Towards a History of European Developmentalism

Wednesday 19 March
15:15-15:45 Introduction

16h–18h | Panel 1: FROM EMPIRE TO EUROPEANIZATION
Discussant: Christiane Reinecke
- Andreas Markus Schurr: A small-scale civilizing mission: Carl Sartorius, Hacienda Mirador and the hidden origins of European developmentalism in nineteenth-century Mexico
- Michele Sollai: The political ecologies of fascist developmentalism: Trans-imperial expertise and local knowledge reconsidered
- Giovanni Tonolo: “European Tribalism”: the EEC Hospital in Mogadishu (1958-1969)
- Philipp Müller: Imperial Legacies. The Forging of European Internationalism and the Construction of the Cabora Bassa Dam

Thursday 20 March
9.15h–11h | Panel 2: PLANNING SOCIAL & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Discussant: Philipp Müller
- Sergio Riesco Roche & Rosa Maria Pardo Sanz: Fao and World Bank Report about Spanish agriculture (1966): genesis, backstage and effects on the developmentalism
- Francesco  D'Amaro & Juan Pan-Montojo: Spanish plans of development (1963-1973) and agriculture
- Studený Luboš: Towards a ‘Real Functioning Market’: Czechoslovakia Between Socialism and Capitalism
- Beatrice Ferlaino: Constructing analytical paradigms and orienting development projects. Agriculture, geography and social science in colonial and post-colonial Morocco

11h30–13h | Panel 3: EXERCISING POWER, CREATING INEQUALITIES
Discussant: Hugo Canihac
- Stéphanie Prévost: Reforming the landscape to bring about world peace: Patrick Geddes, developmentalism and the agricultural colony for Armenian refugees in Cyprus, 1896-1900s
- Nathalie Ferré: Securitizing Development: Transnational Knowledge-Power Dynamics in the making of European external action towards the Mediterranean

14h30–16h30 | Panel 4: WORKFORCE OF DEVELOPMENTALISM
Discussant: Steffi Marung
- Maria Adamopoulou: Guest Stars in Development: Southern European migrant workers and their homelands’ Europeanization (1960-1980s)
- Selin Çağatay & Sofia Österborg Wiklund: History of Developmentalism through the Lens of Adult Education: Reflections on Sweden and Turkey, 1960s-1970s
- Dulce Freire: Rural development in Portugal: agrarian expert strategies between dictatorship and democracy
- Hugo Canihac, Heinrich Hartmann & Margot Lyautey: „Ménage à trois”: German and French development expertise in rural Tunisia

17h-18h30 | Keynote by Véronique Dimier

Friday 21 March
9h30–11h30 | Panel 5: LANDSCAPES OF KNOWLEDGE & ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT?
Discussant: Laura Affolter
- Lucie Rondeau du Noyer: How Europeans fuelled fossil developmentalism: Austin Robinson and the (re)circulation of OEEC’s energy expertise (1950s - 1970s)
- Rafael Vallejo Pousada & Riccardo Semeraro: Tourism, ecological degradation, and economic development in the Mediterranean “pleasure periphery”: the environmental revolution in Italy and Spain, 1950-1973
- Niki Rhyner: Cultures of Enrichment: Anthropology and Economic Development in European Peripheries, 1950–1995

11h45–13h | Conclusion

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Wissenschaftliche Organisation:
Professur für die Wissensgeschichte moderner Gesellschaften (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität Hamburg) und Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung

Unterstützt von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)