Colloque international « 1945-2025. War and Post-War(s) », Paris, 16-18 juin 2025
Pourriez-vous publier cette annonce de colloque qui aura lieu à Paris en juin prochain ?
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Sincèrement, — Fabien Théofilakis
1945–2025 – War and Post-War(s)
Contemporary Perspectives On the Post WWII World.
International Conference Series: Berlin – Paris – New York
[focus: colonial and extra-European worlds]
Contact: conferenceseries4525@gmail.com
*16 June 2025 – 1st day*
*09:00-15:30 – **Campus Condorcet, Auditorium 150*
09:00-09:30 Registration / Welcome Coffee
09:30-10:00 Institutional and Scientific Openings
*Institution Greetings*
· Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
· Philippe Etienne, ambassadeur de France, président de la Mission Libération
· Anja Czymmeck, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, head of the representation in France
*Scientific Opening*
• Emmanuel Kattan (Columbia University, New York)
• Fabien Théofilakis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris)
• Claudia Weber (Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder)
*PANEL 1 – LOCAL PERSPECTIVES : PARIS–DAKAR–HANOI 10:00-12 :00*
Moderation : Claudia Weber (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Germany)
Speakers:
• Guillaume Blanc (Université Rennes 2, France), “When Liberation comes, fight goes on. Seeing 1945 with an Afro-Asian perspective”
• Danelle van Zyl-Hermann (University of Basel, Switzerland), “African Resources in the Reconstruction of Europe after the Second World War”
• Karoline Postel-Vinay (Sciences Po), “Post-1945 East Asia : a longue durée perspective”
Commentary: Elgas (Radio France Internationale)
Lunch (Mezzanine) 12:30-13:30
*PANEL 2 – VICTORS AND VANQUISHED IN THE HOMELAND AND EMPIRES *
*13:30-15:30*
Moderation: Emmanuel Kattan (Columbia University, USA)
Speakers:
• Danielle Beaujon (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA), “Demobilizing Violence: Conflicts between Tirailleurs sénégalais and North Africans, 1945”
• Clara M. Oberle (University of San Diego), “From War to Postwar: The Housing Crisis in Berlin, 1945-1948 and Allied Politics of Order. Between Restorative Justice, Denazification, and a Global Refugee Crisis”
• Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore), “Postimperial Japan in the Making: Perspectives of Resident Koreans in Postwar Japan”
Commentary : Elara Bertho (CNRS / Les Afriques dans le monde, France)
Public transport to UNESCO 15:30-16:30
UNESCO, Room 4 16:30-20:30
*PANEL 3 – ASSESSING CONTEMPORARY POWER DYNAMICS 16:30-18:30*
*IN THE RETURN AND RESTITUTIONS OF CULTURAL PROPERTY: ASPIRATIONS AND CHALLENGES*
Introductory remarks: Sunna Altnoder (Head of Movable Heritage and Museums Unit at UNESCO )
Speakers:
• Anne Rothfeld (Independent Scholar, USA), “Eve Tucker versus Restitution Policy in U.S.-Occupied Austria”
• Angelo Dan (Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Delegate of Bénin to UNESCO), “Lessons learned from the Franco-Beninese cultural property restitution process”
• Aurore Chaigneau (Paris Nanterre University), “The new phase in restitution policies following the spoliations of the Second World War in France”
Commentary: Annette Becker (Paris Nanterre University)
Coffee Break 18:30-19:00
Greatings 19:00-19:30
Greetings from Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO.
Greetings from Nathanael Liminiski, Minister for Federal and European Affairs, International Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia and from Benjamin Haddad (tdc), Minister Delegate at the Ministry for European and International Affairs, Delegate for Europe.
Public Lecture 19:30-20:30
• Eric Jennings (University of Toronto, Canada), “European Overseas Empires in the Second World War: Schisms, Contributions and Legacies”
*17 June 2025 – 2d day*
*Campus Condorcet, Auditorium 150 09:00-17:30*
Registration and Coffee 09:00-09:30
*PANEL 4 – DEMOBILIZATIONS, RETURNING FROM WAR, BACK TO NORMALITY? *
*09:30-11:30*
Moderation: Janine Fubel (Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany)
Speakers:
• Magdalena Janke (Max-Planck-Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany), “Resistance fighters or common criminals? Conscientious Objectors and Soldiers in Penal Military Units in West-German Jurisprudence after 1945”
• Atina Grossmann (The Cooper Union, USA), “Constructing (Ab)Normality After Catastrophe: Jewish Survivors in Postwar Occupied Germany”
• Giovanni Cerro (Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena, Italy) & Giulia Dodi (University of Bologna, Italy), “Between Memory and Oblivion: The Failed Italian Decolonization”
Commentary : Audrey Kichelewski (Université de Strasbourg)
Coffee Break 11:30-12:00
*PANEL 5 – REVENGE, JUSTICE, LAW: A QUESTION OF VIOLENCE? 12:00-14:00*
Moderation: Carol Gluck (Columbia University)
Speakers:
• Lori Watt (Washington University in St. Louis), “From Empire to Internationalism: Repatriation, Sovereignty, and the Postwar Japanese State”
• Julia Roos (Indiana University, USA), “Denazification and Europe’s Colonial Pasts: Investigating Crimes Against Biracial Germans”
• Mary Fulbrook (University College London, UK), “The Long Aftermath and Controversial Memorialisation of the Holocaust in European Perspective”
Commentary : Vanessa Voisin (Università di Bologna)
Lunch break 14:00-15:30
*PANEL 6 – FACING (IN)JUSTICE IN POSTWAR PERIODS: VICTIMS AND PERPETRATORS 15 :30-17 :30*
Moderation : Fabien Archambault (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Speakers:
• Roman Syrota (Ivan Franko National University, Ukraine), “Managing ‘Undefined’ Displaced Populations in Post-War British Policy, 1945–48”
• Nadège Ragaru (Sciences Po Paris, France), “Who set the Bulgarian Jewish Concentration Camp on Fire? The Failings of end-of-war Justice in Bulgaria”
• Robert Kramm (LMU Munich, Germany), “A Shared History of Race and Sex in Occupied Germany and Japan after WWII”
Commentary: Annette Weinke (Jena Universität)
*18 June 2025 – 3d day*
*Amphithâtre Richelieu (Sorbonne) 09:00-13:00*
Registration and Coffee 09:00-09:30
*PANEL 7 – D80 YEARS: PATHWAYS TO A NEW MEMORY CULTURE 09:30-11:30*
Moderation : Fabien Théofilakis (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France)
Speakers:
• Denis Shedov, Memorial (Russia)
• Maciej Gugała, German Historical Museum, Berlin (Germany)
• N’Goné Fall, curator and expert in cultural project development (Senegal)
• Christine Lévy, Women’s Active Museum on War and Peace (Japan)
• Aurélien Gnat, internment and deportation memorial of Royallieu, Compiègne (France)
Coffee Break 11:30-12:00
*FROM PARIS TO NEW YORK: CONCLUSIVE REMARKS 12 :00-13 :00*
• Emmanuel Kattan (Columbia University)
• Fabien Théofilakis (Universität Panthéon-
• Sorbonne)
• Claudia Weber (Europa Universität Viadrina)
Contact: conferenceseries4525@gmail.com
Program: histoire-sociale.cnrs.fr/1945-2025-war-and-post-wars-contemporary-perspectives-on-the-post-wwii-world/
*Addresses*:
*1) **16 June 2025*
– 09:00 – 15:30
Campus Condorcet, Auditorium 105
Place du Front populaire, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex
– 16:30 – 22:00
Unesco
7 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris
*2) **17 June 2025*
Campus Condorcet, Auditorium 105
Place du Front populaire, 93322 Aubervilliers cedex
*3) **18 June 2025*
Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Richelieu
17 rue de la Sorbonne 75005 Paris