Colloque Protest Movements and Social Mobilisations EU-History
j’organise les 9 et 10 avril prochains à Sciences Po Rennesun colloque international sur les « Mouvements de contestation et les mobilisationssociales dans l’histoire de l’intégration européenne ». Ce colloque apour objectif de relier deux champs de l’histoire européenne (histoire des mobilisationset histoire de l’UE) et de contribuer ainsi à l’essor d’une histoire sociale del’intégration européenne. Ce colloque rassemblera 18 contributeurs de 8 payseuropéens.
Vous trouverez le programme ci-dessous. Les discussionsauront en anglais.
Ce colloque est organisé par la chaire Jean Monnet EU-CONVde Sciences Po Rennes en partenariat avec le laboratoire ICEE de l’UniversitéSorbonne Nouvelle, l’Institut historique allemand, la Région Bretagne et RennesMétropole.
www.sciencespo-rennes.fr/agenda/protest-movements-and-social-mobilisations-european-integration-history
Bien à vous,
Mathieu Dubois
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Professeur d’histoire contemporaine / Full Professor of Contemporary History
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / Institut d’études européennes (IEE)
Co-Directeur du Laboratoire ICEE (Intégration et Coopération dans l’Espace Européen)Responsable du M1 Etudes européenneshttp://www.univ-paris3.fr/icee
Protest Movements and SocialMobilisations
in European IntegrationHistory
SciencesPo Rennes, 9-10 April 2026
104Boulevard de la Duchesse Anne 35000 Rennes (France)
Thursday, 9April
8.30-9.00 Welcomeof the participants
9.00-9.30 Openingsession and Introduction (PabloDiaz, Alan Hervé,Mathieu Dubois)
9:30-11:00 Panel1 (Chair: Alan Hervé) WorkersProtests in Coal and Steel
Nicolas Verschueren (Brussels): Disaster, Decline, Demonstration: Tracingthe Europeanization of Coal Miners’ Collective Action
Stefan Berger and Till Traute(Bochum): Saving European Steel? Protests against EC Plans forthe European Steel Industry from the 1970s to the 1990s
JörgArnold (Augsburg): LeftEuroscepticism. The British trade union movement and their critique of theEuropean project (1960-1998)
11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.30 Panel2 (Chair: Jürgen Finger) Confrontingthe Single Market
Nadia Hilal (Strasbourg): European Mobilisations in LandTransport from 1990 to 2005: Building a Repertoire of Collective Action atEU-level
MattMyers (Oxford): British andFrench Water Workers and European Policy Directives from the 1970s to the 1990s
12.30-14.00 Lunch break
14.00-15.30 Panel3 (Chair: Lorenzo Mechi) Agriculture and Fishing policies
Carine Germond (Trondheim): No Big Tractors, No Big Arms? Farmand Rural Women’s Contestation in the EC
Sergio Molina García (Madrid): When the SeaMobilizes: Social Movements in the Fishing Sector during the First TwoEnlargements of the EEC, 1970-1986
LucaAlteri and Alessandro Barile (Rome): Before the pro-EUEuphoria: Territories Against the European Single Market. The case of »Cobas latte » in 1990’s Italy
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-17.00 Panel 4 (Chair: Gerd-Rainer Horn) EuropeanMobilisations for Jobs
Stephen Gaffney (Brussels): Jobs for all? Trans-European Politicisation of Unemploymentand the 1997 Euromarch to Amsterdam
Jean-PhilippeTonneau (Nanterre): RenaultVilvoorde: A Turning Point in the Mobilisation Strategies of European Trade Unions?
19.00 Dinner(Brasserie de la Paix)
Friday, 10 April
09.00-10.30 Panel5 (Chair: Sarah Tanke) New Social Movements and ECPolicies
Micheal J. Geary (Trondheim): From the streetsto Brussels – The Anti-Apartheid Movement and the European Communities in the1970s and 1980s
Frieda Ottmann (Munich): Testing the Waters, Resisting theChannels: Performing Europe through Transnational Environmental Protest
Eloisa Betti (Padua): Women’sMovements and the History of the European Parliament: Political Mobilizationsand Debate to improve women’s condition in Europe and beyond (1970s-1980s)
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-12.00 Panel6 (Chair: Carine Germond) ExternalConstraint and Mobilisations
Mathieu Dubois (Paris): The Completion of theCommon Market and the Social Protests of the long 1960s
FrancescoPetrini (Padua): « Gettingrid of an unbearable burden ». Italy’s economic establishment and Europeanmonetary integration in the early 1970s
12.00-13.30 Lunch break
13.30-15.00 Panel7 (Chair: Laurent Warlouzet) Accession process and Mobilisations
Matthieu Trouvé (Bordeaux): FromEuro-Enthusiasm to Euroscepticism? Anti-European Criticism and Protest in Spain(1980s-1990s)
Guya Accornero (Lisbon): Social movements andEuropeanization in Portugal between revolution and austerity
Michele Mioni (Venice) : Mobilizingfor the « European Social Model »: Enlargement and Cross-BorderIntegration through Interregional Trade-Union Councils between Italy andYugoslavia, 1991-2000s
15.00-15.30 Coffee break
15.30-16.30 Conclusion / Discussion (Chair:Mathieu Dubois)
Gerd-RainerHorn (Paris), Lorenzo Mechi (Padua), Laurent Warlouzet (Paris)