November 14, 2008
9.00-9.20 Opening Remarks
Stefano Bartolini (EUI, Firenze)
Welcome
Kiran Klaus Patel (EUI, Firenze)
Introduction
9.20-11.20 From Failure to Fall? The Emergence of the EEC’s Common Agricultural Policy
Chair: Jean-Marie Palayret (Historical Archives of the EU, Firenze)
Guido Thiemeyer (Universität Siegen)
Two Attempts of Agricultural Integration in Western Europe: Why the Pool Vert Failed in the 1950s and the CAP Succeeded in the 1960s
N. Piers Ludlow (LSE, London)
The Green Heart of Europe? The Rise and Fall of the CAP as the Community’s Central Policy, 1958-1985
Commentary: Desmond Dinan (George Mason University)
11.20-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-13.30 Member States, Integration, Transnationalization
Chair: Wolfram Kaiser (University of Portsmouth)
Kiran Klaus Patel (EUI, Florence)
Europeanisation à contre coeur Germany and Agricultural Integration, 1950 to 1975
Laurent Warlouzet (Université Paris IV Sorbonne)
The Deadlock: De Gaulle and the CAP, 1958-69
Commentary: Morten Rasmussen (Københavns Universitet)
13.30-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 Visionaries, Technocrats, Model Europeans? The Creators of the CAP
Chair: Antonio Varsori (Università degli studi di Padova)
Johan van Merriënboer (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen)
Commissioner Sicco Mansholt and the Creation of the CAP
Katja Seidel (University of Portsmouth)
Making Europe through the CAP. Formation of an Esprit de Corps among DG VI
High Officials
Commentary: Antoine Vauchez (CRNS, Paris/EUI, Firenze)
17.00-17.15 Coffee Break
17.15-19.15 Experts and Explanations of Agricultural Integration
Chair: Johan Schot (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)
Venus Bivar (University of Chicago)
The EEC and the Remapping of Agricultural France, 1954–1976
Ann-Christina Lauring Knudsen (Aarhus Universitet)
The CAP as European Welfarism. Conceptualising European Integration History and Welfare State Policies
Commentary: Hartmut Kaelble (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
November 15, 2008
9.00-11.00 The Economic Side of Agricultural Integration
Chair: Pieter Lagrou (Université libre de Bruxelles)
Giovanni Federico (EUI, Firenze)
Was the CAP the Worst Agricultural Policy in the 20th century?
Vicente Pinilla/Raúl Serrano (Universidad de Zaragoza)
Agricultural and Food Trade in the European Community since 1963
Commentary: Cornelius Torp (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle)
11.00-11.15 Coffee Break
11.15-13.15 Integration, International Agreements and Negotiations
Chair: Helge Pharo (Universitetet i Oslo)
Georg v. Graevenitz (EUI, Firenze)
Classical International Cooperation vs. Supranational Integration: Wheat Agreements in the Interwar and the Postwar Period
Christian Gerlach (Universität Bern)
Fortress Europe in the World Food Crisis, 1972 to 1975
Commentary: Roger Chickering (Georgetown University/Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin)
13.30-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-17.00 The Common Agricultural Policy and the Wider World
Chair: Mark Gilbert (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Martin Rempe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
The Impact of the CAP on the Association with African States: the Case of Senegal
Lucia Coppolaro (Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon)
The Six, Agriculture and GATT: an International History of the CAP Negotiations
(1958-1967)
Commentary: Corinna Unger (German Historical Institute, Washington, DC)
17.00-18.00 Final discussion
Introductory Statement: Wilfried Loth (Universität Duisburg-Essen)