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• 06 nov 2014

  07 nov 2014

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Thinking the future in the age of Georges Pompidou

  Comment pense-t-on l'avenir à long terme en 1960, en 1970 ? Comment imagine-t-on la France, le monde de 1985, 2000 ? De quels outils ou structures dispose-t-on pour le faire ? Quelles décisions sont prises, sur quels critères, avec quels objectifs ? L'Association Georges Pompidou souhaité organiser un colloque portant spécifiquement sur les thèmes de la modernisation et de l'innovation, sous une perspective nouvelle. Ces problématiques seront envisagées sous un angle plus large, qu'on peut résumer sous le titre « Penser l'avenir ».

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• 31 jan 2014

  Basel

  Call for papers - Modern

  Revisiting the Historical Connections between Agriculture, Nutrition, and Development

  The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in a Global Context

  The workshop posits that after 1945, the interconnectedness of questions of nutrition, agriculture and poverty became a central aspect of international governance, and that issues of food and agriculture posed particular challenges to national sovereignty. We thus approach the history of FAO as a history of the ideas and practices of economic and social ‘development’ embedded in local, regional, national, and global contexts and with implications on all these levels. We propose to examine the process by which the FAO facilitated the institutionalisation and globalisation of debates on agricultural production and food security, how it integrated previous international and transnational networks, and how it navigated the tension between agrarian commercialisation and rural welfare during the Cold War and Decolonisation.

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