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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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• 25 mar 2013

  Strasbourg

  Call for papers - Modern

  Spaces of German colonial experience: exchanges, transfers and circulations (1850-1950)

  En s’ouvrant aux démarches de l’histoire globale et transnationale, la recherche historique sur l’expansionnisme allemand a connu, au début des années 2000, un profond renouvellement : après avoir été longtemps marqué par une spécialisation géographique étroite et un certain  eurocentrisme, ce champ  historiographique  se  caractérise  désormais par des tentatives de plus en plus nombreuses visant à restituer, dans un cadre spatial élargi, le jeu complexe des interrelations  entre les différentes  scènes  de l’impérialisme allemand. Profitant de l’impulsion donnée par une série d‘études pionnières, l’atelier que nous proposons invite doctorants et post-doctorants à présenter leurs propres travaux sur ces thématiques.

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