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&#160; Ding, ding, ting. Objets m&#233;diateurs de culture. Espaces germanophone, n&#233;erlandophone et nordique, Colloque international, Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne, 11-13 avril 2013. - English version below &#8211;Version fran&#231;aiseArgumentaireLe colloque propose de croiser les fils de deux traditions th&#233;oriques, la th&#233;orie des transferts culturels, &#233;labor&#233;e par Michel Espagne et Michael Werner (Espagne/ Werner, 1988) dans les ann&#233;es 1980, qui a donn&#233; lieu ensuite &#224; divers prolongements (histoire crois&#233;e, recherche sur les ph&#233;nom&#232;nes de circulation, de r&#233;seau, d&#8217;interculturalit&#233;, d&#8217;hybridation&#8230;) [Engel/ Gutjahr/ Braungart, 2003 ; Suppanz, 2003], et celle des Material Culture Studies, courant th&#233;orique h&#233;t&#233;rog&#232;ne issu du monde anglo-saxon qui se d&#233;veloppe &#224; partir des ann&#233;es 1970 et s&#8217;inscrit dans les Culture Studies. Si les transferts culturels se d&#233;tournent volontairement d&#8217;une d&#233;marche jug&#233;e empiriste qui &#171; accumul[erait les] mat&#233;riaux &#187; [Espagne, 1999 : 7] pour se concentrer sur l&#8217;analyse du r&#244;le de la gen&#232;se des discours et des concepts emprunt&#233;s dans la &#171; constitution des traditions culturelles nationales &#187; &#224; partir de sources &#233;crites [6], les ouvrages n&#233;s du material turn quant &#224; eux, se concentrant de plus en plus sur l&#8217;histoire du quotidien d&#8217;une culture donn&#233;e, abordent souvent la question de la part de l&#8217;autre dans la formation des identit&#233;s collectives &#224; travers le prisme d&#8217;&#233;tudes sur des territoires colonis&#233;s [Gustafsson Reinius, 2008], et sont en cela tributaires du lien originaire de ces th&#233;ories &#224; des disciplines telles que l&#8217;ethnologie ou l&#8217;anthropologie.L&#8217;intention est de pratiquer ainsi une th&#233;orie des transferts culturels &#171; par le bas &#187;, &#224; partir de sources dont le caract&#232;re mat&#233;riel est primordial ou dans lesquelles la th&#233;matisation d&#8217;objets est essentielle, et d&#8217;appliquer les th&#233;ories de la culture mat&#233;rielle &#224; un champ transnational europ&#233;en.Dans quelle mesure les choses mat&#233;rielles font-elles aussi l&#8217;objet d&#8217;emprunts qui jouent un r&#244;le dans la constitution de traditions culturelles nationales des aires germanophone, n&#233;erlandophone et nordique ? Comment fonctionnent les m&#233;canismes d&#8217;appropriation, de d&#233;contextualisation, puis de res&#233;mantisation propres aux transferts culturels et, plus largement &#224; toute circulation culturelle, sur des objets vari&#233;s ? Il s&#8217;agirait d&#8217;esquisser une histoire interculturelle des espaces germanophone, n&#233;erlandophone et nordique &#224; partir d&#8217;objets concrets, dans l&#8217;esprit de ce que proposent les travaux de B&#233;n&#233;dicte Savoy sur la confiscation des biens culturels op&#233;r&#233;e par la France en Allemagne autour de 1800 et leurs cons&#233;quences sur la &#171; conscience patrimoniale &#187; des pays [Savoy, 2003 : 392].Il semble que la culture mat&#233;rielle se pr&#234;te bien &#224; l&#8217;&#233;tude des transferts culturels, &#171; objectivant &#187; pour ainsi dire les identit&#233;s individuelles et collectives. Le choix ou le refus de s&#8217;approprier un objet peut ainsi &#234;tre consid&#233;r&#233; comme une affirmation d&#8217;identit&#233; &#224; travers l&#8217;expression d&#8217;une appartenance ou d&#8217;une diff&#233;rence par rapport &#224; une norme culturelle ou une convention sociale [Thomas, 1991 : 25]. De plus, la stabilit&#233; mat&#233;rielle met pr&#233;cis&#233;ment en &#233;vidence les changements et reconfigurations intervenus lors de la cat&#233;gorisation de l&#8217;objet, des affects et r&#233;cits qui lui sont associ&#233;s [125]. Nicholas Thomas souligne ainsi que la circulation des objets constitue plus qu&#8217;un simple d&#233;placement physique : elle met en mouvement des conceptions concurrentes des objets [123]. Les objets sont par ailleurs souvent les moteurs des contacts avec l&#8217;&#233;tranger, la qu&#234;te de biens mat&#233;riels suscitant les relations entre diff&#233;rents groupes sociaux et culturels [Bracher/ Hertweck/ Schr&#246;der, 2006 : 11], ils sont aussi le reflet de ces relations. Enfin, l&#8217;objet, &#233;tymologiquement comme symboliquement, incarne l&#8217;autre du sujet, l&#8217;autre de soi, l&#8217;alt&#233;rit&#233;, l&#8217;&#233;tranger [Thomas, 1991 : 184]. L&#8217;objet &#233;tranger que l&#8217;on s&#8217;est appropri&#233; est ainsi le paradigme de la constitution d&#8217;une identit&#233; par l&#8217;alt&#233;rit&#233;.&#160;S&#8217;il ne saurait &#234;tre question de donner dans le &#171; mythe de l&#8217;ant&#233;riorit&#233; des choses &#187; [Brown, 2001 : 16] qui seraient premi&#232;res par rapport aux &#171; id&#233;es, aux th&#233;ories, aux mots &#187; [ibid.], et de tenter d&#8217;analyser les objets en-dehors de toute pratique discursive, s&#8217;il s&#8217;agit bien de saisir les discours et r&#233;cits que cristallisent les objets, le but est aussi de ne pas ensevelir l&#8217;aspect mat&#233;riel des choses sous leur valeur symbolique et s&#233;miotique et de percevoir la r&#233;sistance que les objets peuvent opposer aux discours et repr&#233;sentations fantasm&#233;es qu&#8217;on peut vouloir leur faire signifier [Thomas, 1991 : 176] et la mani&#232;re dont ils &#171; exc&#232;dent le sens imparti &#187; [Ecker/ Scholz, 2000 : 11], sapent l&#8217;assimilation int&#233;grale, mettant ainsi en &#233;vidence la part de l&#8217;autre dans une culture. On s&#8217;int&#233;ressera aux objets mat&#233;riels, d&#8217;un point de vue historique, culturel, ethnologique, anthropologique, litt&#233;raire, linguistique, philosophique ou esth&#233;tique, dans leurs manifestations concr&#232;tes et leurs repr&#233;sentations discursives, visuelles, plastiques, ou textuelles, dans la mesure o&#249; ces objets circulent entre plusieurs cultures, entre deux pays (ou plus) des espaces n&#233;erlandophones, nordiques ou germanophones, du Moyen &#194;ge &#224; nos jours.Observ&#233; &#224; partir d&#8217;une perspective europ&#233;enne, cet ensemble spatial peut &#234;tre per&#231;u comme une entit&#233; homog&#232;ne, porteuse d&#8217;une identit&#233; du Nord, voire &#171; germanique &#187; ; mais les bouleversements historiques, politiques aussi bien que la diversit&#233; linguistique et culturelle invitent &#224; penser les diff&#233;rences au sein de cet espace et &#224; interroger les identit&#233;s qui s&#8217;y expriment. A cet &#233;gard, notre attention se porte sur tous les ph&#233;nom&#232;nes induits par la circulation des objets, tels l&#8217;acculturation, l&#8217;assimilation, les &#233;changes, ou les croisements, qui mettent au jour ces identit&#233;s et les red&#233;finissent, mais aussi interrogent la pertinence de l&#8217;id&#233;e de fronti&#232;res culturelles.Cette probl&#233;matique int&#233;resse toutes les p&#233;riodes de l&#8217;histoire, particuli&#232;rement celles propices aux &#233;changes internationaux, comme la p&#233;riode hans&#233;atique, la r&#233;volution industrielle, les guerres napol&#233;oniennes, les deux guerres mondiales et l&#8217;exp&#233;rience de l&#8217;exil, ou plus r&#233;cemment encore, la construction europ&#233;enne. Les centres n&#233;vralgiques de la circulation mat&#233;rielle, comme les foires, les villes marchandes ou industrielles, les universit&#233;s ou les mus&#233;es constituent un &#233;l&#233;ment de contextualisation souhait&#233;.L&#8217;objet, de diverses natures (artefact ou naturel, mobile ou immeuble), sera examin&#233; dans son rapport au texte et au discours ou encore dans son rapport au sujet humain, en tenant compte des contextes g&#233;ographiques et historiques dans lesquels il &#233;volue. On prendra en consid&#233;ration les usages auxquels il est soumis &#8211; objet sacr&#233;, marchand, clandestin, de rebut, expos&#233;, comestible, vestimentaire, d&#8217;art, d&#8217;apparat, pi&#232;ce &#224; conviction&#8230;Modalit&#233;s de soumissionLes propositions de 300 mots maximum pour des expos&#233;s de 30 minutes sont &#224; envoyer, accompagn&#233;es d'une notice bio-bibliographie (10 l. max), &#224; l'adresse suivante : colloque.objetsmediateurs@gmail.comd'ici le 30 juin 2012Les langues de travail sont le fran&#231;ais, l'anglais et toutes les langues des espaces germanophone, n&#233;erlandophone et nordique (modalit&#233;s particuli&#232;res de pr&#233;sentation pr&#233;cis&#233;es ult&#233;rieurement). Le comit&#233; scientifique proc&#233;dera &#224; la s&#233;lection d'ici fin septembre 2012. Une participation aux frais de d&#233;placement et d'h&#233;bergement des participants est pr&#233;vue, de m&#234;me que la publication d'une s&#233;lection des contributions au colloque.Pour plus de d&#233;tails, veuillez consulter le blog du colloque, actualis&#233; r&#233;guli&#232;rement:&#160; http://www.colloque.objetsmediateurs.over-blog.comOrganisation (Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne, EA 3556-REIGENN):        Kim Andringa,&#160; Dr.            Fr&#233;d&#233;rique Harry,&#160; Dr., MCF            Agathe Mareuge, M.A.            B&#233;n&#233;dicte Terrisse, M.A.    Comit&#233; scientifique:        Annie Bourguignon, Prof., Universit&#233; de Nancy            Petra Broomans, PhD, Universit&#233; de Groningen            Dorothee Kimmich, Prof., Universit&#233; de T&#252;bingen            G&#233;rard Laudin, Prof., Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne            Marie-Th&#233;r&#232;se Mourey, Prof., Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne            Ton Naaijkens, Prof., Universit&#233; d'Utrecht             Bjarne Rogan, Prof., Universit&#233; d'Oslo            B&#233;n&#233;dicte Savoy, Prof., T.U. Berlin    English versionDing, ding, ting: Objects as cultural mediators. German, Dutch and Nordic language areas, International conference, Paris-Sorbonne University, 11-13.4.2013. Deadline: 30.6.2012PresentationThe conference will link two theoretical traditions: the theory of cultural transfer and Material Culture Studies. The former was elaborated by Michel Espagne and Michael Werner [Espagne/ Werner, 1988] in the 1980s, and has since been pursued in various directions (histoire crois&#233;e or &#8216;entangled history&#8217;, research on circulation, interculturality and hybridization) [Engel/ Gutjahr/ Braungart, 2003; Suppanz, 2003]. The latter is a heterogenic theoretical trend developed as a part of Culture Studies in the English speaking world from the 1970s on. Turning away from an approach consisting of an &#8220;accumulation of material&#8221; [Espagne, 1999: 7] which it considers as being empiricist, Cultural transfer studies concentrate on the analysis, in written sources, of the part played by the discourses and concepts borrowed from other cultures in the &#8220;formation of national cultural traditions&#8221; [6]. Conversely, works belonging to Material Culture Studies focus more and more on the everyday history of a given culture, and often deal with the question of the role of the other in the formation of collective identities through the prism of research on colonized territories [Gustafsson Reinius, 2008]. As such, they are dependent on their original bonds with scientific disciplines such as ethnology or anthropology. Our intention is therefore to build a theory of cultural transfer through a &#8220;bottom-up&#8221; approach, starting from sources either of an essentially material nature, or in which the thematization of objects is of prime importance, and to apply the theories of Material Culture Studies to a transnational european field. To what extent are material things borrowed? How does their appropriation influence the formation of national cultural traditions in the Nordic, Germanic and Dutch-speaking areas? How do the mechanisms of appropriation, decontextualization and resemanticization which are specific to cultural transfers &#8211; and indeed to any form of cultural circulation &#8211; work when applied to various objects? The purpose of the conference is to draw the outlines of an intercultural history of Nordic, Germanic and Dutch-speaking areas based on concrete objects, much as B&#233;n&#233;dicte Savoy has achieved in her work on France&#8217;s confiscation of German cultural goods around 1800 and its impact on the &#8220;patrimonial consciousness&#8221; of both countries [Savoy, 2003 : 392]. Material culture appears to be ideally suited to the study of cultural transfers in so far as it offers an &#8220;objectification&#8221; of individual and collective identities. The decision to choose or to refuse the appropriation of an object may thus be viewed as an assertion of identity and as the expression of a sense of belonging to &#8211; or differing from &#8211; a cultural norm or a social convention [Thomas, 1991: 25]. Furthermore, material stability precisely highlights the changes and reconfigurations that have occurred in the categorization of the object, along with the emotions and narratives it is associated with 125. Nicholas Thomas thus emphasises the fact that the circulation of objects involves not only a physical process, but also a movement and displacement of competing conceptions of things 123. Besides, objects are often the driving force of contacts between different cultures. Just as the quest for material goods generates relationships between different social or cultural groups [Bracher/ Hertweck/ Schr&#246;der, 2006 : 11], so are the goods a reflection of these relationships. Finally, in the etymological as well as symbolical sense, the object stands for the other of the subject. It thus embodies otherness and strangeness [Thomas, 1991: 184]. The foreign object that has been appropriated is therefore paradigmatic of how an identity is built on alterity. We wish to avoid being deceived by the myth of the precedence of things, which may sometimes be considered as &#8220;coming before ideas, before theory, before the word&#8221; [Brown, 2001: 16]. In the same manner, we want to avoid analyzing objects apart from discourses. We aim at bringing to light the discourses and narratives that objects give rise to but we are also anxious not to bury the materiality of things under their symbolic or semiotic meaning. We therefore aim to perceive how things resist the discourses, representations and fantasies we project on them [Thomas, 1991: 176], and to perceive how things &#8220;exceed the meaning to which they have been assigned&#8221; [Ecker/ Scholz, 2000: 11] and undermine complete assimilation, revealing the share otherness has in a given culture. The papers may consider material things from a historical/ cultural/ ethnological/ anthropological/ literary/ linguistic/ philosophical/ aesthetic point of view and will analyze their concrete expressions and discursive, visual, plastic or textual representations, as long as these objects travel across several cultures, across two (or more) countries of the Dutch, Nordic or German language areas, from the Middle Ages to the present time. From a European point of view, this geographical area might be perceived as a homogeneous entity, bearing a common Northern &#8211; or even Germanic &#8211; identity. But political and historical disruptions as well as cultural and linguistic diversity require to go further and to focus on its different and multiple identities. We are therefore interested in all the phenomena caused by the circulation of material goods &#8211; cultural integration, assimilation, exchanges or junctions &#8211; as long they discuss the identities and the relevance of the notion of cultural borders. Our approach concerns all historical periods, especially the ones which were the most favourable to international exchanges &#8211; like the Hanseatic period, the Industrial revolution(s), the Napoleonic wars, the two World Wars, the European construction during the XXth century or the experiences of exile. We will, moreover, focus on the contexts of circulation and the junction points such as market places, mercantile or industrial cities, universities or museums. Things may be handmade or mass produced, movable or not. They may be examined in relation to texts, discourses and human beings, or in relation to geographic and historical contexts of circulation. Therefore we will also take the circumstances of use and the object&#8217;s functionality (sacred, mercantile, illegal, repulsive,&#8230;) in consideration. SubmissionsThe deadline for submission of paper proposals for a 30-minute talk is June 30th, 2012. Your abstract should not exceed 300 words, working languages are French, English and any language of the Dutch, German and Nordic language areas. Please send your abstract and a short CV (10 lines max.) to colloque.objetsmediateurs@gmail.com Refereeing of papers will be processed by members of the scientific committee by the end of September 2012. After completion of the conference a volume of selected papers will be published. The organisers will pay a flat rate for travelling and accommodation expenses depending on the sum total of grants received from third parties. For further details and updates please see the website: http://www.colloque.objetsmediateurs.over-blog.comOrganisation committee:        Dr. Kim Andringa            Dr. Fr&#233;d&#233;rique Harry,             Agathe Mareuge, M.A.            B&#233;n&#233;dicte Terrisse, M.A.    Scientific committee:        Annie Bourguignon, Prof., Universit&#233; de Nancy            Petra Broomans, PhD, Universit&#233; de Groningen            Dorothee Kimmich, Prof., Universit&#233; de T&#252;bingen            G&#233;rard Laudin, Prof., Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne             Marie-Th&#233;r&#232;se Mourey, Prof., Universit&#233; Paris-Sorbonne            Ton Naaijkens, Prof., Universit&#233; d'Utrecht             Bjarne Rogan, Prof., Universit&#233; d'Oslo            B&#233;n&#233;dicte Savoy, Prof., Universit&#233; T.U. Berlin    