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 conference wants 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.
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.
We are also holding a public lecture on Thursday evening with 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 siècle, CNRS Editions 2024. --> Registration for the public conference : https://form.jotform.com/242975130314351
Finally, we have scheduled a presentation and guided tours of the Archives of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe on the campus of the University of Lausanne on Thursday evening. This extremely rich collection of documents is a valuable resource for researchers working on the history of European cooperation.
WEDNESDAY 27 November 2024
13:00-13:15 – Introduction by the organisers
AXIS 1 – Models, Identities and Representations, Reflecting the Diversity of Forms of Europeanisations
13:15-15:15 – Session I : Education and Transmission of Knowledge
Serhiy Blavatskyy, University Lumière Lyon-2 - The Ukrainian contribution to the Interwar European Union’s Project
Christian Ydesen, University of Zurich - Crafting the Nordic Welfare State Model : Interwar Exchanges with Switzerland in Special Education.
Maxime Behar, SAGE, Strasbourg/Paris I and Pierre-Louis Six, École Normale Supérieure de Paris - Forger l’Homme Nouveau européen à l’Ouest et à l’Est : une analyse comparée du MGIMO et du Collège d’Europe au début de la Guerre froide.
Jules Siran, University of Geneva - Internationalisme socialiste ou européanisation par le bas et les marges ? Le cas des échanges transnationaux de l’Université technique de Budapest dans la guerre froide globale (années 1960-années 1990)
Chair: Damiano Matasci, University of Geneva
15:15-15:30 – BREAK
15:30-17:00 – Session II : Alternative Forms of Europeanisation
Martin Kristoffer Hamre, Freie Universität Berlin - A ‘Europe of Nationalisms?: Fascist Visions of Europeanization in Switzerland in the Mid-1930s
Giulia Chielli, University of Toulouse Jean Jaurès - L’Europe des « vaincus ». Le projet européen des « forces nationales » et son rapport à la construction européenne libérale (1950-1953)
Karlo Ruzicic Kessler, University of Fribourg & Science and Research Centre Koper - The Alps-Adriatic Region during the Cold War : Imagining a Europe Beyond East-West Divide
Chair: Franziska Zaugg, University of Fribourg
17:00-17:15 – BREAK
17:15-18:30 – Opening Conference: Professor Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University Munich - Europeanisation is dead! Long live Europeanisation!
Co-organised with the Centre of International History and Political Studies of Globalization (CRHIM)
THURSDAY 28 November 2024
AXIS 2 – Unknown Figures and Entities in the Europeanisation Process
8:30 -10:30 – Session III: Networks and Focus Groups
Alexandre Bibert, German Historical Institute Paris - L’ambivalence de la conscience européenne des acteurs syndicaux, de la sortie de la Seconde Guerre mondiale aux années 1990
Carmen Crozier, University of Lausanne - Les abonnés des Cahiers rouges : une fenêtre sur les activités proeuropéennes déployées en Suisse romande (1965-1989)
Fabien Dubois, University of Fribourg - Le processus d’intégration européenne au travers des groupes de travail du DFAE (1988-1992). Le Groupe de réflexion Suisse-Europe (1988) et le Comité interdépartemental pour l’intégration européenne (1989)
Bence Kocsev, Otto von Habsburg Foundation, Budapest - Beyond the Block Narrative: Socialist Hungary’s Path to the European Communities, 1979–1989
Chair : Matthieu Gillabert, University of Fribourg
10:30-11:00 – BREAK
11:00-13:00 – Session IV: The Administrative Sphere
Yaman Kouli, University of Bonn - Administrative Challenges as a Catalyst for Integration ? The Case of the Belgian Workers in France before 1914
Simon Godard, Sciences Po Grenoble - Faire le C.A.F.E : les marges militantes de l’introduction de problématiques de genre dans les Communautés européennes au cours des années 1960
Marius Loris Rodionoff, FNRS, University Louvain-la-Neuve - Vers une européanisation des normes et des pratiques du management ? Le rôle de la technocratie catholique (France, Espagne, Belgique), années 1945 - années 1980
Marco Ninno, KU Leuven - Navigating ‘Peripheral’ Brussels: the Courrier du Personnel as a Guidebook through Europeanization
Chair: Katja Seidel, University of Westminster
13:00-14:30 – LUNCH BREAK
14:30-16:30 – Session V: Local Identities, Representations and Results of Europeanisation Processes
Dominique Floret, University Côte d’Azur - Le sentiment d’appartenance européen aux Antilles : entre colonialisme, départementalisation et ultrapériphérie
Inoussa Dianda, University Joseph KI-ZERBO - Les logiques et les enjeux de l’inclusion des acteurs non-étatiques dans la coopération UE-Burkina Faso
Amós del Castillo Petidier, Complutense University of Madrid - Eurosceptics in the City Hall ? An Analysis of the Perspective of Local Councils towards Seville’s Expo ‘92 and Lisbon’s Expo ‘98
Anna G. Piotrowska, Jagiellonian University, Krakow - Flirting with European Tradition, Winking at Vernacular Public : Europeanization and Popular Music in Poland and Ukraine
Chair: Christian Wenkel, Artois University
16:30-17:00 – BREAK
EVENING EVENTS AT THE JEAN MONNET FOUNDATION FOR EUROPE
17:00 – Introduction by the organisers
17:15 – Presentation of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe Archives
17:30-18:30 – Public conference : Professeur emeritus Christophe Charle, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - L’Europe des intellectuels, une histoire cyclique? XIXe-XXe siècles
Co-organised with the Atelier des histoires
Commentator: Christian Wenkel, Artois University
18:30-21:00 – Aperitif dinner and guided tours of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe Archives
FRIDAY 29 November 2024
AXIS 3 – Instruments, Practices, Experiences, and Results of Europeanisation Processes from Below and from the Margins
9:45-11:30 – Session VI : The Mobilisation of Civilians and Action Groups
Lidia Lesnykh, University of Fribourg and Timothy Schuermann, University of Fribourg - Engaging for Europe before Erasmus: European Students Meetings in 1970-1980s
Koen van Zon, Studio Europa, Maastricht - Protesting Poison. How Local Protests against Italy’s Chemical Industry Turned European, 1976-1997
Nicoleta Serban, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile - Un mouvement européen pour le sauvetage des villages roumains (1989 : Opération Villages Roumains
Chair: Simone Paoli, University of Pisa
11:30-13:00 – LUNCH BREAK
13:00-15:00 – Session VII : Experiencing Exchanges through Mobility and Leisure Activities
Jérémie Dubois, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne - Les foyers de vacances bi-nationaux dans l’entre-deux-guerres :un projet de rapprochement des peuples européens par la jeunesse (1928-1933)
Katharina Stornig, Justus Liebig University of Giessen - Au Pair Mobility Between Nationalization, Transnationalization and Europeanization: Actors Perspectives and Interpretations (1945-1990)
Jacqueline Nießer, University of Regensburg - The subculture of naturism as «banal europeanization» between the 1950s and the 1980s
Marco Abram, Science and Research Centre Koper - On the East of Europe’s Backbone : Mountaineering and Cross-Border Cooperation in the Julian Alps 1960s-1980s
Chair: Léonard Laborie, CNRS
15:00-15:15 – Conclusion by the organisers
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