Thursday, 30 May 2024, 6-8 p.m. Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room F005

KEYNOTE

Martin Thomas (University of Exeter): Development’s Dilemmas: late colonialism and its constraints

Friday, 31 May 2024, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Unitobler, Lerchenweg 36, room F-121

9:00-10:30 SESSION I (Chair: Juri Auderset, University of Bern)

José Pedro Monteiro (University of Minho): Challenging the norm of selfdetermination in international law: Fernand Van Langenhove, the “thèse Belge
(1945-1960)” and the articulation between economic and political development

Alanna O’Malley (Leiden University): Undetermined Self-Determination: The
Afterlives of Global South anti-colonial solidarity at the United Nations
Coffee break

11:00-12:30 SESSION II (Chair: Derya Bozat, University of Bern)

Martin Bemmann (University of Freiburg): East Central Europe and the shaping of
FAO’s forest-related development schemes. Biographical approaches

Heinrich Hartmann, Margot Lyautey, and Hugo Canihac (Helmut-Schmidt-Universität
and Strasbourg): A Menage à Trois. Tunisia Between French and German
Development Expertise in the 1950s and 60s

Lunch

14:00-15:30 SESSION III (Chair: Rea Vogt, University of Bern)

Damiano Matasci (University of Geneva): Hopes and Disillusionments of a
Transimperial Venture: Edgar Barton Worthington and the Scientific Council for
Africa, 1950-1956

Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo (University of Coimbra): An evolving expertise: Paul-Marc
Henry and the internationalization of (colonial) developmentalism (1950s-1960s)
Coffee break

15:45-17:00 SESSION IV (Chair: José Pedro Monteiro, University of Minho)

Lena Joos (University of Bern): Feminist and anti-colonial critique of development
and “the expert”: Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era (DAWN)

Andreas Stucki (University of Bern): “A field man rather than a desk man”: Gerrit
Huizer’s global trajectory in international development