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Le projet de colloque scientifique international s&#8217;inscrit dans le cadre de la comm&#233;moration de la Premi&#232;re Guerre mondiale.ArgumentaireDepuis le XIXe si&#232;cle, le minist&#232;re des Travaux publics avait &#233;t&#233; une fa&#231;on de structurer durablement l&#8217;&#201;tat et de mat&#233;rialiser la pr&#233;sence de la nation dans les territoires. Entre 1914 et 1918 et au cours des ann&#233;es 1920, ses chantiers et ses actions ont particip&#233; de fa&#231;on significative &#224; la construction et &#224; la cicatrisation d&#8217;un &#201;tat et d&#8217;une nation plong&#233;s dans ce que certains ont appel&#233; une &#171; guerre totale &#187;. Depuis deux d&#233;cennies, un courant important de l&#8217;historiographie de la Premi&#232;re Guerre mondiale interroge le conflit &#224; l&#8217;aune de la notion des cultures de guerre. Cette approche tend &#224; &#233;tablir que l&#8217;empreinte de la guerre ne se limite pas aux aspects militaires mais qu&#8217;elle concerne aussi bien le front que la soci&#233;t&#233; de l&#8217;arri&#232;re. Elle montre que le conflit a impr&#233;gn&#233; le quotidien et les repr&#233;sentations des habitants des pays bellig&#233;rants et qu&#8217;il s&#8217;en est nourri. Cette conception est devenue l&#8217;entr&#233;e fertile d&#8217;une compr&#233;hension globale de la guerre totale et de repr&#233;sentations pour la France comme pour d&#8217;autres pays bellig&#233;rants.L&#8217;objectif du colloque est de lire la trajectoire et l&#8217;action du minist&#232;re des Travaux publics durant la p&#233;riode &#224; la lumi&#232;re de ces r&#233;flexions, avec des comparaisons int&#233;ressantes avec ce qui s&#8217;est pass&#233; dans d&#8217;autres pays.Les &#171; travaux publics &#187; s&#8217;inscrivent dans le contexte d&#8217;un&#160; &#171; d&#233;veloppement exub&#233;rant &#187; de l&#8217;&#201;tat et de comp&#233;tences minist&#233;rielles mouvantes pour soutenir l&#8217;effort de guerre puis pour organiser la reconstruction. Dans les communications, il s&#8217;agira d&#8217;interroger &#224; la fois l&#8217;administration centrale et ses relais territoriaux, les politiques mises en &#339;uvre avec leurs objectifs et leurs perceptions ainsi que les expertises et cultures techniques. On prendra en compte le fait que le pouvoir minist&#233;riel &#233;tait ins&#233;r&#233; dans un ensemble plus large de relations avec les acteurs et les repr&#233;sentants des int&#233;r&#234;ts publics et priv&#233;s concern&#233;s par des activit&#233;s boulevers&#233;es par le contexte de la guerre et de l&#8217;apr&#232;s-guerre.Les principales activit&#233;s vis&#233;es sont les suivantes :Le contr&#244;le de l&#8217;activit&#233; mini&#232;re et l&#8217;importation de ressources &#233;nerg&#233;tiques ;la r&#233;quisition des infrastructures et des services de transport ferroviaire, routier et maritime assurant la mobilit&#233; des personnes et des biens ;la contribution &#224; l&#8217;industrialisation de la guerre ;la supervision de la poste et des r&#233;seaux de t&#233;l&#233;communications ;la reconstruction d&#8217;un territoire et d&#8217;ouvrages d&#8217;art d&#233;truits ou endommag&#233;s par la guerre.Toutes ces diff&#233;rentes attributions du minist&#232;re fran&#231;ais des Travaux publics, souvent partag&#233;es avec d&#8217;autres administrations, assuraient une s&#233;rie de liens sensibles entre le front, l&#8217;arri&#232;re et les Alli&#233;s. Services territoriaux et civils, les minist&#232;res soutenaient les arm&#233;es tout en participant &#224; l&#8217;&#233;conomie de guerre. Ces champs d&#8217;intervention &#233;taient en prise directe avec les conditions de vie des Fran&#231;ais durant le conflit. Des progr&#232;s techniques importants ont esquiss&#233; des traits durablement inscrits dans la soci&#233;t&#233; fran&#231;aise par la suite avec des changements modifiant les comportements en mati&#232;re de mobilit&#233; et d&#8217;usage de l&#8217;&#233;nergie.Or les &#233;tudes sur les politiques publiques li&#233;es aux Travaux publics durant cette p&#233;riode sont rest&#233;es &#233;tonnamment rares et dispers&#233;es, sans vue d&#8217;ensemble. Des th&#233;matiques telles que le d&#233;m&#233;nagement puis le r&#233;am&#233;nagement du territoire, les rapports changeants entre les services militaires et civils, la cr&#233;ation de nouvelles structures &#233;tatiques induite par la guerre puis par la reconstruction et marqu&#233;e par des ministres techniciens comme &#201;tienne Cl&#233;mentel, Albert Thomas, Louis Loucheur, Marcel Sembat ou Albert Claveille seront au c&#339;ur du colloque. De m&#234;me, l&#8217;engagement des personnels, de l&#8217;ing&#233;nieur au cantonnier, l&#8217;&#233;volution des cultures techniques, l&#8217;industrialisation de la guerre puis la reconversion de l&#8217;&#233;conomie de guerre vers le d&#233;veloppement de nouvelles activit&#233;s industrielles seront rappel&#233;s.Enfin, une attention particuli&#232;re sera port&#233;e aux communications proposant de rapporter le cas fran&#231;ais aux cas d&#8217;autres pays bellig&#233;rants, dans le cadre d&#8217;une histoire compar&#233;e ou d&#8217;une histoire transnationale crois&#233;e. La situation de conflit ainsi que les comp&#233;tences minist&#233;rielles invitent &#224; prendre en consid&#233;ration de multiples expressions &#233;trang&#232;res des travaux publics de guerre, y compris sur le territoire national.]La premi&#232;re journ&#233;e portera sur la p&#233;riode de la guerre elle-m&#234;me :L&#8217;administration mobilis&#233;e et mobilisatrice : le minist&#232;re des Travaux publics dans la guerre,Les enjeux des mobilit&#233;s civiles et militaires en temps de guerre: innovations, pratiques, coordination.La seconde journ&#233;e couvrira une temporalit&#233; englobant les ann&#233;es 1920 :L&#8217;industrialisation d&#8217;un conflit : les d&#233;fis socio-techniques d&#8217;une guerre totale,Avec la reconstruction, un nouveau paysage : du territoire &#224; la m&#233;moireLes actes du colloque feront l&#8217;objet d&#8217;une publication dans la revue du Comit&#233; d&#8217;histoire des minist&#232;res de l&#8217;&#201;galit&#233; des territoires et du Logement, de l&#8217;&#201;cologie, du D&#233;veloppement durable et de l&#8217;&#201;nergie ainsi que sur Internet.Comit&#233; scientifiqueAlya Aglan-Wismann (professeur d&#8217;histoire contemporaine &#224; l&#8217;universit&#233; Paris 1 Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Pierre Chancerel (ATER &#224; l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Picardie-Jules Verne), Corine Defrance (directrice de recherche au CNRS, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Clotilde Druelle-Korn (ma&#238;tre de conf&#233;rences en histoire contemporaine &#233;conomique et sociale &#224; l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Limoges), Mathieu Flonneau (ma&#238;tre de conf&#233;rences en histoire contemporaine &#224; l&#8217;Universit&#233; Paris 1 Panth&#233;on &#8211;Sorbonne, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE, P2M), Andr&#233; Guillerme (professeur au Conservatoire national des Arts et M&#233;tiers), L&#233;onard Laborie (charg&#233; de recherche au CNRS, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Philippe Nivet (professeur d&#8217;histoire contemporaine et directeur de l&#8217;UFR d&#8217;histoire et de g&#233;ographie &#224; l&#8217;Universit&#233; de Picardie Jules Verne), Arnaud Passalacqua (ma&#238;tre de conf&#233;rences en histoire contemporaine &#224; l&#8217;universit&#233; Paris-Diderot, P2M).Modalit&#233;s de soumissionLes projets de communication (une page au maximum), accompagn&#233;s des titres, qualit&#233;s et mentions des derni&#232;res publications des auteurs ainsi que de leurs coordonn&#233;es postales et &#233;lectroniques, seront re&#231;usjusqu&#8217;au 25 janvier 2014&#224; l'adresse suivante : contact.travauxpublics.publicworks.1914-2014@planete-tp-plus.comPour toute question : contact.travaux-publics@i-carre.netThis project of international scientific conference is organized as a part of the World War I commemorations.ArgumentSince the nineteenth century, the French Ministry of Public Works had been a tool for the structuring of the State and the presence of the nation across territories in the long term. Between 1914 and 1918 and during the 1920s, its projects and its actions made a significant contribution to the building and the recovery of a State and a nation that had been immersed in what some scholars have called a &#8220;total war&#8221;. For the past two decades, a major component of World War I historiography has been probing the conflict in the light of the concept of the cultures of war. This approach tends to assert that the footprint of the war was not restricted to military aspects as it affected both the front and civilian society behind the lines. It shows that the conflict impacted the populations&#8217; daily lives and perceptions in the belligerent nations and throve on it. This idea has paved the way for a global understanding of total war and the representations put forward both in France and in other belligerent countries.The purpose of this conference is to understand the directions and the actions of the Ministry of Public Works during this period in the light of these thoughts, with fruitful comparisons about what happened in other belligerent countries."Public works" are to be understood in the context of an "exuberant growth&#8221; of State powers and of shifting ministerial authorities as a way to support the war efforts and later on to organize the reconstruction. The papers will address the relationship between the central administration and local authorities, the policies implemented with their goals and perceptions as well as the technical abilities, expertises and cultures involved. The papers will take into account the fact that ministerial powers were included in a larger set of relations with the players and the representatives of public and private interests involved in activities that were disrupted in wartime and in the years following the war.The main activities were the following ones:The control of mining activities and the importation of energy resources;The requisition of infrastructures and services for rail, road and maritime transportation to ensure the mobility of people and goods;The contribution to the industrialization of the war;The supervision of postal services and telecommunications networks;The reconstruction of a territory and of civil engineering works that had been destroyed or damaged during the war.The great variety of responsibilities which were assigned to the French Ministry of Public Works and were often shared with other administrations and military authorities provided a set of noticeable links between the front line, the rear and the Allies. The ministries, as territorial and civil services, were supporting the armies while being involved in the wartime economy. Their areas of activities were in direct contact with the living conditions of the French people during the conflict. Major technical developments outlined the features that were to become long-lasting changing components of French society later on with regards to mobility and energy use behaviours.Yet, the studies covering public policies linked to Public Works during this period remain surprisingly scarce and scattered with no overview. This conference will primarily deal with a set of themes such as territorial planning disrupted by the war and restructured by post-war reconstruction policies, or the changing relationship between military and civil authorities. It will also address the development of new governmental structures generated by the war and by the reconstruction policies and marked by technically-minded ministers such as &#201;tienne Cl&#233;mentel, Albert Thomas, Louis Loucheur, Marcel Sembat or Albert Claveille. Besides, the commitment of staffs, from engineers to road menders, the changes in technical cultures, the industrialization of war and, later on, the conversion of a wartime economy towards the development of new industrial activities will be addressed.Lastly, communications which suggest a comparison between the French situation and that of other belligerent countries, as part of a comparative or cross-national history, will get particular attention. The war situation as well as the diversity of state organizations lead us to consider multiple foreign expressions of wartime public works in various territories.The first day will cover the actual wartime period:A mobilized and motivating administration: the ministry of Public Works during the war,The challenges of civil and military mobility during the war innovations, practices and coordination.The second day will cover a period including the 1920s:Industrializing a conflict: the social and technical challenges for a &#8220;total war&#8221;,With reconstruction, a new landscape emerges: from territory to remembrance.The proceedings of the conference will be published in Pour M&#233;moire, the journal of the History Committee of the French Ministry of Territorial Equality and Housing and of the ministry of Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy as well as on the Internet.Scientific CommitteeAlya Aglan-Wismann (Professor in Contemporary History at Paris 1 Panth&#233;on-Sorbonne University, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Pierre Chancerel (Temporary Lecturer at Picardie-Jules Verne University), Corine Defrance (Research Director at CNRS, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Clotilde Druelle-Korn (Associate Professor in Contemporary Economic and Social History at Limoges University), Mathieu Flonneau (Associate Professor in Contemporary History at Paris 1 Panth&#233;on &#8211;Sorbonne University, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE, P2M), Andr&#233; Guillerme (Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et M&#233;tiers), L&#233;onard Laborie (Researcher at CNRS, UMR Irice LabEx EHNE), Philippe Nivet (Professor in Contemporary History and Head of the History and Geography UFR at Picardie-Jules Verne University), Arnaud Passalacqua (Associate Professor in Contemporary History at Paris-Diderot University, P2M).Submission guidelinesProposals (one page maximum) should be submitted, along with the author's qualifications and positions, a mention of their latest publications, as well as their mail and e-mail contact details,by January 25 2014to: contact.travauxpublics.publicworks.1914-2014@planete-tp-plus.comPlease send any questions to: contact.travaux-publics@i-carre.net