Dear colleague,
In 2009, we applied to a call of the COST office
<http://www.cost.esf.org>http://www.cost.esf.org to get a support to
organize conferences joining several participants from various European
countries.
The aim of the COST is to contribute to the defragmentation of scholars
researches in EU. Our application named "European monetary unifications,
from Antiquity to modern times (EMU)" proposed to organize a series of
conferences on the question of the monetary unions in a historical perspective.
We proposed 4 workgroups, that means that the program would include one
meeting of each group/year + one meeting of the management committee (= 2
representative from each country).
This 209/2 call received about 200 applications from which about 140 were
eligible. Out of these 140, 12 were classified.
Our application was one of the 12. The COST office funded only 7
applications (all in the medicine domain, as our COST domain mixes Human
Sciences, Health and Culture).
Our application included 27 countries and more than 150 scholars. It
included also the support of the European Central Bank who would organize
the first meeting and would delegate one of his directors in the management
committee.
Our plan is to reapply in 2010, adding some National European banks.
Our program is to analyze the reaction of the populations to the
development and the collapse of various monetary unions in history.
You can find an abstract of the application on
<http://www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique192>www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique192
and a short video presentation of the application on
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EOr1mT_Kc>www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EOr1mT_Kc.
For the 2010 call, we want to include in one of the workgroups a special
axis devoted to the question of the situation of Euro. We are not
economists, but historians, and our interest in the situation is not to
produce a economic analysis, but to analyse "in vivo" how a population can
admit of reject a monetary union. Our perspective is to compare with the
former rejections linked to political or economic rejections.
We are looking for colleagues who could be interested in such cooperation,
who can take part in such a European program.
COST will not finance researches, but travels, meetings, conferences. This
COST support will be completed by the support of our own institutions
(CNRS, etc.), by the national institutions of the participants and by the ECB.
If you are interested, please inform me as soon as possible. If you are
not, just inform me of who could be interested in joining our team.
Please reply off-list
Best wishes
Georges Depeyrot,
Archéologies d'Orient et d'Occident, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
(CNRS/ENS/UMR 8546)
Publications Moneta ........in press (2010) vol. 102>110 www.moneta.be
Personal page ..................www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?article931
COST program ....................www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique192
COST program Video.........www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1EOr1mT_Kc
ECO-NET cooperation .......www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique187
GDRE cooperation .............www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique188
Lyon cooperation ..............www.archeo.ens.fr/spip.php?article948
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