Closing the Door on
Globalization: Cultural Nationalism and Scientific Internationalism in the 19th
and 20th centuries
Lisbon, 15-18 July 2015 | Submissions
deadline: 19 December 2014
Eijkman's report on scientific Internationalism -
L'internationalisme scientifique, La Haye 1911 - could well be considered the
swan song of a globalization process that had been molding the world since the
mid 19th-century. Three years later the Great War would put a strong brake on
that process with a most significant and highly symbolical first act of war:
Britain's cutting off the transatlantic cables that linked Germany to the
western world. Communication, that is also, information and knowledge transfer
was thus at the very centre of that particular conflict (and, of course, of
conflicts to come).
The disruptions brought about by wars to the flow of
communication, information and knowledge during the first half of the
20th-century were the obvious and visible results of the tensions between two
contradictory movements that had been developing side by side since the mid
19th-century: on one hand, the scientific and technological Internationalism
that provided the conditions for the "integration of the world through large
flows of goods, capital, and people" (H. James, The creation and destruction of
value: the globalization cycle, Cambridge 2009); on the other hand, the Cultural
Nationalism that was increasingly pervading the national public opinion of most
European countries to the point of academic institutionalization (e.g. the epic
foundation of some of the modern national philologies by the mid
19th-century).
Focussing mainly on the second half of the 19th-century and on
the first half of the 20th-century, the panel seeks papers dealing with:
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the internationalization of science (building of international knowledge
transfer networks);
- the nationalization of culture (development and
institutionalization of cultural national movements);
- the tensions and
dialectical interactions between these networks and the evolution of each of
them.
The panel is part of the II CHAM International Conference on Knowledge
Transfer and Cultural Exchanges, that will be held at the FCSH/Universidade NOVA
de Lisboa, 15-18 July 2015.
Fernando Clara
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade
Nova de Lisboa
Av. de Berna, 26-C
P 1069-061 Lisboa
PORTUGAL
Telf.:
+351 217 908 300
Fax: +351 217 908 308
email:
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Cláudia Ninhos
Instituto de História Contemporânea
Faculdade de
Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Av. Berna, 26
C
1069-061 LISBOA
Telf.: +351 217 908 300 - 1545
Fax: +351 217 908
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email:
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