Cooperation and Self-Government. Sociopolitical Experiments in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Cooperation and Self-Government. Sociopolitical Experiments in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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German Historical Institute Paris; University of Constance; in cooperation with the University of Rouen Normandy, Centre Marc Bloch (Berlin) and the Franco-German University; Ludivine Bantigny (GRHis/University of Rouen Normandy), Anne Kwaschik (University of Constance), Sven Reichardt (University of Constance)
Veranstaltungsort
German Historical Institute Paris
Ort
Paris
Land
France
Vom - Bis
17.09.2018 - 19.09.2018
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Kwaschik, Anne

In the wake of the 1968 movement, many people tested alternative models of habitation, labour and living. In self-descriptions and research, these models have been characterised as movements away from the ‘coldness’ of capitalism towards the intimacy of a self-established and self-governed social collective (Reichardt, 2014). Regardless of clear differences in self-conception and historical contextualisation, similar views are also relevant for the early socialist production cooperatives and settlement projects that were realised after 1820 by the supporters of and dissenters from Robert Owen and Charles Fourier. (Kwaschik, 2017) These movements however created new spaces that not merely sought to isolate themselves from the external world, but also developed methods and techniques for creating patterns of self-modelling and self-management (Boltanski/Chiapello, 1999).

The summer school interrogates ‘the real of utopia’ and explores as closely as possible the various modalities of this ‘life changing’ (Bantigny, 2018; Riot-Sarcey, 1999). The goal is to discuss the connections between diagnoses of the present, social experiments and social sciences in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, taking the 1968 movement as a starting point.

Programm

Monday, 17 September

14.30 – 15.00
- Welcome address
Thomas Maissen (Institut historique allemand Paris)
- Introductory remarks
Anne Kwaschik (University of Constance)
Sven Reichardt (University of Constance)

15.00 – 18.00
Experimental Cultures in a Transnational Perspective
Chair: Sven Reichardt (University of Constance)
- Robert Kramm (University of Hong Kong)
Mobility and the Body in Early Twentieth Century Radical Utopian Communities
- Anne Sophie-Reichert (University of Chicago)
Leben im Versuch: Experimental Culture in Germany’s First Garden City Hellerau (1910-1914)
- Commentary: Damir Skenderovic (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

16.00 – 16.20
Coffee Break

- Franz Fillafer (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Global Villages: Communes as Nodes of Inter-Imperial Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century
- Katharina Morawietz (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Longo maï – une expérience collective, autogérée, transnationale (créée dans les années après ’68)
- Commentary: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)
- Discussion

18.30 – 20.00
Public Lecture
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (Bielefeld University)
Critique de l’autorité: les mouvements de 68 en France et en Allemagne
Commentary: Ludivine Bantigny (University of Rouen Normandy)
Chair: Zoé Kergomard (Institut historique allemand Paris)

Tuesday, 18 September

09.30 – 13.00
Countercultures and Cooperative Practices
Chair: Jürgen Finger (Institut historique allemand Paris)
- Hugo Patinaux (University of Rouen Normandy)
Pensées et pratiques alternatives dans l‘autonomie politique
- Onur Erdur (Humboldt University of Berlin)
The Bio-Logic of Utopia: The Sociologist Edgar Morin and the Californian Experience
- Commentary: Damir Skenderovic (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)

10.30 – 11.00
Coffee Break

- Tobias Bernet (Free University Berlin)
Neoliberal Subjects or Post-Capitalist Collectives? Cooperative Housing and the Legacy of New Social Movements in Germany
- Jake Smith (Colorado College)
Strangers in a Dead Land: Redemption and Renewal in the European Counterculture, 1949-2001
- Commentary: Sven Reichardt (University of Constance)
- Discussion

14.00 – 17.15
Experiences of Self-Management
Chair: Anne Kwaschik (University of Constance)
- Jens Beckmann (Centre for Contemporary History, Potsdam)
Self-Management and External Expertise: The Case of LIP in Besançon, 1973–1987
- Jasper Klomp (University of Ljubljana)
‘Producers’ Democracy’? The Implementation of Workers’ Self-Management in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
- Commentary: Ludivine Bantigny (University of Rouen Normandy)

15.00 – 15.20
Coffee Break

- Nathan Crompton (Simon Fraser University)
Feminist Autogestion in France: Gender and Self-Management, 1971–1979
- Emeline Fourment (Sciences Po, Paris / Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
Making Violence against Women Political: The Feminist Alternative Justice's Debates within the Autonomen Movement
- Commentary: Detlef Siegfried (University of Copenhagen)
- Discussion

Wednesday, 19 September

9.30 – 11.00
Self-Description and Knowledge Production
Chair: Damir Skenderovic (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
- Martin Herrnstadt (Tel Aviv University)
Deviant Knowledge and the Struggle for Self-Description: Socio-Political Laboratories in France 1830-1848
- Silja Behre (Tel Aviv University)
The Anti-Scientific Science: The Emergence of Oral History as a Strategy within the Academic Field after 1968
- Commentary: Anne Kwaschik (University of Constance)
- Discussion

11.00 – 11.30
Coffee Break

11.30 – 12.30
Concluding Roundtable Discussion on Cooperation and Self-government
Chair: Zoé Kergomard (Institut historique allemand Paris)
Ludivine Bantigny, Anne Kwaschik, Sven Reichardt, Damir Skenderovic, Detlef Siegfried

Kontakt

Hannah Voß

Universität Konstanz
Fachbereich Geschichte & Soziologie
Universitätsstraße 10, Fach 11
78464 Konstanz
+497531885228

E-Mail: hiwis.kwaschik@uni-konstanz.de (English, French, German)