Chers Collègues,
Je suis heureux de vous faire parvenir l'appel à contributions concernant
la conférence sur les sciences et les Académies dans la Première Guerre
mondiale qui aura lieu à Metz, Sarrebruck, et Charleville-Mézières les
8, 9 et 10 juin 2017, co-organisée par l'Académie des Sciences,
l'Académie nationale allemande des sciences Leopoldina, et la Royal
Society de Londres.
Il convient que toute personne intéressée me fasse parvenir
impérativement avant le 31 mai sa proposition, et cela SIMULTANEMENT aux
deux adresses électroniques : claude.debru@ens.fr  et marie-laure.massot@ens.fr .
Merci de votre intérêt, très cordialement,
Claude Debru

Academies in War, 1914-1925
Call for Papers
A cycle of international conferences proposed by the Academia Leopoldina,
the Académie des sciences, and the Royal Society
 
The project
Although the subject of science, especially chemistry, in the Great War has
attracted a good deal of attention in recent years, the role of academies
in the conflict has been little-studied. Following an inaugural conference,
held under the auspices of the Academia Leopoldina in Halle in 2014, two
further conferences are planned for the spring of 2017 and the autumn of
2018 to continue work in this neglected area. Like the initial gathering in
Halle, the conferences in 2017 and 2018 will be broad in their
international coverage, and they will seek to maintain a strongly
comparative focus. They will take account of the full range of the sciences
and technology, including the medical sciences, and set the work of
academies in a broad context embracing the relations between the diverse
military, industrial, and political elements that bore on the conduct of
the war. While it will be important to give serious consideration to the
scientific and technical contributions of the various academies, due
attention will also be paid to the declarations and actions of academicians
engaged in the propaganda war that did so much to fashion public opinion.
Further information: http://www.leopoldina.org/de/ueber-uns/akademien-und-forschungsvorhaben/internationale-beziehungen-europaeischer-akademien-1914-1924/
The second Conference will take place June 8-9, 2017 near the battlefields,
in France and in Germany, at the Université de Lorraine in Metz and at the
French-German University in Saarbrücken, followed by an excursion to
Charleville-Mézières on June 10. The Conference will examine the role of
academies during the war.
The last Conference will take place in 2018 in England, presumably in
London. It will treat the years between the end of formal hostilities and
the far from easy resumption of normal international relations in science
in the 1920s.
 
Call for papers
The members of the organization committee (Claude Debru, Paris, Wolfgang
Eckart, Heidelberg, Robert Fox, Oxford, Rainer Godel, Halle) are calling
for papers for the second Conference. We hope that colleagues, including
younger scholars, from various European countries and the US, will be
interested in proposing contributions for the next Conference. Indeed, the
subject remains largely to be investigated, and for those who started
investigating it, it turned out to be extremely rewarding, from both
scientific and historical points of view. The papers of the two Conferences
will be published in the series Acta Historica Leopoldina.
 
The proposals for the 2017 Conference should be sent to both claude.debru@ens.fr and marie-laure.massot@ens.fr.
They should be sent before May 31, 2016. The Committee will meet in July
2016.