A History of Exchange Programs in the XXth Century: Education, Circulations and Transfers
International Conference, University of Geneva, 11-12th December 2014
- Organized by Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE) & Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden)
- Technical supervisor : Laetitia Corbière (UNIGE)
Place: GSI, 20 rue de l’École-de-Médecine, Room 123
Free entrance
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11TH
08:30: Welcome, tea/coffee
09:00: Welcome speech (Yves Flückiger, Vice-Rector, UNIGE)
09:10: Introduction to the Conference Theme (Giles Scott-Smith & Ludovic Tournès)
Session 1 (9:30 - 12:00): instruments of national policy
Chair: Matthias Schulz (UNIGE)
Discussant: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval)
Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE):
American academic exchanges and the rise of an intellectual superpower (1920-1939)
Alice Byrne (Université Rennes-2):
The British Council’s Commonwealth university interchange scheme: fostering the new Commonwealth or prolonging British influence?
Jacob S. Eder (Friedrich-Schiller Universität, Jena):
Students as ambassadors: the Congress-Bundestag youth exchange program and German-American relations
Jesse Sargent (Graduate Institute, Genève):
Importing barbarian knowledge: the JET programme and the development of cultural internationalism in Japan (1987-2014)
12:00 - 13:30 Lunch
Session 2 (13:30 - 15:30): the ambiguity of internationalism
Chair: Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden)
Discussant: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE)
Stefan Hübner (Bundeswehr Universität, Munich): The YMCA’s sportive ‘Civilizing Mission’: Asian sports experts and the YMCA training school (Springfield College)
Panayotis Papaevangelou (UNIL):
The League of Nations and the organization of International academic exchanges
Thomas David, Yi-Tang Lin (UNIL) & Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute, Genève):
The fellowship programs of the World Health Organization
Session 3 (16:00 - 18:30): world politics and the Cold War
Chair: Ludovic Tournès (UNIGE)
Discussant: Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden)
Frédéric Attal (Université de Valenciennes):
Evaluating success and limits of the different Fulbright exchange programs in Europe with a special focus to the program to researchers
Peter Simons (Hamilton College, Clinton):
Grassroots diplomacy: US agricultural exchanges in the early Cold War
Igor Czernecki (Warsaw University):
An intellectual offensive: the Ford Foundation and the destalinization of the Polish social sciences (1957-1990)
Rachel Applebaum (Tufts University):
Study abroad in the land of Stalin: Cold War educational exchanges in the Eastern bloc
Hannah Higgin (Cambridge University):
African exchange students in the United States in the 1960s
19:30 Conference Dinner
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12TH
Session 4 (9:30 - 12:00): Knowledge Transfer and Long-Term Effects
Chair: Davide Rodogno (Graduate Institute, Genève)
Discussant: Frédéric Attal (Université de Valenciennes)
Tamson Pietsch (University of Sydney):
Organising scholarly exchange: the Rhodes Scholarships (1903-1913)
Judith Syga (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris):
Managing exchange in interwar Germany: August W. Fehling and the administration of the Rockefeller Foundation’s fellowship program for the social sciences
Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Québec): A special kind of fellows? Half a century of Rockefeller Foundation nursing fellowships 1919-1970
Carol Aktinson (University of Southern California, Los Angeles): Military exchanges and American soft power
12:00 - 13:30: Lunch
Session 5 (13:30 - 16:00): The Present and Future challenges
Chair: Pierre-Yves Saunier (Université Laval, Québec)
Discussant: Jesse Sargent (Graduate Institute, Genève)
Patricia Rosenfield (Rockefeller Archive Center, New York): American Foundations and the Post-World War II Funding of Fellowship Programs: The Internal and External Challenges
Guangqiu Xu (Friends University, Wichita): American fulbrighters in China (1979-2013)
Giles Scott-Smith (University of Leiden): Promoting Leadership: The Fulbright and Foreign Leader programs in perspective
Lonnie R. Johnson (Austrian-American Educational Commission, Vienna) : The new geography of American public exchange program since 1989
Vanessa Debiais-Sainton (European Commission) : Contemporary challenges of the ERASMUS program.
16:00-16:30: Concluding remarks (Giles Scott-Smith & Ludovic Tournès)
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