Noble Elites and Promotion of the Industry in the 18th and 20th Century Europe

Preparatory Roundtable for the 23e International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020

Date & Venue: 31 October 2019, 13:00-17:00, CEFRES Library (Na Florenci 3, Prague 1)
Organizers: (Electro)technic History Laboratory (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, ČVUT, Prague), CEFRES, Association of Historians of the Czech Republic, Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic, Université Bordeaux Montaigne & École polytechnique, Paris
Language: French

Programme
I. Opening
  • Mathieu Wellhoff, Attaché of Scientific and University Cooperation (French Embassy, Czech Republic)
  • Jiří Kocian, Director of the Association of Historians of the Czech Republic & Deputy Director of the National Committee of Historical Sciences
  • Mme Marcela Efmertová, Director of the Association for Economic and Social History of the Czech Republic

II. Roundtable

  • Prof. Michel Figeac (Université Bordeaux Montaigne) : Noblesse et innovation économique au siècle des Lumières
  • Prof. Éric Godelier (École polytechnique de Paris) : Comment traiter de la nationalité en histoire des entreprises : quelques pistes de réflexion
  • Prof. Milan Hlavačka (Institut d’histoire de l’Académie tchèque des sciences, Prague) : Les Ringhoffer, une famille d’entrepreneurs anoblis (en anglais)
  • Prof. Marcela Efmertová (Université polytechnique de Prague) : František Křižík – membre de la Chambre haute du Parlement (Panská sněmovna), et l’électrification des Pays tchèques

 III. Discussion

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This Preparatory Roundtable for the 23rd International Congress of  Historical Sciences in Poznań 2020 continues on Friday 1st of November 2019, from 10:00am, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Prague (room 80). See the full program (in French): Electrification and computer sciences in Czechoslovakia.