeur adjoint de l’IHA et directeur du département Histoire contemporaine (smartens [at] dhi-paris [point] fr).

Modalités de candidature

Merci de bien vouloir envoyer votre candidature avec votre C.V., les copies de vos diplômes, l’exposé de votre projet de thèse accompagné d’un calendrier et d’indications sur les sources pertinentes pour votre travail (4 pages max.), ainsi que les coordonnées de deux personnes de référence d’ici au 22 juin 2014, par e-mail uniquement (dans un seul fichier PDF) au directeur de l’IHA, M. Thomas Maissen (bewerbung [at] dhi-paris [point] fr). Les entretiens de recrutement se tiendront probablement du 7 au 9 juillet 2014.

Contact

Christian Wenkel
8 rue du Parc-Royal
75003 Paris
+33 1 44 54 23 80
+33 1 42 71 23 90
cwenkel [at] dhi-paris [point] fr

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