'National stereo-types and the construction of the European Union'

Wednesday 30 April, 1:00-2:00pm
at Room 521, Level 5, 234 Queensberry Street, The University of Melbourne

presented by

Professor Jean-Noël Jeanneney

(President, Bibliotheque Nationale de France)

Please note that this seminar will be presented in French

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Biography

Jean-Noël Jeanneney is a prominent French Historian and Public figure. He was President of the National Library of France and now holds government advisory positions (Europartenaires) and a Chair in History at Sciences Po in Paris.

He is also author of more than a dozen major books and many other collaborative works and a creator of numerous documentaries for television. Co-Founder of the review L’Histoire. President of the Scientific Council of the Institut d’Histoire du temps présent (1991-2000). A Member of the boards of numerous major cultural organisations, including the prestigious publishing house Le Seuil (1987-2002) and the ‘Histoire’ Cable TV Channel (1997-2004). He is honorary president of the international historical film festival at Pessac (since 1990), and produces his own weekly TV show ‘Concordances des temps’ on France Culture (since 1999). He is president of the association ‘Europartenaires’, an organisation working to strengthen the process of European unification.

As a public figure, he has held major responsibilities as president of Radio France and Radio France Internationale (1982-1986) and president of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (2002-2007). He was responsible for France’s celebration of the bicentenary of the French Revolution and the Declaration of Human Rights (1988-1989), and served in government (1991-1993) as secretary of State for overseas commerce, then communication. He was a regional councillor for Franche-Compté from 1992-1998. He has been closely involved with the development of a European digital library, and his book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge has become an international work of reference.