Attendance is free of charge, but registration is compulsory. Please register before January 5th 2015 by sending an e-mail to: Katharina.Niemeyer@u-paris2.fr (depending on the availability of space)
One-day conference
International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)
Centre for Interdisciplinary Research and Analysis of the Media (CARISM)
Crisis, culture and propaganda in the 20th century
Friday, January 9th – ROOM: 505 / Location: University Paris 2 – 92, rue d’Assas, 75006 Paris
This one-day conference brings together – for the first time – IAMHIST and CARISM members who are interested and specialized in the relation of media, history and propaganda. Through a critical lens, the different papers explore the cultural and historical fluctuations of propaganda (studies) during periods of crisis in the 20th century by focusing on archival documents, comparative aspects and/or case studies that deal with various media of (mass-) persuasion. With the objective of confronting different disciplinary approaches to the topic, this one-day conference also aims to rethink and discuss the theoretical frames of propaganda studies and their evolution within the digital transformations of the last decades: thinking with the ‘past’ and ‘present’ of propaganda (studies), what changes are currently affecting the modes mass persuasion can perform? The existence and creation of digital archives, how do they influence and re-shape current and past patterns of propaganda (studies) on a national and/or international level? In this regard, which epistemological, theoretical reflections and frames could or should emerge in the work of historians and media scholars?
Program
9.00 – Registration and coffee
9.30 Welcoming words and introduction
9.45 – 12.45 Media and Propaganda: World War I and II
Chair: Katharina Niemeyer (University of Paris 2)
9.45-10.15
Leen Engelen (KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts) and Bénédicte Rochet (University Namur and Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle)
From ‘Poor little Belgium’ to ‘Brave little Belgium’: official Belgian film propaganda about the First World War
10.15-10.45
Frédéric Lambert (University Paris 2)
Prayer and propaganda, postcards during the Word War I
10.45-11.15
David Culbert (Louisiana State University)
Human Shields: The Lusitania and Germany’s quest for American neutrality, 1915-1917
Coffee Break
Chair: Tobias Hochscherf (University of Kiel)
11.15-11.45
Roel Vande Winkel (KU Leuven/LUCA School of Arts) and Brett Bowles (Indiana University Bloomington)
Alfred Greven and Nazi Wartime Film Policy in France, Belgium and Holland
11.45-12.15
Fabrice d’Almeida (University Paris 2)
How to make propaganda with stars – from French collaborators to embedded actors
12.15 – 12.45
Paul Lesch (University of Luxembourg)
The Grand Duchess of Luxembourg in the USA during World War II: a twofold propaganda campaign
Lunch 13h00 – 14h00
14.15 – 17.00 Media and Propaganda: From 1950 until today
Chair: James Chapman (University of Leicester)
14.15 –14.45
Bibia Pavard (University Paris 2)
Let’s talk about it! Contraception from anti-conceptional propaganda to public health campaign (France, 1950s-1980s)
14.45-15.15
Karsten Fledelius (University of Copenhagen)
The use of film to destabilize regimes in Eastern Europe in the period 1981-1991 using references to history, identity and religion (in particular Poland and Croatia)
Coffee Break
15.45 – 16.15
Nicholas Cull (University of Southern California)
The lessons of the international propaganda battle over Apartheid in South Africa, 1970-1994
16.15-16.45
François Robinet (University of Versailles)
The role of the French army, diplomacy and media in African wars (Rwanda, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Chad)
17.00-18.00 Conclusions with Cynthia Miller (Emerson College) and final discussion
18.00 Apéritif