Wednesday, 13 September 2017
Venue: VOC Zaal, Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
17.00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Peter Romijn (Amsterdam)
Philip Nord (Princeton): France’s Age of Technocracy, 1930-1970
18.30 Conference Reception
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Venue: Doelenzaal, University Library, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam
9.00 Registration and Coffee
9.30 Welcome by Jonathan Zeitlin (ACCESS EUROPE, Scientific Director)
9.40 Camilo Erlichman (Amsterdam) and Peter Romijn (Amsterdam): Introduction: Western Europe’s Age of Technocracy
10.00 Panel 1: Demos and Technos
Chair: Michael Wintle (Amsterdam)
Daniel Knegt (Amsterdam): The Lure of “Realism”: French Intellectuals between Technocracy and Fascism, 1930-1950
Stefan Couperus (Groningen): A ‘Functional Demos’ or an ‘Expert Technos’? Debating State-Society Relations and State Governance in Interwar Europe
Antonio Costa Pinto (Lisbon): Technocracy, Corporatism, and the Development of “Economic Parliaments” in Interwar Europe
11.30 Coffee
12.00 Panel 2: Technocracy and Political Orders
Chair: Camilo Erlichman (Amsterdam)
Martin Conway (Oxford): Allies or Enemies? Technocracy and Conceptions of a Democratic Order in Europe after 1945
Ido de Haan (Utrecht): Democracy, Keynesianism and Early Neo-Liberalism in Postwar Europe
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Panel 3: Global Expertise
Chair: Peter Romijn (Amsterdam)
Sandra Khor Manickam (Rotterdam): Technocracy in a Time of War: Governing Malaya and Singapore during the Japanese Period
Robin de Bruin (Amsterdam): Dutch High Official Hans Max Hirschfeld (1899-1961) and the Convenient Marriage between Colonialism and Saint-Simonian Technocracy
Marijke van Faassen (Amsterdam): Modelling Society by Migration Management: Exploring the Role of (Dutch) Experts in 20th Century International Migration Policy
15.30 Coffee
16.00 Panel 4: The Ascent of Experts?
Chair: Artemy Kalinovsky (Amsterdam)
Joachim Lund (Copenhagen): Business in Government: Elites, Technocracy and Political Change in Denmark, 1900-1945
Raphael Van Lerberge (Brussels): The Techno-Political Transformation of Social Security in Belgium, 1937-1970
Hervé Joly (Lyon): The Finances and Mines Inspectors: Two Concurrent Groups of Technocrats in the French Power Elite, 1930-1970s
17.30 End of Day 1
Friday, 15 September 2017
Venue: Doelenzaal, University Library, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam
9.00 Coffee
9.30 Panel 5: The Techno-Politics of Space
Chair: Luiza Bialasiewicz (Amsterdam)
Jens van de Maele (Ghent/Antwerp/Brussels): Technocratic Models of Governance in 1930s Belgium: A Case Study on Ministerial Office Architecture
Martin Kohlrausch (Leuven): Modernist Architects as a New Technocratic Elite: Central Europe between the Wars
10.30 Coffee
11.00 Panel 6: Technocracy and European Integration
Chair: Liz Buettner (Amsterdam)
Liesbeth van de Grift (Utrecht): Governing a Green Europe: The Role of Agricultural Interest Groups in Agricultural Policy-Making in Postwar Europe
Koen van Zon (Nijmegen): Brokering Expertise: The European Communities between Dirigisme and Decentralization, 1952-1967
Patricia Clavin (Oxford): Technocracy and the Boundaries of Europe in the World, 1920-1973
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Final Roundtable
14.30 End of Conference