Registration is now open for the 3 day international conference \u201cProgress, change and development: past, present and future\u201d conference,\u00a0which will\u00a0take place\u00a0at University of Portsmouth, 4- 6 June 2015.<\/p>\n
Please click here<\/a> to proceed to the conference webpages.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to\u00a0bring some of the generation who were involved in attempts to bring about change in the 1960s and 1970s together with researchers, theorists, practitioners, activists from the younger generations today. It will examine and debate how progress and development were conceptualised, practised and imagined during the periods of national liberation struggles, of decolonisation and its aftermath, of political and social upheaval and change. It will analyse successes and failures on all levels and explore new ways of thinking that are being developed at the present time, particularly those that break with the prevailing consensus.\u00a0By bringing the different generations into contact and interaction with each other, it is hoped to create a forum to facilitate the transfer of knowledge and understanding of the earlier period, on the one hand, and the expression and elaboration of new ideas of progress and development and how they might be achieved, on the other.<\/p>\n Confirmed speakers include Samir Amin (Third World Forum, Dakar), Alice Cherki (psychoanalyst), Be\u00efda Chikhi (Universit\u00e9 de Paris \u2013 Sorbonne), Catherine L\u00e9vy (CNRS) and Jacques Sauvageot (Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Rennes).<\/p>\n A\u00a0full programme for the conference\u00a0is available here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Please send all enquiries\u00a0to\u00a0the conference organisers, Prof Margaret Majumdar<\/a> and Dr Joanna Warson<\/a>, at francophone@port.ac.uk<\/a> or via twitter (@UoP_Francophone<\/a>).<\/p>\n This conference is generously supported by the\u00a0Centre for European and International Studies Research<\/a>,\u00a0the\u00a0Society for the Study of French History<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Association for the Study of Modern and Contemporary France<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Registration is now open for the 3 day international conference \u201cProgress, change and development: past, present and future\u201d conference,\u00a0which will\u00a0take place\u00a0at University of Portsmouth, 4- 6 June 2015. Please click here to proceed to the conference webpages.\u00a0 The aim of … Continue reading