Europeanisations from the Bottom and from the Margins. Actors, Representations, and Experiences (late 19th-early 21st centuries)

The aim of this colloquium, which is the fruit of collaboration between the History Department of the Faculty of Arts and the Sports Sciences Institute (ISSUL) at the University of Lausanne, is to contribute to the current renewal of the history of European integration in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Following on from the important congress about Europeanisation in the social sciences held ten years ago at the German Historical Institute (IHA) and inspired by it, we want to contribute to a dialogue on the European scale through different lenses, and benefit from recent contributions to historiography, whether in terms of gender, postcolonial or environmental approaches.

On the basis of recent empirical research, the contributors will seek to clarify the very concept of Europeanisation.

The aim is to examine two major historiographical issues: the origins, motivations and temporalities of Europeanisation beyond the history of the political and institutional development of the European Union and its territorial borders, as well as local receptions, alternative visions, opposing currents, such as anti-Europeanism, and phenomena of de-Europeanisation.

Therefore the congress will include specialists of European history who focus on a variety of fields: history, media sociology, sport, the environment, technology, art, education, etc.

Last but not least, through this conference, we want to encourage studies on European integration in the field of social sciences in Switzerland.

In order to broaden the audience, we will hold two public lectures, organised with the collaboration of scientific and private partners, and we have scheduled a presentation and guided tours of the Archives of the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe on the campus of the University of Lausanne. An open access collective book will be published after the conference.

A collection such as Euroclio (P.I.E. Peter Lang), specialising in the study of European integration, will be preferred.