Programme provisoire
Thèmes majeurs
(3 séances d'une journée)
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La chute des empires
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La ville produit culturel
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In the session “City as culture/ La ville produit culturel”, cities as cultural sites and their relations to rural areas will be analysed from different historical perspectives, from medieval towns to modern cities. Globally, the session covers a wide range of cities from colonial to postcolonial cities in Africa, Latin America, and Asia and from industrial cities to post-modern cities in Europe.
Urban identity and cultural heritage, multiculturalism and tensions between different ethnic groups will be analysed. Accordingly, questions on identity and questions on the significance of urban or civic culture will be taken up as well. Representative examples will be introduced in presentations concerning multicultural cities like Rome, Trieste or Prague and other cities belonging to the Habsburg monarchy.
Conflicts over social/gender/ethnic differences have been an important part of urban culture. This was the case also in the cities mentioned above. In some urban cultures, there are several layers caused by colonisation and migration (examples on Togo, Nigerian city Ibadan, Javanese city Semarang, Latin American cities). Urban culture can also be seen as means for promoting understanding between different groups and communities.
More generally, urban culture has been understood as a way of making cities attractive and as means of encouraging innovations and creativity. In promoting new ideas and innovations through history or in building the infrastructure, the role of city government, decision makers, professionals and town councillors as well as the interaction of different actors and civil societies have always been crucial (Vienna, Seoul).
This is true also when looking modernity and the reconstruction of post-modern cities. In this session, there will be several cases on the role of decision makers in creating balance between enhancing cultural diversity on one hand and regulating and repressing it on the other, e.g. in the papers concerning Dublin and Helsinki, Stockholm and Italian cities.
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Religion et pouvoir
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Thèmes spécialisés
(21 séances d'une demi-journée)
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Biographie et microhistoire
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Conquêtes et démographie
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The session will explore the various ways in which conquest has influenced mortality, fertility and migration, in the short and in the long run. It will mainly deal with the conquered, but also invites contributions regarding the demographic effects on the conquerers. It will be investigated how military actions, epidemics, harvest failures and famines interact.
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À qui appartient l'histoire ? Les sources hier et aujourd'hui
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Les empires coloniaux en Afrique, des espaces d'hybridité culturelle
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Le voyage en question
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Émigrants et immigrants
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Les formes de travail, libre et non-libre, à l'époque contemporaine
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Le livre dans une perspective transculturelle
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La construction des nations dans le monde islamique au XXe siècle
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Société de consommation et changement économique
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"Nous sommes ce que nous mangeons et ce que nous portons." Nourriture et vêtements dans l'histoire
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In the course of the 20th century social theorists suggested that food and clothing are crucial for the way people see (and judge) people (including themselves). By the year 2000 most psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and historians would not question the relevance of clothing and food in the formation of identity and the forging of communities (whether small, as the family, medium, as the community, or large, as the nation). This significance appears through notorious present-day examples such as the wearing of a shawl, the use of very stylish dress, the refusal of eating meat, and the consumption of snails (or horsemeat, insects, frogs…). Crucial is the knowledge that both food and clothing go beyond “simple” distinctions of class, region, gender, ethnicity or age. Within a group, food and clothing do indeed permit to mark and observe subtle differences, often hidden in details and behind self-evident conduct. Without doubt, subtle and crude differences with regard to food and clothing appear in all times and places. These differences have been a means to express wealth, status, relationships, and attachments, as well as they were (are) a possibility to emphasize political, social and cultural rivalry and distinctiveness. “We” and “they” are constructed via food and clothes.
Yet, the actual role of food and clothing in expressing meaning is far from straightforward and simple. People may change clothes easily, or they may eat occasionally very unfamiliar foodstuffs. Also and crucial, food and clothes may be used to trespass boundaries. Moreover, other characteristics, such as religion, origin or language, may also be part of identity formation.
Questions that come to mind are manifold. Food and clothing come about in unconscious ways that are part of everyday life: when and how did these appear? Do they change, and how and why? What is the precise role of food and clothing in identity construction? Are these central, rather stable elements, or would they be flexible? Who sets the rules? And what about conscious forging of identity via food and clothing: when and why does this occur? Feasts contribute highly to identity construction, and in most communities, feasts come along with special clothing (or at least festive garments) and special food and drink, but which kind of clothing and food? Theories and hypotheses may come to mind. Elites are often seen as innovators, adopting new ways of clothing and eating. These initiate (social and cultural) borders with codes, rules and behaviour. Often, the elite’s ways are copied or, at least, interpreted and adapted. Is this trickling down the only way of diffusion of (new) food and clothing, or would influence of “the street” play a role?
Six historians tackle these issues by considering elements of the food and the clothing chain, which implies attention to production, trade, retailing, consumption and significance of food and clothing in very diverse times and places. They do not do so hoping to achieve an overall conclusion, but mainly to explore a relatively new topic in historical research.
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Histoire sociale du crédit
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For economic historians the key question about financial institutions is how they connect to economic growth. Even though this is a question firmly rooted in the economic domain, studying the social aspects of credit operations may increase our understanding of this causal connection. This session will explore three questions, two substantial, one methodological. First of all we will consider the geographical spread of financial institutions. To what extent does the location of borrowers and lenders determine their access to financial markets? Second, we explore the use borrowers and lenders made of personal relations and professional intermediaries to supply information about supply and demand on credit markets? Do personal relations become less important when markets grow bigger, or do specialized intermediaries in these larger markets still rely on social networks to match borrowers and lenders? The session will compare the history of credit markets in various parts of Europe through contributions that employ a vast array of different qualitative and quantitative sources. We will try to build on this diversity to explore which sources lend itself to a comparative analysis of credit markets between countries.
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Identité nationale et mémoire hégémonique
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It is a remarkable phenomenon that since the 1980's it has become impossible to problematize history without going into its complex relationship with 'collective memory' at the same time. The remarkable success of Pierre Nora's idea of 'lieux de memoire' - also as an export-product, replicated in many other national contexts
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Conflicts as to national history's 'appropriate' contents have been rampant, manifesting themselves in 'history wars' and in subsequent calls to codify the nations historical 'canon'. Simultaneously, in many nations 'the empire' has 'struck back' by questioning the nation's relationship with - and its dependency on - its former colonial empire. The call for the 'globalization' of history is just one of the attempts to clarify the present fuzzy condition of national history by 'provincializing Europe' and by reframing its national histories in terms of hegemonical memory.
This specialized theme will take stock of the questions outlined above for a variety of nations in various corners of this world. It thus will analyze the unity and diversity in the issue of national identity and hegemonic memory from a global perspective.
The organizer, Chris Lorenz, is one of the leaders of a Europe wide comparative research project on national history writing in the 19th. and 20th. century.
(see: www.uni-leipzig.de/zhsesf/). He is also a Bureau-member of the 'International Commission of Historiography and Theory of Historiography' and a chair of the Network 'Theory and Historiography' of the 'European Social Science History Conference' since 1994.
With Stefan Berger he is the editor of 'The Contested Nation. Ethnicity, Religion, Class and Gender in National Histories', publishd in 2008 with Palgrave MacMillan. Further he has published widely on issues of history and identity and on comparative historiography. His book 'Constructing the Past'(published in Dutch and in German) is now being translated into English and into Chinese.
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Frontières, confins et limites
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Border studies are considered to be one of the most important paradigm shifts made since the 1990s. The studies provide a new inspiring conceptual framework that enables scholars to go beyond the nation-state paradigm and to deal with its relevant issues of collective identity and loyalty in the interdisciplinary subjects of cultural studies, ethnology, anthropology, geopolitics, and postcolonial studies, etc.
It seems to be the case, however, that historiography fails to stay abreast of academic developments achieved in this new field of border studies, despite newly heated discussions that have led to the studies of 'transnational history,' 'histoire croisée/entangled history,' and 'global history.' Historical writings in most countries still remain restricted to the conventional framework of national history and away from the new revelations and the innovative thinking in historical methodology.
Border history paradigm holds significance, among other things, as available alternatives to the national history of individual countries. The new approach draws attention away from the concept of supposedly 'unmovable or fixed' borders within the individual nation state paradigm. Instead, it presents an alternative concept of 'movable and changing' borders, the space in which cultural exchanges constantly happened and yielded resultant hybrids. The upshot is the emergence of a history that can go beyond the restrictions of the nation state's borders.
The border history will be able to provide a new understanding of history, a historical-epistemic base upon which it will lead to the overcoming of traditional nation-state conflicts and promote peaceful co-existence. Transnational perspectives of border history can break through the academic border of historians and civil societies that remains locked in the national history paradigm. As long as the national history paradigm goes on, it will be realistically impossible to find reasonable and acceptable solutions to the current controversies regarding historic communities that had once been located within the present borders, or conflicts over the issue of national sovereignty over border areas.
In this sense, the new approach to border history can serve as a stepping stone for historians to do away with the practice of unearthing selective evidence that proves advantageous to 'their national interests' and to work toward interpreting them from the new perspective of border history. Only then, will the common past be able to turn into a shared basis for building future peace for the sake of all mankind. This is the very purport for which this session is organized.
But this session won’t be confined to case studies of East Asia. The border question in the historiography has been interrelated with the emerging nation state on the world scale and, thus the national history as an apologia for the nation state. The cultural transfer or interaction of the nation state as a module stays behind the scene of historical conflicts over the national territory, which demands a global history approach. This session will shed a comparative and insightful light on the issue of border history synchronically between the regions of East Asia, Europe, Africa and America, and diachronically between modern and pre-modern era.
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Histoire et droits humains
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The work of the United Nations (UN) in the area of human rights can influence both the topics on which historians work and the concepts they use. As human rights encompass virtually all spheres of life, large parts of the historical production inevitably deal with aspects of human rights or their abuses. This Specialized Theme, however, intends to focus strictly on human rights concepts, as developed within the UN, which are of particular importance for historians. Three areas in particular need further clarification. First, the international human rights regime creates obligations as well as opportunities for our profession. Second, there is a tension between legal and historical-analytical uses of human rights concepts. Third, human rights campaigns have traditionally focused on contemporary issues, whereas historians typically view human rights in a longer perspective. It is proposed to study these areas along the following lines.
Ethics. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, privacy and reputation and freedom of expression and information merit high protection levels. This has important bearings on historians’ ethics: What duties for historians follow from the privacy and reputation of their subjects of study? How can considerations of privacy and reputation be balanced against the principle that those engaged in public life should be accountable for their actions? Are there limits to historians’ rights to free expression and information?
Impunity and reparation. In the wake of discussions about how societies emerging from periods marked by major conflict and crimes implement justice, two concepts have received major attention: the impunity of perpetrators of human rights abuses and the reparation for the harm done to their victims. The debate centers on the duties of states to investigate, prosecute, and commemorate major crimes. As a complement to these duties, the UN have advocated a so-called “right to the truth” (formerly labeled a “right to know”) for victims. Further aspects are reparations for victims, legal forms of forgetting, the value of archives of former repressive regimes, and the function of truth commissions acting as protohistorians.
Historical injustice. This brings us to another class of concepts—those with longer-term time dimensions. The question is whether the 1985 UN definition of victim extends beyond “the immediate family or dependants” to include victims of historical injustices of longer ago. Are slavery, colonization, apartheid, and the pillage of the world’s cultural heritage problems for which accountability can be determined?
Dead persons. In 2002, the International Criminal Court, not a part of the UN but very close to it, developed a new concept: outrages upon the dignity of dead persons. How should historians deal with this concept?
Retroactive moral judgments. The UN General Assembly and other venues have retroactively given labels to some historical phenomena which may influence the historians’ moral judgments about them. For example, the Holocaust was called a genocide from 1948, and apartheid a crime against humanity from 1973. Obviously, giving those events such labels changes their moral status and increases the pressure on the historians’ efforts at interpretation. What effects upon historical writing, then, had (and will have) these labels?
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La violence sexuelle : récits, cultures et représentations
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Républiques nouvelles : construction de nations en Amérique latine au XIXe siècle
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The purpose of this session is to discuss the formation of the Latin American republics. At the beginning of the 19th century, the collapse of the colonial order as a result of the Spanish and Portuguese imperial crises triggered deep political changes in the territories formerly under Iberian domain. In the case of Spanish America, the dissolution of the bonds that had held the different parts of the empire together inaugurated a long and contested process of political experimentation. Attempts at forming new polities followed different directions, and the political map changed many times during the post-revolutionary decades. Only by end of the nineteenth century a relatively stable pattern of nation-states consolidated, but no linear or predetermined path had led to that outcome.
Despite these complexities, the polities in the making, the short- and the long-lived alike, all adopted republican forms of government based on the principle of popular sovereignty. There was no single republican model, and the label applies to a wide variety of endeavors. But all of them entailed a radical change in the principles of legitimization of political power. Once the Spanish monarchy fell and the empire collapsed, two main problems arose: how to reconstruct a political order on the basis of popular sovereignty, and how to shape the new polities (“nations”), which were to be the sources of that sovereign power as well as the domains for its application. Thus, all attempts at nation building –the successful but also the unsuccessful ones, which were many more- were at the same time essays in political innovation. To devise the nation was at the same time to design, set in motion, and sustain political institutions.
Brazil had a rather different trajectory. Established after independence from Portugal as a constitutional monarchy, it remained a relatively unified polity under a single rule, and became a republic in 1889. Throughout the nineteenth century, the new nation experienced important political innovations, which are comparable to those undertaken in the Spanish American polities.
This session will focus, therefore, on the long-term political changes inaugurated by the revolutions of independence and the following attempts at nation-building mainly within republican frameworks. The six selected papers will explore different dimensions of those changes in specific cases.
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Études supérieures dans le monde de l'Islam, du judaisme et de la chrétienté
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Description and Some Proposed Issues for Specialized Section 18 “Higher Education in Moslem, Jewish and Christian Societies”
The purpose of this session is to examine in a comparative perspective the nature of Higher Learning in Islamic, Jewish and Christian societies, in the pre-modern and modern periods. Hence, papers, while they can be based on specific case studies, should aim at broader issues which can be discussed comparatively. Synthetic surveys will also be welcome. Among key questions which it is worthwhile to address are:
1) The role of the religious tradition and/or religious authorities in forming the content of higher learning.
2) The “image of knowledge” informing higher learning: traditional and closed or more open-ended and oriented towards innovation, discovery and the advancement of knowledge. Are such dichotomies applicable at all?
3) The relations between higher learning and political authority.
4) Teaching techniques and skills (like the European “disputatio” in medieval and the early modern period, or the “Pilpul” in Jewish traditional Rabbinical schools).
5) The relations between teachers and students, whether “authoritarian” or more “egalitarian”.
6) The social matrix of higher learning. Which groups in society are participating and to which strata of the population higher learning is aimed at.
7) Attitudes towards the “other” – towards alien traditions, religions, cultures, minority groups.
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Religion et société dans l'Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est pré-moderne
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Vers une histoire mondiale? Les politiques sociales dans le monde
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Les émotions, facteur historique : sentiments et perceptions dans le monde antique
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Tables rondes
(14 séances d'une demi-journée)
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L'esclavage : un état de la question
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Histoire et éthique
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_Sponsors
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2) Pontificio Comitato di Scienze Storiche.
The History of Ethics has mostly been written by philosophers, who are well equipped to trace influences and uncover coherence, but less strong on the historical setting in life of the classics of moral philosophy.
Even those few philosophers who try seriously to integrate text and context - Alistair MacIntyre is an impressive example - tend to be amateurish on the historical side of the equation. The methodology of the 'Cambridge School' of the History of Political Thought offers a corrective, but its emphasis on the patterns of intention behind key texts is only one way to put philosophy back into their times. Again, studies of influence, such as Jonathan Israel's remarkable demonstration of the impact of Spinoza's works, do justice to philosophical works without tearing them away from the fabric of the past. There are however other ways also in which the history of classic philosophical texts can become part of mainstream History; this /table ronde /aims to explore them. It retains a focus on classic philosophical texts or problems, but integrates them History in new ways - e.g. by bringing them into conjunction with diplomatic history or African customary norms, or by employing sociological methodology. The type of social history envisaged is also comparative, so the table ronde has a broad chronological and geographical spread. There will be papers or discussants expert in the ethics of the twelfth century Renaissance, early modern European casuistry, ethical aspects of African law, and ethical dilemmas in twentieth century politics. The convenor's paper will attempt to provide a methodological framework for a history of ethics transcending specific
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La tolérance avant le XVIIIe siècle
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Toleration before the Enlightenment
While there has been an explosion of historical literature on the theory and practice of toleration during the past generation or so, historians have evinced remarkably vast and settled agreement on at least one salient historiographical point: that tolerance is uniquely modern, emerging in European society only at the dawn of the sixteenth century. The practice arose in reaction of the horrors of religious war in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the theory appeared out of a liberal and essentially Enlightenment understanding of the human condition. Convergence around this point of interpretation exists among historians specializing in both the medieval and early modern periods. This Roundtable will reassess this historiographical commonplace by investogating how numerous and varied routes to tolerant principles and practices existed and were pursued in pre-Reformation and pre-Enlightenment Europe. In the paper that forms the centerpiece of the Roundtable, entitled “Toleration in Medieval Europe: Theoretical Principles and Historical Lessons,” I examine the question of toleration from the perspective of intellectual history. I propose to sketch in brief compass some alternative theoretical approaches to the rights-laden, modern, Western discourse of liberalism that has been taken as coextensive with the essence of principled tolerance. Permit me to emphasize at the outset that I do not claim completeness for the present survey of theories. More systematic investigation is likely to identify further conceptual schemes that might be employed to support and defend principles of tolerance. The aim, instead, is to gesture toward a line of inquiry with a potentially rich future by identifying some of the strands of thought that arises above the threshold of principled toleration. Specifically, I identify five non-liberal approaches dating to the Latin Middle Ages that generated robust accounts of toleration. For the sake of analytical clarity, these frameworks may be termed: skeptical, functional, nationalistic, dialogical, and mystical. There was certainly some overlap between them as they were articulated historically, but each constitutes a logically distinct and intellectually coherent way of defending and advocating tolerant behavior and attitudes in the context of the general contours of the medieval worldview.
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Les mémoires contrastées de la colonisation
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Astronomie et astrologie dans l'Antiquité et au Moyen-Âge
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Imago Mundi, cartographier le monde
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Une approche globale de l'histoire est-elle possible?
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Les droits des morts
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The "politics of dead bodies" has become a key issue in the humanities during the past few decades and links scholars from various disciplines (history, archaelogy, anthropology, law, forensic sciences, art). This subject shows that it is not so much theory or methodology that connects researchers from various fields but important subjects which require interdisciplinary approaches. Questions whether it is justifiable to disinter human remains and examine them for scientific purpose have cause intense controversies, as has the problem of putting them to political use. Tensions arise between the expectations ofthe living and the rights of the dead, for whom, as it is often assumed, the body no longer matters. Even speaking of the personality of the dead body in the context of its inviolability (law) and memory (doing honor to the dead person) involves obiquitous "politics of heritage".
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La sphère publique : les usages d'un concept
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Violence urbaine, banale et extraordinaire
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Diversités ethniques, échanges et identité culturelle dans les sociétés ancienne et médiévale
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La rencontre des cultures orales et écrites
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This joint session brings together representatives of indigenous historical and cultural organizations as well as national historical organizations in order to interrogate what challenges these developments have posed to the field of historical narrating. What are the concerns of indigenous historians, what topics are thought of as relevant, do indigenous peoples conceive of history differently from the traditions that emanate from Euroamerican universities? What challenges do indigenous histories pose regarding disciplinary boundaries, methodologies, understandings of time, change and continuity? What ways and means are significant, what is the role of film, videos, the internet, museums, oral histories etc. for the doing of indigenous histories?
The session primarily aims to engender a conversation on the above theme and hopefully provide a discussion between different practitioners of Native historical research, as well as a dialogue between Native and Non-native historians regarding the need for historical research into these areas.
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Représentations féminines de l'identité collective
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Les femmes et la culture savante
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Séances conjointes
(10 séances d'une demi-journée)
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Genre et éducation
Organismes: International Standing Conference for the History of Education / Commission internationale pour l'histoire des Universités.
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In recent decades exploring the meaning and effects of gender in history has become an essential and dynamic part of all aspects of history – social, political, economic, cultural and intellectual. The steadily expanding field of gender studies in history has moved from an emphasis on women alone, restoring them to history and questioning old narratives which ignore or marginalize them, to searches involving the significance of gender (both masculinity and femininity) as an organising concept, women’s active agency and how women and men have negotiated the social, cultural and economic structures they inhabited. This panel of four scholars from the International Standing Conference of History of Education and two chosen by the International Society of History Didactics, will view education in the widest sense, that is, the development of mental or physical powers rather than only schooling, training or systematic instruction, although the latter are, of course, included. Women as active agents and educators in global networks in history; the interrelationship of class and/or ethnicity with gender and education, the significance of education in social and cultural history and how gender has been an integral aspect of this, are leading themes for the educational historians while aspects of gender, rape law and Greek education are investigated by the other speakers. The panel will represent a wide variety of countries and continents with respect to both subjects and scholars.
The papers will focus in particular on transnational connections and international co-operation. Professor Christine Mayer (Germany) examines the interchange of Enlightenment ideas on female education across Europe, taking the translation and reception of Burton’s Lectures on Female Education and Manners in Germany as an example. Professor James Albisetti (USA) takes the educational work of Crown Princess Victoria / Empress Frederick of Germany to illuminate the international networks of women reformers, for example at the Maria Grey Training College in London and the Institutio Froebeliano in Naples. Prof. Kay Whitehead (Australia) looks at transnational connections in early twentieth century women teachers' work, focussing on the Australian Lillian de Lissa, Principal of Gipsy Hill Training College in London, whose graduates from many countries carried the progressive ideals of the college ‘to the ends of the earth' and whose influence, thus, transcended national boundaries. Prof. Joyce Goodman (England) uses various theoretical approaches to analyze women, education and intellectual co-operation in the inter-war period. Focussing on the International Federation of University Women [IFUW], she argues that international intellectual co-operation provided a contested, shifting and gendered cultural space for women to affect political debate, albeit on less than equal terms. Dr Marianna Muravyeva (alias Mouravieva) (Russia) will discuss European teaching of forensics which led to a masculine way of thinking about rape; Dr Maria Repousi (Greece) will explore gendered dimensions of education controversies using the Greek debate of Marasliaka, 1925-1926 as a case study.
The discussant will be Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kuhn, of the Universität Duisburg-Essen, professor of the teaching of history and co-editor of 'Sophie', Saarland Schriftenreihe of Women's Studies.
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La ville, centre du savoir et de la communication
Organismes: Commission internationale pour l'histoire des villes / Comité national de Belgique
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Joined Session sponsored by the International Commission for the History of Towns and the Belgian National Committee at the CISH conference, Amsterdam 2010
Knowledge is the lynchpin of the modern world system, the key to competitiveness in economy, ideology and understanding, and an important moral force. Over half the world's inhabitants now dwell in cities and towns, which since their origins more than 5,000 years ago have played a powerful role in generating and transmitting knowledge, information, new ideas, languages and religions, and in consolidating those notions in nations and states. Communication within and between cities, and between cities and the territories with which they interact, has shaped, and continues to shape, the ways in which knowledge is both constructed and received. In this process, despite developments in urban scale, institutions, infrastructures and technologies, there is a continuum from the smallest permanent settlement – the smallest town in its rural setting – to the modern megalopolis, which attracts people, commodities and ideas from throughout the world. The networking and exchange which has characterised this process is today more extensive and more intensive than ever before and occupies new forms of physical, if not mental, space. New media of communication are being employed and perhaps new types of knowledge – certainly new ways of transmitting it – are becoming ever more influential in shaping new patterns of everyday life. Yet these new forms grow out of, and are still heavily conditioned by, long-established urban institutions and practices, which accommodate and facilitate networks of communication involving individuals, firms, governments and religions.
Knowledge and communication are historically rooted in specific sites: cities, ports, market places, places of worship, courts, universities, shops, clubs, coffee houses, parliaments, refuges, blogs, discussion rooms, and many more. Technology and speed of communication affect these forms and the social practices which sustain them. The medium has become, if not the message, then the structure of the perceived world, shaped by roads, railways, shipping routes, the telephone and the internet. As the same time many of the traditional problems persist. How can the increasing quantity and speed of communication be accommodated without physical congestion and ‘information overload’? How can the modes of communication be maintained, improved, policed and kept secure? How can we assess, the quality and value of the goods, information or ideas received? What forms of communication are sustainable over the long term?
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The International Commission for the History of Towns has initiated a research programme on 'Towns and communication' which will serve as a starting point for the discussion of the many interlinked elements in this session. They range, at both local and global levels, from definitions of knowledge or cities themselves; to the language of communication, whether oral, textual, music, drama, and dance; to the forms of communication, whether personal, institutional, political or economic; to technologies of communication and transport and their influence, intentional or otherwise, on cities and the wider networks of experience, perception and exchange.
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L'humanisme dans l'histoire
Organismes: International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography / Verband der Historiker und Historikerinnen Deutschlands
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The main intention of the session is to initiate and bring forward debates on humankind and humanity among scholars and representatives of various cultural and religious backgrounds. With these debates, we endeavour to analyze concepts and ideas of humanism in different cultures, recognizing their particularity and diversity in a historical perspective, and at the same time looking in a comparative historical perspective for elements of a comprehensive concept of human dignity. Non-Western humanistic thought will be historically and systematically related to the Western humanistic tradition. The session aims at contributing to a culture of mutual recognition of cultural differences based on shared norms of dialogue. By relating to basic understandings of the "nature" of humankind, we hope to emphasize its cultural value as a fundamental role for intercultural communication.
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Histoire politique de l'historiographie
Organismes: Société suisse d'histoire / Giunta Centrale per gli Studi Storici
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The goal of this joint session is to analyse the impact of political influences on the work of historians in an international and comparative perspective. With the focus on political history, the session aims to broaden the perspective of the history of historiography in a genuine political dimension. The role of institutions and organizations for historical practices will be addressed, as well as questions of the role of financial sources and agencies for the historical "agenda setting". The institutionalisation of some historiographical projects and approaches has been more influenced by political agendasm, whereas other historians have strived to maintain more independence and deontological integrety. By comparing national traditions in different geographical regions, this session also intends to address crucial questions regarding the historical profession (professionalisation and institutionalisation) and the resultant forces shaping historical institutions and interactions with political processes.
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Images, médias et histoire
Organismes: International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography / Japan National Committee / International Standing Conference for the History of Education / Commission Internationale pour l'histoire des universités / Société internationale pour la didactique de l'histoire
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Today people speak about "image turn", "iconic turn" or that images became reality. The mass media contribute a lot to this development. Although images are also historical sources historians work traditionally with written sources. They appreciate written sources more than visual sources or historical objects. This dates from the nineteenth century, when history developed into a critical science. But during the last century there were historians - for example from the French school of "Annales" - who demanded that all kind of sources should be taken into consideration.
In the face of the "iconic turn" historians should take images as historical sources seriously. Different possibilities to interprete images, e.g. the iconological, the semiotic, the structuralist or the psychoanalistic way have to be examined, to what extend they are suited to gain historical insight. On the other hand it will be discussed how mass media change the perception and what does it mean for history teaching and learning. The following themes should be discussed during the session: Images and history, Mass Media and History, Different ways how to interprete images, The influence of the digital technique on photographs and the consequences for History, Consequences for historical research, for history learning and teaching.
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Histoires nationales et mondialisation de l'histoire
Organismes: International Standing Conference for the History of Education / Commission Internationale pour l'histoire des universités / Société internationale pour la didactique de l'histoire
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Les petits pays comme modèles d'innovation politique
Organismes: Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap / Amsterdam Congress Organizing Committee
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Le sport et les relations internationales : historiographie et nouveaux défis
Organismes: Commission internationale pour l'histoire des relations internationales / Société internationale d'histoire de l'éducation physique et du sport
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Le concept d'espace dans l'histoire contemporaine
Organismes: International Standing Conference for the History of Education / Société internationale pour la didactique de l'histoire
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The Construction of Transnational Educational Spaces
In the recent decade historical scholarship has undergone a paradigmatic transformation. New cultural and social history concepts have been looking closer at processes of translocal and transregional processes and entanglements, studying topics such as migration, trade, culture, and environment. Such transnational or global approaches attempt to go beyond the real and imagined boundaries of nation-states by applying new theoretical concepts and methodologies. Besides these new historical approaches, social science studies on world-wide networks have made visible the global expansion of education systems in the course of the past centuries. These empirical neo-institutional studies have convincingly illustrated the emergence of a world culture that was founded upon a global “grammar of education” and was mainly fostered by international agents.
These developments in historical and sociological research have raised the interest in transnational and global processes within the field of education. Issues and methods that were confined to global historians and social scientists, namely transnational and transcultural relations, global and multi-polar perspectives, spatial extension, diffusion, and migration, have increasingly attracted historians of education and have created new innovative research areas, such as translocal exchanges characterized by adaptation, recontextualization, and hybridization; educational migration; the role of indigenous education; the denationalization and redefinition of territorial boundaries through network analysis; and the interplay of national and international education models, which is reproduced and changed by the ongoing dynamics between both levels. However, there is still a lack of empirical studies that examine the specific historical contexts, regional variations, and agents of the global rise of education over the past three centuries and also that investigate the construction and transformation of transnational educational spaces.
The proposed Special Section takes up these latest developments in historical and social science research by exploring the construction of transnational spaces and the role of transnational agents within the perspective of the global rise of education. Presenting various empirical studies, it will in particular focus on the two interrelated concepts: transnational spaces and networks as transnational agents. While the former is devoted to the effects of transfers and diffusion in specific national and regional spheres and analyses the construction of spaces through social interaction, language, or symbolic practices, the latter investigates networks as those agents of the global process that create these new spaces. Such a network approach helps to draw a micro-perspective picture that envisages those specific circumstances, variations, actors, and mechanics of phenomena from a cultural angle that macro-sociological theories on the world-wide development of education describe as global processes of standardization and homogenization. It also reinterprets assumptions of a nation-centered historiography on educational reform and focuses on the interactions of agents that have not yet been an object in the history of education but have so greatly influenced educational developments on the local, national, and international levels.
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Commerce et civilisation de l'Antiquité à nos jours
Organismes: International Association for Economic History / Korean National Committee / Comité national des historiens de la république tchèque
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Trade relations played always a substancial role in the historical development. Often, these were present in the background of major war conflicts and social unrests. This joint-session should be devoted to such historical situations under which long-term paceful trade relations were maintained among different cultures, geographically often rather remote ones. The discussion should trace the mechanism of mutual civilization influencing of various cultures that possess different hirerarchies of value, however, at the period researched, these came to a comparable level of social and technical development. Thus, neither of them was able to overrule, or even destroy the other. Bilaterally advantageous trade relations acted as a form of transmission of civilization models into other cultures. Scheduled papers should cover the period from late antiquity up to 19th century.
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(4 séances d'une demi-journée)
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Le projet d'une histoire de l'UNESCO
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Éthique, recherche historique et législation
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La modernisation de la Chine, de l'Inde et du Japon : une étude comparée
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China, India and Japan have been the three biggest economies in Asia. The GDP of the three countries combined accounted for one fifth of the world’s total in 2008 (17.6% in official exchange rate or 21.7% in PPP) and the share is expected to increase remarkably in the near future. The rise of the three countries to a position of wealth and power is one of the major forces shaping the international economic and political system in the latter half of the twentieth century and there is no doubt that the three countries will play a much bigger role in the world in the twenty first century world.
The recent economic performances of China, India and Japan represent a new stage of the long processes of modernization of the three countries which can be traced from centuries ago. These processes are different not only from those of the Western countries, but also between the three countries themselves. These differences have molded the special paths of modernization of the three countries. Therefore, a comparative study of the history of modernization of f China, India and Japan will be very helpful to our knowledge of the present of the three countries.
The discussion of this session will focus on the early stages of economic modernization of the three countries, in particular on the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, since the major shaping forces of modern China, India and Japan still work today. We will identify the variants between the three countries which are not necessarily associated with a particular degree of backwardness, and the elements which are modern strengths, which provided a base for economic modernization of the countries in the second half of the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.
In this session, scholars from China, India, Japan, the USA and other countries will discuss the issues of agriculture, rural industry, productivity, market, monetary company law, social policy, and so on. The session will bring historians from different countries and in different fields together and have a full communication to exchange ideas. We hope that it will promote our understanding of history not only of the three countries, but of the world, since near 40% of the world population live in these countries.
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Les visions du monde dans l’histoire
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The world appears differently to many cultures and peoples that inhabit it. This true for their images of the past, their formations of "history". This session will focus on the issue of competing but culturally-specific of "history" and "the world", starting from the premise that the study of world history requires mutual understanding of the different world view it comprises.
The session wil start from Masayuki Sato's presentation of differing conceptions of "the world", as represented in cartographic representations, in such historic world maps as Rome-centered, Jerusalem-centered and Europe-centered world maps produced in Europe; China-centered world maps based on the cosmology of the "Book of Mountains and Seas" (circa 3rd century); he will next examine Matteo Ricci's adaptation of the Europe-centered world maps of the "Age of Encounter" to produce China-centered world maps in the early 17th century, the India-centered world maps, Australia-centered south-at-the-top world maps, and America-centered world maps, etc.
These maps were in themselves visual projections of their ideological world views (cosmologies) of their makers: the Europe centered world view, the Sino-centered world order and the Buddhistic cosmology, etc. The presentation thus visualizes the varied world images in historical perspective that forms the basis of the session discussion.
A comparative historical review of world maps shows us that they can no more be free from the political, historical and cultural ideology that forms the world view both of those who produce them and those who use them, than works of world history.
Organismes internationaux affiliés
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Association Internationale d’Étude du Sud-Est Européen
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Le Sud-Est Européen et l'Asie
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A survey of the relationship between the Balkan and Carpatho-Danubian regions with the different parts of Asian continent (Minor Asia, Near East, India, the Chinese-Japanese and Siberian areas) from prehistory to present day.
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Association Internationale d’Histoire Contemporaine de l’Europe
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Formation et décomposition des Etats Européens au 20e siècle
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Les trois séances seront consacrées: une aux considérations autour de la question “Etat et Nation”, et deux autres autour de deux grands empires: celui des Habsbourg et russe/soviétique. Le programme est déjà en grande partie fixé – vous trouverez ci-dessous la liste des contributions avec les noms des auteurs qui se sont déclarés. Les dernières précisions doivent arriver bientôt.
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Etat et Nation
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La première séance du colloque „La formation et la décomposition des Etats européens au XXe siècle“ sera consacrée à l’analyse de la réalisation pratique, au XXe siècle, du concept de l’Etat-nation, surtout dans les solutions qui furent élaborées à l’issue de la Première et de la Deuxième guerres mondiales, ainsi qu’au début de l’étape qualitativement nouvelle que fut la construction européenne.
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L'Empire des Habsbourg et apres
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La démarche de la deuxième séance du colloque „La formation et la décomposition des Etats européens au XXe siècle“ est d’analyser le mécanisme (inévitable?) de la décomposition de l’Empire des Habsbourg, ensuite les parcours des différents Etats nés en conséquence de celle-ci. L’idée est de mettre en relief les déterminantes spécifiques pour chaque cas qui ont conduit aux événements complexes et souvent dramatiques marquant l’histoire de l’Europe Centrale au XXe siècle.
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Le grand Empire de l'Est
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La troisième séance du colloque „La formation et la décomposition des Etats européens au XXe siècle“ doit comprendre deux volets. L’un sera consacré l’analyse de la formation et de la chute de l’Empire soviétique, deux événements qui ont profondément marqué le XXe siècle. L’autre portera sur la confrontation entre cet Empire de type nouveau et certaines réalisations de l’idée de l’Etat-nation.
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Association Internationale d’Histoire Économique
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Inegalité globale en long durée
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How did inequality around the globe develop in the long run? How can we measure various aspects of inequality? This session firstly draws together new evidence on income inequality, especially in today’s developing and emerging market countries and world regions, such as Latin America, Asia, and Africa. It secondly aims at comparing classical income inequality concepts with other approaches of measuring inequality, such as height inequality, human capital inequality, and the systematic comparison of real wage per GDP/p with gini coefficients of income inequality. Third, and on the basis of these new evidence and concepts, the session aims to promote the analysis of global inequality trends. Doing this, a fascinating new picture of global divergence and convergence movements is drawn.
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Comité International d’Histoire de la Seconde Guerre mondiale
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L'expérience d'occupation, 1931-1949. Regards croisés sur les théatres de guerre asiatique et européen.
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The events leading to and arising from the Second World War, both in its European and Pacific theaters, span two decades. Fascist and imperial projects of territorial expansion and colonial domination, the exportation of political and ideological models, the reconstruction of defeated nations under the supervision of their victors, took various forms, with different levels of constraints and violence inflicted. Occupation of vast territories and areas, and even of entire nations by foreign armies and civilian authorities has been, a central constellation of the international order of the 1930s and 1940s. To a greater extent even than during and after the First World War, the post-Second World War order was determined by experiences shaped by foreign occupation: ideological commitments and affiliations, economic exploitation, social and cultural deprivation, population displacement, and resistance. Occupation delegitimated certain political regimes and vindicated others, thereby conditioning the emergence of new nation states: the independence of former colonies, the adoption of post-fascist regimes by a communist or liberal-parliamentarian system of government, and the exacerbation of national and ethnic conflicts. A common discussion on the nature and impact of the experience of occupation therefore addresses the central ambition of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War to encourage the study of these events in their widest chronological and geographical contexts.
The conference will focus on three main themes:
• Occupation: its definition, nature in different war zones and status in international law.
• The impact of occupation on civilians population
• The impact of occupation on the legitimacy of former political authorities, national and resistance movements.
In each of the panels, the organisers encourage comparisons between the European, Atlantic and the Pacific theaters of war.
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Commission Internationale d’Histoire de la Révolution française
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La Révolution francaise dans une perspective transnationale I
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In this colloquium we aim to discuss the impact and outreach of the Revolution beyond the boundaries of France, and to evaluate the nature of the links that were forged between France and the wider world, between Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, both at the time of the French Revolution itself and in a longer-term perspective – in the new states of Central and South America in the wars of independence of the nineteenth century, for instance, or in China during the nationalist and communist revolutions of the twentieth. Whether for other European nations during the early years of the nineteenth century or, more recently, for peoples across the globe seeking to free themselves from European colonialism, the French Revolution has become a critical point of reference, a template for popular politics and nation-building. As such it has come to have a world-wide resonance which has largely survived the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1989 and which remains intact after more than two centuries.
The colloquium will contribute to the current concern among historians to look at social, political and cultural issues in their transnational context rather than to see them purely within the confines of a single country.
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La Révolution francaise dans une perspective transnationale II
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In this colloquium we aim to discuss the impact and outreach of the Revolution beyond the boundaries of France, and to evaluate the nature of the links that were forged between France and the wider world, between Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, both at the time of the French Revolution itself and in a longer-term perspective – in the new states of Central and South America in the wars of independence of the nineteenth century, for instance, or in China during the nationalist and communist revolutions of the twentieth. Whether for other European nations during the early years of the nineteenth century or, more recently, for peoples across the globe seeking to free themselves from European colonialism, the French Revolution has become a critical point of reference, a template for popular politics and nation-building. As such it has come to have a world-wide resonance which has largely survived the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1989 and which remains intact after more than two centuries.
The colloquium will contribute to the current concern among historians to look at social, political and cultural issues in their transnational context rather than to see them purely within the confines of a single country.
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La Révolution francaise dans une perspective transnationale III
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In this colloquium we aim to discuss the impact and outreach of the Revolution beyond the boundaries of France, and to evaluate the nature of the links that were forged between France and the wider world, between Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, both at the time of the French Revolution itself and in a longer-term perspective – in the new states of Central and South America in the wars of independence of the nineteenth century, for instance, or in China during the nationalist and communist revolutions of the twentieth. Whether for other European nations during the early years of the nineteenth century or, more recently, for peoples across the globe seeking to free themselves from European colonialism, the French Revolution has become a critical point of reference, a template for popular politics and nation-building. As such it has come to have a world-wide resonance which has largely survived the implosion of the Soviet Union in 1989 and which remains intact after more than two centuries.
The colloquium will contribute to the current concern among historians to look at social, political and cultural issues in their transnational context rather than to see them purely within the confines of a single country.
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Commission Internationale d’Histoire des Relations Internationales
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Les grandes migrations et l'histoire des relations internationales
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Migrations represent a foundamental factor in the history of mankind. In recent times they became a major issue for the States and its relations. The session intends to analyze this topic with a historical perspective.
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L'histoire des relations internationales et les études culturaux
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In the last decades the history of international relations has expanded
its methodological instrument and has entered into fruitful exchange
under the "cultural turn". This multi-faceted development has enriched
traditional "diplomatic history". The session will focus in an exemplary
way to some of the developments, e.g. the impact of rites, symbols,
images, performances and memories.
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Assemblée generale du CHIR
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General Assembly of the associates
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Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d'Étude du Christianisme
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Divers idées de la vie sainte
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This session will examine changing concepts of holy living across time and place and within a variety of religious traditions, including those that have no formal criteria for sainthood.
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Églises chrétiennes et le communisme
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This session will examine the relationship at both a practical and a theoretical level, highlighting especially the situation in central and eastern Europe c.1945-91.
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Les chrétiens et leur passé
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Many times in its history Christianity has been re-invented as radical social and political changes rendered past experiences, rituals and doctrines irrelevant. We are now in another such period of drastic change and this session will examine the ways in which Christians confronted crises of comparable dimensions in earlier times.
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Commission Internationale d’Histoire Maritime
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Les premieres societes maritime modernes
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Part One (3 papers) - Scottish Networks in the Early-Modern Atlantic.
Networks are now a popular theme in many areas of history. This is especially true of the early-modern Atlantic. Historians often centre their networks around the ‘centre’ or ‘metropole’, or around the network actor central to their story. Using ‘Scottish’ networks these three papers aim to complicate this paradigm.
Part Two (3 papers) - Early-Modern legal and popular attitudes to "piracy".
The papers will all address the relationship between economic realities/structures and the notion of violence as a social and cultural construct, all within the confines of the maritime environment.
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Population, lieux et la mobilité
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Part One (3 papers)- Sailors ashore
These papers offer unfamiliar perspectives on the lives of merchant mariners. While much of the historiography of maritime labour concentrates on working and living conditions at sea, this session focuses on the time mariners spent away from their ships, and their interaction with seaport space, society and culture, from the late eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth. The session analyses aspects of the ‘sailortown’ phenomenon, which has long been central to the representation of seaport cities, but also considers less sensationalised engagements between mariners and seaport culture. Many maritime workers had established households in or near their home ports, a trend that developed rapidly in the steamship era, while sailortown itself was a more complex urban theatre than its stereotypes allow. Taken together, these papers demonstrate the range and potential of new research at the boundaries between maritime, labour and urban history.
Part Two (3 papers) - The Business of Emigration.
In the last quarter of the 19th century, and the early part of the 20th, European emigration to North America dominated the transatlantic trades, with shipping companies across Europe competing for the lucrative business of emigrant traffic. These three papers bring together considerations which influenced the individual emigrant’s choices, from their port of departure, which shipping company they chose, to their place of destination. The papers consider forces of business in both peace and war-time.
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Recherche maritime: Ressources et applications
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Part One (3 papers) - Museums and Research. These three papers bring museum practitioners from across Europe to discuss the possibilities, opportunities and value of developing collaborative research partnerships in order to enrich museum collections knowledge.
Part Two - (3 papers) - Open Session. This open session looks at the application of maritime research and resources used. The variety of source material, both in the form of archival resources, but also material evidence and culture are critical to enhancing our understanding of maritime worlds. The analysis and potential application of this information, through the development of databse technology, increases the opportunities to exploit information in a variety of ways.
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Commerce, transport et réseaux maritimes
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This session brings together current thinking and research on global trade, shipping and networks from the early-modern period to the twentieth century.
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Commission Internationale d’Histoire Militaire Comparée
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Histoire militaire : tendances récentes et perspectives
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Organisée par la Commission internationale d’histoire militaire comparée, cette Table ronde vise à donner un aperçu des tendances récentes de l’histoire militaire, entendue dans son sens le plus large : histoire des armées et des guerres ; relations entre les armées, la guerre et les sociétés civiles ; etc. Quatre ou cinq orateurs issus de plusieurs continents y présenteront l’état de la question et les perspectives de recherche dans leur aire géographique et/ou linguistique.
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Medicine Medievale a la Litterature Castellenne
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The subject is to analise the use of medicine in medieval Castilian Literature.
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Commission Internationale de Démographie Historique
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Repenser la démographie historique : où en sommes-nous, où allons-nous?
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As we approach the 2010 meeting of the International Congress of Historical Sciences in Amsterdam, the Commission for Historical Demography calls for a reassessment of our field. As historians, we believe that historical demography has promoted great advances in our discipline’s contribution to the understanding of the human condition. Our colleagues now benefit from enhanced explanations of birth, marriage, and death based on quantitative procedures grounded in closely analyzed data. These advances, indeed, provide the underpinnings for comparative approaches to the history of parts of the world widely separated in location and in time. Not only do we need to inform our colleagues of advances in our field, but we need to develop new approaches which build on existing strengths.
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Les données quantitatives individuelles: comment donner un accès facile aux banques de données vastes et complexes
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The historical community is now fortunate to have a growing number of large-scale, public databases of life histories from the past. Some of these databases have been under development for a long time, such as the Demographic Database in Umeå, the Utah genealogical database, the Scania database in Lund and the PRDH and BALSAC in Quebec. Others are relatively recent, such as the Historical Sample of the Netherlands.
Although many of these databases are intended to be public resources and available to any qualified researcher, relatively little work has been conducted with them. Since longitudinal databases are exceptionally rich and address a host of questions not covered by cross-sectional data, the difference is striking. One of the reasons for this relatively low use is the enormous complexity of this kind of data.
The main object of this session is to present ways of making this kind of databases more easy to use, especially for those scholars in the historical and social sciences who have no or few experience in programming. Especially papers on new ways of data retrieval, documentation and data integration are welcome
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Les approches intergénérationnelles de la démographie
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Exploring intergenerational aspects of demography in history is the theme of this session. The world of historical demography has gained a lot from working with individual micro data. An important prerequisite for this has been the creation of large population databases based on different sets of population registers. During recent decades, life course analysis on continuous life biographies has developed. Demographic patterns and behavior across generations have however rarely been analyzed within historical demography. Data for such studies are usually unavailable. In the last years, interest in this perspective has however increased, partly because it has been made possible by newly created data sources. We now have databases that allow us to study families over several generations, which open up for several interesting questions. For example, do we find similar patterns of reproductive behavior or health and longevity between generations? Was high mortality or high fertility concentrated to certain families? What do we know about how these patterns were transferred? This session intend to bring together some of the research within this field.
Intergenerational aspects have traditionally been developed within the field of genetics, identifying hereditary traits in human populations. It is however possible to study intergenerational aspects from other perspectives. Demographic patterns can be transferred within families through internalization of behavior. Other characteristics could be transferred over generations. The changing conditions for transfer are also of interest. In what circumstances did the transfer change, leading to different patterns in different generations?The session will primarily be focusing on the following issues, but is open also for other aspects:
• Methodological and theoretical aspects of intergenerational studies
• Reproductive behavior (fertility, marriage patterns)
• Mortality, health, longevity, heights
• Social and educational transmission of behavior.
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La démographie des populations indigènes
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The demographic history of indigenous populations is often different from the colonizers and the majority society they live in today. The present session aims to problematize the general demographic development among different indigenous peoples, including aspects of mortality, fertility, nuptiality and migration. The health transition is of special interest, and it is a great challenge for research to present analyses that combine quantitative methods with quality perspectives, such as culture, traditional knowledge and post-colonial theory. Comparative studies have high priority.
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Les effets des migrations sur les indicateurs démographiques
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