A history of exchange programs in the XXth century: education, circulations and transfers

International Conference University of Geneva, 11-12 December 2014 8:30: WELCOME, TEA/COFFEE 09:00: Welcome speech (Yves Flückiger, Vice-Rector, UNIGE) 09:10: Introduction to the Conference Theme (Giles Scott-Smith & Ludovic Tournès) SESSION 1 (9:30 - 12:00): INSTRUMENTS OF NATIONAL POLICY Chair: Matthias Schulz (UNIGE) Discussant: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval) Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE): American academic exchanges and the rise of an intellectual superpower (1920- 1939) Alice Byrne (Université Rennes-2): The British Council’s Commonwealth university interchange scheme: fostering the new Commonwealth or prolonging British influence? Jacob S. Eder (Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena): Students as ambassadors: the Congress-Bundestag youth exchange program and German-American relations Jesse Sargent (Graduate Institute, Genève): Importing barbarian knowledge: the JET programme and the development of cultural internationalism in Japan (1987-2014) 12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH SESSION 2 (13:30 - 15:30): THE AMBIGUITY OF INTERNATIONALISM Chair: Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden) Discussant: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE) Stefan Hübner (Bundeswehr Universität, Munich): The YMCA’s sportive ‘Civilizing Mission’: Asian sports experts and the YMCA training school (Springfield College) Panayotis Papaevangelou (UNIL): The League of Nations and the organization of International academic exchanges Thomas David, Yi-Tang Lin (UNIL) & Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute, Genève): The fellowship programs of the World Health Organization Véronique Plata (UNIGE): The creation of a network of propagandists: the internship program of the ILO (1950-1954) 15:30 - 16:00: TEA / COFFEE SESSION 3 (16:00 - 18:30): WORLD POLITICS AND THE COLD WAR Chair: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE) Discussant: Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden) Frédéric Attal (Université de Valenciennes): Evaluating success and limits of the different Fulbright exchange programs in Europe with a special focus to the program to researchers Peter Simons (Hamilton College, Clinton): Grassroots diplomacy: US agricultural exchanges in the early Cold War Igor Czernecki (Warsaw University): An intellectual offensive: the Ford Foundation and the destalinization of the Polish social sciences (1957-1990) Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University): Study abroad in the land of Stalin: Cold War educational exchanges in the Eastern bloc Hannah Higgin (Cambridge University): African exchange students in the United States in the 1960s FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH SESSION 4 (9:30 - 12:00): KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER AND LONG-TERM EFFECTS Chair: Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute, Genève) Discussant: Frédéric Attal (Université de Valenciennes) Tamson Pietsch (University of Sydney): Organising scholarly exchange: the Rhodes Scholarships (1903-1913) Judith Syga (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris): Managing exchange in interwar Germany: August W. Fehling and the administration of the Rockefeller Foundation’s fellowship program for the social sciences Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Québec): A special kind of fellows? Half a century of Rockefeller Foundation nursing fellowships 1919-1970 Carol Aktinson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles): Military exchanges and American soft power 12:00 - 13:30: LUNCH SESSION 5 (13:30 - 16:00): THE PRESENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES Chair: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Québec) Discussant: Jesse Sargent (Graduate Institute, Genève) Patricia Rosenfield (Rockefeller Archive Center, New York): American Foundations and the Post-World War II Funding of Fellowship Programs: The Internal and External Challenges Guangqiu Xu (Friends University, Wichita): American fulbrighters in China (1979-2013) Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden): Promoting Leadership: The Fulbright and Foreign Leader programs in perspective Lonnie R. Johnson (Austrian-American Educational Commission, Vienna) : The new geography of American public exchange program since 1989 Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (European Commission) : Contemporary challenges of the ERASMUS program. 16:00-16:30: Concluding remarks (Giles Scott-Smith & Ludovic Tournès)