Program

Registration and all meetings will be held in the premises of the Mundaneum, 76 rue de Nimy, Mons Telephone : +32 (0)65 39 54 90 – fax: +32 (0)65 39 44 86 THURSDAY, May 20 8.00-9.00 am: Registration 9.00-10.30 am: Session 1 Chair: Charles Van Den Heuvel Dave Muddiman (Leeds Metropolitan University) Imperialism, Trade and the Beginnings of Business Information: the Commercial Intelligence Bureau of the Imperial Institute, London, 1887-1903 → abstract here Alistair Black (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois) An Information Management tool for the Dismantling of Internal Barries in Expanding and Internationalising Companies : The Staff Magazine in Britain before de First World War → abstract here Alex Csiszar (Harvard University) Material Practices of Unity: The International Catalogue of Scientific Literature → abstract here
10.30-11.00 am: Coffee break 11.00 -11.30 am: Mundaneum, Centre of archives ; Paul Otlet Patrice Dartevelle Directeur du Patrimoine à la Communauté Française Stéphanie Manfroid Responsable des archives, Mundaneum   11.30-12.30: Session 2 Chair: Sylvia Van Peteghem Charles van den Heuvel (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam) Transcending Networks – Transcending Classifications (1905-1935) → abstract here Wouter Van Acker (Ghent University) Paul Otlet and the International Sociology of Intellectual Work → abstract here 12.30 -2.00 pm: Lunch 2.00-3.30 pm: Parallel Session 3 Chair: Pieter Uyttenhove Christophe Verbruggen, Julie Carlier (Ghent University) The transcending advocacy network of Les Documents du Progrès (1907): a comparison of laboratories of social thought → abstract here Noémie Goldman (Musées Royaux des Beaux-arts de Belgique) Art and Politics. The XX (1894-1914) and their transboundary cultural networks → abstract here Paul Servais (Université catholique de Louvain) Scientific Networks and International Congresses; Orientalists before the First World War → abstract here 2.00-3.30 pm: Parallel Session 4 Chair: Alistair Black Mary Carroll and Sue Reynolds (School of Business Information Technology, RMIT University, Australia) The Great Classification Battle of 1910: A Tale of “Blunders and Bizzareries” at the Melbourne Public Library → abstract here Heather Gaunt (University of Tasmania) "In the pursuit of colonial intelligence": the archive and the Australian colonies → abstract here Volker Barth (University of Cologne) World News Order: Structures and Conditions of International Communication, 1859-1914 → abstract here 3.30-3.45 pm: Coffee Break 3.45-5.15 pm: Session 5 Chair: Daniel Laqua Valérie Montens (Musées royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, Bruxelles) The Royal Belgian Commission for International Exchanges: creation, organization and activities of an international artistic network (1871-1919) → abstract here Jan Vandersmissen (Université de Liège) How King Leopold II used Emile de Laveleye’s intellectual network for the benefit of his African project → abstract here Françoise Levie (Biographe et cinéaste, Bruxelles) Punch-up at the Palais Mondial ; an analysis of the contradictory tensions that came into conflict at the second Panafrican Congress in Brussels in 1921 → abstract here 8.00 pm: Opening Address M. Hervé Hasquin Secrétaire perpétuel Académie royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, former recto rand president of the Board of the Université libre de Bruxelles and former minister     Une Belgique avant-gardiste M. Calogero Conti Rector, Université de Mons will open this session and introduce M. Hasquin   FRIDAY, May 21 9.00-10.30 am: Session 6 Chair: Pieter Uyttenhove Markus Krajewski (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) Organising a Global Idiom. Esperanto, Ido and the World Auxiliary Language Movement before WWI → abstract here Fabian de Kloe (Maastricht University) Beyond Babel: Louis Couturat (1868-1914) and the Pursuit of an International Scientific Language → abstract here Mikel Breitenstein (University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee) Unity Through Language: BASIC English by C. K. Ogden → abstract here 10.30-11 am: Coffee Break 11.-12.30 pm: Session 7 Chair: Pierre Van Den Dungen Geert Somsen (Maastricht University) Uniting the World through Science: Pieter Eijkman’s World Capital in The Hague → abstract here Nader Vossoughian (New York Institute of Technology) Internationalism, Imperialism, and the City: Hendrik Christian Andersen’s World Centre of Communication → abstract here Daniel Laqua (Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK) ‘Scientific Pacifism’ in the Belle Époque: Alfred H. Fried’s Efforts to Promote Peace across National Borders → abstract here 12.30 pm – 2.00 pm: Lunch    2.00-3.30 pm: Session 8 Chair: Sylvia Van Peteghem Bruno Notteboom (Ghent University) Paysage urbain.  Louis Van der Swaelmen and the classification of the urban, rural and national problem in Préliminaires d’Art Civique → abstract here Sophie Hochhäusl (Cornell University) Constructing the Illustration of Space: from Belle Époque to Modernism. A comparative analysis on charts of Michael G. Mulhall, Willard C. Brinton and Otto Neurath → abstract here Jan Surman (University of Vienna) Divided Space – Divided Science? The Variety of Boundaries in Habsburg Empire and their Influence on Science Before the First World War → abstract here 3.30 -4.00 pm: Coffee break 4.00-5.00 pm: Session 9 Prof. Dr. Frank Hartmann (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) World Communication Cables and Ernst Kapp‘s Philosophy of Technology → abstract here Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva/EHESS Paris) Transnational Networks and School Reforms in France during the Belle Époque Period (1880-1914) → abstract here Brief summary  and thanks, Stephanie Manfroid and Boyd Rayward (colloquium directors) 7.30 pm: Colloquium Dinner La Verr’Hier, 19 rue de la clef 19, 7000 Mons Registration Composition of the Scientific Committee A note on the background of the Colloquium Background paper   For more information, please contact the secretariat of the colloquium