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  mardi 5 mars 2024 -  Law and the Market
  Séance en anglais, présentée par Dina Waked (Ecole de droit de Sciences Po).

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Acteurs et mouvements sociaux - séance 5

07 Mars 2024, 14h30-16h30 

Transnational Networks of Catholic Lay Women (1945-1965)

Natalia NÚÑEZ BARGUEÑO 
(Universidad de Castilla la Mancha)
The World Union of Catholic Women's Organisations (WUCWO): Catholic International Experts in a Post-War and Early Cold War World*.
 

David BRYDAN (King's College)
Manos Unidas: Catholic Women as Global Activists in Francoist and post-Francoist Spain.
 

Marie-Emmanuelle CHESSEL (Sciences Po, CSO) Commentatrice / Commentator

The period following the Second World War witnessed a boom in transnational mobilisation among lay Catholic women. The post-war internationalist moment, and pontifical calls for Catholic women to participate in the re-Christianization of national and international life, expanded the public, intellectual and social roles available to lay women. In the newly formed international institutions and Catholic transnational organizations, women were able to act as international “experts”, participating in key debates and actions over post-war reconstruction and the early Cold War.
Similarly, on a national level, in countries like Francoist Spain, lay activism offered a platform for women to engage with pressing international issues, such as the politics of decolonization, international development and global inequality. The seminar will introduce this overlooked aspect of post-war transnational activism and the pre-history of the Second Vatican Council, exploring the origins and impact of transnational mobilization among lay Catholic women with a focus on the French and Spanish speaking worlds.

*This work is a presentation of Núñez Bargueño’s MASCA project TheoFem: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101108049

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Vincent Bollenot (Université de Caen Normandie, HisTeMé)
Autour de  sa thèse Maintenir l'ordre impérial en métropole : le service de contrôle et d'assistance en France des indigènes des colonies (1915-1945)

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Vincent Bollenot (Université de Caen Normandie, HisTeMé)
Autour de  sa thèse Maintenir l'ordre impérial en métropole : le service de contrôle et d'assistance en France des indigènes des colonies (1915-1945)

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Acteurs et mouvements sociaux - séance 5

07 Mars 2024, 14h30-16h30 

A Tale of two trains: Franco-American Friendship, Gratitude, and Material Culture in the Early Cold War

Ludivine BROCH 
(University of Westminster)

 In 1947, a Friendship Train full of food was sent from the American people to the people of Western Europe who were still suffering acutely from the ravages of war. A year later, the people of France sent over 52,000 gift-objects to thank Americans for their humanitarian aid. The gifts were packed into 49 antique boxcars and included vases, handkerchiefs, books, drawings, ceramic figurines, dolls, knitted baby hats, silk wedding dresses, military medals, smoking pipes and much, much more. This Gratitude Train, as it was known, arrived in New York City in February 1949. It immediately drew in large crowds of politicians, journalists, and civilians across the country. Celebrations were organised to welcome the boxcars in every state capital, and the state boxcar and objects were displayed there for several weeks, sometimes travelling to different towns within the state. Afterwards, the gift objects were distributed to the public or preserved by state museums and archives.

The Friendship and Gratitude Trains raise important questions about the role of civilians in Cold War politics. They show how the collective but also intimate emotions of individuals and communities in France and the United States mattered to international alliances and relations. Through this tale of two trains, we explore how non-state actors hoped to shape the post-war world by mobilising, performing, or sometimes even abstaining from specific emotions.

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A Civilizing Relay: The Concept of the “Civilizing Mission” as Cultural Transfer in East-Central Europe, 1815-1919.

Elsbieta Kwiecinska (Université de Varsovie)

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A Civilizing Relay: The Concept of the “Civilizing Mission” as Cultural Transfer in East-Central Europe, 1815-1919.

Elsbieta Kwiecinska (Université de Varsovie)

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Regards croisés sur les communards (1871) et les établis (1967-1989)

Avec Quentin Deluermoz, Paris 1, et Marnix Dressen, UVSQ, St Quentin en Yveline

Quentin Deluermoz, Commune(s), 1870-1871, Une traversée des mondes au XIXe siècle, Seuil, 2020 ; Marnix Dressen, De l’amphi à l’établi. Les étudiants maoïstes à l’usine (1967-1989), Paris, Belin, 2000, et Les établis, la chaîne et le syndicat : évolution des pratiques, mythes et croyances d’une population d’établis maoïstes, 1968-1982. Monographie d’une usine lyonnaise, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2000.

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Regards croisés sur les communards (1871) et les établis (1967-1989)

Avec Quentin Deluermoz, Paris 1, et Marnix Dressen, UVSQ, St Quentin en Yveline

Quentin Deluermoz, Commune(s), 1870-1871, Une traversée des mondes au XIXe siècle, Seuil, 2020 ; Marnix Dressen, De l’amphi à l’établi. Les étudiants maoïstes à l’usine (1967-1989), Paris, Belin, 2000, et Les établis, la chaîne et le syndicat : évolution des pratiques, mythes et croyances d’une population d’établis maoïstes, 1968-1982. Monographie d’une usine lyonnaise, Paris, L’Harmattan, 2000.

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