Free Movement in Postwar Europe. Explorations of a Multivalent Concept
June 30 | 14:00
Dynamiken und Erfahrungen der Globalisierung
Free Movement in Postwar Europe. Explorations of a Multivalent Concept
Convenors: Patricia Hertel (Centre Marc Bloch) and Sasha D. Pack (University at Buffalo)
30 June 14.00–17.30 and 1 July 9.00–13.00
This workshop uses conceptions of “free movement” after 1945 as a perspective on key structures and issues of Europe in its global context. We aim to explore the varied, competing, and contradictory concepts of “free movement”, arguing that it was a powerful but also multivalent catchword in the second half of the twentieth century. Fostering free movement was often an economic measure, but along with it came values and visions, whether explicit or implicit, that varied according to historical circumstance and conjuncture. Our objective is to launch a critical exploration of hitherto unquestioned connections between legal regulations, economic agendas, social practices, and cultural ideals. The workshop strives to assess the historical impact of the “free movement” idea, as well as to critically reflect on narratives that proclaim a teleological story of an unlimited spread of such ideals.
Please register in advance for a participation in person or online at: patricia.hertel@cmb.hu-berlin.de
Contact
Patricia Hertel
patricia.hertel ( at ) cmb.hu-berlin.de
Program
Thursday, 30 June 2022
14.00 – 14.15 Welcome: Isabella Löhr (Deputy Director Centre Marc Bloch)
14.15 –14.30 Introduction: Sasha D. Pack and Patricia Hertel
14.30 – 15.50: Panel I:Mobility and the Construction of the Postwar Liberal Order
Sasha D. Pack (University at Buffalo): Free Movement in Postwar Europe: Some Introductory Comments
Patricia Hertel (Centre Marc Bloch): Selective Admission: Regulating Foreign Mobility in Switzerland during the 1940s
15.50 – 16.10 Coffee Break
16.10 – 17.30 Panel II: Mobility and Cold War Politics
Sune Bechmann Pedersen (Lund University): Leisure Mobility between Planning and Deregulation: Negotiating Free Movement in Postwar Europe
Igor Tchoukarine (University of Minnesota): The Limits, Meanings and Global Ramifications of Socialist Yugoslavia’s Mobility Regime (via zoom)
Friday, 1 July 2022
9.00 – 10.20: Panel III: Religion, Identity, and (Limits of) Movement
Lise Foisneau (CNRS/IDEMEC, Aix-en-Provence): Formal Freedom and Concrete Conditions of Movement of "Nomads" in Postwar France (via zoom)
Natalia Núñez Bargueño (SciencesPo Paris): Between Politics and Devotion – Religion and Mobility in the International Eucharistic Congress of Barcelona (1952).
10.20-10.40 Coffee Break
10.40-12.00: Panel IV: Mobility Regulations in the European Union
Xavier Ferrer Gallardo (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona): The EU Land Borders in Africa. Ceuta and Melilla as Nodes of Migrant (Im)Mobility
Christine Barwick (Centre Marc Bloch/Europa-Universität Flensburg): From Poverty Migration to Essential Workers: Political Debates on the Freedom of Movement of Romanian Citizens in Germany
12.00-12.45: Concluding Discussion