Michel CATALA, Profesor of Modern History at CRHIA (Université de Nantes) and Alliance Europa Director, and Stanislas JEANNESSON, Profesor of Modern History at CRHIA (Université de Nantes), invite you to participate in the international conference:
"Voila les Américains !"
The United States in France and Europe, 1917-1920: Circulation and diffusion of ideas and knowledge
This conference, organised within the framework of the World War I Centenary French Programme, will attempt at shedding new light on the American entry in war in April 1917 as a decisive event for the end of the conflict as well as the 20th century history. Military and diplomatic aspects, in the usual sense, have been studied on many occasions and thus, will not be thoroughly studied. We will focus on a wide cultural area and will pay particular attention to the consequences of the American presence on the Old Continent during the last years of the war and the first years of the after-war period.
Several themes will be studied: artistic, musical and literary circulation, sports, eating and clothing habits, diffusion of scientific knowledge or industrial, agricultural and military methods, but also the wide range of aspects linked to ideas, practices and models of economic and political organisation. By examining the various contacts between Americans (be they soldiers, experts, artists, intellectuals, businessmen, traders; or diplomats and politicians), we will attempt at furthering our concrete knowledge of these decisive years in the process of international integration, arising in the late 19th century.
