[ecrea] CFP: Closing the Door on Globalization: Cultural Nationalism and Scientific Internationalism in the 19th and 20th centuries

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:
- 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.

Conference language is English. The Conference Website 
(http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/) has several information 
regarding Travel, Accomodation, Registration Fees etc.

Details regarding this panel are (and will be) available at the 
conference website 
(http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3287)

Please note that paper proposals should be submitted online at: 
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cham/cham2015/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=3287


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: (f.clara /at/ fcsh.unl.pt)

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: +351 217 908 308
email: (claudia.sn /at/ sapo.pt)

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