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• 15 mai 2020

  Santiago

  Call for papers - America

  New approaches to the history of soft power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

  The study of soft power in the modern period is unequal, with much attention understandably paid to the Cold War when culture offered a surrogate for damaged and blocked political dialogues. But practices that aimed at promoting a nation abroad were not invented after the Second World War, nor were they inexistent before then. Some historians have traced their origins back to the nineteenth century with the formation of nation states (in Europe) and the growth of ministries of foreign affairs.  In addition, the historiography has largely omitted soft power policies produced by and targeting so called “periphery countries”. Therefore, much remains to be written if we are to fully appreciate the history of soft power and its associated key concepts (public and cultural diplomacy, propaganda, publicity, promotion, oeuvres -in the French context, public relations) and the multiplicity of meanings with which these ideas and practices were endowed globally throughout the modern period.

   

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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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