International Conference | Lisbon, October 11-13, 2012 | Submissions deadline: June 15, 2012

Science in National-Socialist Germany – the term ‘Science’ being here understood in the broadest sense of ‘Wissenschaft’, including both ‘Naturwissenschaften’ and ‘Geisteswissenchaften’ – has been the object of several conferences and studies since the sixties. However, and in spite of the interdisciplinary openness that some of them may show (mainly those published after the eighties), most of these studies still tend to operate at national levels, hence reproducing, to a certain extent, the typical parochiality of the cultural and political systems they analyze.
The European fascist period is certainly a time of exclusions, disruptions, and confrontations, but it is also a time of network building and scientific and cultural exchange: the exhibitions, public lectures, academic or even touristic exchange that Germany organizes between 1933 and 1945 in the southern European countries (from Portugal to Romania, not forgetting Spain, Italy or Greece) reflect a hybrid (i.e. political and scientific) concern to be “recognized and imitated” (to put it in the words of the Hamburger romanist and NSDAP member Wilhelm Giese).
The conference will address Science in National-Socialist Germany from the point of view of its relations, namely with southern Europe, considering not only the political internationalization of the fascist regimes, but also the important role that international cultural relations and scientific networking played in the process.
The conference welcomes paper proposals from a broad range of disciplines. Questions that could be addressed, especially on case studies examples, might include, but are not limited to:

• Knowledge & Technology transfer
• Circulation and appropriation of Knowledge
• Fascism, Science, Culture
• Fascist Scientific Policies
• Science and the Economics of War
• Networks: Actors, Institutions, Events, Disciplines
• Academics: Exchange and Exile
• Influence, Persuasion, Coercion: Science, Culture and the ‘Weltanschauungskrieg’
• Crossing Borders: the Role of Science and Culture in the Internationalization of Fascism

The Conference is hosted by the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, and organized by the Research project The Power of Science; German Science in Portugal, 1933-45 (http://pos.fcsh.unl.pt).
A selection of papers presented at the Conference will be published in a book.
Graduate and Postgraduate students are strongly encouraged to submit papers on research in-progress or recently completed studies.

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Organization: Centro de Estudos de História Contemporânea - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (CEHC-IUL).

Conveners: Ana Mónica Fonseca (CEHC-IUL), Thiago Carvalho (CEHC-IUL), Daniel Marcos (IPRI-UNL).

Scientific Committe: Luís Nuno Rodrigues (CEHC-IUL), Pedro Oliveira (FCSH-UNL), Álvaro Garrido (FEUC, CEIS20), Fernando Martins (CIDEHUS/UE), José Miguel Sardica (UCP), Filipe Ribeiro de Meneses (National University of Ireland), Jeremy Ball (Dickinson College, USA).

“Portugal in the last two centuries” – I International Graduate Conference on Portuguese Modern and Contemporary History 2012, will convene between June 21st and 23rd 2012 at University Institute of Lisbon (www.iscte.pt). Its main purpose is to promote exchange of knowledge between young graduate researchers (MA and PhD students) and young scholars (PhD concluded in the last five years) working on Portuguese Modern and Contemporary History both in Portugal and abroad.

We invite graduate students and young scholars to propose methodologically innovative approaches and agendas, emphasizing long-term influences, transformations and evolutions that offer outlook for historical comparisons across time and space. We also encourage the participation of young historians with different perspectives influenced by related disciplines from social sciences and humanities.

Sub-panel proposals and individual papers are welcomed for any of the following general panels:

• Portugal from liberalism to democracy: institutions, political transitions and regime change.
• Social, economic and technological transformation.
• Portuguese cultural and ideological identities.
• The last imperial cycle: colonialism and decolonization
• Portugal and the International Systems: foreign policy and international relations.

300 word proposals and a one-page CV (in Word or PDF format) can be sent to histportgc2012@... until March 31^st, 2012. The abstracts will be subjected to a referee process carried out by the conference scientific committee. The conference working languages will be Portuguese and English. For additional information about the conference, please contact the conference organizers at histportgc2012@... .

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