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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Séance coordonnée par Thomas Tari
Clémence GADENNE-ROSFELDER (EHESS), "And Britanny became Pigland. A Social, Zootechnical, and Environmental History of Pig Farming in Britanny (1950s-1990s)"

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Agathe Bernier-Monod (Université Le Havre Normandie, GRIC)
Autour de son livre Les fondateurs. Reconstruire la République après le nazisme (ENS Editions, 2022)

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In the 1970s, health and safety accidents involving plastics and the counterculture’s emphasis on a return to natural materials made plastics uncool, dangerous even. A decade later, plastics were back in style and more convenient than ever. Yet some women in Texas and Oregon started noticing huge amounts of plastics littering shorelines. By organizing the first “citizen” beach-clean-ups, they brought the public’s attention back to the dangers of plastics. While often framed in the rhetoric of the “small gesture” that could “save the earth,” these events offered a radical proposition: holding producers accountable. Today, the beach-cleanup has become one of the most popular forms of environmental action, with Ocean Conservancy’s International Coastal Cleanup Day mobilizing over one million volunteers in 150 countries each year. But, for what and for whom are beach cleanups? By historicizing the beach cleanup, this talk will revisit the plastic crisis, modern environmentalist tactics, and nature consciousness in the neoliberal era.

Elsa Devienne is Assistant Professor of History at Northumbria University in the UK where she teaches environmental history, US history and American Studies. Her first book, Sand Rush: The Revival of the Beach in Twentieth-Century Los Angeles, is out this spring with Oxford University Press. In 2021, the French version of the book won the Willi Paul Adams Award given by the Organization of American Historians and was a finalist of the Prix de la Recherche SAES/AFEA.

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Le refus d’obéir est-il un engagement ? La désobéissance dans l’armée en guerre d’Algérie

Avec Marius Loris Rodionoff, écrivain et docteur en histoire, et François Buton, CNRS, ENS-Lyon

Marius Loris Rodionoff, Désobéir en guerre d’Algérie : la crise de l’autorité dans l’armée française, Seuil 2023 ; François Buton, « Quand les ‘disponibles ne veulent pas l’être. Le ‘mouvement des rappelés’ pendant la guerre d’Algérie », in André Loez et Nicolas Mariot (dir.), Obéir, désobéir, La Découverte, 2008.

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• Séance8 mardi 30 avril 2024
  Crack-Up Capitalism
  
  Séance présentée par Nicolas Delalande, autour du livre de Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism. Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy (Allen Lane, 2023).

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Emotions, climate, and the environment.
Historical perspectives (18th-21st centuries)

Friday May 24, 2024
Sciences Po, Campus de Paris
1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin

Morning chair: Anatole Le Bras (Centre for History and Economics in Paris)

9:00-9:15 | Anatole Le Bras, Introduction 

9:15-10:45 | Emotional perceptions of the weather - Anouchka Vasak (Université de Poitiers/EHESS), «Où sont les neiges d’antan ? Brève histoire de la perception du froid» [A brief attempt to historicise the perception of the cold] 

- Clare Hickman (Newcastle University), «Air, weather and multispecies encounters: An exploration of patients’ environmental experiences of British modern medical institutions» 

10:45-11:00 | coffee break 

11:00-12:30 | Medical inquiries 

- Eva Yampolsky (Université de Genève) «Climate and seasonality as factors of suicidality in 19th-century French psychiatric discourse» 

- Léo Bernard (IFRIS) «Une science enchantée. S’émerveiller de l’influence du cosmos sur la vie humaine (première moitié du XXe siècle)» [Enchanted science. Studies on the cosmos’ influence on human life in the first half of the 20th century] 

12:30-2 pm | lunch break

Afternoon chair: Giacomo Parrinello (Centre for History at Sciences Po)

 2:00-3:30 | Deadly and crazy emotions

- Thomas Dodman (Columbia University), «From nostalgia to solastalgia: the history and nature of an emotion» 

- Rebecca Jones (La Trobe University), «Navigating crazy weather in arid Australia. 1900s-1950s» 

3:30-3:45 | coffee break 

3:45-5:15 | Psychopathology of the environmental crisis 

- Maïa Fansten (Université (Université Paris-Cité) «Eco-anxiety: the significance of a new emotion, between psychology and politics» 

- Sandrine Aumercier (Psychanalyste, Berlin) «Psychanalyse, mélancolie environnementale et crise du capitalisme» [Psychoanalysis, environmental melancholia, and the crisis of capitalism] 

5:15-5:45 pm | General discussion

Witnessing through Literature and the Arts:
A Transdisciplinary Symposium

May 30 & 31, 2024
Sciences Po, Campus de Paris
1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin

 Thursday, May 30 

1:45 pm Welcome and Opening Remarks 

2-4 pm Panel I- Narratives of Witnessing: Intersections of History, Testimony, and Memory in Genocide Studies 
Chairperson: Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin) 

Boris Adjemian (CRH-EHESS), “Early Narratives on the Armenian Genocide: Aram Andonian, Writer and Witness” 

Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS), “What does form testify to? Epistemologies of Testimony among Holocaust Survivor-Historians”

Frédérik Detue (CTELA-Univ. Côte d’Azur.), Charlotte Lacoste (CREM-Univ. Lorraine), Judith Lyon-Caen (CRH-EHESS): “On Interdisciplinarity and Testimony” 

4:30-6 pm Artist Address
A Dialogue with French-Rwandan writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse: “Reclaiming One’s Own Survival Story”

Welcome Drinks Reception

 Friday, May 31

10 am-12:30 pm Panel II- Testimony through Film, Literature, and the Visual Arts: 
Witnessing Pandemics and Conflict
Chairperson: James Harker (Bard Berlin) 

Thibaut Boulvain (CHSP, Sciences Po), “The Spanish Flu: A Quiet Pandemic” 

Laura Kunreuther (Bard College, New York), “Earwitnesses: On the Labor and Testimony of Humanitarian Interpreters” 

Amir Moosavi (Rutgers University-Newark), “Warfront Apocrypha: The Dead, Desertion, and Dystopia” 

Patricia Zalamea (Univ. of Los Andes) and Helena Alviar (Ecole de droit, Sciences Po), “Bearing Witness: Transitional Justice and Land in the Work of Delcy Morelos” 

12:30-2 pm Lunch Break 

2:30-4:30 pm Panel III- Auto/Fiction, New Media, and Testimony
Chairperson: Laura Kunreuther (Bard College New York) 

Larissa Muraveva (Bard College Berlin), “Nostalgia for the Immediacy: The Role of the Witness and Mediated Experience in Contemporary Autofiction”

Julio Prieto (Universidad Complutense, Madrid), “Archive Fever: Hybrid Testimony and Documentary Fiction in Horacio Castellanos Moya’s Insensatez”

James Harker (Bard College Berlin), “Autofiction, Social Media, and Collective Testimony”

Christopher Fort (American University of Central Asia), “Notes on Abdulla Qahhor’s Testimony” 

5 pm-6:30 pm Artist/Scholar Address

Alicia Partnoy (Loyola Marymount University), “When Survivors Write: Literature and Discourse of Solidarity”