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International Conference : « Power and Knowledge from the 18th century to today »
24 novembre 2022, à l’Université de Lorraine, NancyProgramme
THURSDAY, 24 NOVEMBER
12:45 Registration
13:15 Introduction – Stéphane Guy (room G04)
13:45 Parallel Sessions :
Intellectuals and academics in the public space (I)
room A104 – Chair : Colin Tyler
- Kjetil Ansgar Jakobsen (Nord Universitet, Norway)
Changing the World with ‘Centres of Happiness’ : Gabriel Tarde, Henri Bergson and Albert Kahn - Ewa Bińczyk (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)
The Critical Role of Academia in the Anthropocene - Farouk Lamine (Université d’Angers, France)
On the danger of ideology : Orwell’s criticism of the English left-wing intellectuals.
The Challenge of Complexity in the democratic age
room G04 – Chair : Peterson Nnajiofor
- Ceyhun Gürkan (Ankara University, Turkey)
Economics and Power in a New Light with Foucault and Beyond (online) - Edmund Neill (New College of the Humanities at Northeastern University, London, UK)
Power and Knowledge in British Conservatism since the 1980s (online) - Marlyse Pouchol (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, et Laboratoire Clersé, Université de Lille, France)
Arendt et Hayek, deux sortes d’opposition au mythe de la caverne
15:15 Coffee Break
15:35 Keynote (room G04)
Chair : Françoise Orazi
Claude Gautier (ENS de Lyon, France)
Retour sur une controverse à propos de la neutralité axiologique des sciences humaines et défense du pluralisme
16:50 Parallel Sessions
Intellectuals and academics in the public space (II)
room A104 – Chair : Pauline Collombier
- Camille Martinerie (Aix-Marseille Université, France)
Power, Knowledge and the White Left in South Africa : Re-Examining the Role of Radical Academics in the Liberation Struggle through a Case Study in Historical Studies (1960-1990) - Kathy Luckett (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Contestations over Power/Knowledge in a (Post-) Colonial Society : the Clash between Education Development and the Rhodes Must Fall Movement at the University of Cape Town (2015-2016) - Nadine André (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
La figure de l’expert dans la politique afghane des autorités britanniques dans les années 1830-1850 (online)
Ideologies of progress and the battlefield of history
room G04 – Chair : Arnaud Page
- Iason Zarikos (National University of Athens, Greece)
Immobilized Knowledge : on History and Power as Time Runs Out - Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (Université Lumière Lyon 2, France) and Guillaume Valet (Université Grenoble-Alpes, France)
How to Promote the Common Good through a New “Business Ethics” : The Contribution of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (online) - Aude Attuel (Centre d’Histoire du XIXe siècle | Sorbonne Université/Panthéon
Sorbonne & CRICES | Institut Catholique d’Etudes Supérieures (ICES))
Lord Acton et le dogme de l’Infaillibilité Pontificale : La fin de l’histoire ?
Thursday evening dinner for all participants (included in registration fee) at Grand Café Foy at 1 Place Stanislas, starting at 19:30
FRIDAY, 25 NOVEMBER
9:00 Plenary Session – room G04
Citizenship, knowledge and liberalism
Chair : Stéphane Guy
- Stamatoula Panagakou (University of Cyprus)
Knowledge and the Good Life : R. B. Haldane on Ethical Citizenship, the Common Good and the Rôle of Education - Colin Tyler (University of Hull, UK)
Knowledge and Power in a Civic Democracy : British Idealist and New Liberal Critiques of J.S. Mill and Herbert Spencer - Alessandro Dividus (University of Pisa, Italy)
The League of Learning Project : H. Jones’ Reflections on the Relationship between Knowledge, Power and State - Janusz Grygieńć (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland) :
Experts, Laypeople and the Survival of Liberal Democracy
10:50 Coffee Break
11:10 Plenary Session – room G04
Struggles for knowledge and freedom
Chair : Rafal Soborski
- Samuel Harrison (University of Cambridge, UK)
Citizenship as a ‘Technology of Government’ in Revolutionary France - Françoise Orazi (Université Lumière Lyon- 2, France)
The Theoretical Knowledge behind Identity Politics : a Criticism of Power - Cyril Hédoin (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France)
Liberal Perfectionism and Epistocracy
12:30 Lunch Break in room A015 (ground floor, A block | included in registration fee)
13:45 Keynote (room G04)
Chair : Stéphane Guy
Duncan Kelly (Cambridge University, UK)
Wartime for the Planet ?
15:00 Parallel Sessions
The politics of education I – room A104
Chair : John-Erik Hansson
- Richard Somerset (Université de Lorraine, France)
The Second Reform Act and Curricular Innovation : the ‘Content of Culture’ Debate - Pauline Collombier (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Linking Irish Home Rule, Education and Democracy : John Francis Maguire (1815-1872) and his Novel The Next Generation (1871) - Anneliese Ng (University of Hong Kong)
The Power of “The Best Knowledge” : Constituting State Citizens in Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy (online)
Populism vs elitism – room G04
Chair : Cyril Hédoin
- Aymen Boughanmi (University of Kairouan, Tunisia)
Democratization as a Threat to Democracy : the Epistemological Challenges - Giuseppe Ballaci (University of Minho, Portugal) and Jan Biba (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Populism and Technocracy : An Uneasy Alliance - Roger Bautier (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, France)
La maîtrise problématique du langage et de la communication au sein de l’espace public
16:20 Coffee Break
16:40 Parallel Sessions
Economic epistemology and institutionalizing economic knowledge
room A 104
Chair : Jean-Daniel Boyer
- Francesco Sergi (Université Paris Est Créteil, France) and Aurélien Goutsmedt (UCLouvain, Belgique)
The Different Paths of Scientization at the Bank of England - Myriam Boussahba-Bravard (Université Le Havre Normandie, France)
Emerging Gendered Knowledge Desperately Seeking Acknowledgement
Party politics and the uses of knowledge
room G04
Chair : Peterson Nnajiofor
- Bianca Polo del Vecchio (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Following the Leaders ? Parties’ Influence over their Supporters at the Brexit Referendum - Dimitris Dimitriou (Université Lumière Lyon-2, France)
A New Form of Mass Surveillance ? NHS Personal Data Policy and the Prediction of Human Behaviour (online) - Raphaël Ramos (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3)
Renseignement stratégique et pouvoir politique aux Etats-Unis depuis 1947 : de la marginalisation à la politisation
SATURDAY, 26 NOVEMBER
9:30 Keynote (room A233b)
Chair : Colin Tyler
Ben Jackson (Oxford University, UK)
How important was Knowledge Production to the Rise of Neoliberalism ? (online)
10:45 Coffee Break
11:05 Plenary Session – room A233b
The politicisation of science
Chair : Richard Somerset
- Carla Larouco Gomes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
‘Scientifically Grounded’ or how Contesting Ideologies Resorted to Scientific Knowledge for Vindication in Victorian England - Jean-Michel Yvard (Université d’Angers, France)
From Social Darwinism to Eugenics : Political and Ideological Uses of Biological Science in Great-Britain in the Victorian Period - Arnaud Page (Sorbonne Université, France)
Sustaining Power ? Edward Smith and Dietaries in British Workhouses and Prisons (1860s)
12:25 Lunch Break in room A015
(ground floor, A block | included in registration fee)
13.40 Parallel Session
The politicisation of education II
A235a – Chair : Vanessa Boullet
- John-Erik Hansson (Université Paris Cité, France)
Radicalising Children’s Education in the Romantic Period : William Godwin’s Pedagogical Theory and Practice - Pushpa Kumbhat (Newman University, Birmingham, UK)
Whose knowledge ? Whose power ? Whose democracy ?
Adult Education and the Changing Political Balance of Class Power in Britain (1900 – 1923) - Svorad Zavarský (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)
University, Knowledge and Power in the Early Eighteenth-Century Kingdom of Hungary
Fundamental principles of political economy
room A233b – Chair : Ecem Okan
- Roberto Rossi (Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy)
Enlightenment and Capitalism : Technocratic Models and Practices between Spain and the New World in the 18th Century (online) - Aris della Fontana (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy 1 Université de
Lausanne, Switzerland)
The Power of “Useful Truths” : Political Economy and the Reshaping of Political Debate in Enlightenment Venice (1765–1797) - Jean-Daniel Boyer (Université de Strasbourg, France)
Governing interests and transforming France into a commercial power - the strategies of Vincent de Gournay and his circle to reform the economy of the kingdom of France (1751-1758)
15.00 Conclusion – room A233b
15.45 Guided tour – Art Nouveau in Nancy
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Organising committee / Comité organisateur
- Vanessa Boullet (Université de Lorraine)
- Pauline Collombier (Université de Strasbourg)
- Stéphane Guy (Université de Lorraine)
- Linda Mathlouthi (Université de Lorraine)
- Alice Monter (Université de Lorraine)
- Peterson Nnajiofor (Université de Lorraine)
- Ecem Okan (Université de Lorraine)
- Françoise Orazi (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
- Matthew Smith (Université de Lorraine)
- Rafal Soborski (Richmond : The American International University in London, UK)
- Colin Tyler (University of Hull, UK)