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• 15 sep 2020

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - History

  Internationalism(s) and education during the Cold War

  Actors, rivalries and circulations

  Not much research has been focused on educational internationalism, as it developed during the Cold War. Yet, this period provides an exceptional framework for understanding the evolution and metamorphosis of the processes of internationalization of knowledge and educational practices, whether in the school sphere or in the extra-curricular environment. Driven by a multitude of national, international, and imperial actors, these are articulated through the ideological confrontation between the blocs of the East and the West, but also through the challenges posed by European integration, decolonization, the emergence of "third worldism" and the attempts to regulate international relations (maintenance of peace and security, etc.). Therefore, the aim of this conference is to lay the foundations for a global history of educational internationalism, tracing its forms, its trajectories (North-South, East-West, South-South), as well as its impact on the political framework and the balance of power determined by the “global Cold War”.

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• 31 mar 2016

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - History

  The Smaller European Powers and China in the Cold War, 1949-1989

  This international conference aims to examine the policies of the smaller European powers towards China – and vice versa – during the Cold War. Thereby it focuses, on the European side, on both Western and Eastern Europe – regardless of whether a country was part of the NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Meanwhile, on the Chinese side, the conference proposes to include both Chinas, namely the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (RoC). While this should allow for the analysis of different relational constellations, the chronological framework – that ranges from the Communist victory in China in 1949 to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square uprising in 1989 – should enable us to identify policy shifts and patterns.

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• 30 nov 2015

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - History

  The International Echoes of the Commemorations of the October Revolution (1918-1990)

  Commemorations express a political will to remember, a process that relies on establishing a mythologised historical referent. The Russian Communists were aware of the importance of this instrument for the implantation of a regime whose legitimacy was contested both domestically and abroad, and proceeded therefore to construct a new collective memory through the reordering of time around the regime’s founding act: the great socialist revolution of October. From 1918 on, 7 November was a day of celebrations: speeches, military parades, orderly marches, inaugurations of public monuments commemorative plaques, political carnivals, mass spectacles, and popular parties that united the peoples and territories of the Soviet Union in celebration of October. In addition to their domestic role in fostering unity, providing legitimacy, and facilitating internal mobilisations, the practices of commemorations also supported the regime’s international eminence, especially when it presented itself as a model for world revolution.

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• 22 mai 2012

  Lausanne

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The conditionality of social policy, a new global paradigm?

  Le RT6 de l'Association française de sociologie et l'université de Lausanne organisent un séminaire à Lausanne, le 2-3 octobre 2012, consacré à l'analyse des politiques sociales du Nord et du Sud qui se présentent comme « conditionnelles ». Les réponses doivent s'inscrire dans un des quatre thèmes suivants: i) La place des contreparties dans les réformes des politiques sociales, comparaisons internationales, ii) effets de la mise en œuvre des contreparties dans les secteurs de l’assistance et de l’emploi, iii) le mythe de la « boîte à outils » promu par les organisations internationales : de la « bonne pratique » à la diffusion des idées et des pratiques. États des lieux et dérives, iv) genre, politique sociale, lutte contre la pauvreté : l'émergence de la femme / mère en tant que catégorie centrale des nouvelles politiques sociales.

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