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Mercredi 18 et jeudi 19 septembre 2024
Campus de Paris
Sciences Po
27 rue Saint-Guillaume, Paris 7e
This international workshop is the second part of a project initiated in September 2023 at the Center for History and Economics at the University of Cambridge on new perspectives and current challenges in social history. This first event helped to bring to the fore an issue that is now central to much social history work : the study of ’belonging.’ Rogers Brubaker’s and Frederick Cooper’s proposal (’Beyond Identity’, 2000) to disentangle the notion of ’identity,’ by distinguishing the logic of identification and forms of belonging, or categories of analysis and categories of practice, is still relevant today. But it has to be said that identification practices - particularly those of states - have been more widely studied than forms of belonging. Returning to this notion seems to us to be all the more relevant from a scientific point of view, given that political debates remain saturated with questions of identity.
Promoting dialogue between national historiographies, this meeting aims to bring together contributions that propose to reflect on the tools, approaches, and methods used by historians to study the question of belonging in local, national, colonial, or imperial contexts, as diverse as Peru under Spanish domination, Franco’s Spain, French prisons in the 20th century, the persecution of Jews in Poland, apprentices in the 19th century, or informal towns in Brazil. What did it mean to ’belong’ to a place, a neighborhood, a people, a family, a religion, or a ’race ?’ How did individuals prove, display, demonstrate, experience, and sometimes conceal or dissimulate their ’belongings’ or ’memberships ?’ How should we observe, measure, interpret, and address these aspects as historians ? What theoretical frameworks can historians usefully apply to these issues ? What are the contributions and limits of the various methodologies used by social historians (quantitative methods, biographical studies, family history, oral history, etc.) ? And what contributions can social historians bring to these debates on identities ?
This event is supported by the Joint Centre for History and Economics at Paris, Harvard and Cambridge, and the ERC Lubartworld (IHMC-CNRS/EHESS) and organized by Elsa Génard (Harvard University), Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge), and Claire Zalc (CNRS-EHESS).
9:30am | Welcome/Coffee
David Todd (Sciences Po Paris)
Elsa Génard (USPN), Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge), Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHSS)
Discussant : Paul-André Rosental (Sciences Po Paris)
The Attribution of Citizenship Rights in Early Modern Europe : Beyond Principles of Membership
Simona Cerutti (EHESS)
Subjects of a Distant Monarch : Colour, Extraction and Quality in Hispanic America in the Early Modern Period
Jean-Paul Zuñiga (EHESS)
Temporalities, Revolution and Social Logics of Belonging : The example of the Paris Commune
Quentin Deluermoz (Université Paris Cité)
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Lunch
Discussant : Charlotte Vorms (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Connecting Time and Space : The Palestinian Refugee Camps
Anne Irfan (UCL)
Corner Stories : Place and Time in South Central Los Angeles
Daniel Widener (UCSD)
Vernacular Urbanity and the Genesis of Informality in Post-Abolition Brazil : Recife, 1890-1940
Brodwyn Fischer (University of Chicago)
9:30 am : Welcome/Coffee
Discussant : Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po Paris)
Hiding One’s Faith, Escaping Identification : A Longitudinal and Relational Approach to Silences in Historical Material
Claire Zalc (CNRS/EHESS) & Anton Perdoncin (CNRS)
Prisoners’ Letters to the Warden. Prison Community, Sense of Belonging, and Writing Practices (France, 20th-21st centuries)
Elsa Génard (USPN) & Corentin Durand (CNRS)
Stateless People and the Politics of Belonging in Twentieth-Century France
Renaud Morieux (University of Cambridge)
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm | Lunch
Discussant : Lola Zappi (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Apprentice, Pupil, Lad, Maid, etc. : Learning a Trade, Learning One’s Place in Social Structure in Nineteenth-Century France
Claire Lemercier (CNRS)
"I remained a stranger, as if I were someone else" : Working as a Boy in Colonial Households (French West Africa, 19th and 20th Centuries)
Stéphanie Soubrier (Université de Genève)
Belonging to a Mother, to the 1960s, and to an Olive Community in Andalusia
Roseanna Webster (University of Cambridge)
3:00 pm | Coffee Break
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