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• 26 mar 2015

  27 mar 2015

  Paris

  Conference, symposium - History

  Experts and expertise in the mandates and of the society of nations

  Figures, fields and tools

  Our vantage point is to consider the growing in importance of expertise during the twentieth century within the management of the colonial world and hence to study the emergence of the international sphere as a level of decision making. The purpose of this conference is to investigate the influence of early international agendas, advanced across the colonial world by experts operating in the orbit of international organizations. The investigation should also focus on the procedures and framework of international recognition of expertise at the intersection of the colonial and the international spheres. A first line of enquiry tackles the relations between the epistemologies that underpinned scientific knowledge in the colony and the metropolis. Another one looks into the sites of production of Mandatory expertise. Finally, we want to investigate the explicitly evolutionary conceptual framework for the mandates and its influence on the work of experts. We invite contributions dealing with the figure of the expert, whether official or not, and the various fields and tools of Mandatory expertise. Part and parcel of our reflexion is also a study of the limits and scope of expertise.

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• 10 mar 2015

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Modern

  "Civilising" the world, "wilding up" Europe?

  The circulation of knowledge, the transfer of knowledge and "mimicry" in the German-speaking colonial space

  Ce colloque est centré sur la dynamique circulatoire des savoirs, des transferts de connaissance et des représentations, liée à la notion d’autorité et à l’expérience impériale des mondes germanophones et de leur sphère coloniale. Celle-ci ne se limite pas aux territoires officiellement colonisés, mais comprend l’ensemble des territoires à travers le monde où se sont établis des « colonies d’Allemands » (Amériques, etc.). L’on s’intéressera tout particulièrement au phénomène de retour de l’expérience coloniale, sur la mise en scène de soi par rapport à l’autre colonial, dans le cadre d’une « mimicry inversée », aux discours, représentations, productions textuelles et visuelles et aux projections imaginatives engendrées, tant du côté du colonisateur que du colonisé.

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• 28 fév 2015

  Neuendettelsau

  Call for papers - History

  Collapse and Resilience of German Missions 1914-1939

  World War I had a devastating impact upon German Missions (Roman Catholic and Protestant). A general description of German mission fields A.D. 1914 will be the starting point of the Conference. Case studies are welcome on particular territories such as Togo, Cameroon, East Africa, South-West Africa, South East Asia, Pacific area, China, India, Middle East. Attention will be paid to the predicament of local "orphaned" Christian churches and communities, and to the relationships between the local leadership with the new foreign missions authorized by the Allies instead of German personnel.

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