- 14 February 2014
- Paris
Venue:
Espace Niemeyer
6 Avenue Mathurin Moreau (metro station « Colonel Fabien », line 2)
75019 Paris
transform! AKADEMIA History Workshop
The one-day workshop aims at making progress in the work undertaken towards critical approaches in regards with the public use of European history – notably through the project “House of European History” – and preparing the publication of an historians’ common text.
The following topics will be at the core of the workshop:
- The evolution of the project “House of European History”
- First elements to characterize the contributions of the social movements and the Left to the process of European integration
- National memory initiatives on the First World War
MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL) fosters this workshop and will also take part in the discussions.AKADEMIA Network is a trans-European platform bringing together European left-wing academics whose common aim is to build a counter hegemonic thinking against neoliberalism. AKADEMIA Network is an initiative of transform! europe.
Preparatory Group:
- Elisabeth Gauthier: transform! europe Managing Board
- Sigfrido Ramirez: University of Copenhagen, Facilitator of the AKADEMIA Network
- Maxime Benatouil: Project officerContact: benatouil@transform-network.net
For the pdf of the iniviation please refer to "Documentation" on the right.
Programme
10:00-13:00
Opening Speeches
- Elisabeth Gauthier (transform! europe)
- MEP Marie-Christine Vergiat (GUE/NGL)
The evolution of the project “House of European History”
- Francis Wurtz (Honorary Member of the European Parliament)
The “Red Thread”: First elements to characterize the contributions of the social movements and the Left to the process of European integration. What role did the social movements and the Left play in the twentieth century (antifascism, anticolonialism, 1968, resistance to neoliberalism), and more specifically in the process of European integration (1945-1992)? To what extent these contributions relect at the European level the international struggle between the great capitalist time and the new time of the Left?
- Jean-Numa Ducange (Lecturer at the University of Rouen)
Interventions discussed by
- Gilles Pécout (Director of the History Department of the Ecole Normale Supérieure ENS)
General Discussion
13:00-14:30: Lunch Break
14:30-19:00
The national memory initiatives on the First World War in 2014: What idea(s) of Europe do they convey?
- With a contribution of Serge Wolikow (Professor of History at the University of Burgundy)
General Discussion
Broad lines of a working paper
- Sia Anagnostopoulou (Professor at the Panteion University, Athens)
Collective Discussion on the working paper's project and the work to be undertaken further
Documents
