Student press in resistance and dissidence in middle Europe (late 19th-20th centuries)

The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), with the support of the Conseil scientifique de l'Inalco in partnership with the Réseau Transfopress-CHCSC (Centre d'histoire culturelle des sociétés contemporaines) / Paris-Saclay, GERME (Groupe d'études & de recherche sur les mouvements étudiants), CREM (Centre de recherche sur les médiations, Université de Lorraine), the Cité des mémoires étudiantes, the Centre tchèque, have the honor of inviting you to the colloquium entitled: "Student Press in Resistance and Dissent in middle Europe (late 19th century - 20th century)".
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Couvertures de Poreia [Marche], revue des étudiants grecs exilés à Paris pendant la dictature des colonels, conception graphique : Vicky Haut © Bibliothèque numérique de la BnF Gallica‎

Argumentary of the scientific event

This transdisciplinary colloquium proposes to study the dissident/resistance student press produced in the countries of medieval Europe, but also outside, on the initiative of students originating from these countries. From the turn of the XIXe and XXe centuries to the end of the Cold War, students played a fundamental role in expressing and organizing resistance and/or dissent to established political regimes, some of which were characterized by an abolition of the democratic and liberal functioning of society. From mobilizations against the Austro-Hungarian or Russian imperial order, to protests against post-1945 authoritarian regimes, through resistance to the dictatorial regimes of the inter-war period and clandestine leaves under the Occupation, student reactions followed one another in the area we're interested in, stretching from the Baltic states in the north to Greece at its southernmost tip, and from Germany in the west to Russia in the east. Students were often a driving force behind the formation of rebellious and dissident groups. Some of them went into exile, notably to France, to escape persecution and express themselves more freely.

The student press is an object of study in its own right, and a privileged observatory to better identify the various dissidences and resistances thus expressed. Based on such a corpus, still too little analyzed by cultural history today, a comparative opening is proposed at this symposium, in order to initiate a state-of-the-art of knowledge on this editorial phenomenon and to place it in a broader spatiotemporal context.

Scientific event program

Thursday, May 22, 2025 from 9am to 5:30pm
Dumézil Auditorium - Maison de la Recherche

9am-9:30am : Welcome of participants and presentation of the colloquium

9:30am-10:30am : Inaugural lecture by Robi Morder (Laboratoire PRINTEMPS / Université Paris-Saclay) : "The student press: instrument of action and representation of movements, witness and source of knowledge for research"

10:30am-11:00am : Coffee break

11am-12:30pm : Session 1-Student press from the turn of the century to the aftermath of the Great War

Moderator: Diana Cooper-Richet (CHCSC / Paris-Saclay)

  • Catherine Servant (CREE / Inalco), "La presse du mouvement progressiste étudiant tchèque (années 1880-1890)"
  • Grzegorz Marut (Sorbonne Université / Eur'ORBEM), "Le Bulletin Polonais littéraire, scientifique et artistique (1875-1923), périodique de l'école polonaise de Paris"
  • Iryna Sobchenko (BULAC), "Les bulletins de L'Union centrale des étudiants ukrainiens (ЦеСУС): Networks of intellectuals in exile and political agentivity during the interwar period"

12:30pm-13:pm : Discussion

1pm-2:30pm : Lunch break

 

2:30pm-5pm : Session 2-Student press during the interwar period and the Second World War

Moderator :Etienne Boisserie (CREE / Inalco)

  • Jana Kynkorová (Charles University, Prague), "Between Poverty and Protest : Thorn and Pitchfork as Student Protest Platforms in Interwar Czechoslovakia"
  • Cosmin-Ștefan Dogaru (University of Bucharest), "The General Association of Romanian Students in France: Connections and Interactions between Romanian and French Students Depicted in the Romanian Interwar Press"

3h30pm-4pm : Coffee break

  • Alexandre Toumarkine (CERMOM / Inalco), "La traduction en turc de l'épopée de Gilgamesh en 1942, un texte politique"

5pm-5:30pm : Discussion

 

Friday, May 23, 2025 from 9am to 6pm
Auditorium Dumézil - Maison de la Recherche

9am-10:30am : Session 3-Student press during the Cold War (I)

Moderator: Jiří Hnilica (University of Prague)

  • Nicolas Pitsos (CREE / Inalco, BULAC), "La revue Poreia, de l'Union des étudiants grecs de Paris : une tribune de dissidence-résistance transnationale à la dictature des colonels" Aleksandra Kolaković (Belgrade Institute of Political Studies), "Student [Étudiant]. Du bulletin communiste de l'université rouge" du Royaume de Ygoslavie au nationalisme de Milošević et à la désintégration de la Ygoslavie"
  • Sacha Markovic (Sorbonne Université / Eur'ORBEM / ISP Nanterre), "Le printemps Ygoslave de juin 1968"

10:30am-11am : Discussion and coffee break

 

11am-12:30pm : Session 4-Student press during the Cold War (II)

Moderator: Anne Madelain (CREE / Inalco)

  • Marko Zubak (Croatian Institute of History), "After Dark : Yugoslav / Zagreb Student Press and Urban Socialist Nightlife"
  • Nemanja Stanimirovic (University of Belgrade), "Proletarian avantgarde as the voice of workers. Yugoslav Trotsyists in France, 1970-1976"
  • Tao Romevo (Inalco) "The dissident student press in the People's Republic of Bulgaria: a sporadic and late phenomenon"

12:30pm-1pm : Discussion

1pm-2:30pm : Lunch break

 

2:30pm-5:30pm : Session 5-Openings and geo-thematic comparisons

Moderator : Laurence Corroy (CREM / Université de Lorraine)

  • Laurence Corroy (Université de Lorraine), "Introduction to the history of the student press in France"
  • Antonin Dubois (CRUHL / Université de Lorraine), "Travailler sur la presse étudiante européenne (1800-1940) : bilans et perspectives"
  • Alessia Della Rocca (University of Verona), "Presse étudiante et Résistance française dans l'exemple du discours dissident de Défense de la France (1941-1944)"

4pm-4:30pm : Coffee break

  • Gildas Igor Noumbou Tetam (University of Lausanne), "La presse étudiante et l'internationalisation de la guerre du Cameroun en France (1956-1972)"
  • Ioanna Kasapi (University of Angers, Cité des mémoires étudiantes), "Presse étudiante numérisée? Vers une démarche à poursuivre et un corpus à sauvegarder"

5:30pm-6:00pm : Discussion and conclusions of the symposium by Isabelle Richet (Université Paris Cité)

 


ThURSDAY, MAY 22, 2025, AT 7pm, AT THE CZECH CENTER LIBRARY IN PARIS :

Book presentation

Paris polyphonic capital.

History of the refugee, exile and immigrant press

under the dir. by Nicolas Pitsos (Paris, Atlande, 2025)

In the presence of the co-authors:

Françoise Mayer (Prague, Montpellier), Nicolas Pitsos (BULAC, CREE / Inalco) and Catherine Servant (CREE / Inalco).

Address: 18, rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris Contact: 0153730022; paris@czech.cz

 

Design and coordination

Contacts

catherine.servant@inalco.fr and nicolas.pitsos@bulac.fr