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Call for papers

Colloquium "Archives or libraries seizures and restitution during the 20^th Century"

October 22^nd and 23^rd 2010

 

Seized first by the Nazis, and then by the Soviets, numerous French archives have been restituted by the post-Soviet Russia at the end of the XX^th Century. This was the starting point for researches about the peculiar trip through Europe of these documents confiscated in public institutions, associations, trade-unions, or belonging to private persons - often Jewish. Patricia Grimsted and Sophie Coeur?’s studies on the archives’ seizures or Martine Poulain’s works on libraries’ seizures had opened a new way, whereas Claude Lorentz had put into light the restitution process of the archives recovered from Germany. The goal of the upcoming conference is to assess the current situation of these researches and to open new perspectives. Through a comparative point of view between different national situations, this colloquium will take place in Strasbourg on October the 22^nd and the 23^rd 2010. The papers will be grouped in four thematic panels:

Introduction and definitions : International Laws' evolution about archives and libraries seizures
1. Archives and libraries seizures in France during the Second World War

- Comparison between archives and libraries seizures

- the project : origins, replay of past practices (First World War, beginning of the Second World War).

- processes : organisation, transportation, storage

- actors : specific bodies, characters

2. Comparison of the seizures in space and time

- Nazi Germany confiscations in Austria and in Eastern Europe (Ukraine, Poland, Baltic States)

- Japanese confiscations in Asia and pacific islands

- Soviet confiscations in Germany and Eastern Europe

- When democracies seize : End of the Second World War (in Italy, Germany, Austria), colonization

Round table : The decade of seizures (1938-1948)

3. From the despolied’s point of view

a. Institutions

- collaboration

- the day-to-day actions

- to preserve and to hide

b. Private persons

- the specific Jewish case (trying to compare French and Eastern Europe’s situations)

- the despoliations on political and religious grounds

c. a regional identity of the despoliations : Alsace-Lorraine’s case

4. The impeded restitution

- silence, memories and claims

- losses and inquiry trails

- restitution logics

Round table on European archivists and librarians’ practices at the time of the restitution of the documents.

Organizational information

We invite paper proposals, based on original archival research, from specialists in different disciplines and across disciplines—history, literary studies, cultural anthropology and sociology, history of science and religion, film and media studies, art history—working on the topic of wartime confiscations and restitutions. Abstracts in French or English (maximum length: 500 words) of the paper you intend to give should be sent to Vincent Laniol ( Данный адрес e-mail защищен от спам-ботов, Вам необходимо включить Javascript для его просмотра. ) or Alexandre Sumpf ( Данный адрес e-mail защищен от спам-ботов, Вам необходимо включить Javascript для его просмотра. ). Your abstract should include your email address and institutional affiliation, the title of your intended paper, and the abstract text. Deadline for submission of abstracts: May 1^st 2010.

Notification of applicants: no later than June 2010.

The sponsoring institutions will cover the costs for travel and accommodation of all participants.

Organization committee: Vincent Laniol (IEP de Strasbourg) et Alexandre Sumpf (Universit? de Strasbourg).

Scientific Comimitee : Sylvain Schirmann (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP), Denis Rolland (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP), Robert Frank (Universit? Paris I), Sophie Coeur? (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure), Patricia Grimsted (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), Catherine Maurer (Universit? de Strasbourg), Alexandre Sumpf (Universit? de Strasbourg), Martine Poulain (Institut national d'Histoire de l'art), Claude Lorentz (MISHA, Universit? de Strasbourg), Olivier Arifon (Universit? de Strasbourg), Vincent Laniol (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP).

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"Saisies, spoliations d’archives et de biblioth?ques et logiques de restitution au XXe si?cle "

22-23 octobre 2010

A la suite du retour de Russie, ? la fin du XXe si?cle, d'archives fran?aises qui avaient ?t? saisies une premi?re fois par les nazis, puis par les Sovi?tiques, les historiens ont commenc? ? ?tudier plus en profondeur l’?trange p?riple ? travers l’Europe de ces documents et biblioth?ques d’administrations publiques, d’associations, de syndicats, de partis politiques et de particuliers souvent juifs. Les travaux de Patricia Grimsted et de Sophie Coeur? sur les saisies d’archives ou de Martine Poulain sur celles des biblioth?ques avaient ouvert la voie, tandis que Claude Lorentz avait mis en lumi?re les proc?dures de restitutions des archives r?cup?r?es en Allemagne. Il nous a sembl? int?ressant de faire le bilan de ces recherches et d’ouvrir de nouveaux champs d’investigation. Dans une perspective comparatiste articulant diff?rentes situations nationales, le colloque, qui se tiendra les 22 et 23 octobre 2010 ? Strasbourg, s’organisera autour de 4 grands axes :

Comit? scientifique : Sylvain Schirmann (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP), Denis Rolland (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP), Robert Frank (Universit? Paris I), Sophie Coeur? (Ecole Normale Sup?rieure), Patricia Grimsted (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute), Catherine Maurer (Universit? de Strasbourg), Alexandre Sumpf (Universit? de Strasbourg), Martine Poulain (Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art), Claude Lorentz (MISHA, Universit? de Strasbourg), Olivier Arifon (Universit? de Strasbourg), Vincent Laniol (Universit? de Strasbourg/IEP).