CFP: Capitalism, Crises and European Integration from 1945 to the Present (Florence, 26-28 May 2016)

Call for Papers
Capitalism, Crises and European Integration from 1945 to the present

First HEIRS-RICHIE Conference, European University Institute, Florence, 26-28 May 2016

The severe multidimensional crisis that has been affecting Europe since 2008 calls for a critical rethinking of European integration history. The crisis has raised questions about the nature of today’s European ‘project’, which appears in many ways different from what it was at its inception in the past century. Arguably, European integration took root in a moment of exception in the history of capitalism, when inequalities were at a historical low – in sharp contrast with the present era of globalised ‘neoliberal’ capital- ism and record inequalities. Europe’s present travails also highlight the importance of crises in shaping European integration. This feature is inherent to European integration history; the post-war mushrooming of integration and cooperation projects was a response to the deep social and economic crises of the continent.

This conference seeks to historicise post-war European integration in its connection to the history of capitalism and its crises in their multiple dimensions: economic, social, political, intellectual, environmental, among others. The aim will be to highlight different moments of change, rupture or continuity in the ideas and realisations that underlie European integration. We invite contributions on themes that include, but are not limited to:

• Crises and European integration: exploring how crises have constituted moments of economic change, intellectual redefinition, and political and social re- configuration in European integration, as well as analysing how competing narratives of crises have been linked to competing visions of European integration.
• Ideology, Capitalism and European Integration: the EC/EU and other international organisations have been loci of constant competition between different political and ideological currents. How did ideas and ideologies championed by national and trans- national actors penetrate different European ‘projects’ and policies? How can processes of transfers, learning and competition between and within European organisations be traced? How did European integration impact ideological changes in Europe and beyond?
• Political Economy of European Integration: investigating how European organisations perceived, adapted, encouraged and responded to shifts in modes of production and organisation in different economic sectors; seeking to read the political economies fostered between the lines of the European treaties, institutions and policies: monetary, industrial, agricultural, social, trade, development, migration, employment, gender equalities, etc.
• European Integration, regionalism and globalisation: arguably the main development of capitalism in the past fifty years, globalisation has been intertwined with European integration. How did European institutions and policies seek to shape, moderate, or shield European populations from increasing ‘globalisation’? Or how, on the contrary, did it constitute a multiplier effect on globalising forces? Can we identify diverging roles between different regional and international organisations in this respect?

PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers in history and connected disciplines are invited to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words and a short CV by 18 December 2015 to Aurélie Andry at aurelie.andry @ eui.eu. Travel and accommodation costs will be covered.

Selection committee: Aurélie Andry, Haakon Ikonomou, Quentin Jouan, Guia Migani, Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, Federico Romero, Laurent Warlouzet.

The History of European Integration Research Society (HEIRS) and the Réseau International des Chercheurs en Histoire de l’Intégration Européenne (RICHIE) are postgraduate student networks that strive to foster collaboration and interaction among postgraduate researchers across Europe with an interest in European integration history. This conference will bring together PhD students and academics from various disciplines to discuss their work in a number of panels. It will be coupled with a workshop on the theme ‘Capitalism, Crises and European Integration in the long 1970s’. In addition, there will be keynote lectures and speakers will be available for in-depth discussions. Some papers will be selected for publication in high-ranked history journal. The conference is part of the Jean Monnet Project ‘Rethinking European Integration History in Times of Crisis’ supported by the European Commission and the Alcide De Gasperi Research Center on the History of European Integration at the European University Institute.
For more information on this event, please visit: http://www.eui.eu/Research/HistoricalArchivesOfEU/News/2015/1013Call-for-papers-Capitalism-Crises-and-European-Integration-from-1945-to-the-present.aspx

Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol, manumourlon @ gmail.com

Call for Papers: Economics and Human Biology (Tuebingen, October 15-16, 2016)

Economics and Human Biology
Tuebingen, October 15-16, 2016

Call for papers
This two-day workshop focuses on Economics and Human Biology. The conference is devoted to the exploration of the interrelationships between socio-economic processes and human beings as biological organisms.

Themes include:
• The impact of socio-economic processes, such as industrialization, urbanization, agricultural policy, technological change and commercialization and the degree of penetration of the world food system on biological welfare and health outcomes.
• The effects of government intervention programs, as well as macroeconomic and public health policy on the human organism at either the individual or the population level.
• Feedback effects from human biological outcomes to economic growth at the national, regional and local levels insofar as healthier individuals invariably lead longer, more creative, and more productive lives, thereby influencing the course of economic development.
• The complex symbiotic relationship between such anthropometric indicators as weight, birth-weight, physical stature and the body-mass-index, as well as morbidity and mortality, on the one hand and socio-economic processes or events on the other.
• Overweight and obesity: Causes and consequences.
• The measurement of poverty, malnutrition and psychological deprivation and the role of health and income inequality in the persistence of poverty traps.
• Health and the impact of resources since antiquity.
• The biological components of the quality of life: how well the human organism itself thrives in its socio-economic and epidemiological environment.

Contributions in auxology, anthropometry, biocultural anthropology, demography, development economics, economic history, epidemiology, health economics, human biology, human nutrition, health sciences, medicine, physical anthropology, public health and sociology are welcomed, as long as the contributions advance the study of the relationship between economics and human biology.
We will have two deadlines, November 15th, 2015 and May 1st, 2016 (one third of the slots will go to early submissions). Papers or abstracts (200 words, noting main data sources and hypotheses) should be send to Joerg.baten @ uni-tuebingen.de . All submissions will be acknowledged. An international committee will decide. Notices of acceptance will be sent to corresponding authors by November 30, 2015 and May 15, 2016, respectively.
Separate applications for travel funding and accommodation are welcome until March 1st 2016. The involvement of young scholars is strongly encouraged.

Seconde journée d’étude Fraude en situation transfrontalière (FRITE)

Histoire Eco
Association Française d’Histoire Économique (AFHE).

Bonjour

Trouvez ci-dessous le programme de la seconde journée consacrée à la fraude en situation transfrontalière

qui est organisée dans le cadre d’un projet émergent soutenu par la MESHS de Lille et par l’Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion

Vous êtes cordialement invités

Béatrice Touchelay

Professeur d’histoire contemporaine

Université de Lille 3 – UMR 8529 IRHiS

http://irhis.recherche.univ-lille3.fr/0EC-Touchelay.html

Fraude et inégalité en situation transfrontalière

Projet émergent

Seconde journée 2 novembre 2015

« Des histoires de fraudes et de frontières. Fraude et espaces transfrontaliers »

MESHS

2 rue des canonniers

59002 Lille

Salle 002 MESHS.

9h30-17h

9h15-9h30 Accueil

Introduction – Les avancées du projet Fraude et inégalités en situation transfrontalière, Béatrice Touchelay, université de Lille3 IRHiS

9h30-10h15 Torstein Feys, Université de Ghent, « L’impact des réseau de transport sur les mouvement transfrontalier illégaux »

10h15-11h00 Marjorie Morel, IRHiS-Lille3, « Contrefaçon ou original ? Le procès Pulsford (1864-1869), Nord-Pas-De-Calais »

11h00-11h45 Audrey Millet, IRHiS-Lille3, « Protéger les dessins en manufacture (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles, France-Angleterre) »

11h45-12h00 Thérèse Bru, IDHES-Paris8, « L’ère du soupçon ; construction de la fraude scientifique et rivalités nationales (1770-1836) »

12h-12h45 Mohamed Kasdi, IRHiS-Lille3, « S’accommoder des douanes : fraudes, localisations et délocalisations des marchands et fabricants de toiles, de part et d’autre de la frontière septentrionale de la France (1700-1830) »

12h45-14h déjeuner

14h-17h Autres lieux et perspectives

14h-14h45 Thierry Grosbois, université du Luxembourg, « La politique du Benelux à l’égard des fraudes et du marché noir aux frontières belgo-néerlandaises, belgo-luxembourgeoises et franco-belges 1945-1960 »

14h45-15h30 Marc Leroy, « Territorialité et déviance fiscale »

15h30-16h15 Malherbe Jacques, « Les frontaliers, la résidence fictive ou contestée voire de l’expatriation fiscale »

16h15-17h Jef Pacolet, “Cross border workers and risk of social dumping”

17h-17h30 Discussion, synthèses, perspectives

(Présentations de 30 mn suivies de15 mn de discussion)

Avec la collaboration de Régis Boulat, université de Haute Alsace (Mulhouse),

La journée est ouverte à tous

Pour tout renseignement : beatrice.touchelay