DHIP Summer University 2018: Cooperation and self-government: Sociopolitical experiments in the 19th and 20th centuries
This year’s Summer University of the DHIP will take place between the 17th and 19th of September. Organized in cooperation with the Universities of Konstanz and Rouen-Normandie and with the support of the French-German University and the Centre Marc Bloch, it takes the 50th anniversary of 1968 as a starting point to question continuities and changes in sociopolitical experiments regarding cooperation and self-government throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. To give you a first taste of this event, you’ll find the programm below. It is possible to attend the summer university (please write event@dhi-paris.fr to register).
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.
Monday, 17th September 2018
14:30 Welcome Address: Thomas Maissen (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)
Introductory Remarks: Anne Kwaschik, Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)
15:00–18:00 Experimental Cultures in a Transnational Perspective
Chair: Sven Reichardt (Universität Konstanz)
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 (Universität Freiburg, Schweiz)
16:00–16:20 Coffee Break
Franz Fillafer (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien):
Global Villages: Communes as Nodes of Inter-Imperial Social Reform in the Nineteenth Century
Katharina Morawietz (Universität Freiburg, Schweiz):
Longo maï – une expérience collective, autogérée, transnationale (créée dans les années après ‘68)
Commentary: Detlef Siegfried (Københavns Universitet)
Discussion
18:30 Public Lecture
Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey (Universität Bielefeld):
Critique de l’autorité: les mouvements de 68 en France et en Allemagne
Commentary: Ludivine Bantigny (université de Rouen Normandie)
Chair: Zoé Kergomard (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)
20:30 Buffet
Tuesday, 18th September 2018
9:30–13:00 Countercultures and Cooperative Practices
Chair: Jürgen Finger (Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris)
Hugo Patinaux (université de Rouen Normandie):
Pensées et pratiques alternatives dans l’autonomie politique
Onur Erdur (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin):
The Bio-Logic of Utopia: The Sociologist Edgar Morin and the Californian Experience
Commentary: Damir Skenderovic (Universität Freiburg, Schweiz)
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
Tobias Bernet (Freie Universität 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 (Universität Konstanz)
Discussion
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–17:20 Experiences of Self-Management
Chair: Anne Kwaschik (Universität Konstanz)
Jens Beckmann (Zentrum für Zeithistorische Forschung Potsdam):
Self-Management and External Expertise: The case of LIP in Besançon, 1973–1987
Jasper Klomp (Univerza v Ljubljani):
»Producer’s Democracy«? The Implementation of Workers’ Self-Management in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Commentary: Ludivine Bantigny
(université de Rouen Normandie)
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 (Københavns Universitet)
Discussion
20:00 Dinner (Participants only)
Wednesday, 19th September
09:30–11:00 Self-Description and Knowledge Production
Chair: Damir Skenderovic (Universität Freiburg, Schweiz)
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 (Universität Konstanz)
Discussion
11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Concluding Roundtable on Cooperation and Self-Government
Ludivine Bantigny, Anne Kwaschik, Sven Reichardt, Detlef Siegfried, Damir Skenderovic
Chair: Zoé Kergomard
12:30 Lunch Break
15:00 Cultural Program: Exhibition »Voices of Contestation«, National Archives, Pierrefitte-sur-Seine.
Abbildung: Plan d’un Phalanstère ou Palais habité par une phalange industrielle. Gravure publiée dans Le Nouveau Monde industriel et sociétaire…, deuxième édition, Paris, À la Librairie sociétaire, 1845. Familistère de Guise, bibliothèque, https://www.familistere.com/fr/decouvrir/une-architecture-au-service-du-peuple/phalanstere-familistere-et-cites-ouvrieres.