We are pleased to invite you to the international conference  Pedagogical uses of the past in Europe: International circulations, transfers, transnational debates.

Date: Octobre 11th – 12th, 2021
Place: Centre Scientifique de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences à Paris, 74, rue Lauriston, 75016 Paris
Language: French and English
Organisators: Académie polonaise des sciences  (Centre scientifique à Paris, Centre de civilisation française, CEFRES)

The establishment of new regimes of the late 1980’s in Eastern and Central Europe – as well as successive changes
of governments – have taken place through new historical narratives, combining the demands and needs for
national legitimization, for reconciliation, for symbolic recognition, and the imposition of democratic paradigms.
These concerns have been translated into a variety of mechanisms: solemn speeches, commemorations, lustrations,
ad hoc commissions, legal mechanisms, monuments, museums. Education holds a singular place in such
mechanisms, being assigned with the task of training future generations of citizens.

The scientific field has long neglected the treatment of the past at school and in an extracurricular context. Surely,
the analysis of the instruments of public action in the field of history has been invested by research, concentrating
however essentially on the analysis of textbooks. It remains, with a few exceptions, carried out by researchers
in the educational sciences and, often, by history didactitians. The analysis of international circulations in the
management of the past at school has, for its part, focused mainly on historians’ commissions, without, however,
linking their action to school and extracurricular teaching practices. Yet, schools are the subject of a large number
of transpositions, adaptations and/or (re)appropriations of inherited mechanisms for inter- and/or transnational,
or even global exchanges (work of UNESCO, of the Council of Europe, of the EU, of bilateral commissions of
historians, teaching about Shoah as a political-moral norm, use of the figure of the witness or visits to “places of
memory” in the framework of pedagogical practices).

The aim of this conference is to re-examine uses of the past at school and in extracurricular activities in the light
of these international movements, based on a reflection on the different scales of analysis of this phenomenon:
from the international to the microscopic classroom level. It is indeed linked to the issue of thinking these uses as
one of the determining factors for the construction of educational instruments and practices at school and beyond.

Such an analysis presupposes a reflection on the different levels of these dynamics of circulation: around the
transmitters and disseminators of ideas and knowledge, the socio-political conditions of their privileged reception,
their inclusion in cultural spaces and international or even globalized networks. In this perspective, the
weight of the past in transnational memory conflicts in an enlarged Europe will be questioned, as well as the ruptures
and continuities in the place assigned to minorities. This conference intends to be multidisciplinary, drawing
on reflections from the fields of education, history, political science and sociology.

Program

EN: The speeches will be given in French or English without simultaneous translation. The titles indicate the language of the speech.

11.10.2021

9:15 a.m. Registration

9:45 a.m. Introduction

Emmanuelle Hébert, Université de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain (ISPOLE)
Ewa Tartakowsky, Institut des sciences sociales du Politique (ISP), Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones de l’Université de Varsovie (CCFEF)

10.00-12:00 a.m.  Construction européenne des savoirs historiques

Chair: Anne Bazin, Sciences Po Lille

Patrick Garcia, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin, Institut d’histoire du temps présent, L’évolution du statut de l’histoire dans le discours du Conseil de l’Europe
Włodzimierz Borodziej, Institute of History, University of Warsaw
Embracing the gaps. A very short history of the House of European History
Mathieu Kroon Gutierrez, Université Cergy-Pontoise, Université de Luxembourg, Transmission des savoirs historiques dans un contexte transnational : le cas des Écoles européennes

Discussion: Nicolas Maslowski, Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones, Université de Varsovie

12.00 a.m. -1.30 p.m. Lunch break

1.00-1.30 p.m. Bilateral Negotiations and Historical Reconciliation 

Chair: Sébastien Ledoux, Université de Paris 1, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains

Anne Bazin, Sciences Po Lille, Historical Commissions: An Insight on Reconciliation Through Historical Dialogue
Steffen Sammler, Georg Eckert Institute, Quel cadre institutionnel pour une éducation à la réconciliation et la coopération en Europe ? Plaidoyer pour un nouveau forum de discussion.
Dirk Sadowski, Georg Eckert Institute, Textbook Talks Beyond Revision: The (second) German-Israeli Textbook Commission and its Activities.
Emmanuelle Hébert, Université de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain (ISPOLE), From the Battle of Thermopylae to WWII: Transfers, Circulations and Transnational Debates around
the Polish-German Schoolbook Project

Discussion: Jana Vargovčíková, INALCO

3.30-4.00 p.m.  Coffee break

4.00-6.30 p.m. History Education, Civic Education? 

Chair : Frédéric Zalewski, Université Paris Nanterre

Piero Colla, AGORA, Mémoires exemplaires et éducation aux valeurs : nouveaux usages scolaires du passé, en Suède et dans l’UE (2000–2020)
Sébastien Ledoux, Université de Paris 1, Centre d’histoire sociale des mondes contemporains, Les pédagogies de la mémoire s’européanisent-elles ?
Alexandra Oeser, Université Paris-Nanterre, Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique, Politiques d’enseignement de la Shoah : la constitution de l’Allemagne comme référence internationale
Discussion : Valentin Behr, Institut d’études avancées de Paris

12.10.2021

10.00-12.00 a.m. : Teaching National History: Between Public Policies and Social Memory 

Chair : Ewa Tartakowsky, ISP, CCFEF

Tea Sindbæk Andersen, University of Copenhagen
Forging public memory. Yugoslav historical narratives in Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian schoolbooks
Olga Konkka, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Centre d’Études des Mondes Moderne et Contemporain, Border Walls in History Education: Foreign Historiographies in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russian School History Textbooks
Hana Havlujova, Charles University, Enjoying National Heritage: Educational Use of the Past in the Czech Republic and Beyond
Discussion : Paul Gradvohl, Université Paris 1, Centre de recherche de l’histoire de l’Europe centrale
contemporaine

12:00 a.m. -1.30 p.m. Lunch break

1.30 -3.30 p.m. Teaching history in national contexts at a time of international circulation of pedagogical practices

Chair: Emmanuelle Hébert, Université de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain (ISPOLE)

Violetta Julkowska, Université Adam Mickiewicz
Historie rodzinne jako element szkolnej edukacji historycznej – źródła, metody pracy, praktyka szkolna w ujęciu
porównawczym [Traduction en français et/ou anglais sera assurée : Les histoires de famille comme élément de l’enseignement historique scolaire – sources, méthodes de travail, pratiques scolaires dans
une perspective comparative]
Edina Kőműves, ELTE Budapest, Histoire en dehors de la salle de classe – expérimentations pédagogiques dans les années ‘90 en Hongrie
Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, German Historical Institute in Warsaw, Educational Expectations. Public Debates about History Films in Poland
Elżbieta Durys, Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw, Felt History: Melodrama and Affect in Educating about the Past in Contemporary Polish Historical Cinema

Discussion: Bénédicte Girault, Université de Cergy-Pontoise, UMR Héritages

3.30- 4.00 p.m. Coffee break

4.00-6.00 p.m. Educational Uses of the Past in a Regional Perspective 

Chair: Ewa Tartakowsky, ISP, CCFEF

Edenz Maurice, Institut des hautes études du ministère de l’Intérieur, Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po, L’enseignement adapté pour les Amérindiens de Guyane : usages et mésusages du passé (1955–1984)
Aurélie de Mestral, Université de Genève, Institut universitaire de formation des enseignants, L’histoire scolaire depuis la Suisse romande : circulation trans-cantonale et poids du passé

Discussion: Emmanuel Saint-Fuscien, École des hautes etudes des sciences sociales, LIER

For more informations, please contact the main organizers:

Ewa Tartakowsky, Institut des sciences sociales du Politique, Centre de civilisation française et d’études francophones de l’Université de Varsovie, etartakowsky@yahoo.fr
Emmanuelle Hébert, Université de Namur, Université catholique de Louvain (ISPOLE)
emmanuelle.hebert@coleurope.eu

CEFRES is glad to contribute to the international conference
Ernest Gellner Legacy and Social Theory Today,
organized by the Czech Association for Social Anthropology (CASA)

When:  May 6th, 7th and 8th, 2021 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. (CEST)
Where: CEFRES and online

Organising committee: Nikola Balaš, Jérôme Heurtaux, Petr Skalník, Daniel Sosna, Zdeněk Uherek
Main organizer:  Petr Skalník

This conference is supported by the Open Society Policy Center (Open Society Foundations).

Does Ernest Gellner remain an inspiration for 21st century social theory?

A quarter of century after his death in 1995, is the British-Czech anthropologist still a reference for those dealing with such different topics as modernity, neo-nationalism and populism in Europe, migratory pressure from Africa and Middle East on Europe, revolutions and civil wars in Arab countries, Islamic terrorism, the historical ascent of Asia, the crisis of European unity, post-communist illiberalism, Russian post-Soviet nostalgia or with any other topics which Gellner paid attention to?

Leading Ernest Gellner scholars will come together for three days to discuss Ernest Gellner’s strengths and tools for thinking about our contemporary world.

Program

Thursday May 6, 2021 at 2 p.m.

Chair: Daniel Sosna

Opening

2 p.m.–2.05 p.m. Martin Heřmanský (Past President, Czech Association for Social Anthropology)
2.05 p.m.–2.10 p.m. Jérôme Heurtaux (Director, French Research Center in Humanities and Social Sciences)
2.10 p.m.–2.15 p.m. Petr Skalník (Main organiser, Czech Association for Social Anthropology)

Papers and Comments

2.15 p.m.–2.35 p.m. David Shankland: Gellner: Right and Wrong
Discussant: Lale Yalçın-Heckmann 

2.35 p.m.–2.55 p.m. Johann Arnason: Gellner and the Habsburg, Window on Modernity
Discussant: Christopher Hann

2.55 p.m–3:15 p.m. Daniele Conversi: Gellner in the Anthropocene. Modernity, Nationalism and Climate Change
Discussant: Thomas Hylland Eriksen 

3:15 p.m.–3:30 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m.–3.50 p.m. Ian Jarvie: The Persistence of the Individualism Debate Today
Discussant: David Gellner

3.50 p.m.–4.10 p.m. Alan Macfarlane: Ernest Gellner and the Limits of Understanding
Discussants: Adam Horálek and Richard Marshall

4.10 p.m.–4.30 p.m. Adam Horálek: Nation Building in Aging Taiwan: Gellnerian Perspective
Discussant: Alan Macfarlane

4.30 p.m.–5.00 p.m. Discussion

Main discussant: Aleksandar Bošković
General discussion

Friday  May 7, 2021 at 2 p.m.

Chair: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Papers and Comments

2 p.m.–2:20 p.m. David Gellner: Ernest Gellner and Populism
Discussant: Mihály Sárkány

2:20 p.m.–2:40 p.m. Grażyna Kubica: Gellner’s Theory of Nationalism and the Study of Silesianess
Discussant: Marcin Brocki

2:40 p.m.–3:00 p.m. Guido Franzinetti: Gellner and the Historians
Discussant: David Shankland

3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Chris Hann: Conditions of Liberty Revisited: The Bitter Consequences of Sweet Commerce and Liberal Utopias
Discussant: Johann Arnason

15:20-15:35 Break

3:35 p.m.–3:55 p.m. Ralph Schroeder: The Ghost in the Machine: Gellner and Beyond with Data-Driven and Formalized Social Theory
Discussant: Siniša Malešević

3:55 p.m.–4:15 p.m. Vytis Čiubrinskas: Politics of Ethnification: Political Subjectivity of  Nation-States vis-à-vis Polish Minority in Eastern Europe
Discussant: Zdeněk Uherek

4:15 p.m–4:35 p.m. Zdeněk Uherek: Conceptualizations of Nations and Nationalisms and their Developments: The Czech Reflection
Discussant: Vytis Čiubrinskas

4:35 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Discussion

Main discussant: Nikola Balaš
General discussion

Saturday May 8, 2021 at 2 p.m.

Chair: David Shankland

Papers and Comments

2 p.m.–2:20 p.m. Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Postcolonialism as a Possibility: A Dialogue that Never Happened
Discussant: Grażyna Kubica

2:20 p.m.–2:40 p.m.  Siniša Malešević: War and Group Solidarity: From Ibn Khaldun to Ernest Gellner and Beyond
Discussant: Guido Franzinetti

2:40 p.m.–3:00 p.m.  Nikolay Kradin: Ernest Gellner and Debates about World History Periodization
Discussant: Anatoly Khazanov

3:00 p.m.–3:20 p.m. Anatoly Khazanov: After Ernest Gellner: Nationalism and Nation-States Today
Discussant: John Hall

3:20 p.m.–3:35 p.m. Break

3:35 p.m.-3.55 p.m.  Andre Gingrich : The Importance of Reading Ernest: Historical Methodologies as Hidden Resources for Anthropology
Discussant: 4.35 p.m : Daniele Conversi

3.55 p.m.-4.15 p.m. John Hall: The Philosopher of Anthropology: Ernest Gellner (1925-1995)
Discussant: Ian Jarvie

4.15 p.m.-4.35 p.m. Lahouari Addi: L’islam, Platon et le protestantisme : Gellner et la société maghrébine
Andre Gingrich  will introduce Lahouari Addi´s paper and comment on it as well

4.35 p.m.-5.00 p.m. Discussion

Main discussant: Petr Skalník
General discussion

Closing

The first session of the conference (May 6) will be streamed on CEFRES Facebook page.

 

List of Participants

1. Lahouari Addi (Professor Emeritus, Sciences Po Lyon, Visiting Researcher at Georgetown University)
2. Johann Arnason (Professor Emeritus, La Trobe University)
3. Nikola Balaš (Board member, Czech Association for Social Anthropology)
4. Aleksandar Bošković (Professor of Anthropology, University of Belgrade)
5. Marcin Brocki (Associate Professor, Institute of Ethnology, Jagiellonian University)
6. Vytis Čiubrinskas (Professor of Social Anthropology, Vytautas Magnus University)
7. Daniele Conversi (Research Professor at the University of the Basque Country)
8. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo)
9. Guido Franzinetti (Lecturer, Department of Humanistic Studies,
   University of Eastern Piedmont)
10. David Gellner (Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford)
11. Andre Gingrich (Founding Director, Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
12. John Hall (Emeritus James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology)
13. Chris Hann (Director, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
14. Martin Heřmanský (Past President, Czech Association for Social Anthropology)
15. Jérôme Heurtaux (Director, French Center for Research in Humanities and Social Sciences)
16. Adam Horálek (Head, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Pardubice)
17. Ian Jarvie (Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, York University)
18. Anatoly Khazanov (Ernest Gellner Professor of Anthropology (Emeritus), University of Wisconsin)
19. Nikolay Kradin (Director, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography, Far Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences)
20. Wolfgang Kraus (Professor, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Vienna)
21. Grażyna Kubica-Heller  (Associate Professor, Social Anthropology Section, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University)
22. Adam Kuper  (Professor Emeritus, Brunel University)
23. Alan Macfarlane (Professor Emeritus, Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge)
24. Siniša Malešević (Professor of Sociology, School of Sociology, University College Dublin)
25. Richard Marshall (Editor of 3:16am, on line magazine of philosophy, art and culture)
26. Mihály Sárkány (Senior honoris causa, Institute of Ethnology, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
27. Ralph Schroeder (Professor of Social Science of the Internet, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
28. David Shankland (Director, Royal Anthropological Institute)
29. Petr Skalník (Main organiser, founding member of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology)
30. Daniel Sosna (Senior Researcher, Institute of Ethnology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
31. Zdeněk Uherek (Director, Institute of Sociological Studies, Charles University)
32. Lale Yalçın-Heckmann (Professor Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Informations : cefres@cefres.cz

CEFRES and Primorska University organize the first Proteus Webinar as part of the bilateral program PHC Proteus.

When: Wednesday April 14, 2021, 2 p.m.- 6 p.m.
Where: Online (see below fo the link) 
Language: English
Organisators: CEFRES and Primorska University
Funding and Evaluation: Campus France, French Institute in Slovenia, MEAE, MESRI (France) Slovenian Research Agency,  Slovenian ministry of science (Slovenia)

This webinar focuses on the current representations of the “dismantling” and “re-membering” of intra- and extra-European empires, following the First and then the Second World Wars, that recast populations, landscapes, borders, historiographies, belongings and memories. Today, while European countries work to form a common world, space and history, they remain reluctant to address these ghostly legacies of empires and wars that led to the forced displacement and loss of millions of people, such as ethnic minorities expelled from East Prussia and Silesia, Germans from the Sudetenland and Bukovina, Italians from ex-Yugoslavia, Portuguese from Angola and Mozambique, among others. 

 How and why have some of the memories of displacements been erased, ignored, forgotten, and others memorized and commemorated? In what ways do they still matter in Europe and beyond today? Under what circumstances, some of the features of the past have remained so persistent and resilient?

The proposed webinar objective is to answer these questions by exploring parallel collective memories, offering mirror images of each other: the memories of the displaced, and the memories of those who remained and/or (re)populated the cultural and physical spaces after them. From specific case studies of depopulation and repopulation movements linked to the troubled European History of the 20th Century and in the remnants of empires and wars, we intend to explore what memories and silences do to places and what places do to memories and silences.

Program

2.00 -2.20 pm

Short presentation of the Proteus Program by Valentine Morel, Attaché for Scientific and Academic cooperation at Ministère des Affaires étrangères français Slovenia, and of the project by Michèle Baussant and Katja Hrobat-Virloget

Divided and uprooted

2.20-2.35 pm

Aleksej Kalc, Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Slovenian Migration Institute (Ljubljana), University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities (Koper)
Population transfers and ethnic transformations in Koper and Trieste after WWII: some aspects

2.35-2.50 pm

Neža Čebron Lipovec, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
“Visual continuity” of the landscape« in a contested city: The role of architecture in the process of (up)rooting a community

2.50-3.05 pm

Petra Kavrečič, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
Living on the border. Everyday life in the border region of Istria after WWII

Short Discussion 3.05- 3.20 pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

Break 3.20-3.30 pm

Remade, remained and planted

3.30-3.45 pm

Felipe Kaiser-Fernandes, CEFRES/ IIAC
When torn apart landscapes are remade: the politics of post-socialist bazaars in the Czech Republic.

3.45-4.00 pm

Katja Hrobat Virloget, University of Primorska, Faculty of Humanities
About the ones who came. Symbolic boundaries and questions of  “home” after “exodus” in Istria

4.00-4.15 pm

Irene Dos Santos, CNRS/URMIS, ICM Fellow
Imperial Debris in post-colonial Angola: the silence of those who remained after 1975

Short Discussion 4.15- 4.30 pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

Break 4.30-4.40 pm

Traces and in-between spaces

4.40-4.55 pm

Maria Kokkinou, CEFRES and Charles University
Tiehonin: Persistent memories of transformed spaces

4.55-5.10 pm

Johana Wyss, Czech Academy of Sciences/CEFRES and Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Silesian identity: caught in between hegemonic and counter-narratives

5.10-5.25 pm

Michèle Baussant, CNRS, CEFRES (USR3138, CNRS, Mae), ICM Fellow
Displaced histories without traces and traces of past without history:  Egyptian Jews in and out Egypt

Discussion 5.25-6.pm, Ghislaine Glasson-Deschaumes, Head of Project Labex Pasts in the Present, Université Paris Nanterre

To join the  meeting, click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87114991116 

                      

         

A Tandem Webinar
organized by Catherine Perron (Centre for international relations (CERI) – SciencesPo: Research group migrations and mobilities and Johana Wyss (Czech Academy of Sciences/CEFRES), with the collaboration of Michèle Baussant (CEFRES, CNRS) and Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES/Charles University).

Date: March 25th, 2021, 1.30 to 3.30 pm
Place: Online (see the Zoom link below)
Language: English

Lecturers:

Christophe Bertossi – Centre for Migration and Citizenship, French Institute of International Relations (IFRI), Paris/Department INTEGER, Fellow Institut Convergences Migrations, Paris
Jan Willem Duyvendak –  University of Amsterdam (UvA), /Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW), Amsterdam
Nancy Foner – Hunter College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York

Will be presenting the Special Issue they published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.

Discussants:

Wulf Kansteiner – School of Culture and society – History subject – Aarhus University, Denmark
Evelyne Ribert – CNRS/Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC)/EHESS – Fellow Institute Convergences Migrations

For more information about the Tandem programme, see the website: https://cefres.cz/en/tandem-program.

To join the Zoom meeting, please click on the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84864576020

     

 

Launch of the TANDEM Project led by

Michèle Baussant (CNRS/CEFRES),
Johana Wyss (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Maria Kokkinou (CEFRES / Charles University)

Defeated Memories. De-imperial Europe: A Resentful Confederation of Vanquished Peoples?

When: Friday 20th November, 9 am – 11 am
Where: Online
Please, access the zoom conference by following this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81054592971?pwd=UkJjZW90T0lDK0MwNm5PZit2S2U3QT09
Language: English

With the participation of:
Sylvie Démurger, Deputy Scientific Director, Europe and International Affairs (CNRS)
Jérôme Heurtaux, Director of CEFRES
Tat̕ána Petrasová, member of the Academy Council and coordinator of Czech Academy of Sciences  for the TANDEM program

Discussants:
Catherine Perron, Research Fellow, CERI, Sciences Po Paris
Valérie Rosoux, Director of Research-Professor, Université Catholique de Louvain
Thomas Van de Putte, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of Trento

Abstract:

This online launch of the new Tandem project is dedicated to the ghostly, material and symbolic memorial landscapes of defeated minorities, who have been displaced and dispersed after the successive collapse of imperial and multinational entities during the 20th century. The aim of the project is to offer a new critical perspective on the multiple, persistent, and sometimes connected forms of European (post)imperial pasts along the old extra- and intra-European borders and on their diverse and entangled uses. 

The project is based on a choice of different cases – Germans expelled from East Prussia and Silesia, Europeans of Algeria, “foreign” or “local” minorities of Egypt, Portuguese of Angola and Mozambique-, and deeply rooted in ethnographic fieldwork. It will cross the memories of the displaced peoples, and of those who have repopulated or continued to live in the physical spaces after them, in an unprecedented way, offering mirror images or images that are shifted, distorted or blind. 

Initiated by Michèle Baussant, anthropologist and research director at CNRS, this Tandem project is also carried out, on the Czech side, by Johana Wyss, anthropologist and researcher at the Czech Academy of Sciences. Maria Kokkinou, anthropologist and postdoctoral fellow at CEFRES and Charles University is a member of the Tandem team as well.