Cold War International History Project “e-Dossiers” present new and important accessions to the CWIHP Digital Archive. New documents are added to the Digital Archive and introduced by leading scholars of Cold War history, who provide background and context for this new archival evidence. The views expressed in these introductions are the authors’ own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Cold War International History Project. The e-Dossier series is made possible by generous support from the Blavatnik Family Foundation.

e-Dossier No. 39 – Poland and Romania: The Loyal Republic and the Maverick
By Adam Burakowski

This is a selection of the most interesting documents produced by the Embassy of the Polish People’s Republic in Bucharest from 1968 to 1977. The first date is a watershed, as in 1968, due to the developments in Czechoslovakia and the position of the Romanian leadership on the events, the Embassy greatly intensified its activity and began to prepare more detailed reports. The year 1977, on the other side, is important because of the internal collapse in Romania, exacerbated by a giant earthquake in Bucharest, the emergence of an organized democratic opposition and the mass strikes of miners in the Jiu Valley.

e-Dossier No. 38 – Romania Security Policy and the Cuban Missile Crisis
By Larry Watts
CWIHP is pleased to announce the release of ten new documents translated into English for the first time. Larry L. Watts introduces the documents and explains how the Cuban Missile Crisis was critical in reorienting Romanian foreign and security policies in a manner that caused significant shifts in the nature of the Cold War regionally and globally.

e-Dossier No. 37 – KGB/Stasi Cooperation
Walter Süß and Douglas Selvage
CWIHP is pleased to announce the addition of 9 new document to its online Digital Archive. Released in cooperation with the Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records, the new translations feature meetings between the highest levels of the Stasi and the KGB.

Flensburg, Germany
August 19 – 29, 2013
Application deadline: May 15, 2013

The combination of the border region studies and minority rights’ studies on the example of the Danish-German border region model makes the NMBR summer school unique and interesting for the wide range of young scholars and practitioners. Participants have chance to attend the lectures delivered by ECMI researchers and international guest scholars from various European countries as well as local and international practitioners with high expertise in the area.
Please visit the summer school website to review the draft programme: http://www.nmbr.de/courses/2013/
How to apply to the Summer School
Eligibility

MA Students, PhD Candidates, junior scholars and practitioners, media representatives and NGO workers interested or working in the related area.

Application Procedure

Please submit the online application form (with the letter of statement and the CV attached) here: http://www.nmbr.de/application/application/

Enrollment Procedure

After the deadline the successful applicants will be granted the admission. Upon the admission the participants are expected to transfer the study fee of 400EUR and fill in the registration form
here: http://www.nmbr.de/application/registration/

Organizer

European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI)

Information & contacts

The European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI) conducts practice and policy-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. It serves European governments and regional intergovernmental organizations as well as nondominant groups throughout. The Centre co-operates with the academic community, the media and the general public through the timely provision of information and analysis. ECMI HQ, based in Flensburg, Germany, conducts the research whcile the regional offices in Kosovo and Caucasus conduct the field projects in the area of ethnic minority issues. ECMI Flensburg organizes the conferences, workshops, seminars and the annual summer school as part of it’s training activity.

The summer school contact person:
Ms. Tamari Bulia
Summer School Senior Coordinator.

email: bulia@ecmi.de
Tel.: 0049 4611 41490

Colloque interdisciplinaire et international organisé à Corte (Corse) par le Musée de la Corse les 19 et 20 juin 2014.

jusqu’au 31 octobre 2013

En 1914, la guerre entraîne des millions d’hommes vers des horizons nouveaux dont beaucoup ne reviendront pas. Composées en majorité de simples citoyens ayant endossé l’uniforme, des armées s’affrontent au nom de nations au sein desquelles résonnent et s’entremêlent différents modèles de patriotisme, de nationalisme et d’identités sociales. Si depuis quelques années, la recherche historique, aussi bien nationale qu’internationale, s’intéresse de plus en plus aux témoignages précieux de ces hommes ordinaires ballotés par le flux et le reflux d’événements qui les dépassent, l’attention sur les « groupes » (une notion à discuter) régionaux ou nationaux minoritaires, compris comme des entités conscientes d’elles-mêmes, construisant et véhiculant des identités socioculturelles et des expressions patriotiques singulières au sein de leur nation d’appartenance, demeure une clé de lecture aujourd’hui relativement peu étudiée. De fait, il apparaît important de mieux connaître ces groupes, dans leur double dimension sociale et politique, de comprendre leur vision de la guerre, leurs rapports à la nation, au nationalisme et à leurs identités plurielles, parfois concurrentes.

Dans un cadre très large, il s’agit d’éclairer les articulations structurant leur(s) identité(s) régionale(s) et/ou nationale(s), au sein de l’entité nationale étatique. D’abord, ces groupes forment-ils des entités sociales homogènes, au sens de repérables et d’objectivables par le sociohistorien ? Comment les individus composant ces groupes sont-ils saisis par la guerre ? Leurs groupes s’en retrouvent-ils renforcés ? Divisés ? Qu’en est-il des Corses mobilisés dans l’armée française ? Quid de la participation des Alsaciens-Mosellans à l’effort de guerre allemand ? Comment se comportent les Italiens du Trentin, les Tchèques, les Slovaques, etc., au sein de l’empire austro-hongrois en guerre ? Le conflit a-t-il été le grand moment de cristallisation du sentiment national ou bien seulement une étape supplémentaire du renforcement des États-nations ? Qu’en est-il d’une France aux identités régionales encore vivaces malgré la laborieuse mais relativement efficace affirmation de l’État ? De l’Italie, dont le processus national est loin d’être achevé en 1914 ? Ou encore des Québécois au Canada ? Comment l’Autriche-Hongrie a-t-elle géré ses minorités à l’arrière et sur le front ? Dans les empires coloniaux, quelles sont les répercussions de la participation à l’effort de guerre national – celui de la métropole coloniale – sur les constructions identitaires des colons et des colonisés ; portent-elles en germe la construction nationale d’États post-coloniaux ?

D’une manière générale, que produisent les expériences de guerre des groupes porteurs d’une identité régionale et/ou nationale différente de celle des États qui les mobilisent ? Participent-elles finalement au renforcement de la construction nationale de l’entité étatique ? Au contraire, sont-elles le lit de (nouvelles) résistances ? Comment cela s’exprime-t-il ? Par différentes échelles de solidarité, de la cohésion du groupe primaire de combat (renforcé au début de la guerre par le recrutement régional) aux solidarités régionale et nationale ? Comment ces solidarités interagissent-elles avec les solidarités de classe ou de condition ? L’analyse des constructions et interactions identitaires complexes propres aux diverses minorités engagées dans la Grande Guerre recèle de nombreuses pistes pour la compréhension de ces frontières intra-étatiques peu visibles, redessinées dans la diversité sociale et le brassage national des tranchées.

L’échelle nationale, à travers le rapport centre-périphérie, permet une première approche à partir d’axes distincts. Ainsi, sous les angles différents et complémentaires d’une histoire à la fois sociale, politique et culturelle, il s’agira d’étudier les processus de définition et d’autodéfinition des groupes identitaires (minorités nationales, identités régionales, etc.) dans le double cadre de la nation en guerre. Les contributions s’articuleront autour des problématiques suivantes :

Comment s’articulent identités régionales et identités nationales dans les processus de mise en guerre de l’État (« mobilisation » des corps et des esprits, expression patriotique, etc.) ?
Comment ces identités plurielles résistent-elles l’une à l’autre, se transforment-elles au contact l’une de l’autre, se fondent-elles l’une dans l’autre…, dans le contexte des brassages dans les tranchées, les hôpitaux, les hivernages, les chantiers, les usines, ou lors des permissions (pratiques, expressions, etc.) ?
Ces différentes identités renforcent-elles la ténacité des combattants ?
Le conflit a-t-il tenu un rôle dans l’apparition ou la structuration d’un sentiment de rejet du sentiment national entre 1914 et 1918 et après-guerre ? A-t-il joué en faveur d’un essor de nationalités jusque-là étouffées ? D’un repli sur les « petites patries » ?

Si le colloque porte essentiellement sur une vision « par le bas » du conflit, discuter l’essor ou le repli identitaire revient à évoquer la construction et la postérité politiques de ces identités prises dans la guerre :

Quels modes d’administration les États en guerre ont-ils développé vis-à-vis de leurs minorités ? Quelles stratégies identitaires de légitimation de la guerre et de l’État en guerre ont-ils employé ?
Comment les politiques étatiques, les élites sociopolitiques locales ou encore les médias régionaux ont-ils cherché, à l’arrière comme au front, à développer le sentiment national et niveler ou reléguer l’expression d’identités différentes ? Des discours aux pratiques, quelle fut l’efficacité réelle de ces procédés ?
Enfin, comment les États en conflit ont-ils tenté de jouer sur les identités régionales ou les minorités des nations rivales afin d’affaiblir leurs ennemis ?

L’objectif scientifique du colloque repose sur une approche comparée, internationale et interdisciplinaire, de la Grande Guerre.

Colloque interdisciplinaire et international organisé à Corte (Corse) par le Musée de la Corse les 19 et 20 juin 2014.
Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communications sont à soumettre en français à :

jean-paul.pellegrinetti@wanadoo.fr et sylvain.gregori@wanadoo.fr

Elles ne devront pas excéder 5 000 signes et devront comporter un bref descriptif des sources envisagées.

Le dépôt des propositions s’effectuera
jusqu’au 31 octobre 2013

Les candidats seront informés de la décision du comité organisateur au plus tard le 31 décembre 2013.
Comité scientifique

Sylvain Gregori (Musée de Bastia, chercheur associé au CMMC. Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Charles Heimberg (Université de Genève)
Michel Litalien (Direction de l’Histoire et du patrimoine, Ministère de la Défense nationale du Canada)
Julien Mary (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III)
Jean-Paul Pellegrinetti (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
Frédéric Rousseau (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III).

Partenaires

CMMC (Université de Nice Sophia-Antipolis)
CRISES (Université Paul Valéry-Montpellier III)
CRID 14-18

Bibliographie indicative

Benedict Anderson, L’imaginaire national. Réflexions sur l’origine et l’essor du nationalisme, Paris, La Découverte, 2002 [Imagined communities, 1983]
François Bouloc, Rémy Cazals et André Loez, Identités troublées. 1914-1918 : Les appartenances sociales et nationales à l’épreuve de la guerre, Toulouse, Éditions Privat, 2011.
Rémy Cazals et André Loez, Dans les tranchées de 14-18, Pau, Cairn, 2008.
Jean-François Chanet, L’école républicaine et les petites patries, Paris, Aubier, 1996.
Jean-François Chanet, Vers l’armée nouvelle. République conservatrice et réforme militaire, 1871-1879. Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2006
Christophe Charle, La Crise des sociétés impériales. Allemagne, France, Grande-Bretagne (1900-1940), Paris, Le Seuil, 2001.
Éric Hobsbawm, Nations et nationalisme depuis 1780, Paris, Gallimard, 1992.
Jules Maurin, Armée, guerre, société: soldats languedociens (1899-1919), Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 1982.
Gérard Noiriel, État, nation et immigration. Vers une histoire du pouvoir, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
Panikos Panayi, Minorities in Wartime. National and Racial Groupings in Europe, North America and Australia during the Two World Wars, Oxford, Berg, 1993.
Odile Roynette, “Bons pour le service”. L’expérience de la caserne en France à la fin du XIXe siècle, Paris, Belin, 2000.
Anne-Marie Thiesse, La Création des identités nationales, Paris, Le Seuil, 1999.
Patrick Weil, Qu’est-ce qu’un Français ? Histoire de la nationalité française depuis la Révolution, Paris, Gallimard, 2004.

Daniel Cohen et Alain Bergounioux (dir.)

Le socialisme à l’épreuve du capitalisme

Quels rapports les socialistes entretiennent-ils avec le capitalisme ? Si les crises – d’ordre financier et économique, mais aussi écologique – se sont succédé, chacune avec sa propre logique, aujourd’hui les prises de position des socialistes tracent un chemin à explorer pour dessiner un nouveau paysage. Comprendre les rapports des socialistes au capitalisme, du point de vue doctrinal évidemment, mais aussi en prenant en compte les pratiques politiques et sociales, doit permettre de répondre au « droit d’inventaire » qu’exigent les interrogations actuelles sur le devenir du socialisme démocratique. Au service de cette ambition, cet ouvrage regroupe les contributions de Daniel Cohen et Alain Bergounioux, ainsi que celles d’éminents universitaires, parmi lesquels Marc Lazar, Fabrice d’Almeida, Christophe Prochasson, Michel Margairaz, Hélène Thomas, Gérard Grunberg, Serge Berstein, Jacques Mistral, Didier Fassin et Jenny Andersson.

Fayard – Fondation Jean-Jaurès

International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine – Mykolaiv (Ukraine)
The application must be sent by e-mail to ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com, by 30 April 2013.

http://www.ukrainianstudies.uottawa.ca/summer_school_2013.html

The 5th Annual International Social Science School, to be held in Mykolaiv, Southern Ukraine, on 2-9 July 2013, will have the theme of “Challenging the Social Order: Revolution, Reform and Transformation Under and After Socialism.” For an intensive week in early July, an international group of twenty doctoral students and up to a dozen faculties are converging to a different town in Ukraine to hear and discuss presentations on ongoing research on a critical theme. The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international and follows the format of a Workshop. The program also includes lectures and field trips, of historical and contemporary significance, within the region.

Co-Sponsored by The Embassy of France in Ukraine – The Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Ottawa (Canada)  – The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales [EHESS] (France) – The Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University in Mykolaiv (Ukraine) – The Doctoral School of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Ukraine) – The University of Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense (France) – The Franco-Belarusian Center for European Studies (Belarus)
Program description

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince, ch. 6

The countries of the former Socialist Bloc have repeatedly experienced throughout the last century the difficult, perilous and uncertain task Machiavelli warns us against. Building, managing and deconstructing socialist states and societies appears to be a circular process of radical social and economic transformation. Thus, collectivization, arguably one of the most ambitious attempts implemented by a state to alter the socio-economic order, can be been as a starting point for major crises such as famines, population displacement and deportation, and the disruption of the countryside. Perestroika, enacted as a response to the decline of the Soviet economy, served as a catalyst for painful transition processes in Central and Eastern Europe, the introduction of neoliberal reforms and steep rise of social inequalities. Similarly, Soviet informal practices have been interpreted both as a reaction to the deep economic crisis of the late 1980s and as constituting a major cause of yet another crisis, the failure of the rule of state and economic transition.

These challenges to the social order have had seminal political consequences, such as Soviet industrialization and the rise of Stalinism, the post-war establishment of Communist rule in Central Europe, the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the introduction of political pluralism under perestroika, the August 1991 putsch and the collapse of the Soviet Union, shock therapy, the 1998 financial crises in Russia, the colored revolutions and the return of authoritarianism.

The Summer School seeks to examine these moments of disruption of the existing social order when state and society are challenged in their institutions, rules, values and principles. Topics under consideration include:

the causes and dynamics of revolution, reform and transformation
mobilization, protest and rebellion
the management of social or political crisis
the production of new norms (informal, legal, economic, political)
the impact of dominant economic models
the management of the past: transitional justice, lustration, the politics of memory
how individuals and groups adapt to a new social order: career paths, survival strategies

The Fifth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine welcomes proposals from the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, political science, economics, and adjacent fields. While the primary focus will be on the socialist and post-socialist era (in the former Soviet Union, Central, Eastern and Southern Europe), pre-Soviet history may also be examined.

The Summer School is designed to be interdisciplinary and international and follows the format of a Workshop. Each participant will have the opportunity to present a paper and receive comments from a group of international scholars, as well as from the other participants, who are expected to be active in these discussions. The School’s program consists of lectures, panel presentations and discussions, as well field trips within the region.
Location

The International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine takes places in a different city of Ukraine every year. Previous schools have been held in Uman (2009), Dnipropetrovsk (2010), Ostroh (2011) and Zhytomyr (2012). The 2013 Summer School will be hosted by the Petro Mohyla Black Sea State University in Mykolaiv, Southern Ukraine.

The history of Mykolaiv, located on the Black Sea Cost, about 110 kilometers east-northeast of Odessa, is closely linked to its Port. The Port of Nikolaev is an important river port and one of Ukraine’s largest and busiest ship-building centers. After the Russian Empire annexed the Black Sea coast in 1788, the Port of Mykolaiv was founded as a shipyard near the site of the ancient Greek Olbia. Originally built for repair of Russian Navy ships during the Russo-Turkish War, the Port of Mykolaiv was opened as a commercial harbor in 1862, and the first foreign ships were welcomed into the port. This also led to the establishment of several foreign consulates in Mykolaiv. In the early 19th century, as with most urban areas in Ukraine, Mykolaiv developed into one of the largest Jewish centers in the Russian Empire and was the birthplace of the the seventh leader in the Chabad-Lubavitch dynasty.

In the Soviet era, Mykolaiv was a major shipbuilding center, closely linked to the military industry. The shipbuilding industry provided about 60% of Mykolaiv citizens with work. Because of this military orientation, the Port of Mykolaiv was closed to foreign visitors through the late 1980s. Most of the tragic events of the past century echoed in Mykolaiv’s history, such as the Civil War, the famine, the purges, German occupation and the Holocaust.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the industrial city of Mykolaiv faced a huge economic crisis. Most of the state-owned military-oriented industries faced restructuring and/or privatization, with unequal suc3 Fifth International Social Science Summer School in Ukraine cess. New branches of economy appeared. The image of the city is also evolving, sometimes in unexpected ways: the past city of shipbuilders became “the city of brides” with the development of foreign-oriented marriage agencies. In November 2012, the city was also in the center of the political news : the election vote count led to bloody clashes in Mykolaiv Oblast’s Pervomaisk, where pro-government and opposition candidates were both claiming victory in district 132.

A city of glory and a city in crisis, Mykolaiv is a perfect place for a Summer School focused on the challenges of a new social order.

Excursions and meeting organized by the Summer School team will focus on these different dimensions of the regional history.
Duration

One week, Tuesday 2 July – Tuesday 9 July 2013.
Call for application
Eligibility

The Summer School is open to PhD students (or students enrolled in a kandidat nauk program) and young researchers (up to six years removed from their PhD or kandidat nauk degree).

Proposals strong on theory and empirical research are particularly welcomed.

The working language of the Summer School is English.

Prospective participants must be fluent in English. Selected candidates will be notified before the end of May.
How to apply?

To be considered for the Summer School, candidates must complete an application form (that includes a 500 word project proposal) and add a CV.

They are also encouraged to send an additional written sample, such as a conference paper, a dissertation chapter, or a publication, although this is optional.

The application must be sent by e-mail to ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com,
by 30 April 2013.

The application form can be requested at ukrainesummerschool@gmail.com or downloaded on the following address: http://www.ukrainianstudies. uottawa.ca/summer_school_2013.html
The scientific committee is being set up.

November 28-29, 2013
Kaunas
Conference organizer: Vytautas Magnus University

Deadline: 1 September 2013

The conference is organized according to:
PROGRAME FOR HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FOR 2007-2013
“Support to Research Activities of Scientists and Other Researchers (Global Grant)”

Central and Eastern European Region: Research of the Construction of National Narratives and Politics of Memory (1989-2011) VP1-3.1-ŠMM-07-K-02-024

The historians of the majority of the European countries claim that the history of their nation is unique and exceptional. These claims serve as a basis for the formation of the historical image and politics of memory of the country at the national level. The visions of this “special way” are especially typical to the national historiographies and popular forms of memorialisation of the Central and Eastern European countries. They are based on the idea of exceptionality and belief that the history of a specific country is unique and incompatible with the historical narratives of the neighbouring countries. The authors of such ethno-centric narratives limit themselves only to the analysis of events within the boundaries of their country; cross-national approach to the same historical happenings is not applied. Such situation could be explained as a natural need of the post-communist countries to form their identities. Due to the newly restored/ acquired independencies, the need was especially urgent.
On the other hand, the situation is changing and new methodological approaches to novel cultural, memory, post-structural, post-colonial and other histories and spheres of research challenge the homogeneity of national narratives. Regional research of historical narratives and forms of memorialisation is especially topical in the transition from individual comparative analyses to large-scale comparative studies. Thus the prior aim of this conference is to enhance the  development of the comparative studies of national narratives and the processes of memorialisation in the Central and Eastern European Region by  analysing the national reflections of the past within the framework of the historical narratives of the whole region.
As an answer to the current topicalities, the chronological framework of the conference encompasses the post-soviet period, which signifies the erosion of the earlier narratives, the reconstruction of the old narratives and forms of memorialisation, and the formation of new historical narratives, memory forms and national identities.
We kindly invite researchers from the disciplines of Humanities and Social Sciences interested in the research of the Central and Eastern European Region to participate in the conference.

The conference covers these areas:

Theoretical problems of the relation between memory and history
The relationship between the academic historiography and popular historical narrative
National heroes: between a legend and political order
The problems of autochthonic approach and the development of pseudo-ethnogeneses in the national narratives
The problem of intertwined and confronting representations of the past in the national narratives of the neighbouring countries
Ideological and world-view vectors of national narratives
Division of historical heritage
The relationship of individual (cognitive) memory with the historical narratives
The reflections of post-communist transformations in contemporary national narratives
The influence of the membership in the European Union and the contemporary politics of Russia on the construction of the national narratives

Length of talks: 20 minutes

Conference language: English

All conference articles will be peer reviewed. Accepted articles will be published in a collective volume of scientific papers.

Researchers are kindly requested to fill in the participant’s form. Abstracts should be 300-500 words long, in English, and should be sent by 1 September 2013.

Participant’s form should be sent to the conference office:
v.kasperavičiūtė@hmf.vdu.lt

Telephone number for enquiries:
+370-37-327836

The organizers of the conference will cover meal and accommodation expenses.

The organizing committee of the conference:

Chairman:
dr. Marius Sirutavičius (Vytautas Magnus University) m.sirutavicius@gmail.com

Members:
dr. Liudas Glemža (Vytautas Magnus University) l.glemza@hmf.vdu.lt
assoc. prof. dr. Rūstis Kamuntavičius (Vytautas Magnus University) r.kamuntavicius@hmf.vdu.lt
dr. Vitalija Kasperavičiūtė (Vytautas Magnus University) v.kasperaviciute@hmf.vdu.lt
dr. Andrius Švarplys (Vytautas Magnus University) a.svarplys@pmdf.vdu.lt
dr. Jurgita Vaičenonienė (Vytautas Magnus University) j.vaicenoniene@hmf.vdu.lt

The scientific committee of the conference:

Chairman:
prof. habil. dr. Egidijus Aleksandravičius (Vytautas Magnus University)

Members:
assoc. prof. dr. Kastytis Antanaitis (Vytautas Magnus University)
dr. Halina Beresnevičiute Nosálová (Masaryk University, Brno)
dr. Moreno Bonda (Vytautas Magnus University)
prof. habil. dr. Krzysztof Buchowski (University of Bialystok)
dr. Vytautas Petronis (Herder-Institute, Marburg)

Stefano Pisu

Stalin a Venezia
L’Urss alla Mostra del cinema fra diplomazia culturale e scontro ideologico (1932-1953)

Che ruolo hanno avuto le relazioni politico-diplomatiche nell’organizzazione dei Festival internazionali del cinema nel XX secolo? Come si declinò il confronto fra capitalismo e socialismo in un ambito, quello cinematografico, che conteneva in sé anche aspetti artistici, industriali e commerciali? Il presente volume risponde a questi quesiti ponendosi nella specifica prospettiva dell’Urss alla Mostra di Venezia fra il 1932 e il 1953. L’interpretazione soprattutto ideologico-politica data dai sovietici alla Mostra trovò espressione emblematica nel 1946, con la presentazione del film Kljatva (Il giuramento) di Michail Čiaureli, in cui appare da protagonista il personaggio di Stalin. Attraverso un’ampia selezione di documenti d’archivio russi e italiani, il volume evidenzia il ruolo dei Festival internazionali del cinema quali laboratorio dove sperimentare quella rete di connessioni e contrapposizioni alla base del sistema delle relazioni culturali internazionali in vent’anni cruciali per la storia del XX secolo.

Rubettino editore

Colloque à l’École française de Rome « Presse et exil dans l’Europe du XIXe siècle », 23-24 septembre 2013

Les propositions de communications doivent nous parvenir
avant le 24 avril

L’équipe « Exil » rassemble des chercheurs français et italiens autour d’un projet de base de données collective sur les exilés politiques italiens dans la Méditerranée du XIXe siècle, avec le soutien de l’École française de Rome. Elle prévoit un programme de rencontres sur le thème de l’exil ouvertes sur l’ensemble du monde européen. Le premier de ces projets porte sur la presse et l’exil au xixe siècle.

Tout au long de l’époque contemporaine, l’exil a constitué une forme de mobilisation à part entière, qui s’est inscrite dans le répertoire d’actions contre-révolutionnaire, libéral, républicain, puis socialiste et anti-fasciste. Pour le patriote lombard Carlo Cattaneo, c’était ainsi une « nouvelle institution » que le poète Ugo Foscolo avait donnée à l’Italie du Risorgimento en quittant Milan en 1816 pour embrasser une vie de proscrit. Cette modalité de l’engagement politique a alimenté des flux migratoires quantitativement de plus en plus importants dans l’Europe du xixe siècle et du premier xxe siècle, mais ce n’est pas par son effectif qu’il convient de jauger son importance. Car les exilés, même en petit nombre, ont joué un rôle crucial dans l’internationalisation des débats politiques et la circulation des idées, favorisant la naissance d’une sphère publique européenne ou transatlantique et de nouvelles formes de politisation. Ils ont également joué un rôle économique et professionnel non négligeable, contribuant à faire circuler techniques, process, savoirs et savoir-faire entre communautés d’exilés et pays d’accueil. Faire l’histoire de leurs expériences permet d’envisager le développement des cultures et des identités au-delà de la sphère étroite de la nation ou du groupe, pour reconnaître l’importance des échanges et des interactions dans la formation de communautés séparées.

Le projet se fonde sur l’idée que la contribution des exilés à la presse de leur temps constitue une fenêtre d’analyse sur l’exil comme expérience politique, créatrice d’« exopolitie », ainsi que Stéphane Dufoix a proposé de baptiser l’espace spécifique dans lequel les exilés mènent leurs différentes activités. L’exil représente, dans le même temps, un facteur d’ouverture de la presse européenne aux pays étrangers, contribuant ainsi à l’internationalisation de certains slogans et thèmes politiques dans l’Europe des guerres civiles et des constructions nationales, ainsi qu’à la circulation des connaissances liées au monde du travail.

Nous nous intéressons donc à l’ensemble des façons dont les exilés ont pu contribuer à la presse de leur temps, comme journalistes ou plus rarement comme éditeurs, aux périodiques qui accueillaient leurs contributions comme aux organes de presse que des proscrits ont pu créer durant leur séjour à l’étranger, et aux conditions réservées dans chaque pays d’accueil à cette activité. Les sources qui nous permettront de nous pencher sur ces phénomènes iront des journaux eux-mêmes aux sources administratives et diplomatiques, en passant par les archives privées et les correspondances d’exil.

Problématiques retenues

Les conditions d’écriture et de publication des journaux d’exil (cadre juridique et économique dans lequel s’inscrit la publication de ces organes de presse, parfois clandestins ; censure exercée par le pays d’accueil mais aussi par la diplomatie du pays d’origine ; importance des lectorats visés, qu’ils se trouvent dans le pays d’accueil ou dans le pays de départ).
Le contenu technique et professionnel de cette presse (annonces, offres de travail, rubriques spécifiques…
Les stratégies éditoriales et politiques des rédactrices et rédacteurs, mais aussi des lectrices et des lecteurs (utilisation de la presse pour légitimer un combat politique mené depuis l’étranger, pour cliver ou au contraire rassembler une communauté d’étrangers dispersés dans le pays d’asile).
Le contenu idéologique et culturel de ces périodiques (la presse comme moyen d’influencer le débat national du pays d’origine, ou comme interface avec celui du pays d’asile ; la part prise par la presse d’exil dans une histoire du sentiment public international ; les représentations et les transferts culturels permis par cette presse parfois bilingue, pont entre deux ou plusieurs cultures).

Modalités de soumission

Les propositions de communications doivent nous parvenir
avant le 24 avril

aux trois adresses suivantes : catherine.brice@gmail.com, delphinediaz@gmail.com et simon.sarlin@gmail.com.

Ces propositions comporteront

un titre,
un résumé d’environ 2.000 signes,
ainsi que les coordonnées complètes de l’intervenant(e) (nom, prénom, fonction, rattachement institutionnel et courriel).

Comité scientifique

Sylvie Aprile (Université Lille III), Catherine Brice (Université Paris-Est Créteil), Simon Burrows (University of Western Sydney), Christophe Charle (Université Paris 1), Diana Cooper-Richet (Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines), Delphine Diaz (Université Paris-Sorbonne), François Dumasy (École française de Rome), Simon Sarlin (Université Grenoble II).

Prof. Gerhard Botz

13.03.2013 -h.  16:00

Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for European History and Public Spheres,

Nussdorfer Strasse 64, 4th floor, 1090 Wien

For a long time, the Mauthausen concentration camp was treated as an essentially German (or Austrian) site of Nazi persecution. Its transnational dimension has only recently become the focus of historical research, with a European wide oral history project including more than 800 survivors, undertaken by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Historical Social Science. The main foci of the still ongoing Mauthausen Survivors Research Project presented here are directed at the factors that contributed to the multinational composition of the camp, the experiences made by the deportees, and their memory of them. This lecture will concentrate on the various ‘paths’ leading to the camp (from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, France etc.) in accordance with the expansion of Nazi rule in continental Europe. Detailing this context will allow us to shed light on the polyphonic life inside the camp and on the inmates’ varying chances of survival.

Gerhard Botz is professor emeritus for contemporary history at the University of Vienna and director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Social History (LBIHS). His main research has been directed at political violence, national socialism, quantification, oral history, and memory. His publications include Nationalsozialismus in Wien, 2008 (new ed. forthcoming); Schweigen und Reden einer Generation (ed.) (2008), Kontroversen um Österreichs Zeitgeschichte (co-ed.) (2008); Jews, antisemitism and culture in Vienna (co-ed.) (1987, German ed. 2002); Gewalt in der Politik (1983).

Second World Urbanity: Between Capitalist and Communist Utopias

Please send paper proposals (a 300-500 words abstract and a 1-page cv) to swurbanity@gmail.com
by February 1, 2013.

Second World Urbanity: Between Capitalist and Communist Utopias seeks to investigate the history of the radical reshaping of the Soviet World (in our words – the Second World), that Ada Louise Huxtable reported on in the late 1960s. This project aims to bring together scholarly contributions on the various endeavors in the Second World to conceive, build, and inhabit a socialist cityscape that was an alternative to the segregated spaces of capitalist cities and the atomized world of suburbia. Imagining and designing urban space were undeniably powerful instruments of forging socialist modernity. Second World Urbanity pays close attention to the tensions between global challenges and locally driven agendas that made architects, planners, and ordinary dwellers alter socialist modernity according to more particular interests.

Argument

In 1967 the architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable published a long piece in the New York Times on Soviet advances in urban planning and construction. Surprisingly for the Cold War era, the author openly praised the Soviets for creating a country-wide system of mass production of standardised prefabricated cheap housing, ‘an architectural sputnik’  in her own words. She claimed with great enthusiasm, ‘In size, scope and boldness, in spite of crudities, failure and sometimes ludicrous imperfections it is a singularly important undertaking of the 20th century.’ Moreover, she noted, ‘the latest product is acceptable as architecture.’ Describing new residential neighborhoods mushrooming all across the Soviet Union, she wrote: ‘There is no scale, no variety, no surprise. It is monotony with light, air, sun, and greenery in season, and on sum, that effect is no worse and sometimes a good deal better than a lot of construction on the outskirts of large American cities.’ Admitting all the flaws of current Soviet construction she urged her readers to pay closer attention to this ‘special brand of modern architecture [that] is reshaping the Soviet World.’

Second World Urbanity: Between Capitalist and Communist Utopias seeks to investigate the history of the radical reshaping of the Soviet World (in our words – the Second World), that Ada Louise Huxtable reported on in the late 1960s. This project aims to bring together scholarly contributions on the various endeavors in the Second World to conceive, build, and inhabit a socialist cityscape that was an alternative to the segregated spaces of capitalist cities and the atomized world of suburbia. Imagining and designing urban space were undeniably powerful instruments of forging socialist modernity. Second World Urbanity pays close attention to the tensions between global challenges and locally driven agendas that made architects, planners, and ordinary dwellers alter socialist modernity according to more particular interests. What were the visions and meanings that architects and urban planners sought to communicate through their work? What pre-existing styles did they draw on, reject, and appropriate, and was there a Second World postmodernism?  To what degree was the socialist cityscape a product of negotiation between its dwellers and its designers? Where did other local players–such as major industries and local party bosses–fit in such negotiations over the design and construction of the socialist city?

As a venue for opening a conversation about the new approaches to urbanity and planning, this project goes beyond the geographic boundaries of the Eastern Bloc and seeks transnational, comparative, and global approaches to the study of the socialist city. We propose to think of socialist urban planning from Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union to China and Cuba as a distinct and multifaceted division of global urban planning trends. Just as the geographic scope is broad so, too, is our chronological reach, which will span the early post-World War II period through the collapse of state socialism and beyond to the present day. Was there a common denominator to the variety of projects and planning efforts implemented from Cuba to China, from the Urals to Belgrade? Was it socialist in form and national in content as the common formula of Socialist Realism suggested? Or was it modern in form and undefined in content, to paraphrase the formula Kevin Plath and Benjamin Nathans recently coined for describing the nature of late-Soviet culture? In exploring such questions, what do we – urban historians and historians of architecture – have new to say on the history of the Second World? What are the new research questions that our subfield has generated in recent years?

The present stage in our project is a conference that will be hosted at The Center for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, in Leipzig, Germany, June 21-23, 2013. Paper proposals are solicited for this conference and an edited volume of selected papers on a wide range of topics from (but not limited to) the history of professional networks and institutional organization, monumental projects, mass housing schemes, transfers of technologies and styles, the organization of public and private spaces, the political engagement of urban planning professionals, the treatment of gender, ethnic, and class differences in the socialist cityscape, the role of the state, the ideological premises of urban schemes and visionary projects, everyday life, urban residents’ (mis)uses of planned urban spaces. Papers from all disciplines in the social sciences and humanities will be considered.
On the Project: Three Main Goals

Second World Urbanity is a scholarly project that seeks to redefine scholarly examinations of the global socialist cityscape.  In preparation for the conference in Leipzig in June 2013, we held a “virtual conference”in July 2012 to map out the major themes and questions of this project, including our adoption of the terms “second world” and “urbanity”. For more on this preliminary discussion, see our project statement at http://secondworldurbanity.umwblogs.org/virtual-conference/.

As the main three goals of the project we see the following:

1 New map: The primary goal of the project is to write an entangled history of Second World Urbanity that maps a variety of interactions and exchanges, and privileges a vision of a decentered political community that developed a number of meaningful connections beyond state socialist regimes’ relationship with Moscow.

2 New language: We seek to weave together such different narratives as the history of architectural movements and grand urban planning theories, changes in state policy and ideology, and the lived experience of diverse social actors in the Second World and across its borders. The major methodological challenge of the project is thus to work out the language that is capable of bridging conceptual divergences among the various disciplines that participants on this project employ in their own work.

3 New identity: This project aims to call into question the place of the subfield that could be vaguely defined as urban studies vis-à-vis other related fields such as global history, state socialism studies, the history of architecture and material culture, and seeks to redefine this relation.
Submission guidelines

Please send paper proposals (a 300-500 words abstract and a 1-page cv) to swurbanity@gmail.com
by February 1, 2013.

Paper proposals will be reviewed by the project’s organizers and program committee. We will announce the papers that have been accepted on March 1, 2013.

If your paper is accepted for the conference, the deadline for submitting your paper will be May 20, 2013. Papers should be no longer than 5,000 words including footnotes. Papers will be distributed to conference participants ahead of the conference via our project’s blog.

The project is presently soliciting funds to cover some of the transportation and/or housing costs of participants. We will know whether such funds are available only in Spring 2013. Therefore, interested participants should plan for covering costs through their home institutions. The conference will not have a conference fee.

The conference will be hold on June 21-23, 2013, at The Centre for the History and Culture of East Central Europe, Leipzig, Germany

The conference language will be English.
Program committee

Andres Kurg,
Brigitte Le Normand,
Daria Bocharnikova,
Kimberly Elman Zarecor,
Marie Alice L’Heureux,
Steven Harris,
and Vladimir Kulic.