Imperial and Colonial Currencies
Musée de la Monnaie/ Coll nationale de Monnaie. Musée de la Banque du Canada
IMPERIAL AND COLONIAL CURRENCIES
MONETARY SUPPLY, POLICY, AND CIRCULATION,
16th-20th CENTURIES
6-7 June 2024
Sciences Po, Campus de Paris
1 place Saint-Thomas-d’Aquin
Conference
Organizers: Hugo Carlier (Sciences Po, CHSP) and Juliette Françoise (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne-Université de Genève)
With the support of: Centre for History at Sciences Po (CHSP), Center for History and Economics in Paris (CHEP), Collège doctoral de l’Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut des Dynamiques Historiques et de la Société UMR 8533 (IDHE.S), Département Histoire, Économie et Société de l’Université de Genève et Institut Paul Bairoch d’histoire économique (IHEPB).
Day 1 - Thursday 6 June
14:00-14:30 | Welcome coffee
14:30-14:45 | Introduction
Panel 1 | Imperial Currencies and Imperial Space
Chair Panel : Anne Conchon (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
14:45-16:45
- Arielle Alterwaite (University of Pennsylvania), “Political Economies of the Haitian Gourde, Counterfeit and Otherwise”.
- Gabriel Lietner (Université de Genève) and Gianandrea Nodari (Université de Genève), “London ‘33: Currency blocs and Imperial Monetary Policy”.
- Brecht Nijman (Huygens Institute, KNAW), “Counting out the Money: Cataloging currencies in the Dutch East India Company archive then and now”.
Panel 2 | Monetary Agency in Empires
Chair Panel : Patrice Baubeau (Université Paris-Nanterre)
17:15-18:45
- Alessandro De Cola (Università di Bologna), “African Agencies in the Making of Colonial Currencies: The Case of Hassan Mussa El Akkad in the Italian Colony of Eritrea (1885-1890)”.
- Robin Frisch (University of Bayreuth), “The Quest for Monetary Control in Interwar Togo: Unveiling Colonial Economic Ambiguities”.
Day 2 - Friday 7 June
08:30-09:00 | Welcome coffee
Panel 3 | Materiality of Money: Minting and Resources in Empires
Chair Panel : Jérôme Jambu (Université Le Havre-Normandie)
09:00-10:30
- Gustave Lester (Harvard University), “From Gold Standard to Gold Rush: Precious Metal Science and Money Politics Across Anglo-American Empires, 1750-1830”.
- Geoffrey Durham (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “A New Ruble for the Russian Empire: Mining and Minting Platinum in the 19th Century”.
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break
Panel 4 | Imperial and Colonial currencies in Economic Development
Chair Panel : David Todd (Sciences Po, CHSP)
11:00-12:30
- Matteo Rossi (Fondazione Luigi Einaudi Torino), “Monetary Independence Henry Carey, the Greenbacks and the United States in the World Market”.
- Dorcas Djonkui (Université de Douala), “La création du Franc CFA et ses répercussions en Afrique Centrale : le cas du déficit de la balance commerciale sur les produits alimentaires”.
12:30-14:00 | Lunch at Sciences Po
Panel 5 | The Introduction of Imperial Currencies : Conquest, Law and Institutions
Chair Panel : Nicolas Delalande (Sciences Po, CHSP)
14:00-16:00
- Ludovic Desmedt (Université de Bourgogne), “To issue paper money in the New World: the contrasting cases of New France and New England (17th-18th centuries)”.
- Toyomu Masaki (Kanazawa University), “The French Invasion of the Haut Sénégal and payment issues: 1880-1900”.
- Mohammadreza Eghbalizarch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, IHEID) and Soheil Ghasemi (IHEID), “The Sterling Capitulation: The Imperial Bank of Persia and the British Juridico-Monetary Intervention in Semi-Colonial Iran (1890-1919)”.
16:00-16:15 | Conclusion
16:30-18:00 | Visit of the Musée de la Monnaie (15 mins by foot from Sciences Po
To attend the conference in person or on zoom: imperial.colonial.currencies@gmail.com
Witnessing through Literature and the Arts
Image generated by Midjourney, "testimonial fiction"
Emotions, Climate and the Environment
Melancholy (1894-1896) by Edvard Munch, Public domain
Book Talk with Claire Andrieu
Actualité Sciences Po
'Between 1940 and 1945, more than 100,000 airmen were shot down over Europe, a few thousand of whom survived and avoided being arrested. "When Men Fell from the Sky" is a comparative history of the treatment of these airmen by civilians in France, Germany and Britain. By studying the situation on the ground, Claire Andrieu shows how these encounters reshaped societies at a local level. She reveals how the fall of France in 1940 may have concealed an insurrection nipped in the bud, that the People's War in Britain was not merely a myth, and that in Germany, the racial community of the people had in fact become a social reality with Allied airmen increasingly subjected to lynching from 1943 onwards. By considering why the treatment of these airmen contrasted so strongly in these countries, Andrieu sheds new light on how civilians reacted when confronted with the war at home.'
The result of research work conducted at the Centre for History at Sciences Po, this work by Claire Andrieu was presented in Columbia on March 27 and in Princeton on March 28 during a Book Talk .
Claire Andrieu's book When Men Fell From The Sky is the translated version of her work published in french Tombés du ciel, published in 2021 (Editions Tallandier | Ministère des armées).
Claire Andrieu, When Men Fell from the Sky. Civilians and Downed Airmen in Second World War Europe, Cambridge University Press, 2023
CFP | Teaching with AI: technical, pedagogical and ethical challenges
Workshop Reflections of pedagogical experiences (RETEX)
Department of Political Science & Institute for Skills and innovation
Call for Papers
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) and its accessibility to a wide audience bring up important challenges to higher education, thus raising questions about the effect of technological innovations on teaching practices in the Social Sciences. Three aspects receive particular attention: on the one hand, debates surrounding "ChatGPT" have inevitably raised questions about the reliability of academic assessment methods. How can we ensure that a paper is not generated by an AI? Should we aim at uncovering AI users and, if so, under which conditions? How can we conceive exercises and activities that allow for a supervised use of AI? On the other hand, it is worth considering the possibility of integrating these tools into our teaching practices. How can we take advantage of this technological development to devise innovative and creative practices, as well as new modes of assessment, rather than repressing its use? Finally, concerns regarding the impact of AI on the public sphere, including on journalism, research and political marketing, are also important to consider. Particular attention is paid to the use of AI and a manipulative device as seen in the development and spread of political discourses, images and videos, and beyond. Such instrumentalization challenges the concept of “truth” in the media space, thus hindering the detection and regulation of AI in a context of expanding digital capitalism, with respect to which our students must learn to reflect and position themselves. Against this background we propose to address this topic from two main perspectives.
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▸ Deadline : before the 18th of April 2024
