The Laboratoire Langages, Littératures, Sociétés, Études Transfrontalières et Internationales (LLSETI) is organizing, in collaboration with theUnion des Sociétés savantes de Savoie and the Mission du Centenaire 1914-1918, on Monday November 27 and Tuesday November 28, 2017, the 2017 edition of the multi-year symposium program devoted to the Pays de Savoie in the Great War.
The colloquium "Les Pays de Savoie et la Grande Guerre: 1917, une année terrible?" will take place in the Decottignies amphitheatre, in Chambéry, at theUniversité Savoie Mont Blanc presidency.
Conference program
Monday, November 27
- 9am: Introduction by Frédéric Turpin (LLSETI, USMB)
- 9:30am-12pm: A border territory in conflict
- Cédric Cotter(ICRC, Geneva): Geneva and Haute-Savoie: a humanitarian hub?
- Michèle Marchi(University of Bologna): 1917 in Italy: a national drama, between history and memory.
- Christophe Vuilleumier(Société d'histoire de la Suisse romande, Swiss Historical Society): Espionage activities in Switzerland in 1917.
- Gérald Sawicki(CRULH, Université de Lorraine): The Annemasse intelligence service and the central empires in 1917.
- 2-6pm: Negotiating and fighting
- Pierre Geneletti(Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Maurienne): The Saint-Jean de Maurienne meeting.
- Anne-Sophie Nardelli-Malgrand (LLSETI, USMB) : The Great War and the free zone. The reclassifications of 1917.
- André Pallatier (Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Maurienne): The Saint-Michel de Maurienne rail disaster: a military event.
- Didier Dutailly(Académie chablaisienne): Deserters, mutineers and shooters in Savoie.
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
- 9am-12pm: The rear and the terrible year
- Aline Fryszman (CPGE teacher, Clermont-Ferrand): The state of mind in the Puy de Dôme in 1917.
- Sébastien Chatillon(La Salévienne): Crisis and morale restoration in Haute-Savoie: a strong front-back interaction.
- Esther Deloche (La Salévienne): 1917: the dilemmas of the Savoyard clergy.
- Conclusions: Georges-Henri Soutou(Institut de France)
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- Admission is free
- Contact: Anne-Sophie Nardelli Malgrand
