Programme

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THURSDAY, 24 NOVEMBER

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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

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FRIDAY, 25 NOVEMBER

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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

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SATURDAY, 26 NOVEMBER

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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)