CfP German Science in Southern Europe, 1933-45
Call for Papers
‘German
Science’ in Southern Europe,
1933-45
Lisbon, October 11-13, 2012 | Submissions deadline: June
15, 2012
Science in National-Socialist Germany – the term ‘Science’ being
here understood in the broadest sense of ‘Wissenschaft’,
including both ‘Naturwissenschaften’ and ‘Geisteswissenchaften’
– has been the object of
several conferences and studies since the sixties. However, and in spite of the
interdisciplinary openness that some of them may show (mainly those published
after the eighties), most of these studies still tend to operate at national
levels, hence reproducing, to a certain extent, the typical parochiality of the
cultural and political systems they analyze.
The European fascist period is certainly a time of
exclusions, disruptions, and confrontations, but it is also a time of network
building and scientific and cultural exchange: the exhibitions, public
lectures, academic or even touristic exchange that Germany organizes between
1933 and 1945 in the southern European countries (from Portugal to Romania, not
forgetting Spain, Italy or Greece) reflect a hybrid (i.e. political and
scientific) concern to be “recognized
and imitated” (to put it in
the words of the Hamburger romanist and NSDAP member Wilhelm Giese).
The conference will address Science in National-Socialist
Germany from the point of view of its relations, namely with southern Europe,
considering not only the political internationalization of the fascist
regimes, but also the important role that international cultural relations and
scientific networking played in the process.
The conference welcomes paper proposals from a broad
range of disciplines. Questions that could be addressed, especially on case
studies examples, might include, but are not limited to:
•Knowledge & Technology transfer
•Circulation and appropriation of
Knowledge
•Fascism, Science, Culture
•Fascist Scientific Policies
•Science and the Economics of War
•Networks: Actors, Institutions,
Events, Disciplines
•Academics: Exchange and Exile
•Influence, Persuasion, Coercion:
Science, Culture and the ‘Weltanschauungskrieg’
•Crossing Borders: the Role of
Science and Culture in the Internationalization of Fascism
The Conference is hosted by the Faculty of Social and
Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, and organized by the Research project
The Power of Science; German Science in Portugal, 1933-45 (http://pos.fcsh.unl.pt).
A selection of papers presented at the Conference will be
published in a book.
Graduate and Postgraduate students are strongly
encouraged to submit papers on research in-progress or recently completed
studies.
Place:
Lisbon (Portugal)
Venue:
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas / Universidade Nova
de Lisboa
Dates:
Oct 11-13, 2012
Working language of the conference:
English (a limited number of papers presented in
Portuguese, Spanish or German may also be accepted)
Submission of Abstracts:
Please submit a paper abstract (300 words) and a short CV
at http://pos.fcsh.unl.pt/conference
Submissions deadline:
June 15, 2012
Notification of Acceptance:
June 30, 2012
Further Information:
Please address all inquiries to pos.conference@gmail.com